Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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France Finance Minister in Soup Over ‘Disgusting’ China Food Remark
from reuters.com: France’s trade minister had to eat humble pie on Friday after she was caught on film saying that food served at a state dinner for China’s President Xi Jinping was “disgusting”. President Francois Hollande and Xi were all smiles at the dinner Wednesday at the Elysee presidential palace. But Foreign Trade Minister Nicole…
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BP More Than Doubles Estimate of Lake Michigan Oil Spill
from chicagotribune.com: BP today more than doubled its maximum estimate of how much crude oil spilled into Lake Michigan earlier this week from its Whiting refinery in Northwest Indiana. In a statement, the company said a malfunction in a new distillation unit forced up to 39 barrels or 1,638 gallons of oil into the lake…
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Access to Affordable, Healthy Food in Canada’s North Nears Crisis
from america.aljazeera.com: Here are grocery prices in some remote communities in Canada’s north: $10 for a carton of milk, $28 for a cabbage, $65 for a chicken. Leesee Papatsie, a resident of Iqaluit, the capital city of the vast northern territory of Nunavut, has seen it all — and documented some of the more budget-busting…
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BP Spills Unknown Amount of Tar Sands Into Lake Michigan
from blacklistednews.com: Oil giant BP has caused yet another oil spill in a crucial water way this week, following an increase in tar sands refining at its Indiana plant on the shores of Lake Michigan. BP notified the federal government’s National Response Center around 5 p.m. Monday that its Whiting Refinery was leaking oil into the…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger accused of profiting from deforestation
from independent.co.uk: Arnold Schwarzenegger is facing allegations that a £204bn investment fund that he once held a stake in is a major investor in 20 of the most well-known companies involved in the logging of the world’s rainforests. The Terminator actor reinvented himself as the state of California’s most environmentalist governor during his time in…
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Wal-Mart’s Dependence on Food Stamps Revealed
from latimes.com: Talk about a “poverty trap”! The phrase was recently used by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisc., to suggest that the nation’s panoply of programs to aid low-income households was keeping them from rising into the middle class. Wal-Mart’s annual report, issued late last week, puts a different spin on things.…
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Supposed ‘Medical Marijuana’ Measures In Alabama and Utah Are Anything But
from alternet.org: At a public signing ceremony today, Utah’s Republican Gov. Gary Herbert will approve House Bill 105 — aka “Charlee’s Law.” The law, and others like it, ostensibly allows children with treatment-resistant pediatric epilepsy access to extracts of the marijuana plant high in the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD). While some media outlets are reporting that the passage…
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World Water Day: Global Efforts to Conserve Most Precious Resource
from csmonitor.com: This Saturday, March 22nd, the world celebrates World Water Day. Water and agriculture are inextricably interlinked and interdependent. Agriculture is a major user of both ground and surface water for irrigation—accounting for about 70 percent of water withdrawal worldwide.
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Monsanto’s ‘healthier environment’ ads banned in South Africa
from RT.com: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of South Africa has ordered biotech titan Monsanto to withdraw its ads on local radio in which the company boasts the supposed benefits of GM crops, including a “healthier environment” and “more food sustainably.” The authority’s order for Monsanto to withdraw its commercial on Radio 702 will take…
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Artists Depict Countries, Continents Using Iconic Regional Foods
from nydailynews.com: A series of vivid maps will help you see the world in a more delicious way. Photographer Henry Hargreaves and New York-based food stylist Caitlin Levin crafted a collection of maps made of foods that represent countries and continents.
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Bugs Have Already Evolved Immunity to GMO Corn
from gizmodo.com: Well that certainly didn’t take very long. According to a study published Monday, the Western Corn Rootworm (actually a beetle larvae) has already developed a resistance to not one but two strains of genetically modified corn thanks to the over-reliance and improper implementation of the crops by farmers in Iowa. Researchers first discovered…
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Rising Food Prices Bite Into Household Budgets
from usatoday.com: Prices are rising for a range of food staples, from meat and pork to fruits and vegetables, squeezing consumers still struggling with modest wage gains. Food prices rose 0.4% in February, the most since September 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. Beef and veal shoppers were socked with some of the…
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The Dark History Of Green Food On St. Patricks Day
Why Dyeing Food And Beer Green For St. Patrick’s Day Is Actually Kind Of Sad* from npr.org: Green food may mean party time in America, where St. Patrick’s Day has long been an excuse to break out the food dye. But in Ireland, where the Irish celebrate their patron saint on March 17, green food…
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Smart Tags Change Color When Food Goes Bad
from cbsnews.com: You might not have to smell sour milk for much longer. Chinese scientists have developed “smart tags” that stick to containers and change color when a food has gone bad. The gel-like tabs — which are about the size of a corn kernel — are safe and inexpensive, according to the creators, and…
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Video: ‘The Botany of Desire’
from therealfoodchannel.com: It’s astonishing how little we learn about plants in school or through the media. We’re dependent on them – 100% dependent on them – yet the average person knows more about Hollywood celebrities and football scores than he or she knows about the plants within a hundred yard radius of where they live.