Category: The Future of Food
Funny Food Pyramid
But seriously, as long as the soy is not gmo or full of pesticides it concerns me least.
Biden Administration Attempts to Sabotage Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban to ‘Protect Short-Term Profits of U.S. Ag Giants’
WHY IS THE NETHERLANDS SHUTTING DOWN 3000 FARMS?
Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas
Act Now To Tell The EPA – Get Atrazine Out of Our Food Supply
Sept 28, 2022 by JamesLyons Weiler
Atrazine is an herbicide used in agriculture. It has a lot of adverse effects on health such as tumors, breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers as well as leukemia and lymphoma. It’s also an endocrine-disrupting chemical, interrupting regular hormone function and causing birth defects, reproductive tumors, and weight loss in amphibians as well as humans (Pathak & Dikshit, 2011. Int J of Ecosys 1:14-23).
I encourage Popular Rationalists to get behind EWG’s petition to stave off the gaggle of politicians working to keep atrazine in our food supply. They are looking for 15,000 signatures – that’s us!
Here’s EWG’s pitch:
Time for Peace Talks: How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet
Sept 7, 2022
Back in March 2020 scientists were modeling the impact upon our planet of a small scale nuclear war.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00794-y
One would hope that such a foolish decision by world leaders would be improbable. After all, even the war hawks realize it could be the end of all for this planet. Surely they are too sensible to set off such a scenario. But are they?
Yesterday I read this headline in the Washington Post: Ukraine military chief says ‘limited’ nuclear war cannot be ruled out
The 2020 model predicts that among many traumatic effects we would all have to endure one of the most troubling would be worldwide famine. The model predicted:
Beyond the oceans, the research team has found big impacts on land crops and food supplies. Jonas Jägermeyr, a food-security researcher at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, used six leading crop models to assess how agriculture would respond to nuclear winter. Even the relatively small India–Pakistan war would have catastrophic effects on the rest of the world, he and his colleagues report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. Over the course of five years, maize (corn) production would drop by 13%, wheat production by 11% and soya-bean production by 17% .
The worst impact would come in the mid-latitudes, including breadbasket areas such as the US Midwest and Ukraine. Grain reserves would be gone in a year or two. Most countries would be unable to import food from other regions because they, too, would be experiencing crop failures, Jägermeyr says. It is the most detailed look ever at how the aftermath of a nuclear war would affect food supplies, he says. The researchers did not explicitly calculate how many people would starve, but say that the ensuing famine would be worse than any in documented history.
Farmers might respond by planting maize, wheat and soya beans in parts of the globe likely to be less affected by a nuclear winter, says Deepak Ray, a food-security researcher at the University of Minnesota in St Paul. Such changes might help to buffer the food shock — but only partly. The bottom line remains that a war involving less than 1% of the world’s nuclear arsenal could shatter the planet’s food supplies.
Back in 2011 The HuffPost published an article titled Could a Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming?
After some speculation on the possible benefits of nuclear conflict they concluded: The cons seem to outweigh the pros in the event of global cooling caused by even a small nuclear war.
It is long past time for promoting peace talks in Eastern Europe.
‘Nature Is Not for Sale,’ Vandana Shiva
August 33, 2022
Agroecology — sustainable farming that works with nature, rather than depleting nature — is the solution to global hunger, poverty and climate change, Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on a recent episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast.”
Farmers Protests Go Global – This Is Impossible To Ignore
August 25, 2022
Is the coverage of populist movements, like the uprising in Sri Lanka, smeared to appease a globalist agenda? That’s too much of a conspiracy theory, isn’t it!? I spoke with the journalist and former co-host of The Hills Kim Iversen about how some global agencies (WEF) seem to have an influence on the way that nations devise policy, for example, the font of the changes around fertilizer that would bankrupt farmers.
Amish farmer fighting U.S. government for right to sell his all-natural food to private buyers
August 19, 2022
Jeremy Loffredo joins Sheila Gunn Reid to provide an update on the fight one Amish farmer from Pennsylvania has with the U.S. government for the right to sell his all-natural produce to whomever he wishes.