Archive for the 'Food' Category
One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
May 10th, 2013Via: Wired: Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply. Multiple factors — pesticides, fungicides, parasites, viruses and malnutrition — are believed to cause the losses, which were officially announced today by a consortium of academic researchers, beekeepers […]
Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan
May 6th, 2013This is from 2012, but it’s a keeper. Would someone out there please email this story to Joel and Ethan Coen? This could make Miller’s Crossing look like Sunday School. Via: Bloomberg: Everyone looking to unload overleveraged or overpriced property, another broker who dealt with Rovt told me, is now chasing a stereotype: the Ukrainian […]
Family Visits Hydroponic Store, Cops Raid Family’s House for Drugs… Find Tomatoes
May 5th, 2013Via: Kansas City Star: It took eight months for authorities to decide to raid the Leawood home of Robert and Adlynn Harte for drugs. And then it took a year for the Hartes to find out why sheriff’s deputies thought they had drugs in the first place.
Bees: EU to Ban Neonicotinoid Pesticides
April 30th, 2013Via: BBC: The European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue. There is great concern across Europe about the collapse of bee populations. Neonicotinoid chemicals in pesticides are believed to harm bees and the European Commission says they should be […]
Living in U.S. Raises Risk of Allergies
April 30th, 2013Via: AFP: Children born outside the United States have a lower risk of asthma, skin and food allergies, and living in the United States for a decade or more may raise the risk of some allergies, said a study Monday. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that certain environmental exposures […]
U.S. Rice Imports Contain Harmful Levels of Lead Paper Withdrawn by Author
April 11th, 2013
Via: Natural News: But the authors themselves discovered worrisome discrepancies when they sent the samples to a third-party lab for verification. According to an email acquired by Natural News, the results from this third-party lab showed all sub-ppm levels of lead, not the much higher numbers the Tongesayi team had reported. Why the Tongesayi team […]
Canadian Scientists Charged with Smuggling Dangerous and Highly Contagious Pathogens from China
April 5th, 2013Via: AFP: Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), are accused of attempting to export harmful pathogens that could infect humans and livestock to China. Nielsen was apprehended […]
The Monsanto Protection Act
April 2nd, 2013Via: Democracy Now: President Obama outraged food activists last week when he signed into law a spending bill with a controversial rider that critics have dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act.” The rider says the government must allow the planting of genetically modified crops even if courts rule they pose health risks.
CYPRUS: FOOD AND FUEL
March 23rd, 2013Via: New York Times: Cyprus’s parliament on Friday partly approved a revised formula for obtaining an international bailout to avert a default, amid strong signals that the plan would not pass muster with international lenders. But they put off voting on a crucial new proposal until later this weekend — one that would confiscate a […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
