Burgers to blame for global warming

"WASHINGTON: A report by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stated that 18 per cent of greenhouse gases are coming from animal agriculture - meat and dairy, used in making burgers. According to Environmental News Network , the 408-page...

Some Lean Pockets Being Recalled for Plastic Bits in Product

Here's a heads up if you eat Lean Pockets." Nestle Prepared Foods Company is recalling nearly 200,000 pounds of frozen stuffed chicken sandwiches that may contain pieces of plastic. Nestle has received two consumer reports of injuries from the product, according to the...

Last Strawberry

"Last Strawberry While I was talking about the things that were not readily available some years ago, I am also reminded of the nomenclature of some of those things. Those names make me feel that China is the land of...

Organic Farming, the wrong way!

By Uwe Paschen.I have been working with Farmers and have been farming my self for a long time, knowing this business rather well. Now I am an ardent defender of the environment and Animals as well as plants rights....

Japan Silk Farming is rapidly disappearing!

Nagano: I went to Nagano for 3 days to see a Good Friend of mine, There I attended a Silk Farmers meeting that reminded me some of the long late Farm Organisation meetings I used to attend in North America. The...

Unlimited supply of chocolate for the world.

So we think the general population is getting heavier, but if this research pans out, we are all about to get a lot fatter! Heres a summary of what is going to happen. Cocoa crops getting bigger, more chocolate is...

Here’s looking forward to a warmer summer

Each morning I check the garden hoping for signs of life in the vegetable patch. For weeks all our seeds in the cold damp soil decided that this spring is nothing more than winter in disguise. It was a struggling...

Wild Greens Potato Salad

Making a homegrown potato salad picnic to the Monsanto Took My Seed Blues by Old Bull.

South Korea lifts ban on US beef

After much dithering South Korean government has finally allowed import on US Beef. The beef row has posed a political crisis for the incumbent  government."South Korea has formally lifted an import ban on US...

Top Prizes for non GMO Crops are offered to Japan's Farmer!

More and more this year Farmers are being offered prime rates for their crops if those are GMO free. Even better are the prizes paid for Organic Soya beans and vegetables.The Japanese consumer seems to be ready and...

US-South Korea Beef Agreement Reached

An agreement has been reached between the USA and South Korea regarding beef exports. Beef from cattle more than 2 1/2 years old will not be shipped to South Korea.The onus will be on US exporters to verify the age...

Bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

"“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones...

Urban Farming Grows on Vancouver

As a reaction against rising fuel and food prices, many people are taking the job of food production into their own hands.  Why let Safeway have all the fun?"“Mark Bomford, program coordinator of the Centre...

NZ research is leading way to better foods, health

This is an extraordinary report from "a new field of science" on how genes "predict" their future while in the womb.–Dr Andrew West says, “Scientists have shown that a fetus takes cues from its life before birth, such as the availability of nutrients, to predict what its...

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