Archive for the 'Food' Category
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
December 21st, 2011Via: Green Is The New Red: The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
Swedes Arrested for Butter Smuggling
December 19th, 2011Via: Telegraph: Two Swedes have been arrested by Norwegian police for smuggling more than 250kg of butter into the country, offloading one consignment for more than £25 a packet. The two men, from the Northern city of Umea, managed to make their first delivery before a police patrol stopped their van on Saturday evening. “They […]
Disclosure: Long DBA
December 14th, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’m long DBA.
Butter Shortage in Norway: Bids to Roughly $465 Per Pound
December 12th, 2011Via: AFP: An acute butter shortage in Norway, one of the world’s richest countries, has left people worrying how to bake their Christmas goodies with store shelves emptied and prices through the roof. The shortfall, expected to last into January, amounts to between 500 and 1,000 tonnes, said Tine, Norway’s main dairy company, while online […]
Japan Expands Rice Ban
December 8th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Japan will extend a ban on rice shipments from a third city in Fukushima prefecture after local authorities found more tainted grain, deepening food-safety concerns nine months after a nuclear disaster. The ban will likely cover the Shibukawa area of Nihonmatsu City, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, […]
New Zealand Government Wants to Rein In Access to Raw Milk
December 4th, 2011New Zealand is a company town and that company is Fonterra. It makes them insane knowing that farmers are cutting them out of the equation by selling directly to consumers. Other parasitic middlemen (the diabolical Foodstuffs and Woolworths duopoly) are cut out of the deal when people buy goods directly from farmers. In short, farmers […]
The One About Growing Food Becoming Illegal in New Zealand
November 30th, 2011Lots of people are submitting NZ Food Security, a site that focuses on fascist elements of the Food Bill. I’m posting this mainly to let people know that, yes, I know about this and to ask others to please stop submitting it. A couple of comments: First, there are so many insane laws in New […]
Yoshimasa Sakurai: Sustainable Way of Living
November 30th, 2011This is an astonishing resource, especially for people in New Zealand. Save locally and consider printing hard copies. Via: ecohouse.co.nz
‘On a scale of China’s food safety issues, pollution-tainted rice might just be the biggest problem of all.’
November 30th, 2011Via: Global Post: Rice is responsible for feeding half the world, or more than 3.5 billion people. In other words, rice is important. A tweak to how the grain is grown, sold or eaten can send ripples through the world economy. Take Thailand, which supplies 30 percent of the world’s rice. Government subsidies there threaten […]
New Zealand: 1 Million Didn’t Bother to Vote
November 28th, 2011Update: National Almost Beaten by The Abstention Party Via: New Zealand Herald: Voter turnout in the general election was an historic low of 68.8% of eligible voters. An argument can be made that the National Party was almost beaten by The Abstention Party, which won 31.2% of the (non)-vote. Once you take into account the […]
