Archive for the 'Food' Category
FDA Rules Won’t Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Salmon
September 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species. Despite a growing public demand for more information […]
Interesting Vertical Hydroponic Gardening System
September 19th, 2010This requires electricity, but not much. It might be a way for some of you—who can’t/won’t leave urban areas—to grow a lot of high quality food on a very small footprint. The Tower Garden costs a mint, but this seems pretty easy to do as a DIY type of project.
Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory Violations
September 17th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Salmonella, mounds of excrement, and hefty citations are nothing new to Jack DeCoster, whose Iowa henhouses were blamed for last month’s nationwide egg recall. DeCoster has done business in Turner, Maine, his hometown, for over 60 years—and has incurred a decades-long list of violations there. DeCoster’s history of legal cases in Maine […]
Some of Blackwater/Xe’s Corporate Clients: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays
September 17th, 2010Via: The Nation: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to […]
McDonald’s Food Doesn’t Break Down Over Time?
September 16th, 2010Update: Site Claims “No Animals or Insects Will Touch Them” Via: Friendseat: How to create your own Immortal Burger: 1. Buy some hamburgers from your favorite fast food restaurant: McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King (any place that serves hybridized, chemicalized, genetically altered, hormone/ pesticide-laden food) – BUT DON’T EAT THEM! 2. Put your hamburgers in a […]
DIY, Small Scale Algae Production
September 16th, 2010Via: Shareable: Microscopic spinning orbs and spirals of green goo are the answers to our planet’s energy crisis and arable land shortage. At least that’s what Aaron Baum, a 40-year-old Harvard graduate and Stanford PhD, has concluded. And Baum should know. After a mid-life crisis of sorts, he spent months researching the types of science […]
New Name for High Fructose Corn Syrup: Corn Sugar
September 15th, 2010Via: Food Consumer: On September 14, the Corn Refiner’s Association said in a press release posted on its website that it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to allow manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, to use the name “corn sugar” instead of high fructose corn syrup.
“Productive agricultural land with water on site, will be very valuable in the future.”
September 15th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. Last week’s long-delayed report by the World Bank suggests that purchases in developing countries rose to 45m hectares in 2009, a ten-fold jump from levels of the last decade. Two thirds have been in Africa, where institutions offer […]
Dekalb County Sues Farmer for Growing Too Many Crops
September 13th, 2010Via: WSBTV: DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.” Fig trees, broccoli and cabbages are among the many greens that line the soil on Steve Miller’s more than two acres in Clarkston, who said he […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect the Chicken
September 9th, 2010Via: Lew Rockwell: Today on any given day we have between 75 and 100 chickens, depending on hatch rates. Since that conversation, I’ve come to realize how important the chicken is to our civilization. It may be the most important animal that we have “domesticated.” To those that know chickens I’m sure this will seem […]
