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A Coming Food Crisis?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Public Radio - By Daniel Costello - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - After decades of decline, the number of undernourished people around the world has risen 20% since the middle of the last decade and the trend is expected to continue for many years even with a new global intervention.

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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrew Rice - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this development or exploitation?

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Study raises more doubts about cholesterol drugs Zetia, Vytorin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lyndsey Layton - Nov. 21 (News Report) - A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug does not unclog arteries as effectively as a modified version of Vitamin B3, a cheap alternative used to treat heart disease for decades, according to a new study.

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World on course for catastrophic 6 degree C rise, reveal scientists

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor, Michael McCarthy - Nov. 18 (News Report) - The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation.

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Report: More Americans going hungry

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Amy Goldstein - Nov. 17 (News Report) - The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.

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Eating A Deep Fried Fish That's Still Alive (VIDEO)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:57:12 -0800

Huffington Post - Nov. 17 (Not sure) - Eating "rare" delicacies just got to a new level. In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to be eaten. Below is the shocking video of a deep-fried fish that's still living and moving on a plate. Warning, this may be too graphic for some readers.

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Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Naomi Starkman - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - BPA, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because it has been linked to a wide array of health effects including reproductive abnormalities, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Aaron Gross - Oct. 26 (Review) - Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Frederik Joelving - Oct. 20 (News Report) - When you've spent the weekend splurging on greasy fast foods, your bathroom scale isn't alone in reeling from the impact. Your brain does, too. New research shows just how saturated fat tricks us into eating more and elucidates the evolutionary basis for the propensity for poundage in developed nations. Our brain physiology, it seems, is glaringly out-of-date in the modern world.

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Big Ag’s odd obsession with You-Know-Who

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - By Tom Laskawy - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - Big Ag has clearly decided that Pollan is a latter-day Lenin (or perhaps Trotsky?) leading a cadre of food revolutionaries who threaten to overthrow its hard-fought hegemony—rebut his arguments and perhaps the whole movement will collapse like a bad soufflé. All in reaction to a relatively unassuming guy who’s written some articles and a few books. Isn’t this all, like, a bit much?

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Mie fish farm admits using hormone disrupter

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Japan Times - Oct. 04 (News Report) - A fishery cooperative in Owase, Mie Prefecture, halted virtually all shipments of its farmed fish after learning that a farm in the region used a banned hormone disrupter as a parasite repellent, the cooperative said Saturday.

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Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fred Pearce - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - What's the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.

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America’s Food Revolution

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Jerry Weinberger - Sep. 20 (Special Report) - The U.S. has revolutionized its culinary culture over the last 40-odd years. No longer is it the developed world’s worst food nation; in fact, it’s perhaps the best. And it’s largely thanks to the (currently disputed) genius of America’s entrepreneurial capitalism.

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Male bass in many rivers feminized

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Seth Borenstein - Sep. 15 (News Report) - Government scientists figure that one out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become. The findings come from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its first comprehensive examination of intersex fish in America, a problem linked to women's birth-control pills and other hormone treatments that seep into rivers.

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Red Snow Warning

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - By Chip Ward, - Sep. 14 (Special Report) - Pink snow is turning red in Colorado. Here on the Great American Desert -- specifically Utah's slickrock portion of it where I live -- hot 'n' dry means dust. When frequent high winds sweep across our increasingly arid landscape, redrock powder is lifted up and carried hundreds of miles eastward until it settles on the broad shoulders of Colorado's majestic mountains, giving the snowpack there a pink hue.

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North Sea cod 'doomed by climate change'

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Simon de Bruxelles - Sep. 10 (News Report) - Cod are doomed to disappear from the North Sea because of climate change and not just as a result of over-fishing, researchers have discovered. In the past 40 years the average temperature of the North Sea has increased by 1C with catastrophic effects on its delicate eco-systems. Species of plankton, on which cod larvae feed, have moved away in search of cooler waters.

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Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Pollan - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.

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Delhi doesn't want to pay for climate change, but it's already bearing the costs

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Stephanie Nolen - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - “But this year, the tree flowered in December. Even people who are 80 or 90 years old in my village say they have never known this to happen. And everyone is scared.” There is more to be afraid of than just one wonky flowering tree and its gods: Their environment has gone crazy altogether.

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Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Brian Helmuth - Sep. 08 (Special Report) - Like many scientists, I didn't start out studying climate change; it more or less became a fact of life when the organisms I was studying started to die...I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing — shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale — as a result of human-induced global warming.

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Lush Land Dries Up, Withering Kenya’s Hopes

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Sep. 08 (News Report) - A devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya, imperiling agriculture and tourism as well as spawning ethnic conflict in the hinterland.

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The cupcake boom is here. The cupcake crash is coming.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Daniel Gross - Sep. 04 (News Analysis) - In recent years, the response to a popped economic bubble has been to create a new one. The pierced dot-com/telecommunications bubble paved the way for the housing/credit bubble. That punctured bubble may be giving way to an alternative energy bubble. But I've got my eyes on a smaller, but no less revealing, one: the Cupcake Bubble.[more ...]

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Feeding the future: Saving agricultural biodiversity

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - Thanks to a new $116 million global fund established this summer, the Quechua Indians are being paid to maintain their diverse collection of rare potatoes and ensure that they will be available to help the world adapt to future climate change. The Quechua are one of 11 communities around the world, chosen for the important collection of crops they farm, which together are part of a major new initiative to ensure that the world has the options it might need to cope with future food crises.

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What's Your Water Footprint?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Aug. 30 (Special Report) - Even as the greenest among us cut our showers short and let our toilets go yellow, we may be blissfully unaware that our household water use accounts for only 6 percent of the water that we consume. The other 94 percent comes from the products we buy, everything from almonds and tomatoes to blue jeans and microchips. (See "Big Gulp.") The average person in the developed world drinks a gallon of water each day but "eats" another 800 gallons. And as Americans, our water consumption per capita is twice the world's average. Each one of us uses enough water annually to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool—four times what someone in Yemen uses.

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Scientists discover virus that could explain drop in bee population

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Mark Henderson - Aug. 26 (News Report) - The research, by a team at the University of Illinois and the US Department of Agriculture, has indicated that a group of viruses called the picorna-like viruses are likely to be involved, though they may not be the only cause. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists examined the way genes were switched on and off in the guts of bees from hives that later fell victim to CCD.

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Nora Schultz - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.

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