In the future, what will our food look and taste like, and how will it be farmed? CBS News 60 Minutes+ correspondent Seth Doane joins Anne-Marie Green on "CBSN AM" to preview his story about one country devoted to figuring out how to feed the world's growing population, without destroying the planet in the process.
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August 18, 2019
Britain- Brexit: No deal shows food and medicine shortages, chaos
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January 5, 2019
January 19, 2016
GMO Labeling Endorsed by US Physicians but blocked by Chemical Industry Lobby - Ten Reason to avoid them
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| Is the Industry Lobby Bamboozling you about GMO's? |
They are bolstered by a recent announcement by the World Health Organization that glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer) is probably carcinogenic in humans. The genetic engineering ends up making crops resistant to the herbicide so more must be applied.
According to contributing doctors from Harvard, Mt. Sinai Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, “GM crops are now the agricultural products most heavily treated with herbicides, and two of these herbicides may pose risks of cancer.”
A recent notice in the same journal, “GMOs, Herbicides and Public Health,” reports: “The application of biotechnology to agriculture has been rapid and aggressive. The vast majority of the soy and [feed] corn grown in the United States are now genetically engineered. Foods produced from GM crops have become ubiquitous.”
Sixty-four countries, including Russia and China, have already adopted transparency in labeling laws, but U.S. Big Food and Big Ag lobbyists have stonewalled efforts domestically.\
EU representatives at the EU-US Trade Negotiations (TTIP) hopefully will not let this issue be swiped off the table by the American delegation. As it is well known that the political establishment in the US Congress is very much influenced by the US Chemical and food Industry Lobby, which includes corporate giants like Monsanto, Dow Chemicals, Syngenta, Tyson, ADM and Cargill..
To put this in an order of magnitude: ADM and Cargill now control 65% of the world's trade in grain. Monsanto and Syngenta control 20% of the $60-billion market in bio-engineered seeds.
The EU better be aware that this US corporate lobby campaign to "patent nature" and control the world's food supply has been very successful, Today, 85% of US corn is genetically engineered.
December 14, 2015
Culinary: African food: The next gastronomic trend?
Living in London, it is not too hard to sate my hunger for a taste of home as markets selling African food dot the city.
There are also a lot of Nigerian restaurants, but they are mainly filled with Nigerians - other Africans may also be tucking in, but hardly any Europeans.
London is a bustling cosmopolitan city where, according to Mayor Boris Johnson, more than 300 languages are spoken - that is at least 300 different cultures.
But while cuisines from countries like China, India and Thailand have become very popular, the same cannot
be said about African food.
So why hasn't African gastronomy caught on?
Perhaps in these days of healthy eating - a particular obsession of the European press - African food is seen as containing too much oil or carbohydrates or not enough protein.
But London-based Ghanaian cook Fafa Gilbert, who teaches people how to make Africa food with a
European twist on her YouTube channel, could not disagree more.
Read more: African food: The next gastronomic trend? - BBC News
There are also a lot of Nigerian restaurants, but they are mainly filled with Nigerians - other Africans may also be tucking in, but hardly any Europeans.
London is a bustling cosmopolitan city where, according to Mayor Boris Johnson, more than 300 languages are spoken - that is at least 300 different cultures.
But while cuisines from countries like China, India and Thailand have become very popular, the same cannot
be said about African food.
So why hasn't African gastronomy caught on?
Perhaps in these days of healthy eating - a particular obsession of the European press - African food is seen as containing too much oil or carbohydrates or not enough protein.
But London-based Ghanaian cook Fafa Gilbert, who teaches people how to make Africa food with a
European twist on her YouTube channel, could not disagree more.
Read more: African food: The next gastronomic trend? - BBC News
April 7, 2014
The Netherlands: McDonald's Small Wrap Kills Dutch Teenager Following Allergic Reaction
McDonald's announced it has stopped the sale of a 'Small Wrap Saté' in
the Netherlands following the
death of a 17-year-old teenager after he got a severe allergic reaction
in a McDonald franchise in Amsterdam from eating the wrap.The saté wrap, selling for €2 in the Netherlands, consists of "fried chicken and onions in a spicy peanut sauce", kown in the Netherlands as.Saté sauce. Saté sauce, which has its origins in Indonesia, became a very popular sauce in the Netherlands and is even eaten there on french fries.
A spokesperson for McDonald's confirmed the product has been withdrawn but declined to give any further information as to questions about warning labels on McDonald's products which contain peanut products or have been prepared in the vicinity of peanut products.
EU-Digest
February 5, 2014
Artificial Food Coloring: Caramel Coloring in Soda could be cancer causing
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| Soft Drinks - Sodas |
In recent Consumer Reports’ tests, each of the 12-ounce samples of Pepsi One and Malta Goya had more than 29 micrograms per can or bottle. While we cannot say that this violates California's Prop 65, we believe that these levels are too high, and we have asked the California Attorney General to investigate.
Caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world, according to a 2013 report from market research firms Mintel and Leatherhead Food Research. “There’s no reason why consumers should be exposed to an avoidable and unnecessary risk that can stem from coloring food brown,” says Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., toxicologist and executive director of Consumer Reports’ Food Safety & Sustainability Center. “Manufacturers have lower 4-MeI alternatives available to them. Ideally there would be no 4-MeI in food.”
In 2007, a US federal government study concluded that 4-MeI caused cancer in mice and the International Agency for Research on Cancer determined the chemical to be “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in 2011.
There’s no US federal limit for levels of 4-MeI in foods and beverages, but as of January 7, 2012 California requires manufacturers to label a product sold in the state with a cancer warning if it exposes consumers to more than 29 micrograms of 4-MeI per day. In this case, the exposure comes from consumption.
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment used 29 micrograms as the cut off point because that’s the level they determined poses a one in 100,000 risk of cancer—that is, no more than one excess cancer case per 100,000 people who are exposed to that amount daily for a lifetime.
Read more: Caramel Coloring in Soda | Artificial Food Coloring | 4-MeI - Consumer Reports
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