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Feeding our future
Peter Lavina New Blog | August 22nd 2008
During the food crisis early this year, we batted for one common sense solution, that is, to plant more food crops to increase supply and stabilize the spiraling price increases. The national government responded with a number of measures to address read more
From different corners of the internet
Frog Blog | August 13th 2008
Food Democracy covers a new European study, published by the Food Commission, claims that the heavy use of antibiotics in livestock farming is the cause of many superbugs, including salmonella, campylobacter and E.coli. worldchanging.com shows how t read more
CHILDREN ARE BEING SOLD FOR FOOD !
Who Is Luanne Ribble | July 30th 2008 by Luanne Ribble
Here is a perfect example of why we must end hunger!! Afghanistan: Girls sold for food In Afghanistan, where more than half of all children under age 5 are chronically malnourished, some parents are forced to take extreme measures - selling their pre read more
Edible Activism: Changing the World Through What We Eat
Planetsave | July 25th 2008 by Lucille Chi
For as often as we do eat, it seems as if most of us don’t think too much about what we’re putting into our bodies. With food production so far removed from our every day lives, it’s easy to ignore where our food comes from and what read more
Who’d have thought it: save energy by eating less
disassociated.com | July 25th 2008 by John Lampard
Adhering to the recommended daily kilocalorie intake could result in significant reductions in energy consumption, especially in the US where average consumption is 1200 to 1700 kilocalories (kcal) above daily recommended levels. The average American read more
Down-sizing trend driving US rigid food packaging
BCC Research | July 22nd 2008 by Stuart Foster
The trend towards smaller, more portable beverage and prepared food containers will play a large part in the increased use of plastics in rigid food packaging in the US market, according to a new report from BCC Research.¹ ¹Jane Byrne, Food Product read more
Scaremongers, Oil Prices and Black Plague
TNTalk! Smarter Thinking for Better Times. | July 21st 2008 by TNTalk
With the oil prices that Americans have come to expect, we do have a black plague of sorts: the black and oily kind. However, globalist scaremongers and media malcontents have decided that in references to a global food shortage that only the black p read more
“Food for thought” article series
Food and Farming Canada | July 16th 2008 by Lilian Schaer
There’s a great series on the farm to fork journey of food currently running in the Kitchener Record. It’s a well-written, thoroughly researched set of articles that so far has covered produce, egg farming and pork production. Reporter Lu read more
The Era of Cheap Food Prices Ends
Who Is Luanne Ribble | June 26th 2008 by Luanne Ribble
Today’s post strays from my normal interaction on this blog because I’d like to present this article that most will find alarming. After reading, I’d really like your input, so comment away! ================================= Underst read more
26 climate-change myths
Learn Sigma | June 21st 2008 by robert thompson
Here is a great article from the New Scientist which lists details on the twenty-six most common climate myths and misconceptions link. These are: Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter We can’t do anything about climate change The ‘ read more
Positive Sustainability: sustainable sustenance
Hydroblogger | June 17th 2008 by justsomeguy
We all may want our cars, our homes, our computers and our jobs, but there is one thing we can all agree we need: food. Unfortunately, in the world today, food is highly problematic — from a global perspective, it’s expensive, it’s unfairly dis read more
Positive Sustainability: sustainable sustenance
Hydroponics Dictionary | June 17th 2008 by justsomeguy
We all may want our cars, our homes, our computers and our jobs, but there is one thing we can all agree we need: food. Unfortunately, in the world today, food is highly problematic — from a global perspective, it’s expensive, it’s unfairly dis read more
The Human Impact
Kleen Impact | June 16th 2008 by Bio-Kleen
I recently watched CRUDE IMPACT, a documentary (currently available onDemand on the Sundance channel) which explores the interconnection between the human race’s thirst for consumption and the discovery and use of oil. It exposes our deep-roote read more
Development Aid - Does it Hurt More than it Helps?
The Democratic Daily Blog | June 14th 2008
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog. It is detrimental, says Thilo Thielke in Der Spiegel , because it creates unfairness and dependency in many different ways. First, using the case of Kenya, Thielke invokes a classical concept of formal org read more
Baby Cows – Should We Eat Them?
Finding Simplicity | June 10th 2008
Photo: CryptonautVeal has, for a very long time, been avoided at all costs by those with any kind of compassion and concern for animal welfare. Until 1990, male calves born to dairy herds were crated so that movement was restricted and atrophy of the read more
Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming
Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, j… | June 4th 2008 by Articlesmodern.com
The Food Chain Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming By DIANA B. HENRIQUES Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans. But a read more
Solving the food crisis?
Food and Farming Canada | June 4th 2008 by Lilian Schaer
An editorial in the Toronto Star today made me stop and think once again about the disconnect between those of us in agriculture and those who aren’t. According to the Star editorial, one of the solutions to the global food crisis is for rich n read more
UN addresses food production, poverty and rising prices
Expanding Dr. Yunus' Sphere of Influence | April 18th 2008 by Sabine K McNeill
UN addresses food production, poverty and rising prices Posted: 18 Apr 2008 08:43 AM CDT from the International Herald Tribune By Steven Erlanger Wednesday, April 16, 2008 PARIS: Major agricultural countries must urgently change their policies to read more
Chicken Out
Finding Simplicity | March 12th 2008
Are you one of the good guys and gals that only eat free range chicken and eggs? If you are, well done because you're amongst the still very small minority.Believe it or not, 92% of all chicken products bought in the UK are still intensively farmed! read more
Would You Miss The Buzz?
Finding Simplicity | March 12th 2008
Photo: AndreasAlbert Einstein is rumoured to have once said:"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."Wheth read more
Sainsbury's is still chickened out
Marketing by Permission | January 17th 2008 by Tim Trent
There has been a medium term follow through from the TV shows telling us about chicken rearing. The shelves, at least at my local and large Sainsbury's store in Bracknell are still full of broiler house birds, but there isn't a free range bird to be read more
Supermarkets are chicken
Marketing by Permission | January 13th 2008 by Tim Trent
To be fair, not all are. Sainsbury's, Waitrose and the Co-op all came out well from 'Jamie's Fowl Dinners', compiled and presented by Jamie Oliver. Both of my non UK readers will wonder what I'm talking about. So, for you, a synopsis of the TV show read more
AGRICULTURE - AFRICA: Biofuels. danger or new opportunity for Afr…
Baja energy BLOG | December 12th 2007
The growing promotion of environmentally-friendly biofuels is raising questions for Africa: are such fuels a threat to food security or a golden opportunity to cut down on fossil fuel bills. Some 300 experts from the continent and further afield in read more
Too many magazines?
Let's Talk Business! | November 11th 2007 by Steve Novak
I get a lot of magazines. Sometimes I think it's too many. I subscribe to several magazines because I like them and are of interest too me (Runner's World, Smithsonian, and Inc., to name just a few). Some I buy on occasion, especially when traveli read more
This Century Malthus Could Be Right (Part Two)
Nuclear Energy Can Save Us | October 16th 2007 by Richard Shaw
More worries triggered by the report "Eating Fossil Fuels" (See Part One of this series of posts). The report showed me that huge quantities of energy must be developed for food, and by extension for water. It seems more necessary than ever that cons read more
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