Floods seen adding to already high food prices
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The cost of everything from corn chips to beef steaks was going higher even before the disastrous floods hit millions of corn and soybean acres in the U.S. Midwest, and now food price increases may be even greater, industry sources said on Tuesday.
Torrential rains over [...]
Sharon Astyk’s original post, the inspiration for this series.
This week is a lengthy report; I paid attention to this challenge this week and have a lot of successes to tell about. I’ve also changed up some of the categories a bit, to make things clearer or to tailor the challenge more closely to [...]
Sharon Astyk’s original post, the inspiration for this series.
I haven’t accomplished much in this regard this week. Hopefully next week… Read about what I did manage after the break.
International giant Cargill is one of a relatively small number of powerful corporations that control the global agricultural system (Monsanto, anyone?) Cargill, among those with the widest and deepest influence, describes itself as an “international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 158,000 employees in 66 countries, the company is committed [...]
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My email box this morning bristled with an inordinate amount of messages from various food agencies but the one that I opened up straight away came from the FAO, with a link to their latest pdf prepared & published for next week’s high level conference on world food security in Rome. Speculators outside of the [...]
I host a live weekly audio program called “The Celsias Show” and recently interviewed Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst from the Cornucopia Institute, one of the truly effective watchdogs of the organic industry. Immediately after the interview, Jill Richardson (who many of you know as OrangeClouds115) joined me in a discussion that covered, in [...]
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This post is for biscuit who worships the buffalo!
Crossposted at DailyKos.com
There is lot of confusion about fats (technically, esters of glycerol and three fatty acids, hence the term “triglycerides”). All true fats are esters of glycerol with three fatty acids, but mono and diglycerides are encountered as emulsifying agents in many processed foods. The reason is that glycerol can hydrogen [...]
Cities cover only 2% of the Earth’s surface, but consume 75% of its resources. Cities are black holes, they’re swallowing our planet. But, more and more, they’re turning green.
Jac Smit, President of the Urban Agriculture Network and co-author of “Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs, and Sustainable Cities”, paints a vision of what the world would be [...]
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This article deserves a good reading, as does Celsias, the site it originated from. So I’m bumping it to the top. Food for thought indeed. – biscuit
The era of cheap food is over — this means disaster for millions, and mega-profits for a few. How did we get into this mess?
Continue reading about Orchestrating Famine: A Must-Read Food Crisis Backgrounder