Tag: seafood
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October #BingeAndPurge: Depop, Poison, Plants and More
Leading World Bank Demographer: Vaccination Campaigns Part Of Population Reduction Policy // California Squirrel Tests Positive For Bubonic Plague Exposure // How the CIA undermines DEA drug investigations // GMO Ticking Time Bomb – Part 2 // It takes a lot to get people to suck down poison // “Gasland” Director Arrested at Congressional Hearing
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Food Fraud: Something Fishy Is Going On
from therealfoodchannel.com: There aren’t many things you have immediate control over. But one thing you do have control over is what you put in your mouth. The challenge is cutting through all the fraud in the food business… Seafood eaters, this one’s for you. Ten million pounds of fish sold as expensive grouper, snapper, and…
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Fukushima Radiation Now Detected In the U.S. Food Supply
Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan’s Fukushima complex has made it into the seafood chain off the coast of America.
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#BingeAndPurge: Nano, Polio, POM, Peru and More
White House Blocking EPA Efforts to Issue Rules on Nanomaterials // Cases of ‘Non-Polio’ Paralysis Rise After Polio Vaccination Drives // Federal Judge Rules General Mills Is Allowed to Mislead Consumers about “Fruit” Products // FTC Judge Rules Pomegranate Juice Maker Used Deceptive Ads // ‘The Voice’ judge Will.i.am goes to Oxford University climate change…
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The Enviro Reporter on Fukushima Radiation Dangers, Including Radioactive Nori
from enviroreporter.com: Media coverage of Fukushima Daiichi’s multiple meltdowns contamination of the Pacific Ocean and America’s air, water, soil, food and drink took a giant leap when NBC G4-TV’s Attack of the Show! had this reporter on to discuss the gravest single environmental threat facing the world… Enviroreporter.com’s detection of high radiation from sea mist…
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#BingeAndPurge: Strains, Summit, Seafood and more
Hug Coca-Cola Vending Machine, Get ‘Free’ Soda* FDA & federal judge shut down PA Amish farm for selling raw milk* More people stricken with E. coli through raw milk from Wilsonville, OR farm* PDF: Scientists Identify Hypervirulent Salmonella Strains* Farm group seeks U.S. halt on “dangerous” crop chemicals* Op-Ed: Time to get tough on vaccine…
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Glow in the dark sushi made from genetically modified fish becomes the latest food craze to hit America
from dailymail.co.uk: Sushi that glows in the dark has become the latest must try food craze across America. Inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. The recipes use glofish, a brand of genetically modified (GM) fluorescent zebrafish…
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Sea World slammed for selling seafood
from barfblog: Do fish tire of eating seafood? Do fish like seafood as long as it doesn’t taste too much like fish? Do fish care if seafood is served at Sea World? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Australia thinks so, and wrote to Sea World manager Jeff Hughes asking for all fish dishes…
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apple juice made in america? think again
from inquirer: Americans are finding some surprises lurking in U.S. government about where the food they eat comes from. One food revelation came when low levels of a fungicide that isn’t approved in the U.S. were discovered in some orange juice sold here. It was then revealed that Brazil, where the fungicide-laced juice originated, produces…
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5.9m US kids have food allergies
from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to several foods, the authors added. Symptoms in a severe…
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‘Fukushima Plate’ Tells You If Your Sushi Is Radioactive
Designer Nils Ferber has come up with a concept design that would put diners at ease – a plate that glows as it detects radiation in your food. The “Fukushima Plate” is an “ordinary kitchen plate with built-in radioactive meter to visualize your food’s level of contamination.
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2/10 Binge & Purge: Seeders, Makers, Actions
Secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor // Raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules // Military steps in to buy up gulf seafood // High sugar prices stimulate Neotame/Nutrasweet take up
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study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide
A new study finds oysters are disappearing worldwide. A study published in Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, found that the oysters are rapidly disappearing, and that 85 percent of their reefs have been lost a result of disease and over-harvesting of the mollusks. from afp: “Oysters are important to ecosystems…
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White House to Serve 2,000 Lbs of Gulf Seafood Over Holidays
The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year’s holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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8/5 Binge & Purge: What Plants Crave
BP exec would ‘absolutely’ eat Gulf seafood // Food inflation ‘could go beyond 10% before next year’ // “Poison tap water” makes #1 Google search // Case against Coca-Cola’s Vitamin Water to proceed // Audio Satire: Gatorade pledges $200M in thirst aid to under-quenched nations