Well i want a dirty weekend with Katie Melua but we all have to live with our disappointments.

There are African children with no shoes who walk ten miles to sit under an upturned bucket just to be educated, that has to be admired, and they deserve help because they want what's good for them. Dole scroungers need help to have their wants adjusted so that they don't need more help, if you see what i mean.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I think that this is close to the thread title.

Supermarkets selling chicken that is nearly a fifth water

Consumers paying 65p a kilo for water, as legality of process of 'tumbling' imported chicken called into question

65p is about $1

Don't know about anyone else, but to me a tomato should be nice and red......

What next? Pink Apples and Green Oranges?

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Don't know about anyone else, but to me a tomato should be nice and red......

What next? Pink Apples and Green Oranges?

No purple tomato for me.

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Eh, Id be willing to try some blue food if they had that.

You might then consider some of the older potato varieties, maize, and carrots. I can't say what the potato & maize taste like but the purple carrots I once grew were "more carrotty" than any of the normal orange ones.

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purple

Rofl, think you've been slimed, eat more carrots, they're good for you. Just ask "Catseye" Cunningham.

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Eh, Id be willing to try some blue food if they had that.

Was'nt Romulan ale blue?

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So... The Smurfs must have been eating Canadian food?!

Or is it just always cold over there?


We are what we eat...
Martin

Don't know about anyone else, but to me a tomato should be nice and red......

What next? Pink Apples and Green Oranges?

You mean oranges that are still their natural colour?

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Or bananas and plantains

Don't know about anyone else, but to me a tomato should be nice and red......

What next? Pink Apples and Green Oranges?

You mean oranges that are still their natural colour?

that looks like Ugli fruit or Jamaican Tangelo which has a natural green color when ripe. that is not an orange as we'd call an orange an orange

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You mean oranges that are still their natural colour?

that looks like Ugli fruit or Jamaican Tangelo which has a natural green color when ripe. that is not an orange as we'd call an orange an orange

Ugli fruit has longitudinal ridges and Tangelo has a nipple shaped protrusion.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

GM foods turning the corner?

GM potatoes resist "late blight"

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GM foods turning the corner?

GM potatoes resist "late blight"

Excellent science!

Critics of GM crops said that no matter how big the scale of the environmental benefits, they believe that consumers will not be interested.

Luddite!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Critics of GM crops said that no matter how big the scale of the environmental benefits, they believe that consumers will not be interested.

Luddite!

Nope.

More a case of very healthy suspicion and cynicism for a part of the food industry that cares nothing for the health of the end product nor the means by which they strive to make monopolistic profits.

The highly publicized supposed exception for "golden rice" is a complete sham to try to give one attempted positive example. There are better more effective and cheaper ways to improve a populations diet than attempt a monopolistic expensive and dubious vitamin addition...

For all such food-GM, the environment and the very consumers themselves be damned.

Note that there are no, that is zero, beneficial Genetically Modified foodstuffs. In all cases, the GM is to boost the use of associated agribusiness fertilizers and poisons. That is bad for forcing the use of dangerously susceptible monocultures over vast areas that literally poison our environment and denude what we consider to be common wildlife.

In stark contrast, much better and more healthy and far longer lasting benefits can be had by using better farming practices.


Better non-monopolistic farming is very likely cheaper and more robust also...

All in our one world,
Martin


(Note: GM for MEDICAL uses is very differently motivated and controlled and very definitely is beneficial. However, the same development conditions as is placed on medical-GM would stop all foodstuffs GM immediately dead.)

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A brief Sunday magazine experiment:


Can you [easily, lazily] live without processed food?

The white stuff you sprinkle on your food is back in the headlines. Whether it's salt or sugar, it seems many of us may be consuming too much. So how easy is it to live without processed food for a week?...

... The week has been enlightening - and it's definitely something I will do again.

But without a lot of forward planning and preparation, it's impractical for many.

I could have opted for a more varied diet such as grilled fish and steamed vegetables, but without my own personal chef or a job working from home, that was beyond me.

So how did I do? According to Victoria Taylor, not too badly. She says based on a comparison with my "control" week, my salt and saturated fat intake were both reduced by half.

The main reason for me - as a non-meat eater - was giving up bread and cheese, which, while not conventional processed foods - can be relatively high in salt and saturated fat...


Are really so many people now incapable of cooking or preparing food for themselves?!

Even I can make my own bread! Ok... So that's with the help of an automated breadmaker device and 15mins to put in the flour and bits and minimal salt :-)


We are what we eat and we are a part of the world we live in,
Martin

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And about time too... How did the food industry get away with such fraud in the first place?!


FDA rules that honey with added sweeteners can no longer be called 'honey'

... The FDA regularly detains honey imports and tests them after finding drug residues and unlabeled added sweeteners.

Only manufactures that do not add sugar, corn syrup or other sweeteners should label their products as pure 'honey,' the FDA said in draft guidelines posted online.

The proposal aims 'to advise the regulated food industry on the proper labeling of honey and honey products to help ensure that honey and honey products are not adulterated or misbranded,'...


However... That carefully worded phrase begs the question of whether parts of the food industry can still get away with unregulated silliness...


We are what we eat...
Martin

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No surprise that GM-food is one of the hot topics for a lot of people worldwide:


Where next for Avaaz in 2014? ... Priorities...



All on our only one planet,
Martin

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This looks like a repeat of yet another BSE-style closed cycle caused and rapid transport spread epidemic...


Concerns grow in Europe over threat from deadly pig virus

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus (PEDv) has killed some seven million piglets in the US in the past year. The disease has also been found in Canada, Mexico and Japan.

While the virus isn't harmful to humans or food, France is concerned over the potential economic impact...

PEDv is spread in faecal matter...

... In North America, the disease has moved rapidly, with around 4,000 outbreaks in 30 US states, in four Canadian provinces and in parts of Mexico.
Virus on the move

Experts in the field believe that lax biosecurity is an important factor.

In June last year, a US study found that 17% of trucks going into a slaughterhouse were positive for the infection. "They also discovered that 11% of the trucks that had been negative when they went into the slaughterhouse were subsequently positive when they left," said Dr Zoe Davies from the UK's National Pig Association (NPA).

"It's how many animals you are moving around, that's how its being spread."

Another factor that is making the disease more difficult to stop is the use of dried pig blood in feedstuffs that are given to weaned piglets...



All a game of cruel crude business-with-no-morals and no cares?


We are our world around us...
Martin

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