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,…
By Tyler Durden Two troubling developments may reignite global food crisis fears. The first is Russia’s Geneva UN ambassador is prepared to reject a Black Sea grain agreement renewal that would disrupt Ukraine’s farm goods exports. The second is government data from the US that…
Asheville, NC – Moms Across America announces a nationwide project measuring pesticides, heavy metals, veterinary drugs, hormones and nutrient test results of 43 school lunches gathered from public schools in 15 states in the United States. The initiative was conducted by Moms Across America –…
By Video Volunteers This compilation of two posts by Maya Khodve originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organisation based in India. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement (with Global Voices). It is ironic that the…
By Tyler Durden The first crop damage estimates are in for Florida’s citrus groves following Hurricane Ian last week, and they point to utter devastation in certain parts of the state, sending orange juice prices Monday to almost six-year highs. Bloomberg spoke with Ray Royce, executive…
By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Nanoplastics are making their way into our food, and likely accumulating in our bodies as a result, according to a recent study. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have created a fingerprint-based technique to detect tiny plastic particles in organisms. The…
By Tyler Durden A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. Barges cannot haul farm goods at full capacity because of shrinking water levels, sparking a vessel shortage that has sent transport prices to record…
By Neenah Payne “Living high on the hog” refers to eating the best and costliest cuts of a pig such as the loin rather than lower parts such as the feet, knuckles, hocks, belly, and jowls which were given to Blacks during slavery. So, “living…
By Tyler Durden A few years ago, life was good for the fake meat industry. Beyond Meat had been given vast amounts of real estate in grocery stores, and had scored a deal with Burger King to sell “Impossible” Whoppers. McDonald’s rolled out a McPlant…
By Neenah Payne The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell: “Before the 20th century, when people thought of New York, they thought of oysters. This is what New York was to the world— a great oceangoing port where people ate succulent local oysters from…
By Neenah Payne The concept of “keystone species” was introduced by ecologist Robert Paine in 1969. A keystone species has a large effect on the community it supports. Keystone species increase the species biodiversity of a community and enhance stability of the environement. Without them,…
Innovafeed has secured big funding to build a bug factory in Illinois and pledges to “place sustainable development and social impact at the heart of its business model and thus reinforce the global positive impact of the industry.” I haven’t talked with anyone who wants…
By John Anderer Modern farmers are feeling increasingly unappreciated and isolated, according to researchers from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research and national charity The Farming Community Network (FCN). Farming is an absolutely essential industry, and farmers often work long hours and…
By Tyler Durden New satellite imagery shows a large swath of California’s rice fields has been left barren without harvest as fears of a “mini dust bowl” emerge due to diminishing water supplies. Kurt Richter, a third-generation rice farmer in Colusa, the rice capital of…
By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have now passed “peak agricultural land”: over the last few decades, the global land area devoted to food production has declined. While the decline is not large and while the…
By Neenah Payne Water Is Life Festival: September 4 shows the enormous crises we face and how indigenous peoples and “keystone” species can help. Del Bigtree, host of The Highwire, produced Vaxxed: From Coverup To Catastrophe which went viral in 2016. In Food Fight on August 25, Del…
By Tyler Durden More than six months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the global fertilizer crunch threatens to starve the planet as prices are too high for some farmers ahead of the next planting season. That’s the view of Maximo Torero, chief economist from…
By Tyler Durden Drought conditions expanded and intensified over the Northeast this summer, according to the latest report from the US Drought Monitor. Extreme drought plagues eastern Massachusetts, including Boston, and southern and eastern Rhode Island. A severe drought is more widespread, encompassing much of…
