China Produces “Rice” Made From Plastic. Food Emergency: Millions of Americans Are Heading to Foodbanks for the First Time in Their Lives. December 27, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The good news is there's no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. The bad news is more and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal.
Emergency Food: More and More It's What's for Dinner Val Traore, the radiant and gregarious CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey (FBSJ), wanted to make one thing perfectly clear in our discussion of hunger in America today. So what is happening here? "We're seeing a large number of families that have never needed food assistance before," reports Traore. Who are the hungry and why can't they afford to feed themselves and their families? Food Lines: The Growing Reality Based Social Network Depression soup lines have nothing on this sucker.
Food Bank Volunteers Unload Bags of Rice by Chaz Valenza. Leaked Cable: Hike Food Prices To Boost GM Crop Approval In Europe. In a January 2008 meeting, US and Spain trade officials strategized how to increase acceptance of genetically modified foods in Europe, including inflating food prices on the commodities market, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. During the meeting, Secretary of State for International Trade, Pedro Mejia, and Secretary General, Alfredo Bonet “noted that commodity price hikes might spur greater liberalization on biotech imports.”
It seems Wall Street traders got the word. By June 2008, food prices had spiked so severely that “The Economist announced that the real price of food had reached its highest level since 1845, the year the magazine first calculated the number,” reports Fred Kaufman in The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it. All to boost acceptance of GM foods, and done via a trading scheme on which Wall Street speculators profited enormously.
Mass food riots in several nations ensued, as did an investigation by the U.S. Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food. Welcome! Community Alliance with Family Farmers. Buy Fresh Buy Local. Non-GMO Project.
Sustainable Table. Sustainable Agriculture - The Basics Sustainable agriculture provides healthy food for consumers while protecting the environment and human health, safeguarding animal welfare and supporting local communities.
Questions to Ask Asking questions is the best way to ensure that you're purchasing sustainably raised, healthful foods and supporting sustainable farmers. Here are some questions to get you started. Handouts Help promote sustainable food and save family farms. Projects and Events The GRACE Food Program is proud to actively participate in the burgeoning food movement.
Food Waste In the US, we throw away 40 percent of our food supply every year. Organic Consumers Association. The Millions Against Monsanto Campaign. New: OCA's Millions Against Monsanto and Factory Farms Truth-in-Labeling Campaign Stop Monsanto's New Frankencrops Don't Let the USDA Approve Monsanto's RoundUp Ready Alfalfa!
Stop Monsanto's Frankensugar! Recent legal victories won by the Center for Food Safetyhave given sustainable agriculture activists an opportunity to stop two new Frankencrops, genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa. Monsanto's alfafa and sugar beets are spliced with manipulated foreign genes that allow them to withstand massive doses of Monsanto's RoundUp herbicide. The courts have ruled that the USDA (under President George W.
Genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beets without first looking at their potential environmental impacts, like whether Monsanto's crops could permanently contaminate the supply of normal alfalfa and sugar beet seeds with their Frankengenes. Now, the ball is in the USDA's court (under President Barack Obama).
Fake Steak, Not-Much-Meat Tacos, And More On Chain Food Menus. This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef"