Similar schemes were launched a decade ago in Amsterdam and were scrapped because the garbage wasn’t combustible enough anymore to burn in the ovens and people didn’t know what to do with all the compost anyway.
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The biggest threats are increased volatility in food prices and protectionist measures over food, like India’s ban on selling rice. (Climate change is used as an excuse for food spikes while in fact the best harvests in history where during these food spike years!)
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Photographs of babies will not be allowed to appear on packaged milks and foods for infants under new EU legislation.
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Multinational GM seed, fertiliser and grain companies such as Yara International, Monsanto and Cargill have signed up to benefit from the new alliance. How could it possibly fail?
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The state of Connecticut has become the first to successfully enact a law requiring food containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, though it comes with the unusual requirement that four other states must pass similar legislation.
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Even the British government seems to be afraid of the future of their future food security. I wonder what they know what they are not telling.
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This number has trebled in past 12 months
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The UK supermarket giant will use it’s loyalty card data to see who is eating what. Tesco hasnât decided how it will use the information, but options include offering vouchers for healthier products and promoting a better diet via suggested recipes.
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This is Germany’s fourth largest bank. This “responsibility” is of course bogus. What they really want is more control over their investments, more hard assets and less paper trade.
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NASA has decided to bet on 3D printing. However it doesn’t plan to design huge pieces for its spacecrafts, but to create food in order to combat hunger in space and on Earth.
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