Archive for the 'Food' Category
Another Way to Kill U.S. Farmers: Seize Their Bank Accounts on Phony Charges
April 25th, 2012Via: Food Freedom News: Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention. Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers […]
Obama Regime to Ban Children from Doing Work on Family Farms
April 25th, 2012Via: Daily Caller: A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to […]
Radiation in Japanese Sea Weed
April 25th, 2012Via: EnviroReporter: On April 13, 2012 EnviroReporter.com tested Nori seaweed from Japan bought in a West Los Angeles store, the same one where this reporter bought the identical item eight months ago soon after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns began in Japan. The trendy and ‘organic’ delicacy, popular with LA hipsters, was 94.7% above normal, 17.6% […]
Many Portuguese Returning to the Land
April 22nd, 2012Via: RTE: Disillusioned by the unfulfilled promise of the cities and feeling stifled by tough austerity measures aimed at coping with an economic downturn, some Portuguese are opting out and returning to the land. Jose Diogo, who spent two years in Lisbon working as a technical advisor at a meat company, was one who fled […]
Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Projected to Keep Increasing Until 2014
April 20th, 2012Green shoots pushed out to 2014? Via: Wall Street Journal: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Spending for the […]
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
April 19th, 2012Via: Natural Society: Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident […]
‘Factor in taxes, transportation costs, clothing and lunch — what is the true net that you bring home after salary?”
April 18th, 2012Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World by Kelly Coyne “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?” Via: CNN: After factoring in the rising cost of child care, the daily commute and other work-related expenses, a growing number of […]
Michigan Government Unleashes Armed Raids on Small Pig Farmers; Traditional Livestock Declared ‘Invasive Species’
April 17th, 2012Why does the state respond to people who sell homekilled meat in the same way that it responds to people who violently attack the state? … It’s because ubiquitous, small scale agriculture represents a greater threat to state power than armed resistance. —“What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?” Via: Natural News: […]
‘Proposed ‘Natural Health Products Bill’ in New Zealand Would Fine Individuals $50,000 for Making a Cup of Unapproved Herbal Tea’
April 12th, 2012I tried to determine if one could theoretically wind up on the wrong side of this thing for producing, for example, one’s own chamomile tea. The following is from Natural Health Products Bill 324-1: Manufacture of natural health products 28 Licence to manufacture natural health products (1) A person must not manufacture a natural health […]
Hunger: Britain’s Silent, Scandalous Epidemic
April 7th, 2012Via: Independent: Chris is 10. He and his brother are so malnourished that their skins are pale and they have rings under their eyes. Their older brothers have such an unhealthy diet that they have lost their adult teeth. They live in the sixth-richest city in the world – London. The boys are just four […]
