Archive for the 'Food' Category
How to Butcher a Cow
October 15th, 2019This is an absolutely incredible video. Via: The Bearded Butchers:
Secret Ingredients
October 8th, 2019Warning: Nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be considered medical advice. — I have friends who had a vaccine injured child. Despite my urging them avoid vaccinating their baby, they went ahead with the standard vaccination schedule. The child wound up in a coma after the MMR. She survived, but was later diagnosed with autism. […]
This Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas In An Hour
October 2nd, 2019Via: TribLive: Watch out pizza world: this pizza robot could shake things up. Seattle startup Picnic announced Tuesday that it has a developed a unit that can make 300 12-inch pizzas per hour and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour. While the pizzabot does its share of the work, dough preparation, sauce making and baking are […]
McCharge: McDonalds is Now Charging EVs in Sweden and Netherlands
September 28th, 2019Via: The Next Avenue: Related: First Gas Station in America to Ditch Oil for 100% Electric Vehicle Charging Opens in Maryland
New Crime in Britain: Eating Meat?
September 23rd, 2019Via: Telegraph: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, one of Britain’s foremost barristers has predicted, as he called for the offence of ‘ecocide’ to be introduced to prosecute those who damage the nature on a massive scale. Michael Mansfield QC warned that the farming of livestock for meat was destroying the planet and called […]
Last Month, 53 Americans Died in Mass Shootings While 40,000 Died from Obesity
September 18th, 2019Via: The Sun: IN his fascinating book Unnatural Causes, forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd observes how, over the years, the dead bodies he examines have changed. One of the most noticeable is the rapid increase in body fat. He says: “Unless a patient is homeless or has died of cancer or is so old or […]
Magnesium: Mineral Content of Vegetables Has Declined 80–90% Last 100 Years
September 14th, 2019This is from 2018. Via: Nutrients: Magnesium is a critical mineral in the human body and is involved in ~80% of known metabolic functions. It is currently estimated that 60% of adults do not achieve the average dietary intake (ADI) and 45% of Americans are magnesium deficient, a condition associated with disease states like hypertension, […]
McDonald’s Acquires AI Company to Help Automate the Drive-Thru
September 10th, 2019In other AI news, 120 Million Workers May Need to be Reskilled or Retrained in the Next Three Years. Via: CNBC: McDonald’s said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire a company that is trying to automate the drive-thru. It’s the fast-food giant’s third tech-focused deal this year. Apprente, a Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, […]
“Fussy Eater” Goes Blind and Deaf After Years of Eating Only Junk Food
September 4th, 2019Via: Ars Technica: A British teenager has permanent vision loss, hearing loss, and weak bones after years of eating only select types of junk food. The teen’s doctors eventually diagnosed him with a relatively newly defined eating disorder called avoidant-restrictive food in-take disorder (ARFID). … The crack in the case came when he finally confessed […]
The Average U.S. Farm Is $1,300,000 In Debt
August 14th, 2019Via: End of the American Dream: We haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leading up to this year, farm incomes had been trending lower for most of the past decade, and meanwhile farm debt levels have been absolutely exploding. So U.S. farmers were desperate for a really good year, […]