Industrial food and agriculture facts

In 2007 New Scientist magazine reported that the cause of an outbreak of American cats and dogs dying of kidney problems had been discovered. ('Pet killer identified', New Scientist, 24 Nove...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2014/04/cats-were-toxic-nitrogen-canaries-so.html

Fresh Asian greens at a farmers' market - how much difference can such local initiatives really make to changing the global food system for the better?     A guest post by ANDREA BRO...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2012/08/eating-our-way-to-better-world.html

Blackberries gathered on a long walk charge up the brain as well as the body. I recently read 100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimers and Age-Related Memory Loss by Jean Carper ...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2012/06/demented-brain-on-industrial-food.html

 I made this home-grown  1 kg beetroot into a big  pot of borscht - nutritious and delicious. I once saw a German postcard which showed a class of rather mutinous-looking early twent...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2012/04/cancer-or-beetroot.html

Healthy cabbages and yacon thrive with a mulch of dead weeds. See Weeds are our friends   for how toxic agri-chemicals reduce natural productivity, and weeds can be part of replenishing ...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2012/01/agri-chemicals-global-toxic-legacy.html

 The fertility of the soil in my vegetable garden is constantly renewed and improved using the systems researched and taught by Albert Howard - compost, green manures, animal manures, and org...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/11/soil-and-empire-review.html

Subway and McD's are next to each other at the southern end of Colombo St, the main street of Christchurch. They survived the earthquakes of the past year. The locally-owned, independent di...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-movement-wall-st-colombo-st-and.html

I really like the way the trans-fats and sugars glow in this bacon cheeseburger image. Last month the Ministry of Health released the final results of its 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutritio...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/10/burger-your-health-its-all-about.html

 OR                               AFRICA IS FALLING DOWN ON MY HEAD The bulk phosphate carrier docked at  the Port of Lyttelton pours streams of phosphate th...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/08/politics-of-fertiliser.html

If I told you that this is a genetically-engineered 'man carrot', grown by Monsanto-funded Denis Avery of the Center for Global Food Issues in an heroic attempt to improve eyesight and preven...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/07/denis-avery-agnotological-note.html

Too much snow used to mean too little food for people in cool climates.  These days, in the energy-intensive global snow tourism industry, too little snow means workers depend on food char...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/06/climate-change-and-food-aid-no-snow.html

Cattle faeces can contain the highly toxic E.coli strain O157:H7. Without good hygienic practices in processing meat and producing and packing vegetables it can get into the human food supply...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecology-coli.html

 Produce on the Pak Thai stall at the Matakana Farmers' Market was grown less than 5 km from the market by the stall-holders/farm-owners. Exploitation-free, disease-free and really fresh - wha...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/06/exploitation-coli-utterly-predictable.html

Horse manure ready to be added to my compost bin. A much cheaper and more sustainable source of nitrogen than fertiliser synthesized from natural gas or genetically-engineered into plants. In...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/05/should-gates-foundation-stick-to-honest.html

My organically-grown watermelons were never in any danger of exploding this year. Food security has always been a prime concern of the Chinese state, from ancient times to the present. W...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-iron-rice-bowl-to-exploding.html

Non-industrial kiwifruit growing  and picking at home.    Typhoid fever is a very unpleasant bacterial disease, which if not treated quickly can be fatal. It is prevalent in parts of the worl...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/05/industrial-kiwifruit-typhoid-connection.html

  ARE YOU PAYING A FAIR PRICE FOR YOUR FOOD?    Home-grown apricots are sweeter than those imported out-of-season  from California - in every way. In the olden days (before the 198...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/05/unfair-trade-in-fresh-produce.html

What's wrong with this picture?  It shows a contemporary dairy farm on the Canterbury Plains, a part of New Zealand not previously used for intensive dairy farming because it is one of th...

http://dead-end-diet.blogspot.com/2011/03/beginning-of-end.html