Archive for the 'Food' Category
Video from Inside Underground Government Food Storage Facility [???]
January 22nd, 2012Update: It’s Probably Springfield Underground Cryptogon reader goldenmudd posted a link to Springfield Underground. Case closed, as far as I’m concerned. —End Update— Update: SubTropolis? Several people are emailing to say that this is SubTropolis. And, yes, the video title mentions SubTropolis. But if you look at the Wikipedia entry for SubTropolis, you’ll find this: […]
Japan ‘Dream Project’: 600 Acre Farm with Autonomous Robot Workers
January 7th, 2012Does anyone understand how LEDs are supposed to replace pesticides? Under an agriculture ministry plan, unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs keeping rice, wheat, soybeans, fruit and vegetables safe until robots can put them in boxes. Anyway, this sounds like it could have been lifted right out of […]
Trans Fats and Nutrient Levels Linked to Alzheimer’s Brain Shrinkage
January 3rd, 2012Medical News Today: The paper’s first author is Dr Gene Bowman from the Departments of Neurology and Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. He and his colleagues describe three sets of findings: 1. Elderly people with diets high in […]
Wheat Belly
January 1st, 2012Via: Wheat Belly: Who had the audacity to write such an against-the-grain book exposing “healthy whole grains” for the incredibly destructive genetic monsters they’ve become? That’s me, Dr. William Davis, cardiologist and seeker-of-truth in health. Over 80% of the people I meet today are pre-diabetic or diabetic. In an effort to reduce blood sugar, I […]
DYI Radiation Scanning in Japanese Grocery Store
January 1st, 2012Via: The Japan Times: But on a street just six minutes from JR Kashiwa Station, the Bec-Miru facility that Motohiro Takamatsu opened in October is turning heads by offering residents a chance to scan their own groceries, garden soil and other items for radiation. “To have Kashiwa become contaminated with radiation, that was a big […]
FDA Won’t Regulate Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Livestock Intended for Human Consumption
December 30th, 2011Via: Guardian: Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration’s move to renege on its long-held policy to regulate the use of human antibiotics in animal feed. Last week, the agency quietly announced it was withdrawing its plan to limit the use of antibiotics fed to healthy livestock intended for human […]
Rootworms Becoming Resistant to Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Corn
December 29th, 2011Via: AP: One of the nation’s most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
Taiwanese Rice Headed to Japan
December 28th, 2011Via: Taipei Times: A shipment of Taiwanese rice bound for Tokyo departed central Taiwan yesterday, the second in a series of three deliveries of the biggest rice order received from Japan in eight years. A ceremony was held in Changhua County’s Pitou Township , where the rice supplier, Union Rice Co, is based, to mark […]
Documentary About the Failure of McDonald’s in Bolivia
December 26th, 2011I’m lovin’ it. Via: Global Post: It’s the country that turned its back on McDonald’s. The fast food giant added the traditional llajwa sauce to its classic patties, but still Bolivians weren’t conviced. So after five years, McDonald’s closed its eight branches and left the country in 2002. Now a new documentary, “¿Por qué quebró […]
Minding Your Mitochondria: Dr. Terry Wahls Cured Her Worsening Multiple Sclerosis with Diet
December 24th, 2011This is one of the most astonishing videos that I have ever seen. Please consider sharing this through your networks. Via: TEDxTalks / YouTube: Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her […]
