By Marie Hawthorne In late November, the Dutch government set aside approximately $25 billion to begin buying farmland, whether the owners want to sell or not. “There is no better offer coming,” Dutch Nitrogen Minister Christianne van der Waal told farmers. The government expects to…
By Chris Melore Meat alternatives like “impossible” burgers and other plant-based substitutes lack the nutritional value of the foods they’re replacing, according to researchers in Sweden. Their study found that meat substitutes contain proteins and nutrients which the human body can’t absorb — leaving customers…
By Mike Maharrey Bills prefiled in the Missouri House and Senate would legalize retail sales of raw milk in the state and take a step toward nullifying a federal prohibition scheme in effect. Rep. Ann Kelly (R) filed House Bill 78 (HB78) on Dec 1….
By Shyla Cadogan Nanotechnology has rapidly transformed food production, manufacturing, and processing in recent years, with the goal of enhancing food safety and health. However, new research suggests that their use in making foods safer could have unexpected health consequences for babies. An international team…
By Amy Allen It’s pretty standard wisdom that there are few things better tasting than homegrown tomatoes! Granted, some people don’t like tomatoes, but for those of us who do, the taste of a fresh tomato from the garden simply cannot compare to store-bought. But…
By F. William Engdahl Over the past weeks a coordinated all-out assault on our agriculture—the ability to produce food for human existence—has begun. The recent G20 governmental meeting in Bali, the UN Agenda 2030 Cop27 meeting in Egypt, the Davos World Economic Forum and Bill…
By Tyler Durden Did you know that over two-thirds of national crops originated from somewhere else? Humans have been selecting and growing crops for specific traits since the origins of agriculture some 10,000 years ago, shaping where and what crops are grown today. However, as…
The old saying, “You ain’t much if you ain’t Dutch” is now turned on its head with “If your’e Dutch, you ain’t got much.” As predicted, environmental extremism is driving thousands of Dutch farmers off their land, first by limiting essential nitrogen-based fertilizer and now…
By Marie Hawthorne In September 2021 the OP published an article about putting mRNA vaccines into lettuce. The National Science Foundation (NSF) had awarded a research group from UC-San Diego, UC-Riverside, and Carnegie Mellon $500,000 to investigate this potential new technology. This project had three…
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. , The Defender This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website. Describing the development as “a food revolution,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday declared lab-grown chicken meat developed by…
By Tyler Durden A shocking new report via the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) revealed the world food import bill jumped to nearly $2 trillion in 2022 amid soaring inflation due to several factors, including currencies depreciating against the US dollar, the war…
By Birsen Filip In July 2022, the Canadian government announced its intention to reduce “emissions from the application of fertilizers by 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030.” In the previous month, the government of the Netherlands publicly stated that it would implement measures designed…
By Mac Slavo In Wright County, Iowa, a commercial egg-laying facility will be forced to kill 1.1 million chickens in an effort to contain the “highly contagious and deadly” avian flu virus. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported that the birds should be destroyed after…
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne Mapping a New Geography of Hope With Native America shows that our Foundational Stories shape our minds and our relationship to the Earth. The Foundational Story of the West is the story of the Garden of Eden. In that story, a…
By Tyler Durden La Niña has returned for the third consecutive winter, allowing for drier-than-average conditions across America’s crop belt. Some farmers told Bloomberg that conditions are so dry that “fertilizer is evaporating from the soil, and plants are struggling to emerge from the ground.” The odds are stacking…
By Tyler Durden We recently outlined “Orange Juice Prices Could “Increase Substantially” As Hurricane Pummels Florida’s Top Citrus Grow Region.”And that’s precisely what’s happening today. First, let’s begin with US stockpiles of cold-stored orange juice plunged by 43% in September from a year earlier — the…
By Tyler Durden Europe’s fertilizer supply crunch continues to tighten after Yara International ASA announced Thursday that third-quarter ammonia output was slashed due to skyrocketing natural gas prices, putting more upward pressure on food inflation as the cost-of-living crisis worsens. The Norwegian producer said ammonia…
By Amy Allen Since I outgrew taking electrical outlets apart by age ten, I’ve been playing with other things. Right now, it’s Kratky jars, and they’re a bit more challenging than I expected. Contrary to what I’ve read on the Internet, they are not set…
By Redacted Dutch farmers are losing their battle against the globalist WEF and these draconian environmental policies. Over 17,000 farmers in the Netherlands are being affected. The story doesn’t end there because it’s crushing farmers from Germany to New Zealand. Academic Researcher Ralph Schoellhammer joins…
By Jesse Smith The attempt to reengineer people’s eating habits is not going according to plan as plant-based meat company Beyond Meat is hemorrhaging from declining sales and stock market losses. This comes on the heels of layoffs announced earlier this month by Impossible Foods,…
