Almost Beyond Belief by Alex Kearns | LikeTheDew.com

Seeded on Mon Jun 7, 2010 9:28 AM EDT (likethedew.com)

Following the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater oil blowout ...(Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young), Young said: "This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a national phenomena.

pollution, environment

In South Africa, Football or Footloose? - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Thu Jun 3, 2010 2:46 AM EDT (The New York Times)

South Africa has already spent about $5 billion primping itself for the month-long soccer event, but expectations for visitors — once around 750,000 people — have dropped significantly. Blame the global recession, for sure, but ...

travel

Food Fashion - Clothes Made Out of Food - Delish.com

Seeded on Thu May 27, 2010 4:32 AM EDT (Delish.com | Recipes RSS Article Feed)

Fans of food and fashion will be intrigued by these outrageous clothes, accessories, and shoes made out of food!

art, food, fashion, edible-fashion

WHO faces questions over swine flu policy - BBC News

Seeded on Sat May 22, 2010 12:03 PM EDT (BBC News)

As the 193 member states of the World Health Organization meet in Geneva, questions over the body's handling of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic are high on the agenda.

pharmaceutical, world-news, swine-flu

Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole

Seeded on Fri May 21, 2010 7:28 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Seeded by Calvin Tang (Clipped by ock.style)

The sites may have been breaching their own privacy policies as well as industry standards, which say sites shouldn't share and advertisers shouldn't collect personally identifiable information without users' permission.

technology, privacy, advertising, spam, myspace, facebook

News flash: Soy milk doesn't come from cows : Are we THAT stupid?

Seeded on Sat May 1, 2010 12:05 PM EDT (Salon.com)

Seeded by jade-log (Clipped by ock.style)

The young v. old erupts over watered down "milk." This is the epitome of progressive v. conservative.

politics, cheese, antioxidants, hemp-milk, nmpf, dairy-terminology, semantic-accuracy, soy-jizzum

Michael Moss on Food Safety (Round One) - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:25 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Did your investigations lead to any prosecutions or significant changes in food safety?

health, food-safety

10 things we didn't know about food - Times Online

Seeded on Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:37 PM EDT (The Times)

A surprise consequence of writing a book about food was that we lost our appetite.

food, health, industry

David Kirby: You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

Seeded on Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:04 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

One of the most revolting things I learned while researching my new book "Animal Factory" is that some cattle are fattened on rations that include chicken manure.

business, food, farming

Tour Packages Offer Hunting, Fishing, and F*cking Kids for One Low Price | End Human Trafficking | Change.org

Seeded on Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:38 AM EDT (humantrafficking.change.org)

A recent undercover investigation from ABC news has discovered that for some hunting and fishing tours, sex with children is part of the package deal.

human-trafficking, child-abuse, world-news

The Human Hair Additive in Your Food | Mother Jones

Seeded on Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:31 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

clippings from short hair like his are used mainly as fertilizer or source material for a ubiquitous food additive called L-cysteine

business, food, industry

From one pig: 185 products | Art and design | The Guardian

Seeded on Thu Apr 1, 2010 9:27 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

It is possible to see Pig 05049 as an example of science's sinister ways, or as a carnivore's consumerist conspiracy. Who, after all, can claim to be a vegan now? But people have rarely killed animals because they were hungry.

food, industry, arts

The Catholic Church has put down the catechism, and picked up the Washington P.R. handbook for political sins

Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:27 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by ock.style)

Putting down the catechism, it picked up the Washington P.R. handbook for political sins. First: Declare any new revelation old and unimportant.

religion, catholic-church, pope-benedict, maureen-dowd, catholic-sex-abuse-scandal, catholic-sex-scandal

For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)

By the time Matt Eich entered photojournalism school in 2004, the magazine and newspaper business was already declining.

media, business, photography

FoodNews :: Methodology (consumers eating high and low pesticide diets)

Seeded on Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:57 AM EDT (foodnews.org)

An EWG simulation of thousands of consumers eating high and low pesticide diets shows that people can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 80 percent by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated instead.

food, health, pesticide

Editorial - Honest Food Labels - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has said one of her priorities is to improve the information on food package labels.

business, fda, food-labels

Bluefin tuna loses out simply because scarce fish make a profit

Seeded on Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:56 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Stocks will collapse after a few more seasons of fishing at current levels, and investors will just move on to the next catch

environment, fishing, bluefin-tuna

How Privacy Vanishes Online

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:39 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by fugitive247 (Clipped by ock.style)

From the article: Computer scientists and policy experts say that...

technology, privacy, orwellian, social-networks, profiling, data-mining, proximity, statistical-analysis, aggregate-data, unique-identifiers

From Cocaine to Chocolate: Farmers in Peru Change Crops - TIME

Seeded on Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:33 AM EDT (TIME)

The certificate was only one of several that emerged from the prestigious Salon du Chocolat in Paris, the annual summit of the world's master chocolatiers.

food, world-news, chocolate

Dinner is served, but we can't tell you where - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:07 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

On Feb. 23, a select group of Washingtonians received an intriguing e-mail: "The orange arrow is pointing at you," the subject line read. It was an exclusive invitation to "an exclusive underground anti-restaurant,"

business, food, restaurants

Knives, Fire, Chaos Don't Worry Blind Chef - CBS News

Seeded on Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:29 AM EST (CBS News)

One Chicago Chef can cook up a storm, even though she's been blind since birth.

business, food, willpower

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph

Seeded on Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:52 AM EST (Telegraph)

A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

us, france, food, world-news

Just what does organic mean? BBC News

Seeded on Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:29 AM EST (BBC News)

Ask the average shopper what they think when they walk into a supermarket and see organic food on display, and the majority respond with two observations: expensive - and chemical free...

business, food, organic

Amuse Bouche: Gastronomica founder Darra Goldstein

Seeded on Tue Mar 9, 2010 2:35 AM EST ()

The 2000s may well be remembered as the Edible Decade, a time when growing concern and curiosity about all things food really exploded in the mainstream media.

business, food, publishing

How restaurants entice us into choosing expensive meals | Life and style | The Guardian

Seeded on Thu Mar 4, 2010 12:38 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

It comes as no surprise that the main goal of menu design is to draw your attention to profitable (as in "overpriced") items. But the detailed plotting that goes on is fascinating.

business, food, restaurants

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