Archive for the 'Food' Category
Japan: New Robot Picks Ripe Strawberries While Farmers Sleep
October 2nd, 2013Via: AFP: A robot that picks ripe strawberries while farmers sleep has been unveiled with claims it could cut workloads by two-thirds. The device, unveiled Wednesday, can pick a piece of fruit every eight seconds by using three cameras to determine which strawberries are ready to pick. A mechanized arm then darts out to snip […]
Monsanto Protection Act Left to Expire
September 25th, 2013Via: The Hill: The Senate bill to keep the government funded will drop a controversial provision that food safety advocates warn lets agricultural giants avoid judicial oversight. The provision, dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act,” was extended under the House’s continuing resolution passed last week. Under the Senate bill, it will expire at the end of […]
Dutch Health Official: Sugar Is Dangerous, Very Addictive
September 17th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Paul van der Velpen, the head of Amsterdam’s health service, the Dutch capital city where the sale of cannabis is legalised, wants to see sugar tightly regulated. “Just like alcohol and tobacco, sugar is actually a drug. There is an important role for government. The use of sugar should be discouraged. And users […]
Teach People About Food Atrocities with an App?
September 16th, 2013Via: Chipotle Mexican Grill – Scarecrow The Game: Related: The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation Research Credit: ottilie
Israeli Settlers Torch Hebron Family’s Property for Eighth Time
September 16th, 2013Via: International Solidarity Movement: On Sunday, July 28, Israeli settlers severely burned land belonging to Hani Abu Haikel and his family in Hebron. Occupation soldiers, though at first trying to help stop the fire, ended up blocking the road so that Palestinian firefighters were delayed in reaching the scene. Several very old olive trees were […]
Cambridge University Doomers
September 13th, 2013Via: Independent: Some of Britain’s finest minds are drawing up a “doomsday list” of catastrophic events that could devastate the world, pose a threat to civilisation and might even lead to the extinction of the human species. Leading scholars have established a centre for the study of “existential risk” which aims to present politicians and […]
USDA: Rural Population Needed Not For Farming But For Cannon Fodder
September 5th, 2013Update: Quote from Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Joel Salatin’s telling of the story below sounded somehow familiar to me. I just remembered why. I’d read the following in, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed way back in the 1990s: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. […]
Genetically Modified Crops Pass Benefits to Weeds
August 21st, 2013Via: Nature: A genetic-modification technique used widely to make crops herbicide resistant has been shown to confer advantages on a weedy form of rice, even in the absence of the herbicide. The finding suggests that the effects of such modification have the potential to extend beyond farms and into the wild. … Making weedy rice […]
WinCo: Meet the Low-Key, Low-Cost Grocery Chain Being Called ‘Walmart’s Worst Nightmare’
August 21st, 2013Via: Time: Retail analysts say the world’s biggest retailer has reason to fear a small grocery chain that’s based in Idaho and boasts a business model that allows it to undercut Walmart on prices. So about that eye-catching Walmart quote. Those are the words of Burt Flickinger III, a widely respected supermarket-retailing-industry expert who works […]
Soda Consumption In Children Could Lead To Violent Behavior
August 19th, 2013In other news: “When parents did cut television out of their homes, they reported that their kids didn’t bug them as much for junk food and toys advertised on TV.” Via: CBS: Studies of young soda drinkers often focus on added risk for childhood obesity. But now, a new study suggests the sweet stuff could […]
