A woman was handcuffed and 'treated like a hardened criminal' after she helped herself to food worth £200 that had been thrown away by a Tesco store (Fresh & Easy) following a power cut.
Warnings of higher food prices headed for American supermarkets and restaurants were swallowed easily across much of farm country Wednesday.
The big gulp came when the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that global demand had pushed U.S. corn
Whether you need food assistance or are a producer willing to help others, here is a very handy tool for locating the nearest Feeding America Food Bank where you can find pantry schedules and addresses as well as drop-off locations for donations.
This weekend I will be offering two awesome hands on events - a fruit tree workshop at Baker Nursery and a chicken workshop right here at the Urban Farm.
The best-known GM producer, another US giant Monsanto, is at the forefront of legal moves to open up the European single market, home to half a billion people and 20 million companies.
Chicken prices are among the first to rise because the bird's life span is so short that higher feed costs get factored in quickly, he said. Price hikes for hogs take about a year and cattle two years. Prices on packaged foods take six or seven month
Ten products, including fish, shrimp, oysters, crab cakes, and packaged Cajun dishes such as jambalaya and shrimp etouffee are being promoted at 72 base commissaries along the East Coast, said Milt Ackerman, president of Military Solutions Inc...
Phil Geertson is a conventional alfalfa seed grower who has been involved in efforts to stop GE (genetically engineered) alfalfa since 2003. Geertson said that deregulated GE alfalfa will contaminate all alfalfa plants!
For over a year now, Zero Hedge has been predicting that in its foolhardy attempt of "inflation or bust", the Fed's actions would sooner or later lead to mass rioting and possible revolutions as a result of surging and out of control food prices...
Basic human needs. Without them people will fight to survive.
FINO (friend in name only)
Air, water, and .... food. The three B's of basic human sustenance After that, everything else is just gravy. Without access to theses three things the mo
Dylan Ratigan says that the Fed is printing money to cover enormous theft by the big banks, and that money printing is leading to food inflation worldwide.
In the wake of the recent GMO alfalfa victory for biotech pirates masquerading as USDA gatekeepers, here come the beets. This spring we can count on yet another biotech mutation receiving the USDA seal of approval, damn the law, full steam ahead.
Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerned about the political implications of rising prices for staple crops.
The U.N.'s food price index likely hit a new high in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could push even higher the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East.
Yesterday, Kevin Kaiser, sent me a highlight from The Grocer (an industry trade rag) that inflating food prices are making ordinary breakfast items like orange and apple juice a "luxury."
As of November, the SNAP program had 43.6 million participants, an increase of 400k from October, and a 14% increase, or 5.3 million from a year prior.
These are the people who will replenish the earth. These are the people who will “reboot the American Dream.” Only this time, with a whole new operating system.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced its decision to grant non-regulated status for alfalfa that has been genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide commercially known as Roundup.
Does this come as any surprise? Vilsack and his Monsanto buddies in the USDA have absolutely no intentions of regulating ANY genetically modified crop.
The very people that we look to for guidance seem to be working together to lead us straight into global food governance in the form of Codex Alimentarius.
The report stated that new technologies, such as genetically modified crops and cloned livestock, should not be excluded on ethical or moral grounds, but that investment is "essential in the light of the magnitude of the challenges."
Organic Consumers Association Funded by Big Pharma! Our food supply is in jeopardy. Not only from outside forces such as poisons from China, but from within.
"Tasty ... kind of nutty!" the 20-year-old assures her companions clutching an array of creepy crawly pastries at a seminar, which forecast that larvae and locusts will invade Western menus as the price of steak and chops skyrocket.
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"These economies are clearly overheating and governments are putting measures in place to slow them down to fight inflationary pressure. More than anything else, food inflation is a problem," Gijsels said. "In countries were 70% to 80% and sometimes
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