Why a salad costs more than a Big MacWhy is it cheaper to by a big fatty, salty, sugary burger at Maccas than a few pieces of fresh lettuce and cucumber? Consumerist lays it out: follow the government funds.
Agriculture industries
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How Monsanto controls and manipulates the world’s food supply
An investigation by the Associated Press reveals how agricultural giant Monsanto uses its stranglehold on the seed industry to push out smaller competitors and control the world’s food supply. Expect food to get even more expensive.
How green is tofu?
It’s the culinary preference of hippies everywhere, but is eating tofu actually any better for the environment than eating meat? Apparently it all depends on what you’re not eating…
Farmers and Nats don’t see eye-to-eye on climate change
The ABS has surveyed the views of farm managers on climate change and its effects on their business, finding the impacts from climate change are overwhelmingly seen to be negative — a far cry from the National Party line on climate change, says Possum Comitatus.
Michael Pollan on the food reformation
Author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, has long been a critic of what and how Westerners eat. But, he says, a food movement is taking place that is akin to Martin Luther’s reform of the Catholic Church.
What the GFC can teach us about our intertwined food system
Just like the financial sector, the food system has dramatically globalised over the past generation, even as it has become increasingly concentrated.
Bio-tech industry protects their bacon over swine flu
The biotech industry has a vested interest in the ongoing viability of industrial-scale meat production, and thus a vested interest in blaming the swine flu pandemic on a small family farm in La Gloria, Mexico, says Tom Philpott.
