Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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7-Eleven Makes Push Into Fresh Foods
from chicagotribune.com: The world’s largest convenience store chain is banking on those sentiments as it ups its fresh food offerings, including a push toward more healthy snacks. With more consumers willing to pop in to a convenience store for a quick meal, 7-Eleven is aiming to build a name for itself in the competitive sector,…
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CNN: Microwave “Best Ways to Retain Your Food’s Vitamins”
from cnn.com: The rumor: Zapping food in a microwave leaches out key nutrients. We’ve all heard about how microwaving food removes some nutritional value, but is it true? Is something bad happening to our food behind that microwave glass? The verdict: If you do it right, cooking food in the microwave is one of the…
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Amazingly, Smoking Is Even Worse Than We Knew
from newser.com: Yes, smoking is bad for you, but just how bad might still surprise you. A surgeon general’s report out Friday reports (PDF) that lighting up is scientifically proven to cause diabetes, colorectal and liver cancers, erectile dysfunction, and ectopic pregnancy, the New York Times reports. And more: vision loss, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, impaired…
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Spain becomes first country to rely on wind as top energy source
from aljazeera.com: Spain is the first country in the world to draw a plurality of its power from wind energy for an entire year, according to new reports by the country’s energy regulator and wind energy advocacy group Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE). Wind accounted for 20.9 percent of the country’s energy last year —…
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Freedom Industries, Company in West Virginia Spill, Files for Bankruptcy
One week after W. Va. toxic spill, new owner of Freedom Industries puts firm in bankruptcy* from nytimes.com: Freedom Industries, the West Virginia company whose chemical spill last week tainted the drinking water of more than 300,000 residents in and around Charleston, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday… News reports stated that Freedom Industries…
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California Declares Drought Emergency
from afp.com: California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Friday due to what could be the western US state’s worst drought in a century, which has sparked wildfires and hurt farmers. The declaration allows authorities to access federal help to battle the dry spell that has left huge swaths of tinder-dry forest vulnerable…
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Air pollution in Beijing hits worst ever
from NHK.com: Smog levels in the Chinese capital Beijing soared on Thursday to levels considered “extremely serious.” Official readings for concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles, called PM 2.5, climbed up beyond 600 micrograms per cubic meter at one point on Thursday. Hazy smog descended over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. Tourists in the square…
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Fast Food Not Major Cause of Rising Childhood Obesity Rates
Parents Deserve More Blame For Obesity Than Fast Food from sciencedaily.com: For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. However a new study found that fast-food consumption is simply a byproduct of a much bigger problem: poor all-day-long dietary habits that…
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Almost 5,900 Natural Gas Leaks Discovered Under Washington, D.C.
from activistpost.com: More than 5,893 leaks from aging natural gas pipelines have been found under the streets of Washington, D.C. by a research team from Duke University and Boston University. A dozen of the leaks could have posed explosion risks, the researchers said. Some manholes had methane concentrations as high as 500,000 parts per million…
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How safe is West Virginia water, if pregnant women shouldn’t drink it?
from cnn.com: Days after they told some West Virginia residents they shouldn’t worry about drinking tap water contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal, local health officials issued a new advisory this week. Pregnant women, they suggested, might want to stick to drinking bottle water. In new guidance issued Wednesday night, West Virginia health…
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Freedom Industries Cited at Second West Virginia Site
from ksdk.com: The company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians has been cited for violations at a second facility where it’s storing chemicals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after Thursday’s spill. Inspectors…
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Helicopter Over Baltimore To Monitor Radiation
from baltimore.cbslocal.com: Homeland Security officials will conduct tests this week that could save lives and they’ll be done from a helicopter flying extremely low over the city. Officials will test for radiation so they can respond more quickly in case of a nuclear or dirty bomb attack… Eyes to the sky will notice an unusual…
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Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory over farmers on GMO seed patents, ability to sue
from RT.com: The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials. The high court left intact Monday a federal appeals court decision that threw out a 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association…
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Fracking study finds combustible levels of methane in water after EPA gave the all clear
from RT.com: A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Steve Lipsky, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, complained to the Environmental…
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Suntory to Buy Jim Beam in $16 Billion Deal for U.S. Brand
from bloomberg.com: Suntory Holdings Ltd., the closely held Japanese whiskey and beer maker, agreed to buy Beam Inc. (BEAM) for $16 billion including debt to gain brands such as Maker’s Mark whiskey and create the world’s third-largest premium spirits company. Investors in the maker of Jim Beam and Canadian Club liquor will get $83.50 in…