Archive for the 'Food' Category
North Korea Lifts Restrictions on Private Markets as Last Resort in Food Crisis
June 20th, 2010Centralized agriculture will result in famine. Whether it’s Dear Leader or Monsanto, it’s doomed. Call it communism (which results in statist plutocracy) or capitalism (which results in corporate plutocracy), it doesn’t matter. Fascism is fascism, regardless of the mask it happens to be wearing. To understand the effects of statist plutocracy on your belly, see: […]
Memphis: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
June 16th, 2010Any ideas? Via: WREG: Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It’s happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere […]
Fisherman Exposed to Mustard Gas
June 9th, 2010Via: WBZTV: A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas. Dr. Edward Boyer, a toxicologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, said blood and urine tests that confirmed mustard gas exposure came back Monday […]
Next Up for BP Oil Disaster: Hurricane Season
June 1st, 2010Via: Miami Herald: If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t contained soon – and the latest efforts suggest that’s unlikely – then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate the containment and cleanup efforts. “It’s all […]
Government to Track Your Child’s Body Mass Index
May 27th, 2010U.S. Generals Want Congress to Implement Nutrition Standards for iZombies Because They’re Too Fat to Fight Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig Via: American Thinker: I thought this might be one of those bills where someone has misread the language and interpreted what the legislation is supposed to do incorrectly. Nope. Rep. Kind of […]
Flashback 2002: Australian Scientist Urged Government to Use Biological Weapons Against “Overpopulated” Countries
May 24th, 2010Via: The Age: World-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel prize winner revered as Australia’s greatest medical research scientist, secretly urged the government to develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other “overpopulated” countries of South-East Asia. The revelation is contained in top-secret files declassified by the National Archives of Australia, despite resistance from […]
Backyard Gardens Become Income Generators in Lean Times
May 23rd, 2010Of course, the Dervaes family is the center of gravity for urban farming in Los Angeles. If you’re wondering about what’s possible along those lines, you won’t find a more astonishing and encouraging example than Path to Freedom-Urban Homestead. Via: Los Angeles Times: Locking up his station wagon, the one with the scratched paint and […]
California Throws Away Enough Food to Fill 35 Stadiums Per Year
May 22nd, 2010Over at Technofascism Blog, Tony writes, “Keep this story in mind next time you hear that nonsense from people like Bill Gates insisting we need GM crops to feed a hungry world.” Besides Atomic Audit, this represents just about the clearest proof that the depth of our society’s madness is infinite. Via: San Francisco Chronicle: […]
ADHD Linked to Pesticide Exposure
May 17th, 2010Via: CNN: Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests. Researchers measured the levels of pesticide byproducts in the urine of 1,139 children from across […]
Food-Stamp Tally Nears 40 Million, Sets Record
May 11th, 2010Via: Reuters: Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps — the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update. Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program, helping poor people buy food. Enrollment is highest during times of economic distress. The […]
