Tag: food stamps
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#FoodWorldOrder: Episode021 – Humanure and You (Audio)
http://www.archive.org/download/20120524FoodWorldOrder021/20120524_FoodWorldOrder021.mp3 Download MP3 On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week James Evan Pilato guest hosts the show again and leaves the lid up on biosolids + headlines, the ‘binge and purge’ and…
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#FoodWorldOrder: Episode019 – Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes (Video)
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week’s menu features Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes and more…
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#FoodWorldOrder: Episode019 – Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes (Audio)
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week’s menu features Labor Flaws, Cereal Crimes and more…
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#BingeAndPurge: Kashi, Monster, Windsor Hum and more
All Hail the Robotic Farmers of the Future // Kashi promises (some) ‘natural’ products will be GMO-free // Human genes engineered into experimental GMO rice being grown in Kansas // In downtown Portland, mayoral candidates are in for Voodoo’s doughnut eating contest Friday // USDA Knew of Monsanto GM alfalfa contamination in 2005
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Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans’ Plan To Save Military
from huffingtonpost.com: The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poor and Americans still reeling from the recession… They are doing so because the Super Committee, which was supposed to find $1.2 trillion in cuts on which everyone could agree, failed, leaving…
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#Video: Episode018 – Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week’s menu features Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow and more… Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Episode017 – Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs
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#Audio: Episode018 – Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week’s menu features Flossophy, Nanotech, Mad Cow and more… Episode018: MP3/Feed Previous Audio: Episode017 – Fluoride, Hugs and Drugs
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Food Stamp Rolls Increase 70% from 2007, Projected to Keep Increasing Until 2014
from cryptogon.com: The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72…
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America’s ‘Food Stamp Nation’ continues to grow
from thestar.com: In what is clearly the country’s most troubled period in modern times, a Food Stamp Nation-within-a-nation is swelling to proportions that seemed unthinkable five years ago. In 2006, there were 26.7 million people on food stamps in America. By September 2011, that number had grown to a record 46.3 million, bigger by far…
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Starving Las Vegas: $3.39 a day buys little food, lots of lessons
from lasvegassun.com: Try eating on $3.39 a day. Some Las Vegans learned last week that it’s doable but difficult. Luckily for them it was just a one-week experiment, whereas for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, it’s an ongoing challenge… To show the difficulty of living on a meager food budget, Three Square, a local…
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Florida Food Stamp Bill Is Latest Attempt to Restrict Junk Food
The U.S. is simultaneously low on jobs and incomes, and consuming large amounts of unhealthy food. You might think the problems would be mutually exclusive, but according to Florida senator Ronda Storms, health is a problem even for those using food stamps to get by.
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1/26 Binge & Purge: Lunch Change, Single Strains
32 million reasons to cheer the USDA: School Meals Changes to Fight Obesity // First Lady visits Tampa grocery store // U.S. food-stamp program shouldn’t be political toy // Why You Absolutely Must Personally Treat Your Own Water // Video: Bill Gates Talks About Modified Foods // Audio Satire: Virulent Strain Of Soy Flu Traced…
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12/8 binge & purge: rhetoric, recalls & recipes
newt says obama the ‘finest food stamp’ president* is obama the ‘food stamp president’?* supervalu joins farmers behind US food stamps at $71.8b* world food prices fall for a fifth straight month, united nations says may be ‘bottoming out’* 46 million on food stamps, up two-thirds* woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children* iowa…
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oregon food stamps used for starbucks frappuccinos
flashback: oregon tops nation in food stamp use* from foxnews: Oregon Trail Cards — which are part of the state’s food stamp program — can be used to purchase luxury coffee concoctions at Starbucks counters inside grocery stores, investigators from Fox 12 in Oregon have discovered. With the help of Jackie Fowler, who has a…
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oregon tops nation in food stamp use
from kezi: Oregon has the highest percentage of people on food stamps in the nation. A newly released U.S. Census survey reports 18 percent of Oregonians said they rely on a federal program for food. Food stamp use in Oregon surged 23 percent last year and has doubled in the past four years. Supplemental Nutrition…