Archive for the 'Food' Category
50,000 Italian Restaurant Owners Plan to Ignore Lockdown
January 18th, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: Today – Friday 15th January – over 50,000 restaurants are planning to open, an act of mass civil disobedience against “anti-Covid” lockdown measures which have massively hurt the restaurant business, especially small family-owned businesses. Spreading through social media under the hashtag #IoOpro (“I am opening”), the movement is largest country-wide act of civil […]
America’s Biggest Owner Of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
January 16th, 2021Via: Forbes: Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world and a self-described nerd who is known for his early programming skills rather than his love of the outdoors, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America. Related: […]
Back to the Future with Tom “Mr. Monsanto” Vilsack
December 30th, 2020Via: Organic Consumers Association: President-Elect Joe Biden has nominated Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary. For anyone who is familiar with our Millions Against Monsanto campaign or who participated in March Against Monsanto during the Obama-Biden years, you know why this is bad news. For everyone else, this is the first installment in our series of […]
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 […]
