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Food
Thursday, October 23, 2008
IN AN AGE OF “BAILOUTS”, WHAT’S ONE MORE…..BUT ETHANOL?!?
Remember…...the federal government has a tariff on imported sugar in order to protect the cane farmers in Florida (and the campaign contributions they supply to incumbents in Congress).
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Furthermore, the replacement for cheap sugar from the Caribbean is high-fructose corn syrup, produced by (perhaps) the MOST subsidized agricultural corporations in the United States - corn farmers like ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND (ADM). This stupid policy (not stupid for the Congress-critters, of course, who get massive campaign contributions from corn producers) not only costs the taxpayers billions of dollars, distorts the market, and feeds the epidemics of diabetes and obesity, it is also an environmental disaster, creating a massive DEAD ZONE off the coast of Louisiana, where excess nitrogen fertilizer stimulates algal blooms than then die and suck the oxygen out of the water column. AND, to top it all off, 15% of Iowa’s carbon dioxide emissions are being spewed into the air by the state’s ethanol plants.
Science • Environment • Miscellany • Food • Politics • Domestic • Economics • (0) Comments •
Friday, October 17, 2008
MICHAEL POLLAN HAS WRITTEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT—START THINKING ABOUT FOOD
MICHAEL POLLAN has written A NUMBER OF BOOKS, the last several of them about food, and the U.S. food supply, and our peculiar way of producing it.
I recently finished THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, and Thank You, LAURA for insisting, and for loaning me the book. I truly enjoyed the last half of it, where he talks about sustainable agriculture and about hunting and gathering…but the first half about U.S. factory agriculture, is pretty horrifying. Even given that, I recommend the book - it will change the way you look at the grocery store, and for the better.
Miscellany • Education • Food • Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Economics • (2) Comments •
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
TROUT HAVE BEEN MOVED ALL OVER THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD
Along the East Coast, the Brook Trout populations have been devastated by Brown Trout imported from Europe.
On the other hand, in the Western U.S., it’s the native Cutthroat Trout that have suffered because Eastern Brook Trout were transplanted into THEIR streams and rivers.
Anglers and other conservation-minded people are restoring, and even rediscovering, native trout species all over the place—you can READ ALL ABOUT IT in the August, 2007 issue of Smithsonian.
Science • Environment • News • Miscellany • Food • Sports • (0) Comments •
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I THOUGHT THAT THEY DID A LOT OF FRYING IN THE SOUTH…..
....but so far, I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky, but I have yet to see any DEEP-FRIED PIZZA!
Mmmmmmmm…..I think.
Friday, December 15, 2006
HOW BIG A STRETCH MUST YOU MAKE TO BOOST YOUR SELF-ESTEEM…...?
If you’re really hurting, maybe this will help:
“People who are more intelligent as children, who will obviously keep that intelligence when they are 30, were more likely to say they are vegetarians at that age than those that were less intelligent,“ said Dr Catherine Gale, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton in England.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
ARE YOU PAYING EXTRA FOR FREE-RANGE ORGANIC CHICKEN…...?
Maybe you SHOULDN’T BE
With its premium price tag, shoppers expect organic chicken to be both tastier and healthier than cheaper battery-farmed birds.
But organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent, research has shown.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
DIET COKE and MENTOS…..Updated
Inspired silliness…..
UPDATE: Related because it deals with popular cola drinks, this is the funniest ad I ever remember seeing in my life.
Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news—FROM Venezuela