Archive for the 'Food' Category
USDA: Drought Cut Corn Crop by About One-Fourth
January 12th, 2013Via: AP: For farmers like Earl Williams, last year couldn’t have started out better or ended much worse as a warm, sunny spring that let him plant early gave way to record heat and drought that devastated his corn. Williams ended up with about two-thirds of the crop he expected, and a U.S. Department of […]
‘New Weight Loss Gadget Sucks Food Straight Out of the Stomach’
January 7th, 2013Wow. Maybe they can somehow form the slurry into delicious and nutritious chow pellets. Which could… You know… No? Via: Independent: Who would have thought that the future of weight loss might lie in the hands of the inventor of the Segway? Dean Kamen, creator of the two-wheeled wonder, along with a team from Aspire […]
California Now Officially Tolerates Some Homemade Food Businesses
January 5th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Granola makers, homemade vinegar producers, and other foodies in California have cause to rejoice today. As of Jan. 1, a new state law allows people who make food at home to sell it to restaurants and grocery stores. Leave it to California to upend decades of public health consensus that food businesses need […]
1,200 Pages of New ‘Food Safety’ Regulations
January 5th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The rules, which span 1,200 pages, are aimed at creating safer conditions from farm to fork. Produce farmers would be required to ensure that their crops aren’t contaminated by bad water or animal waste. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife and to provide adequate restrooms and […]
Safe Green Tea?
December 30th, 2012I spent some time trying to find out if it was possible to buy green tea from Japan that was definitely fallout free. It took a while, but I eventually found o-cha.com. They have a number of teas that have been tested for radiation and they provide the laboratory reports on the website. I have […]
New MRSA Superbug Strain Found in UK Milk Supply
December 27th, 201280% were reserved for livestock and poultry: In fact, according to new data just released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of the antibiotics sold in 2009 for both people and food animals almost 80% were reserved for livestock and poultry. A huge portion of those antibiotics were never intended to fight bacterial infections, […]
GM Salmon
December 25th, 2012Via: Independent: A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America’s powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no major health or environmental risks. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it could not find […]
Tiny Bhutan to Move to 100% Organic Farming Methods; Most Farmers Already Farm Organically
December 13th, 2012Via: NPR: The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s progress. If you’re going to prioritize happiness, the Bhutanese thinking goes, you’d better include the environment and spiritual and mental well-being in your calculations. (Not everyone […]
Over 1 Million Americans Enter Poverty In Last Two Months
December 10th, 2012Via: ZeroHedge: And we thought last month’s delayed foodstamp data was bad. The just reported foodstamp number for September was a doozy, with 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for foodstamps, as a record 47.7 million Americans are now living in poverty at least according to the USDA. The monthly increase was the highest since May […]
FDA Increases Allowed Radiation Doses of Meats for Human Consumption
December 9th, 2012Via: Natural News: Rather than actually take the time to address the root causes of meat and poultry contamination, which more often than not are a direct result of outrageously unsanitary factory farming practices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has instead decided to simply up the doses of radiation that industrial food producers […]
