Category: Food
Catastrophic World Food Crisis predicted
David Frum, the American-Canadian journalist, editorialist and political writer makes a shocking prediction in his opinion column in CNN: that 2013 will be the stage of a worldwide catastrophe, a serious global crisis caused...
Key Points To Obama’s Democratic Convention Speech
But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years,...
World food prices up 10% in July
Global food prices have leapt by 10% in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet’s poorest, the World Bank has warned. The bank said that a US heatwave and...
Hong Kong wants Middle Eastern (Islamic) tourists
CNN’s Ramy Inocencio takes a look at how Hong Kong is trying to promote itself as a gateway to China.
One of every 50 federal dollars buys food stamps
More than 46 million Americans — about one in seven — rely on food stamps, the equivalent of the entire populations of Texas and New York.
Monsanto’s GMO corn to flood Walmarts
Walmart will soon be stocking their shelves with GMO corn developed by Monsanto despite of all the protests by activists. Millions of Americans shop at Walmart, but that doesn’t mean that they all know...
Global economy is “fundamentally flawed”
Blackhorse economist Richard Duncan says that credit needs to be restored to the global economy and that if the fiscal situation isn’t resolved, the U.S. could fall into a deep recession next year.
End the Ethanol Mandate
Record-high corn prices should be sending a clear message to policy makers in Washington: Requiring people to put corn-based fuel in their gas tanks is a bad idea. Since 2005, the U.S. government has mandated...
Water Shut Off for Farmers
This Colorado farmer says it’s like starving to death in a grocery store. Weld County, Colorado farmers lost surface irrigation water from rivers because of drought, but they can’t pump groundwater because of a...
