By Brandon Turbeville Despite being the second largest economy on the face of the earth, and rapidly moving to become the first, a vast majority of Chinese wouldn’t know it. The 20th century for China has been marked with low living standards, totalitarianism, war and…
By Brianna Acuesta This Indian restaurant owner cooked meals to send to 170,000 people after a deluge hit his city during monsoon season. Food scarcity is a huge epidemic throughout the world, and oftentimes those it affects increases when natural disasters hit. One such area…
By Christina Sarich Business as usual at the United Nations includes plans to subvert fertility and increase mortality… The United Nations has been planning a depopulation agenda for decades according to many ‘conspirators’, but few have been able to describe so clearly, just what that plan…
By Brianna Acuesta Starbucks will now donate 100% of their leftover food to food banks. Though Starbucks has been working with Food Donation Connection since 2010 to donate all of their leftover pastries, the corporate coffee shop has now found a way to safely donate…
By Venezuela is out of food. After several years of long lines, rationing, and shortages, the socialist country does not have enough food to feed its population, and the opposition government has declared a “nutritional emergency.” This is just the most recent nail in the beleaguered…
By Amanda Froelich The Mobile Good Food Market travels across Toronto selling affordable fresh food in neighborhoods, selected through consultation with local communities and analysis of access gaps. In the United States, about 23.5 million people live in “food deserts,” geographic areas where access to…
By Amanda Froelich No act of kindness is ever too small, especially when some people haven’t witnessed much kindness in their lives at all. Plastic is a burden to the environment, and homelessness is a crisis in need of remedy. Can both be lessened, however,…
By Natural Blaze “If I offered you a bruised banana, you probably wouldn’t be interested,” said Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, director of Drexel University’s Center for Hospitality and Sport Management. “But what if I offered you some banana ice cream on a hot summer day? I…
By Daisy Luther Let’s talk about poverty. I don’t mean the kind you’re talking about when your friends invite you to go shopping or for a night out and you say, “No, I can’t. I’m poor right now.” I don’t mean the situation when you’d…
by Amanda Froelich As documentaries like Food Inc. have conveyed, large-scale agricultural farming is not a sustainable method of producing food for the world’s growing population. But vertical farming might be… A start-up AeroFarms is presently building what will be the largest vertical farm in…
By Heather Callaghan The UN’s World Food Program, funded by world governments, NGOs and corporations like Yum! Brands and Cargill, postulates that there’s just too much hunger in the world, so no one should protest a novel form of genetic engineering that involves blipping out…
By Daisy Luther Are you broke? Facing foreclosure, eviction, and or repossession? I’ll bet $101,000 would help. Would you like the chance to win $101,000? Well, CBS understands and they are giving all of the broke people the opportunity to win a life-changing amount of…
Isn’t it interesting how the mainstream media uses the word “force” below? It’s a common sense petition… Independent UK An online petition urging the Government to force supermarkets to distribute unsold food among the needy has been signed by more than 100,000 people. The petition,…
By Edgy Truth And now she’s going public saying, “NO child not a single one should be going hungry. Some kids get that as their one and only good meal for the day but the school can throw away good food just to keep it…
By Kaili Joy Gray, Wonkette Wisconsin is one of those states that really hates poor people. (Yeah, we know. Just like the other 49.) The state’s Republicans are particularly obsessed with what poors eat, or don’t eat, or where they buy food to eat, or…
Gwyneth Paltrow takes Food Stamp Challenge – Featured image with Gwyneth Paltrow: cc 2013 J.J. Georges via Wikipedia. By Heather Callaghan Cuts, cuts, everywhere cuts. Despite U.S. spending on wars, including the war on drugs, militarizing police, bail outs and Wall St’s predatory speculation and…
By Heather Callaghan Teen investigative filmmaker, Andrew Demeter, scored a candid interview with actress/comedian Fran Drescher about genetically engineered foods and chemical/seed corps like Monsanto. Fran, with her signature voice and laugh, is known for starring in and writing television series like The Nanny, Happily…
By Heather Callaghan Lunch police: No sharing allowed! Here we have a school that has a policy, not with safety in mind – only as an afterthought – but one that hinges on strict adherence to said policy. Two students were given two different school-prepared…
By April McCarthy Loss and wastage occurs on all steps in the food supply chain. In low-income countries, most loss occurs during production, while in developed countries much food — about 100 kilograms (220 lb) per person and year — is wasted at the consumption…
