Tag: weatherwars
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#BingeAndPurge: Fluoride, Fruit, Fraud and more
Harvard Study: Fluoridated Water Associated with Lower IQs in Children* More Kids Are Living in Poverty and Exposed to Air Pollution* Can eating fruit help you quit smoking?* Tepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisis* US starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam* 4.1 earthquake hits near Yorba Linda, CA* July was hottest month in…
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#BingeAndPurge: Labels, Dummies, Hazards and More
Battle Over Genetically Engineered Food Heading to Voters // ‘War on Health: FDAs Cult of Tyranny’ (Full Film) // Agenda 21 For Dummies // The Dangers of Trans Fats // The Hazards of Bleached Flour // Taking Back History – Levees.org app brings real story about New Orleans levee failure disaster of 2005 right to…
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#Olympics: Rain May Need To Be Faked For Opening Ceremony
Danny Boyle may after all have to use his fake clouds to engineer some rainfall over the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
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#BingeAndPurge: Immunity, Obesity, Accompany and More
Scientists create bird flu that’s easily spread among mammals // U.S. Judge Rules U.S. Immune from Paying for Infecting Guatemalans with Syphilis // U.S. Companies Have Dumped 30 Trillion Gallons of Toxic Liquids into the Earth // Rogue Dolphin, Alone After Katrina, Menaces Lake Area // Mutated pests are quickly adapting to biotech crops in…
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#BingeAndPurge: Postpone, Block, Restrict and More
Maurice Strong, Global Greening Godfather, Steps Out of Shadows at Rio+20 // Gov’t to seize private property for frog that isn’t there // Out of fear, some Oregon parents postponing vaccinations, a new study shows // Taliban Block Polio Vaccinations in Pakistan // Why You Shouldn’t Panic About Pesticide In Produce // Audio Satire: Catholic…
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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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#BingeAndPurge: Official Dismissal, Doomsday, Debris and more
Food Safety Official’s Monsanto Ties Spur Petition for Ouster // Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto // The Smiths’ Andy Rourke to DJ at Choice Eats NYC // BP Seeks Settlement with Oil Spill Plaintiffs // Keeping an Oregon eye open for tsunami debris
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Drought and Cold Snap Cause Food Crisis in Northern Mexico
A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland in nearly half of the country.
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7/21 Binge & Purge: Famine, Drought & Censored Cures
Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp // Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched // Nestlé boosts its distribution of disease-resistant cocoa trees
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Central China Hit By Drought, As Reservoirs Become ‘Dead Water’
A severe drought along the Yangtze River region in central China has rendered nearly 1,400 reservoirs in Hubei Province temporarily unusable, devastated farm fields and made drinking water scarce, according to a report on Monday by Xinhua, the state news agency.
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4/14 Binge & Purge: Hunger Hormones & the Danger Zone
Study finds hunger hormone helps you sniff out food // Arsenic & toxic metals found in baby foods // Monsanto modifies soybeans to grow ‘fish oil’ // World Bank chief says food prices in ‘danger zone’
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Wholesale Prices Rise Due to Biggest Jump in Food Costs In Over 36 Yrs
Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years.
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worst freeze in 60yrs wipes out crops across US/mexico border
from end of the american dream: Get ready to pay a lot more for produce at the supermarket. In early February the worst freeze in 60 years wiped out entire crops all across the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Already, it has been reported that some U.S. supermarkets have doubled or even tripled prices for…
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food from around the world is in disorder
poll: most not fully confident in US food safety* uk food costs to soar as big freeze deepens from guardian: Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce. Gordon Brown, who will chair a…