Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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Rising Food Prices Make Tabs Higher at Markets, Restaurants
from toledoblade.com: Through March, the price of food is up 1.7 percent during the last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is running ahead of the general inflation rate, currently at 1.5 percent. In March alone, retail food prices rose 0.4 percent from February. And…
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Cover Oregon Officially Calls It Quits, State to Use ObamaCare Site
from foxnews.com: Cover Oregon on Friday became the first casualty of the state-run ObamaCare exchanges, as officials formally gave up the fight to offer residents a state health care portal. Instead, Oregon, which has been hemorrhaging millions of dollars on a barely functioning website that has failed to sign up a single person, is turning…
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New York Considering Labeling GMO Food
from lohud.com: Supporters say customers have a right to know what’s in their food and how it was grown or made. Those against labeling say that it’s unnecessary and will drive up food prices.
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Open Source Comes to Farms With Restriction-free Seeds
29 crop varieties are now distributed under an open source license. from arstechnica.com: There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by…
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Kelis Serves Up Cooking Show and New Album, ‘Food’
from time.com: Can you smell what Kelis is cooking? In her 15-year career, Kelis Rogers has been hard to pigeonhole: She got her start as Pharrell’s go-to vocalist in The Neptunes’ posse, released four albums of spacey modern R&B and, following the birth of her son, entered the futuristic dance diva stage that motherhood so…
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The Lure of Forbidden Food
from well.blogs.nytimes.com: How hard will your child work for food? In an experiment, researchers at Pennsylvania State University gave preschool children the opportunity to “work” for a food reward. All the child had to do was click a computer mouse four times to earn a cinnamon-flavored graham cracker. But earning additional treats required progressively more…
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4/20 Holiday Goes Mainstream on Easter in Colorado
from theepochtimes.com: Once the province of activists and stoners, the traditional pot holiday of April 20 has gone mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana. Tens of thousands gathered for a weekend of Colorado cannabis-themed festivals and entertainment, from a marijuana industry expo called the Cannabis Cup at a trade…
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Let Them Eat Hemp
from realnewsaustralia.com: Food regulation in Australia can be baffling sometimes. It’s so easy to walk into a supermarket and fill your trolley with foods that can potentially undermine your health like litres of soft drink and cheap doughnuts. Yet if you want to buy hemp seed, a source of vitamins and minerals and a rich…
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New Map Shows Food Access Disparities
from nbcnews.com: In some counties, many of the residents don’t know where their next meal is coming from. This new map from Feeding America shows “food insecurity” from state to state. The darkest areas are the ones with the least access. To learn more, visit the Map the Meal Gap project.
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Three More Vaccines Now Mandatory for Ontario Children
from theglobeandmail.com: Ontario is making three more vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren, a move that cements the province’s hard line against parents who decline to immunize their children. As of this September, Ontario students will need to be vaccinated against whooping cough, meningococcal disease and, if they were born after 2010, chickenpox. All three are already…
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Rising Food Prices Pinching Consumers
from usatoday.com: Two months of sharp increases in food prices show grocers are starting to pass along their higher wholesale costs to consumers. Retail food prices rose 0.4% in March, the same as in February and the largest amount since September 2011. By comparison, the prices of all consumer goods rose 0.2% in March and…
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Environmental Activists Murders ‘Have Soared Dramatically’
from ibtimes.co.uk: More than 900 environmental activists have been slain in 35 countries over the past decade with very few of their murderers ever likely to be brought to justice, a survey by London-based Global Witness group reported. Global Witness, which reports on links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses, said the death toll has…
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Medicated to Death: SSRIs and Mass Killings
from boilingfrogspost.com: SSRI stands for Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor, and it is a class of drugs that is often used to treat depression and anxiety. It includes Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil and a host of other commonly prescribed antidepressants. And the perpetrators of a raft of school shootings, mass murders and other violent incidents in…
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Fourth Anniversary of Gulf Oil Spill: Wildlife Is Still Suffering from Toxic Cover Up
BP and the Government Decided to Temporarily Hide the Oil by Sinking It with Toxic Chemicals … The Gulf Ecosystem Is Now Paying the Price from washingtonsblog.com: As we noted at the time, and on the first (and here), second and third anniversaries of BP’s Gulf oil spill, BP and the government made the spill…
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US Bill Seeks to Block Mandatory GMO Food Labeling by States
from reuters.com: A Republican congressman from Kansas introduced legislation on Wednesday that would nullify efforts in multiple states to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The bill, dubbed the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act” was drafted by U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo from Kansas, and is aimed at overriding bills in roughly two dozen states…