Archive for the 'Food' Category
Monarch: The World’s First Fully Electric, Driver Optional, Smart Tractor
December 11th, 2020I don’t know why Monarch waited almost to the end to say it, but fully supporting right to repair is huge, given the diabolical and universally hated behavior of the tractor industrial complex: Big Tractor says farmers have no right to access the copyrighted software that controls every facet of today’s equipment, even to repair […]
Millions of Hungry Americans Turn to Food Banks for First Time
December 7th, 2020After decades of fraud, corruption and war, U.S. politicians are using a flu-like illness to blow out America’s remaining support columns and collapse the country into its own footprint. Now, facing a government caused famine, the bewildered victims, fumbling with their masks, line up by the millions to receive food handouts in order to survive. […]
Growing Food Bank Lines Across America Signal Economic Crisis Far From Over
November 21st, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Millions of Americans face food and housing insecurity this holiday season. The unemployment rate stands around 6.9%, with more than ten million folks still out of work. Permanent job loss continues to soar, now about 3.8 million, as a double-dip recession becomes increasingly likely by year-end. We recently pointed out that food bank […]
New Research Adds Evidence That Glyphosate Disrupts Hormones
November 17th, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: New research is adding worrisome evidence to concerns that the widely used weed-killing chemical glyphosate may have the potential to interfere with human hormones. In a paper published in the journal Chemosphere, Glyphosate and the key characteristics of an endocrine disruptor: a review, a trio of scientists concluded that glyphosate appears […]
Thousands of Desperate Texans Wait at Drive-Thru Food Bank in Hope of Getting One of 7,000 Frozen Turkeys
November 16th, 2020The line looks like a traffic jam on a freeway. Via: Daily Mail: Thousands of families lined up to receive groceries at a Texas food bank this weekend, some queuing for as long as 12 hours as the on-going coronavirus pandemic continues to inflict hunger and economic hardships on the state. The food bank distribution […]
There’s A Mason Jar Shortage Because So Many People Are Getting Into Canning
November 8th, 2020Via: Delish: When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the United States earlier this year, people began cooking and baking at home much more frequently as both a way to safely feed their families and as a way to relieve some stress. A few different food trends emerged like sourdough bread, Dalgona coffee, and banana breads. […]
Japan Will Release Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Sea for Decades
October 18th, 2020Via: Independent: Amid strong opposition from environmentalists and the fishing community, Japan is set to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima power plant into the sea. According to local media reports, the work to release the radioactive water from Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear power plant would begin in 2022 […]
Americans Plan to Stockpile Food for Chaotic Months Ahead
October 14th, 2020Via: Economic Collapse Blog: There was a time when preppers were relentlessly mocked, but nobody is laughing now. Today, most Americans are thinking about stockpiling food, and this massive shift in our national mindset has been sparked by concern about what is going to happen in the months ahead. Many Americans believe that another wave […]
Six Chicken-Industry Officials Are Indicted in Price-Fixing Probe
October 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: Six current and former chicken-industry executives were indicted on price-fixing charges, expanding the U.S. government’s antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry. The charges, made public Wednesday, target executives from several different chicken companies, including Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. , and provide new details about the alleged conspiracy. Prosecutors said the […]
Top US Food Bank Warns Of Nationwide “Meal Shortages” In Next 12 Months
October 7th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: The virus pandemic and resulting recession, crushing millions of households, has produced a new era of hunger nationwide. After seven months of the coronavirus chaos, triggering widespread unemployment and the collapse of small businesses, millions of Americans are going hungry for the first time in their lives ahead of the holiday season. Tens […]
