Archive for the 'Food' Category
Gulf Oil Spreading East on Sea Floor
August 17th, 2010Florida Oil Spill Law: Full Time Coverage of Gulf of Mexico Situation: Florida Oil Spill Law Via: CNN: Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life, researchers reported Monday. Initial findings from a new […]
Cattle Cloned from Dead Animals to Produce ‘That Memorable Taste’
August 16th, 2010Bon Appétit! Via: BBC: Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals, according to a US cloning company. Farmers say it is being done because it is only possible to tell that the animal’s meat is of exceptionally high quality by inspecting […]
Germany: ‘Radioactive Boars’
August 9th, 2010Via: AFP: Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still poisoning Germany’s boars nearly 25 years on, with authorities fighting to keep toxic meat off the market as the wild boar population rockets. The boars feed off mushrooms, truffles and wild berries which still contain high levels of caesium-137, carried in the radioactive cloud […]
Wheat Heads for Biggest Gain in Half a Century on Export Bans
August 6th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Wheat headed for the biggest weekly gain in half a century on concern other countries may follow an export ban by Russia, and may reach $10 a bushel, a price not seen since the global food crisis in 2008. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Kazakhstan and Belarus should also suspend shipments as […]
U.S. Government Funding Program to Train Foreign Workers So American Firms Can Outsource Jobs
August 5th, 2010In other news: The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Via: Information Week: Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English […]
Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods: Security Camera Footage of Police (Guns Drawn) Raid
August 5th, 2010As the state stupidly tries to crush suppliers of delicious, nutritious and safe food, people become radicalized. For our purposes, radicalized means increasingly seeking out and paying cash or bartering for outlaw meat, raw milk, free range eggs, heirloom vegetables, etc. … The person who feels empowered by supplying and/or consuming delicious, nutritious and safe […]
Fructose Helps Cancer Proliferate
August 4th, 2010In the Reuters piece below, we see, “Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.” Now, what are poor people being dosed with? That’s right… Via: Reuters: Pancreatic tumor cells use […]
Russian Wheat Harvest Down Sharply Due to Drought and Fires
August 4th, 2010Via: Kansas City Star: Drought and raging wildfires have destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia and sent wheat prices soaring around the world. The fear that Russia, a major wheat producer, will have to cut exports by at least 30 percent is good news for U.S. farmers, who now are getting more money […]
Raw Food Raid in Los Angeles
July 26th, 2010Via: Los Angeles Times: With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the […]
New Zealand: Country Calendar: Growing Strong — Whangarei Growers Market
July 19th, 2010We were over at my mother and father in laws’ house on Saturday. They have a television, so we all watched Country Calendar. Country Calendar is usually very good, but it was particularly good this time. Most of the food purchased in New Zealand is sold through the retail networks of just two large corporations. […]
