Tag: rice
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#MorningMonarchy: November 4, 2026
Beans on toast, snap crackle no pop and floodwaters force evacuations + this day in history w/Max crashes and our song of the day by Merle Haggard on your #MorningMonarchy for November 4, 2026.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 25, 2017
New rivers, smaller condoms and bigger waste + this day in history w/the US invades Grenada and our song of the day by Blitzen Trapper on your Morning Monarchy for October 25, 2017.
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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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Unapproved GM rice trials in U.S. may have contaminated the world’s rice supply
from NaturalNews.com: New evidence has emerged suggesting that the entire global supply of rice may have already been contaminated by unapproved, genetically-modified (GM) rice varieties manufactured by the American multinational corporation Bayer CropScience. A recent entry in the GM Contamination Register explains that between the years of 2006 and 2007, three different varieties of illegal…
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radiation in rice found in japan
from natural society: After testing rice near a crippled nuclear plant in Japan, Japanese researchers found high levels of radiation in the rice. The researchers took a sample of unharvested rice and found that it contained 500 becquerels of cesium per kilogram. The radioactive cesium came from the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant after the earthquake…