Archive for the 'Food' Category
Grocery Shopping in South Korea
July 4th, 2011Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store. Via: Youtube: Research Credit: JH
Rice May Rally Sharply in Wake of Thai Election
July 4th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Rice prices in Thailand, the biggest exporter, may rally 56 percent by yearend as the party that won parliamentary elections implements a policy to buy the crop from farmers above current rates, according to a survey. The export price may climb to $810 per metric ton by Dec. 31, according to a median […]
Toshiso Kosako: Come the Harvest Season in the Fall, There Will Be Chaos
July 2nd, 2011You probably know that rice has semi religious significance throughout Asia, but you may not know that Japanese are particularly weird about their rice. To Japanese, it’s not really rice unless it’s rice from Japan. In order to avoid international trade sanctions, Japan imports rice, but the rice is generally not consumed in Japan. Most […]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Intentionally Flooded Farmland, Now Offering to Buy It
June 28th, 2011Via: KMBC: Some river bottom property owners say they received a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City district office asking them if they want to sell their land. KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that the letter is angering some of the people who received it because some of them are fighting for their […]
Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
June 27th, 2011Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing […]
Taiwan: Companies Manufacturing Food Products Containing Toxic Diethylhexyl Phthalate
June 23rd, 2011Profits. Via: Herald Sun: CHINA and South Korea have both banned imports of certain food and drinks from Taiwan in a fast-expanding regional scare over contamination with a chemical usually used in plastics. The Philippines and Hong Kong have also limited imports or sales of foodstuffs from the export-dependent island after the alarm was raised […]
Lawsuit Alleges Whole Foods Sold Frozen Vegetables from China Grown in a Polluted Region by Prisoners and Certified as Organic
June 17th, 2011Ahh, imagine my shock. Rant mode: On. We buy some organic foods in bulk from wholesale distributors here in New Zealand. Increasingly, if we want to buy these ‘certified organic’ bulk foods, the country of origin is China. We refuse to buy any food from China, regardless of which organic certification it has. We’ve indicated […]
And Now… ‘Shit Burger’
June 15th, 2011Note the helpful label on the fridge. Via: Inhabitat: Yep, you heard me correctly — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda has developed a “burger” made from soya, steak sauce essence, and protein extracted from human feces. Related: Yes Men Hunger Presentation [Thanks, Dennis]
Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blackouts
June 14th, 2011Via: Scientific American: One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river-cooled nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down. French […]
Farmageddon
June 9th, 2011Via: Farmageddon: Farmageddon Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Research Credit: R
