Tag: alcohol
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: People Picking Organic Quality Over Tainted Bargains (Video)
Scottish brewer keeps it real by opensourcing entire beer recipe catalog; People are making the conscious decision to buy organic food and reject conventionals; and finally some kids in Texas are getting triple the recess time.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: When Bread Makes Beer, Food Waste Is Toast (Video)
People are making a lot of money off the new ‘sharing economy’; London brewery teams with food activist to make beer out of wasted bread; and Ireland’s most hated bankster is going home for justice.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Sharing Economy, Saving Bread, Jailing Banksters (Audio)
People are making a lot of money off the new ‘sharing economy’; London brewery teams with food activist to make beer out of wasted bread; and Ireland’s most hated bankster is going home for justice.
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Video: #GoodNewsNextWeek – Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
This week on GNNW: BREAKING NEWS! Making love wards off dementia; Garlic cures bacterial infections; Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol.
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Audio: #GoodNewsNextWeek – Make Love Not Dementia, Garlic Power, Weed Is Safer
This week on GNNW: BREAKING NEWS! Making love wards off dementia; Garlic cures bacterial infections; Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol.
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New York Kills Mysterious Phrostie
from dailydot.com: Like Four Loko, the sugary-sweet, fruit-flavored, turbo-alcoholic concoctions known as “Phrosties” were too beautiful for this world. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced his intention to clamp down on the unregulated drink, and New York State’s Liquor Authority is currently investigating the delivery business, which [was] run through a shady Instagram account.
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Vodka Blamed for High Death Rates in Russia
from bbc.co.uk: The high number of early deaths in Russia is mainly due to people drinking too much alcohol, particularly vodka, research shows. The study, in The Lancet, says 25% of Russian men die before they are 55, and most of the deaths are down to alcohol. The comparable UK figure is 7%. Causes of…
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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…
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Oregon Grocers File Liquor Privatization Measure
from kgw.com: A group led by Oregon grocery stores filed initial paperwork Monday that could lead to a ballot measure asking voters whether to privatize liquor sales. The organization called Oregonians for Competition said in a statement that it’s filed five proposed initiatives and will select one to move forward with. The initiatives differ in…
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Local Liquor and Our Growing Thirst for Craft Distillers
from ecosalon.com: Ever heard of artisinal vodka? You may be surprised to learn that craft distilling is a fairly new but growing industry. The American Distilling Institute says that micro-distilling has grown by 30 percent since January 2010, and the number of licensed craft distillers has doubled. Just as local food and local brews, local…
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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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The Great British Bacon Scare of 2013
from macleans.ca: Britain still has a few things it approaches with a collective passion verging on religiosity. These include football fanship (the European kind), alcohol (any old kind), dry wit as a proxy for emotion and cured, fried pig fat squished between white bread. While the first three have a host of well-documented attendant dangers,…
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Australian Govt Wants to Outlaw Inexpensive Alcoholic Beverages
from cryptogon.com: Via: The Australian: CHEAP wine will be banned under a federal health agency’s plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze. The Federal Government’s Australian National Preventative Health Agency will advise this week that a “floor price” and new taxes be calculated as a way to make alcohol…
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Are We Finally Reawakening to the Profound Healing Properties of Psychedelics?
from alternet.org: Slowly but surely, we may be reaching success in a determined and long-time legal effort to unleash the curative powers of psychedelic drugs in America. There is a tremendous need for alternative approaches to the existing models of drugs and therapy. But for years, scientific inquiry into the curative powers of psychedelic drugs…