Archive for the 'Food' Category
Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
January 5th, 2010Via: New York Times: After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and the investment property. Now, as she papers the county with résumés and girds herself for rejection, […]
Injecting Beef with Ammonia
January 2nd, 2010Must see image of the factory floor. It’s the Mordor of The Meatrix. Via: New York Times: Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia. The company, Beef Products Inc., had […]
FDA Warning Letter to LSG SkyChefs (World’s Second Largest Provider of Airline Catering Services)
January 2nd, 2010Yum. Via: FDA: At the conclusion of the inspection, on October 6, 2009, the FDA investigator issued a list of Inspectional Ohservations (FDA-483) to your firm. As documented on this form (copy enclosed), the following are the significant violations at your airline catering facility on which we base the “Provisional” classification: • To comply with […]
Commercial Farms Emerging from Detroit Ruins
December 27th, 2009I’d love to know how Hantz Farms plans on building soil structure and providing soil nutrients on this scale. Since they’re doing this in decentralized cells, maybe they can designate a property to serve as a composting facility that can generate large amounts of black gold with shorter turn around times and then distribute it, […]
People Fed Pizza as Reward for Receiving Swine Flu Vaccination
December 18th, 2009Via: WXYZ: The Detroit Health Department is fighting swine flu with pepperoni. When kids return to school after the holiday break, each class has the opportunity to get a free pizza party – if they sign up for the shots. … The Detroit Health Department has already been working especially hard to get the vaccine […]
Scientists Grow Pork Meat in a Laboratory
December 1st, 2009Oh yummy. Via: Telegraph: SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — […]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would […]
U.S. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM EXPANDING BY 20,000 PEOPLE PER DAY
November 29th, 2009Via: UPI: The stigma of food stamps is fading amid record use of the U.S. nutrition program, which now feeds more than 36 million people, officials said. “I think the response of the program has been tremendous,” said Kevin Concannon, an under secretary of agriculture, “but we’re mindful that there are another 15, 16 million […]
15% of Americans Going Hungry
November 18th, 2009Via: CNN: The number of Americans that have trouble putting food on the table shot up last year in an unprecedented spike to a record 17 million households, the government reported on Monday. The Department of Agriculture report, which has been released annually since 1995, said the number of Americans that were hungry rose to […]
Water Kefir and Other Cultures for Sale in New Zealand
October 29th, 2009All of the cultures that Becky (my wife) maintains for our family are for sale and may be shipped anywhere in New Zealand. Please see Water Kefir New Zealand for ordering information. Available cultures include: Water kefir Milk kefir Caspian Sea yogurt Kombucha (SCOBY) Sourdough (Wild New Zealand yeast, started in March 2006 in Northland)
