Archive for the 'Food' Category
Smart Shelves Will Identify Grocery Shoppers, Deliver Custom Advertisements
October 15th, 2013Via: Technology Advice: According to an interview with the Wall Street Journal, snack company Mondelez International will introduce so-called “smart shelves” into grocery stores starting in 2015. The shelves, which will be concentrated at the checkout line, will use a variety of tools to identify a shopper’s sex and age. The machine will then use […]
Economic Recovery: Red Cross Launches Emergency Food Aid Plan for UK’s Hungry; First Time Since World War II
October 15th, 2013Via: Independent: The Red Cross will this winter start collecting and distributing food aid to the needy in Britain for the first time since the Second World War, as welfare cuts and the economic downturn send soaring numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across Europe. In what could be the start of […]
Louisiana Walmart Shelves Cleared Out After EBT System Malfunctions
October 14th, 2013Via: KSLA: Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping […]
“Computer Glitch Blamed For Nationwide EBT System Shutdown On Saturday”
October 12th, 2013There’s no shortage of imbeciles on the Internet predicting certain doom every five minutes, but the dole situation is something that Cryptogon readers in the U.S. need to watch carefully—unless you think that tens of millions of heavily armed, broke and hungry people aren’t any cause for concern. “Normal operations” depend on the availability of […]
Britain: Blackpool Considering Adding Fluoride to Milk for School Children
October 9th, 2013Via: Blackpool Gazette: Special plans to introduce fluoridised milk into Blackpool’s primary schools moved one step closer after the scheme was backed by health chiefs. At a meeting of Blackpool Council’s Health and Wellbeing board yesterday it was resoundingly agreed to push forward plans to provide milk to 77 primary schools in the town. Dr […]
And The Winner Of The World Food Prize Is… The Man From Monsanto
October 8th, 2013Via: NPR: Ever heard of the World Food Prize? It’s sometimes called the “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture,” but it has struggled to get people’s attention. Prize winners tend to be agricultural insiders, and many are scientists. Last year’s laureate, for instance, was , a pioneer of water-saving “micro-irrigation.” This year, though, the World […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributions in October
October 5th, 2013Thank you very much. Pookie $75 DM $15 Banana Farmers $50 JB $30 RD $50 In addition to the financial support, people have sent lovely cards celebrating Niamh’s birth. We’ve made a little shrine out of all of these cards in our kitchen/living room area. The Banana Farmers also sent a heavy box of homegrown […]
Laurel Farm Creamery
October 5th, 2013Via: Laurel Farm Creamery: Laurel Farm Creamery is a small farm outside Asheville, NC. For years we have raised dairy animals and made cheese, and we have finally decided that, since there’s nothing any of us enjoy more, we should be doing it for a living. This blog will chronicle our adventures as we make […]
TellSpec
October 3rd, 2013Via: TellSpec: We are raising funds for the development and manufacture of TellSpec, the world’s first reliable and accurate handheld device that scans and analyzes the composition of food so consumers know the real ingredients before they buy or eat the food. TellSpec brings together laser spectroscopy and a unique mathematical algorithm in a revolutionary […]
Recovery: More Americans Are Struggling to Afford Food
October 2nd, 2013Via: Gallup: More Americans are struggling to afford food — nearly as many as did during the recent recession. The 20.0% who reported in August that they have, at times, lacked enough money to buy the food that they or their families needed during the past year, is up from 17.7% in June, and is […]
