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Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Food prices overseas falsely linked to Ethanol by news media
In Haiti and other countries, years of importing U.S. grain at prices below the cost of growing it locally, forced local farmers out of business and the local farm land changed ownership.
Then, one day, oil prices went up, gas prices followed, and then the cost of shipping grain overseas went up.
Suddenly, there’s nobody to locally grow cheaper crops, and the land is no longer owned by farmers.
Massive propaganda is being put out by the oil companies to blame Ethanol for the cost of corn while people are mostly complaining about the cost of rice.
This is what years of donating food has done to other countries. It has forced people into a state of dependence by making it impossible for them to grow their own food, and now we are starving them.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89850141
The organizations at risk of being exposed for this strategy are mentioned in the story
World Bank
United Nations
Asian Development Bank
The goal is the rearrangement of property ownership. The Strategy is to artificially manipulate food prices to the disadvantage of local farmers in developing countries, for the purpose of acquisition by multinational food growing corporations.
The points of manipulation are fuel prices by the oil companies, and food prices by the commodities brokers.
Then, one day, oil prices went up, gas prices followed, and then the cost of shipping grain overseas went up.
Suddenly, there’s nobody to locally grow cheaper crops, and the land is no longer owned by farmers.
Massive propaganda is being put out by the oil companies to blame Ethanol for the cost of corn while people are mostly complaining about the cost of rice.
This is what years of donating food has done to other countries. It has forced people into a state of dependence by making it impossible for them to grow their own food, and now we are starving them.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89850141
The organizations at risk of being exposed for this strategy are mentioned in the story
World Bank
United Nations
Asian Development Bank
The goal is the rearrangement of property ownership. The Strategy is to artificially manipulate food prices to the disadvantage of local farmers in developing countries, for the purpose of acquisition by multinational food growing corporations.
The points of manipulation are fuel prices by the oil companies, and food prices by the commodities brokers.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
New Blog for Food and Restaurants
I started a new blog for SPFLD.net for reviewing my experiences with food and restaurants.
http://spfldnetfood.blogspot.com/
http://spfldnetfood.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Sacred Cow, part II
Well they did it. The Illinois State Journal register printed my letter about not cooking and instead, eating only fresh fruits and vegetables.
I’m not going to imagine that it was my blog that motivated them, only the huge stack of letters on top of mine.
I am a little disappointed that my telling readers to stop cooking or buying processed foods didn't give them reservations about the letter's publication.
I was at Aldi's getting Broccoli, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Garlic, and Tomatoes when I saw this Trail Mix from a company called Southern Grove. I'll admit it is packaged but some of the vegetabes are too and that's unavoidable. I tried it and it was quite good.
Trail mix has dehydrated fruit and the drying process may or may not be natural. It seemed harmless enough, but a closer inspection revealed such things as "Sulfer Dioxide to preserve color" and "colored with Titanium Oxide"
It was pretty good despite having a material component commonly found in farts. (1)
The Sacred Cow is very real however. What else is sacrosanct? How about these gems:
• Stop driving cars. Ride bicycles instead. Got a problem with that? Read on.
• Live near where you work. People who live in Springfield and work in Springfield should get special parking stickers that give them privileges. Everyone else should pay extra (besides what they pay at the gas pump. Better yet, they should pay the city exactly the same amount of money they spend on gas commuting to and from Springfield for work every day.)
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(1) Sulfur Dioxide (http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/020800pubadfarts.htm) see the paragraph on "Gas Solutions."
I’m not going to imagine that it was my blog that motivated them, only the huge stack of letters on top of mine.
I am a little disappointed that my telling readers to stop cooking or buying processed foods didn't give them reservations about the letter's publication.
I was at Aldi's getting Broccoli, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Garlic, and Tomatoes when I saw this Trail Mix from a company called Southern Grove. I'll admit it is packaged but some of the vegetabes are too and that's unavoidable. I tried it and it was quite good.
Trail mix has dehydrated fruit and the drying process may or may not be natural. It seemed harmless enough, but a closer inspection revealed such things as "Sulfer Dioxide to preserve color" and "colored with Titanium Oxide"
It was pretty good despite having a material component commonly found in farts. (1)
The Sacred Cow is very real however. What else is sacrosanct? How about these gems:
• Stop driving cars. Ride bicycles instead. Got a problem with that? Read on.
• Live near where you work. People who live in Springfield and work in Springfield should get special parking stickers that give them privileges. Everyone else should pay extra (besides what they pay at the gas pump. Better yet, they should pay the city exactly the same amount of money they spend on gas commuting to and from Springfield for work every day.)
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(1) Sulfur Dioxide (http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/020800pubadfarts.htm) see the paragraph on "Gas Solutions."
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
American food crops to be decimated - Local Farmers Under Attack Again
Food crops will be decimated for lack of pollination by bees.
Worldwide bee populations have been reduced enough to threaten local small farmers. according to the BBC, "Beekeepers in London say 50 to 75 per cent of their bees have died and in the US 24 states are affected and 50 to 90 per cent of hives there have gone."
The French have identified a pesticide "Gaucho" as the culprit, and have banned its use. "Honey producers say Gaucho has damaged bee swarms by making plants toxic. Keepers say bees have become disoriented and unable to return to their hives."
Gaucho is manufactured by Bayer and sold in 70 countries.
Politicians are diverting the blame away from the chemical industry and toward the communication industry. Cellular telephone electronics and their communication towers. If that were true, this would have happened a decade ago.
Local farmers have been under attack now by fuel prices, patented plant genome pollin infiltrating their crops, poisoned imported animal feed (NOW FOUND IN FISH) , and now by the destruction of bee populations.
This can only bolster the profits of companies that have the resources to import food from South America, and it looks like a big fat secret trust between Chemistry and Agriculture multinational corporations.
Worldwide bee populations have been reduced enough to threaten local small farmers. according to the BBC, "Beekeepers in London say 50 to 75 per cent of their bees have died and in the US 24 states are affected and 50 to 90 per cent of hives there have gone."
The French have identified a pesticide "Gaucho" as the culprit, and have banned its use. "Honey producers say Gaucho has damaged bee swarms by making plants toxic. Keepers say bees have become disoriented and unable to return to their hives."
Gaucho is manufactured by Bayer and sold in 70 countries.
Politicians are diverting the blame away from the chemical industry and toward the communication industry. Cellular telephone electronics and their communication towers. If that were true, this would have happened a decade ago.
Local farmers have been under attack now by fuel prices, patented plant genome pollin infiltrating their crops, poisoned imported animal feed (NOW FOUND IN FISH) , and now by the destruction of bee populations.
This can only bolster the profits of companies that have the resources to import food from South America, and it looks like a big fat secret trust between Chemistry and Agriculture multinational corporations.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
First Pet Food, Now Livestock Feed!
On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Senator Durbin presented on the floor of the Senate, an amendment to food safety legislation that would require prompt reporting of any contamination, among many other new requirements. He said that it took three weeks for the contamination of Wheat Gluten by Melamine to be reported, and not until after there was a rash of cat and dog deaths that provoked veterinarians to start testing the food.
Senator Durbin said that Melamine was deliberately introduced into the wheat gluten to artificially increase it’s value. What they do, he said (I’m paraphrasing), is test the shipment for levels of Nitrogen. The higher the Nitrogen, the higher the price. Melamine tests positive for high levels of Nitrogen in small doses. The Chinese (or the company responsible for shipping the contaminated product) deliberately contaminated the product to make a profit.
In addition to pet food, livestock feed is contaminated as well. Pigs and Chicken were fed contaminated feed. The government says that the Melamine is so diluted that it would pose little or no risk to humans who consume chicken or pork.
Nobody mentioned anything about cattle, dairy or otherwise.
For a recap, visit my previos post from April 15
http://spfldnet.blogspot.com/2007/04/pet-food-wheat-gluten-mostly-imported.html
(UPDATE)
Senator Durbin said that Melamine was deliberately introduced into the wheat gluten to artificially increase it’s value. What they do, he said (I’m paraphrasing), is test the shipment for levels of Nitrogen. The higher the Nitrogen, the higher the price. Melamine tests positive for high levels of Nitrogen in small doses. The Chinese (or the company responsible for shipping the contaminated product) deliberately contaminated the product to make a profit.
In addition to pet food, livestock feed is contaminated as well. Pigs and Chicken were fed contaminated feed. The government says that the Melamine is so diluted that it would pose little or no risk to humans who consume chicken or pork.
Nobody mentioned anything about cattle, dairy or otherwise.
For a recap, visit my previos post from April 15
http://spfldnet.blogspot.com/2007/04/pet-food-wheat-gluten-mostly-imported.html
(UPDATE)
SHANGHAI: The general manager of one of the companies accused of selling
contaminated wheat gluten to U.S. pet-food suppliers has been detained by the
Chinese authorities, according to police officials here and a person who was
briefed on the investigation. (International Herald Tribune)
(Instant kidney stones)
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