Archive for the 'Food' Category
Illegal Beekeeping in New York City Catches On
March 1st, 2010Via: Chow: On a fall morning before work, 29-year-old Meg Paska climbs a rickety ladder, opens a trapdoor, and steps out onto the roof of her vinyl-sided row house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Set incongruously against the Manhattan skyline and the satellite dishes of neighboring roofs, a healthy cloud of honeybees swoops in and around two […]
And Now… Walmart, Champion of the Local* Food Movement?
February 22nd, 2010* In terms of WalMart, local means, “Within a day’s drive of one of its warehouses.” Does that mean two people driving for 24 hours in shifts? I apologize for being so cynical, but this is [expletive deleted] WALMART we’re talking about! What’s happening here? Is “Local” becoming the new “Organic”? Another term ripe for […]
The U.S. Industrial Organic Milk Swindle
February 4th, 2010Via: Politics of the Plate: On some bureaucrat’s desk in President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), sits a document that has the power to either destroy the nation’s 1,800 family-operated organic dairy farms or come to their rescue. In the early 2000s, virtually all of the nation’s organic dairy farmers—not to mention the […]
One in Five Children in New York City Relying on Emergency Food Aid
February 4th, 2010Via: NBC New York: One in eight Americans needed emergency food help in 2009—–one of five children in New York City are relying on emergency food. These sad statistics come from Feeding America and the Food Bank for New York City. “Food insecure” is the bureaucratic term for hungry people — and New York is, […]
Britain: Significant Percentage of Teenagers Think Oats Grow on Trees, Bacon Comes from Sheep
February 2nd, 2010Via: Telegraph: Teenage schoolchildren think oats grow on trees and bacon comes from sheep, a survey showed today. Many children and young adults also believe eggs were a key ingredient in bread, the researchers said. The survey showed 26% of children thought bacon came from sheep, 29% thought oats grow on trees, while 17% of […]
U.S. Babies Mysteriously Shrinking
January 28th, 2010I’ve been seeing this article around but avoiding dealing with it because I just blow my stack when it comes to stuff like this. I’m posting it so people will stop submitting this. I guess it gives me an excuse to post a link to the Weston A. Price Foundation again. Cutting to the chase, […]
Finally, We Have Chickens
January 28th, 2010Posts on Farmlet have become so rare that I think it’s worth mentioning this one here. Via: Farmlet: We recently bought eighteen two-day-old Barred Rock chicks. They were unsexed, so we will probably wind up with something like half of them turning out to be roosters. Chickens, used properly, are outstanding creatures for permaculture systems. […]
Internet Generation at Risk of Rickets
January 23rd, 2010I really had to laugh at this: “Fifty years ago, many children would have been given regular doses of cod liver oil, but this practice has all but died out,” noted co-author Tim Cheetham, also a professor at Newcastle. The good professor should visit our home! Rebecca, my wife, did a lot of research into […]
Monsanto’s GM Corn Damages Organs: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
January 13th, 2010Via: International Journal of Biological Sciences: We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to […]
Britain: Freezing Weather Affecting Food Supplies
January 10th, 2010Via: Guardian: Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce. Gordon Brown, who will chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee early this week to discuss the freeze, was today forced to reassure […]
