I’m sure you heard that some big bio-tech companies donated millions of dollars to stop GMO labeling. You might also know that last Spring, Congress passed the Protection Act, but they didn’t know how to protect the big companies, according to some of their members. Members of Congress thought they were protecting our farmers! Please vote and let them hear your voice. Let’s preserve our food, farmers, and families.
Sadly, only those without money are the hungry ones. The world grows and produces enough food to feed its entire population, but only for those willing to buy it and pay the high cost of distribution. To really solve the world’s hunger problem we must dig deeper into the waste business. Food and waste go hand in hand. Sometimes it’s cheaper to toss something than to recycle or give to others. Perhaps, when we stop enterprising food, hunger will stand a chance!
“We have failed to end hunger using the traditional recipe that saw hunger as a technical problem, requiring only that we produce more. We’ve failed because we’ve underestimated the need to empower people and hold governments accountable.”– Olivier De Schutter
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First was SARS now is MERS. Why are chickens at the bottom of it all? It’s an important question with very few answers. Our friends from The Daily Beast investigated the topic and we want to share it with you. We live in scary times, and it’s time to take our health more seriously. Click here and read the entire report.
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Apparently, now Russia is involved. The Kremlin is not happy with the GMOs we are exporting to them and other Eastern European countries. They sent and warning to the U.S. Government and other American giant biotech companies. How far is everyone willing to go? Meanwhile, bees are becoming rarer and rarer. I hope we can all reach an agreement and soon!
Lately, more of our food has been infested with bacteria. Ammonia is one of the ingredients often found in contaminated foods. The reason for that is that our farmers and meat producers often use the chemical to kill the bacteria in the animal but usually stay in the meat. Some of our farmers are sick because of the chemical’s excessive use, the poultry and meat inspectors are also getting sick with ammonia-related respiratory illnesses. What to do? Is there a natural solution? Yes, I believe the word is white wine vinegar. Why don’t we use it more often? That’s why it is better to buy local foods because with smaller farms comes better sanitary conditions.
Are you in New York on May 23rd and are you concerned about the future of our food? Join the discussion, participate and share Foodopoly with everyone who eats!
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A little App with lots of power. With Boycott, we can now trace the brands (plus its subsidiary) of every product available in the U.S market. If the product is from a food industry dictator, you’ll when you scan it. You can decide to buy the product or not. We’ll no longer accept blindly and raise revenue for companies that aren’t protecting our health. This App might be our first step towards food monopoly.
Sometimes it feels like we are fighting mother earth we are chemicals, pollution and unnatural ingredients. They want to own all the seeds the farmers use to plant crops year after year. Some of those seeds have been in the family of farmers for generations. Now they have to buy them and return them after the crop if fully grown. Since when plating became a private business?
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The food system has strayed very far from its traditional farming roots and gone into a dark place. Almost everything has become processed, and a handful of corporations control our entire food system from the seeds to what’s on our plate. The names of the chemicals in the foods we eat today seem out of a science fiction novel. If this continues, only a few privileged people will afford the price of good quality-natural foods. For the rest of us, the future is uncertain unless we start caring now. The only way to survive is to go local and support your local farmers.
Just when you thought you have heard everything about what Michael Pollan had to say about the sad state of our food industry, he surprises us again. Now he is simply saying: “start cooking or die.” You know that when you eat out, you have very little control of what you’re actually eating. Follow Michael’s advice and live a long, healthy life.
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