Archive for the 'Food' Category
Connecticut Growing Gardens at Prisons to Cut Food Costs
May 9th, 2010While Connecticut’s decision to have prisoners grow some portion of their own food is a positive development for several reasons (the health of the prisoners being the main one), let’s make sure that we’re seeing the big picture and understand that the prison industrial complex is just about the most diabolical aspect of the American […]
Roundup-Resistant Super Weeds
May 5th, 2010The New York Times piece below states the following about glyphosate: “It kills a broad spectrum of weeds, is easy and safe to work with, and breaks down quickly, reducing its environmental impact.” Please see: Study Released in Argentina Puts Glyphosate Under Fire: Criticism of the soy farming model intensified recently when research released by […]
Oil Slickonomics
May 3rd, 2010Via: The Big Picture: Three scenarios lie ahead. They rank as bad, worse, and ugliest (the latter being catastrophic and unprecedented). There is no “good” here. The Bad. Containment chambers are put in place and they catch the outflow from the three ruptures that are currently pouring 200,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf every […]
Small Businesses Doing Well Building and Maintaining Backyard “Microfarms”
May 3rd, 2010Via: Los Angeles: Companies are sprouting up across the country, offering help building and maintaining backyard vegetable gardens for those who lack the time — or green thumb — needed to keep the crops coming. Ignoring his aching back, Todd Lininger squatted down on his knees and inched his way around the vegetable field. The […]
Industrial Robots + Industrial Food = ?
May 2nd, 2010U.S. Generals Want Congress to Implement Nutrition Standards for iZombies Because They’re Too Fat to Fight
May 2nd, 2010Via: BBC: Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said. Writing in the Washington Post, the ex-commanders said the fat crisis ruled out more potential military service recruits […]
American Meat Infused with Heavy Metals, Veterinary Medications, Agricultural Pesticides
May 1st, 2010Via: Alternet: While the public has gotten used to microbes like E. coli and salmonella threatening the nation’s meat supply, and while food safety agencies make food-borne illness a high-profile priority, contamination of meat by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides has been slipping through the bureaucratic cracks. Microbial contaminants can be killed by cooking, […]
The Next Empire: China in Africa
April 28th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: Africans’ attitudes toward China’s recent initiatives on their continent are perhaps inevitably riddled with ambivalence. Many African intellectuals bridle at Western criticism of China’s African full-court press. The West, they say, has long patronized their continent, and since the end of the Cold War, has subjected it to outright neglect. And all […]
Buying KFC Buckets Fights Breast Cancer?
April 23rd, 2010The article below doesn’t mention this, but the KFC menu is heavily laden with Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Finger lickin’ death. Via: Washington Post: I try to keep an open mind, but my brain is just boggled by the Buckets for the Cure partnership between KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. I try to […]
In March, Food Prices Surged by the Most in 26 Years
April 22nd, 2010Via: AP: Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years. The Labor Department said the Producer Price Index rose by 0.7 percent in March, compared to analysts’ forecasts of a 0.4 percent rise. A rise in gas prices also helped push up the index.
