Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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New species of metal-eating plant discovered in the Philippines
from pensoft.net: Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle — it eats nickel for a living — accumulating up to 18,000 ppm of the metal in its leaves without itself being poisoned, says Professor Edwino Fernando, lead author of the report. Such an…
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Coca-Cola to Remove Controversial Drinks Ingredient
from bbc.co.uk: Coca-Cola plans to remove a controversial ingredient from some of its US drinks brands by the end of this year, following an online petition. Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is found in Coca-Cola fruit and sports drinks such as Fanta and Powerade. According to medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic, excessive consumption of…
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The Pizza Connection: Fighting The Mafia Through Food
from npr.org: In recent years, the effort to bring the Mafia under control in Sicily has spilled over into the world of food. Today a movement of small organic agricultural cooperatives has sprung up across the island to farm land once confiscated by the Mafia and bring these goods to a global market. Libera Terra…
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Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries
from aljazeera.com: Fast-food workers are planning a global strike for better pay and working conditions, with actions set to take place in 150 U.S. cities and 32 other countries in a bid to exert pressure on multinational companies. Strikes are planned for May 15 across five continents in countries including Morocco, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany,…
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Soylent and the End of Food
Has a Tech Entrepreneur Replaced Our Meals? from newyorker.com: In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup. They had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator, but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers—had…
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Stamp Out Hunger, Largest Single-Day Food Drive, on May 10
from news-press.com: Summer is coming, school will be out, and the need for food assistance will grow. So the timing is right for the nation’s largest single-day food drive, “Stamp Out Hunger,” set for Saturday. This is the one day when letter carriers collect nonperishable food that has been left by mailboxes. The National Association…
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The Fat Cats of Fast-Food
from consortiumnews.com: Pay inequity has worsened across the U.S. economy, but perhaps nowhere more than in the fast-food industry where CEOs and other top executives fatten their compensation as their fast-food workers subsist on taxpayer-provided food stamps, as Michael Winship explains. Bad enough that the empty calories of many a fast-food meal have all the nutritional…
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Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers
from inquisitr.com: Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers…
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First US Case of MERS Virus Is Found in Indiana Man Who Visited Mideast
from nytimes.com: A virus that has killed more than 100 people in the Middle East has been found in the United States for the first time, in an Indiana health care worker who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, federal health officials said on Friday.
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Subway Leads Fast Food Nation In Underpaying Workers
from money.cnn.com: McDonald’s gets a lot of bad press for its low pay. But there’s an even bigger offender when it comes to fast food companies underpaying their employees: Subway. Individual Subway franchisees have been found in violation of pay and hour rules in more than 1,100 investigations spanning from 2000 to 2013, according to…
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Superbugs That Overpower Antibiotics Spreading
from reuters.com: The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. Antibiotic resistance has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country, the U.N.’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said in…
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Minute Traces of Radiation from Fukushima Discovered in West Coast Albacore Tuna
from oregonstate.edu: Albacore tuna caught off the Oregon shore after the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake had slightly elevated levels of radioactivity but the increase has been minute, according to a newly published study. In fact, you would have to consume more than 700,000 pounds of the fish…
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Coal Company Unlawfully Polluted West Virginia Water
Yeah, we only want our pollution to be lawful! from thinkprogress.org: Coal company Alpha Natural Resources violated its state-issued pollution permit by allowing toxic amounts of selenium to seep into West Virginia waters, a federal judge ruled Thursday, the latest event in the state’s ongoing coal-driven water pollution saga. In a decision first reported by…
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Efforts to Zap Bacteria in Food are Slow to Catch Hold?
from washingtonpost.com: The nuclear energy that Frank Benso uses to kill bacteria in fruit and oysters has won widespread support from public health officials and scientists, who say it could turn the tide against the plague of foodborne illness. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of radiation to wipe out pathogens in…
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Possible Food Poisoning Sickens 100 at Food Safety Summit
from nbcnews.com: More than 100 people have now reported they got sick with suspected food poisoning at a national Food Safety Summit held earlier this month in Baltimore. Maryland state health officials say they still don’t know what caused the outbreak of gastroenteritis that left participants suffering symptoms that included diarrhea and nausea. “We are…