Category: #FoodWorldOrder
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Washington state battles over genetically modified food
from usatoday.com: Washington state is the next battleground in an ongoing effort by food activists to get products containing genetically engineered ingredients labeled. California voters rejected a similar initiative 53% to 47% in a bruising and expensive election in 2012. Initiative 522 goes before voters Nov. 5. It would require that foods containing ingredients from…
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In Age of Anywhere Delivery, the Food Meets You for Lunch
from nytimes.com: Now that the hungry can use cellphones and food-delivery apps to order anything their stomachs desire to the very spot where they stand, however, delivery is no longer confined to the apartment or the office — or even, for that matter, to a place with an address. “We go to the park all…
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Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food garbage to glass
from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They’ve turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they’re investigating what other muck may yield. In a lab here, they rigged up a cooking system that starts…
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‘Heart Attack Grill’ Founder Jon Basso: “My Food Will Kill You”
“I am probably the only restaurateur in the entire world who is unapologetically telling you that my food is bad for you, that it will kill you and that you should stay away from it.”
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Flowering plant origins pushed back 100 million years
from bbc.co.uk: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany. The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period. But the team described six types of fossil pollen grains from older Middle Triassic core samples that closely resemble…
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How a partial government shutdown will affect food in America
from foxnews.com: No doubt you’re well aware that a shutdown doesn’t actually mean the government pulls the shades, locks the door, and puts the key under the mat. Essential services—anything involved in protecting life or property — remain operational… But if this goes on long enough even you, Joe and Jane Citizen, will be affected.…
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Anti-GMO Campaigners Claim Victory as ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Stripped From Senate Bill
from commondreams.org: An amendment dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” which currently allows large agriculture and biotech corporations to ignore court orders involving the safety of genetically modified seeds, has been stripped from Senate’s spending bill that could be voted on as early as Wednesday afternoon. Following an organized campaign against the provision in recent months,…
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Misleading ‘Natural’ Food Labels May Soon Be History
from enn.com: The only thing natural about the “natural” label is that such branding, naturally, often confuses consumers. But such misleading terms such as “natural” and “healthy” could soon become history, or at the very least score a makeover. Large food companies have hijacked such terms with dubious results—and never mind the fact “natural” is…
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Russia Considers Total Ban on All GMO Products
from sustainablepulse.com: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the relevant agencies to consider a possible ban on the import into Russia of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by October 15. The order is addressed to Rospotrebnadzor, the Health Ministry, the Agriculture Ministry, and the Trade and Economic Development Ministry. They are ordered to “submit proposals…
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Arsenic Contamination Threatens Water in Hanoi
from NYTimes.com: Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from Pakistan to China. When it gets into underground aquifers, as has happened in Bangladesh, it can contaminate public water supplies and cause illness and death. Now researchers say arsenic is leaching into a major drinking-water aquifer that…
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David Attenborough says sending food to famine-ridden countries is ‘barmy’
from independent.co.uk: Sir David Attenborough (pictured) has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as “barmy” and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported. The natural history broadcaster warned that the world was “heading for disaster” due to the threat of overpopulation, in comments made to…
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CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’
from wired.com: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps that need to be taken to roll back the trend. The agency’s overall…
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Just What The Doctor Ordered: Med Students Team With Chefs
from npr.org: For the past few weeks, the culinary arts students at University in Providence, R.I., have been working with some less-than-seasoned sous chefs. One of them, Clinton Piper, may look like a pro in his chef’s whites, but he’s struggling to work a whisk through some batter. “I know nothing about baking,” he says.…
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Raw Garlic Consumption Can Cut Lung Cancer Risk (Nearly) In Half
from naturalsociety.com: A new study out of China has remarkable findings in regards to lung cancer prevention. Lung cancer was responsible for the deaths of 158,081 people in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention, above treatment, is crucial as more people die from this type of cancer…
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Food allergies cost U.S. $25 billion a year
from cbsnews.com/: Families with a child with food allergies know keeping their kids safe can be costly, especially when it comes to medical treatment and missed work in the event of an incident. A new study puts a number on those costs across the United States: $25 billion a year. Researchers report in the Sept.…