Archive for the 'Food' Category
North Korea: Starving in Silence
September 14th, 2009Via: Globe and Mail: In a country where citizens are subjected to ceaseless propaganda telling them that they live in a socialist paradise, it’s the silence that tells the other side of the story. You can stand in the middle of some Pyongyang streets, even at rush hour, and hear only the occasional sound of […]
For Your Health, Froot Loops
September 8th, 2009Related: Toxic Sludge is Good For You by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton Via: New York Times: A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation’s largest food manufacturers, is “designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices.” … Eileen T. Kennedy, president of the Smart Choices board […]
One in Nine Americans Receiving Food Stamps
September 4th, 2009Via: Reuters: More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The food stamp program, which helps cover the cost of groceries for one in nine Americans, […]
UN Chief Visits ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault in Arctic
September 2nd, 2009Via: AFP: UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited Wednesday a vault carved into the Arctic permafrost, filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds in case food crops are wiped out by a catastrophe. “The world faces many daunting challenges today, one of the greatest of which is how to feed a growing population in […]
School Kids Buying Their Breakfast Sticks Using Fingerprint Readers
August 20th, 2009In case you don’t get the “breakfast stick” reference: “Texas: In-School Suspension Program” Uses GPS Tracking Systems Attached to Students. Via: Chronicle Telegram: For lunch Monday, Elyria High School served up pepperoni pizza to the students who came back for the first day of classes. But instead of students handing over cash, some placed their […]
‘Chicken Underground’ Emerges in Indiana
August 19th, 2009Via: Lafayette Journal & Courier: The “chicken underground” is on the march. Gay-Ellen Stulp and Stephany Miskunas are lobbying the Lafayette City Council to allow them to keep pet chickens at their homes in the historic Highland Park neighborhood. Advertisement Stulp said she wanted city council members to amend the ordinance that forbids having chickens […]
FrankenpHood Seeds Will Cost Up to 42% More
August 19th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed maker, plans to charge as much as 42 percent more for new genetically modified seeds next year than older offerings because they increase farmers’ output. Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans will cost farmers an average of $74 an acre in 2010, and original Roundup Ready soybeans will […]
Food Crisis Could Force Wartime Rations and Vegetarian Diet on Britons
August 11th, 2009You’ll love the citation for the source of this: “A paper setting out the food security assessment…” That’s it. The The Great Rupert Murdoch Wurlitzer strikes again. Via: Times: The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food […]
Britain: GM Crops Grown in Secret
July 27th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Genetically-modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in a year after controversial trials of the plants were “secretly” restarted. Cultivation of a field of potatoes designed to be resistant to pests were abandoned over a year ago when environmental protesters ripped up the crop But, without alerting the public […]
Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post
July 24th, 2009Via: Organic Consumers: Michael Taylor is a lawyer who has spent the last few decades moving through the revolving door between the employ of GMO-seed giant Monsanto and the FDA and USDA. Taylor is widely credited with ushering Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply — […]
