Is Nano-Tech a Ticking Time Bomb?
How Safe is Nano-Tech? Nanotechnology is here. Nano operates in the Quantum Realm, where physics gets strange, the world isn’t always as it seems and particles can exist in two places at once. What you might not know is that it’s everywhere in products from food to makeup to clothing. Is nanotechnology a ticking time bomb?Nano is not like anything found in nature. Nano-particles cannot be seen, even under an ordinary microscope. Different chemical, physical and even biologic ...
Top of the Food Chain (of Fools)
I happened to watch in the seatback in front of me at 34,000 feet two smarmy (ok, obnoxious) money men dangling carrots in front of contestants in a reality TV show about food. They weren't actual carrots but the hopeful competitors stood the chance to get some advice and financing, which could help launch their restaurant/food businesses and make them flourish.One team had a tasty-looking vegan hot dog, with homemade pickles and toppings, which one moneyman seemed to like. The ...
More Fish-Friendly Vegan ‘Tuna’ Salad… This Time with Tofu
Oddly, though I ate my share of tuna fish salad before going vegan, usually on toast, it was not close to my top sandwich choice. These days, I find myself enjoying the vegan versions far more than I ever did actual fish-based recipes.Real tuna are being rapidly depleted by overfishing, with some Bluefin varieties pushing extinction. Plus, tuna often contains mercury and other metals that come from our contaminated seas. And many state tuna feel pain as they are slaughtered. Just a ...
Wake Up: What is Citrus Greening and What to Do?
In case you didn't hear, virtually all of Florida’s citrus trees are suffering from “greening,” a bacterial tree disease that is threatening the $9+ billion Florida citrus biz (think oranges, grapefruits, tangerines…) and has attacked Brazil as well, covering 90% of the world's orange juice. Imagine the shortages. Also called Huanglongbing (HLB) or Yellow Dragon Disease, greening first surfaced in 2005 in Florida (yes, it's from Asia). Infected trees produce green, ...
US & EU Agree: No Time for Public Health, We’ve Got Corporate Interests at Stake Here!
A just leaked draft food trade agreement leaves no question that, as between both the US and Europe, “public health is losing out to corporate interests in a big way.” According to the experts at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the documents show that public health and food safety are at risk while the public remains clueless.The obscure Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement (see it in the news any time lately?) addresses important ...
Wake Up, Consumers. Is Nanotech the New GMO?
No question, consciousness around genetic modification of our food supply has skyrocketed in the last few years. It wasn't that long ago when advocate and teacher Marion Nestle virtually gave up trying to wake up consumers and now, in 2014, there has been a groundswell of consumer and activist interest in ensuring that we at least know about (if not stop) genetic manipulation of our food through unnatural means (food where “genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur ...
Radioactive Tuna on Rye? They Say It’s Safe…
Not that the contamination of the seas is any real news to people (think Garbage Island, aka Pacific Trash Vortex), but we have reached a new "milestone" of sorts with today's news that radioactive tuna is now swimming in California waters. Kind of puts a damper on sushi, not to mention the classic tuna on rye."There's no real cause for concern," say the authorities. Um, thanks but no thanks. Not that the scientists are insincere and even they are noting that the second genera...
Glowing Meat Anyone? Japan’s Radiation Fallout
As if there wasn't enough to worry about post-Fukushima, now the hamburgers are radioactive. According to a New York Times story today, beef contaminated by radiation is hitting the Japanese markets. Despite government assurances that radioactive cesium doesn't create immediate adverse health consequences, as one Japanese meat man put it, “Nobody will ever want to eat beef from Fukushima again.” Good. Hopefully, at this point, we're all a little less ...
One Calorie Blubber
The Real Thing - Diet Sodas Make Us Fatties. Ever wonder why the fattest among us often walk around with a large diet soft drink? Now an answer is suggested by science We've known it in our guts for a long time and chances are you have too. You know all those folks scarfing down the super-sized meals along with diet drinks? They're getting fat, not only from the fries and such, but from the diet soft drinks themselves. Though it seemed so obvious, we now have ...
