Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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Mars Inc. to Libertarians Thwart Food Stamp Health Limits
from bloomberg.com: Nicole Blakey says she can’t stand watching other people buy junk food with the government-issued food-stamp debit cards she’s used to raise three children while earning $9 an hour at a dry cleaner… That view is being defied by an unusual alliance of food producers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, libertarians and advocates…
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Study: Energy Drinks Can Change the Way Your Heart Beats (Or Doesn’t)
from nydailynews.com: If you rely on energy drinks to give you a buzz, researchers are warning that all that caffeine can alter the way your heart beats. A team from the University of Bonn in Germany imaged the hearts of 17 people an hour after they had an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine, with…
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Locally-Sourced #Thanksgiving Meal Easy to Gobble
from kwwl.com: As you prepare your Thanksgiving feast, one local food expert asks you to consider just where all that nourishment came from. Wednesday afternoon, Brittany Bethel stood in her Dubuque County kitchen, pulling out the raw materials that would soon become her and her husband’s Thanksgiving feast. “It’s all local produce and cheese and…
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Unclouding the Behavior of Lingering Clouds Caused By #Pollution
from sciencecodex.com: A new study reveals how pollution causes thunderstorms to leave behind larger, deeper, longer lasting clouds. Appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences November 26, the results solve a long-standing debate and reveal how pollution plays into climate warming. The work can also provide a gauge for the accuracy of…
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Video: Bogus Drug War – Inside Canada’s Weed Business
from brasschecktv.com: $20 billion a year (at least) in tax free cash. A bigger market for Canada than wheat and produces more exports than fishing. It employs more people that mining and forestry combined. Canadians are discovering their “green thumbs.” In one town in British Columbia, Grand Forks, it’s believed one house in ten is…
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
from globalresearch.ca: Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health,…
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UN FAO: Alpaca, Donkey, Moose Milk Alternatives to Cow Milk Prices
from rawstory.com: Milk from a variety of animals including camels, llamas and moose should be more widely used to counteract high cow milk prices due to growing demand for dairy in the developing world, the UN food agency said on Tuesday. “There is huge scope for developing other dairy species,” Anthony Bennett, livestock industry officer…
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Experts: Fukushima Radiation Fears for Oregon Coast Fish Unwarranted
from oregonlive.com: Andy Norris keeps putting it off. But he plans to stop eating his twice-a-week tuna sandwich. He’s worried about the traces of radioactive particles from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster detected in local albacore… Along the Oregon coast, while reservations like Norris’ aren’t unheard of, they aren’t common, either. A pocket of doubt…
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Japan Dismantles Rice Subsidies
from theland.com.au: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has approved a plan to end a four-decade long policy that has helped to sustain the nation’s 1.2 million rice farms. The gentan system, which has paid landowners to reduce crops since 1970, will be dismantled by the end of the fiscal year through March 31, 2019,…
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Koi Fusion PDX Drops Planned Promotion Of McMuffin Exchange
from blazersedge.com: The popular food cart Koi Fusion has decided to stop promoting a planned exchange that would have allowed Portland Trail Blazers fans to trade their McDonald’s Sausage Egg McMuffin coupon for a free taco.
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Volcanic Eruption Builds New Japan Island in Pacific Ocean
from csmonitor.com: Ash and lava fragments blasting out of the ocean announced the birth of a new volcanic island about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The black cone is the newest member of the Bonin Islands, a chain of tropical and subtropical islands created by volcanic eruptions that includes…
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Report Says Food Stamps Spending Declining
from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com: The money spent on food stamps and the number of people who receive them are declining as the economy has improved, according to a report released Wednesday, even as the program remains a source of contention in congressional negotiations to complete a five-year farm bill. The report, by the Center on Budget and…
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Eating Nuts Tied to Fewer Cancer, Heart Disease Deaths
from zeenews.india.com: People who eat a diet rich in nuts, including peanuts, are less likely to die from heart disease or cancer, new research suggests. The more nuts consumed, the greater the apparent benefit, according to the report. It included data from nurses and other health professionals who have been tracked since the 1980s. Heart…
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10 Foods Sold in the U.S. That Are Banned Elsewhere
from oracletalk.com: Americans are slowly realizing that food sold in the US doesn’t just taste different than foods sold in other countries, it’s created differently. Sadly, many U.S. foods are BANNED in Europe — and for good reason. Take a look at the plummeting health of Americans; what role might toxic foods play in our…
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Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help from Bill Gates
from naturalsociety.com: Even if you aren’t opposed to genetically modified crops (with all this information, how couldn’t you be) and even if you like Bill Gates and his ventures (but with all this information, how could you), this latest should be enough to get you perturbed. And if you are anti-GMO and knowledgeable of the…