1Ta-da! A title for this weekly update blog at last. Kinda combines the notion that it is made up of scraps but that they provide a useful medium for growing your ideas.
1, Good earth: Green lentils and the Wimmera
self-munching Grey Vertosol.
“Notwithstanding full respect and
homage to the artisan cultivators of Le Puy, one cannot ignore the Wimmera,
where the self-mulching Grey Vertosol soil steps up to the plate to produce
Australia’s version of these premium green lentils.” Another in this terrific
series of articles about Australian soils and what they contribute in flavour
to food staples.
2. Palestinians forced to rely on food aid.
“These
villagers make up some of the 1.6 million people classed as "food
insecure" throughout the West Bank and Gaza, representing 34 per cent of
households in Palestine, according to new research by the UN World Food
Program. Ertharin Cousin, the executive director of the World Food Program,
says the rise in households going hungry, up 7 per cent from a year ago, is
driven by Israel's occupation of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority's
financial crisis, and the high unemployment rates... Ms Cousin described
another Bedouin village, Khan al-Ahmar, surrounded by a fence from the nearby
settlement and a highway that its residents do not always have permission to
use, to highlight the food insecurity issue. hat keeps what is historically a
nomadic population trapped in one area and makes them ever more dependent on
food assistance . . . because [they cannot practise] their normal lifestyle and
livelihood because of the occupation," Ms Cousin said.”
There are more ways to repress a people than by building a
bloody big wall.
3.
3. Liquid breakfasts’ shonky truth.
"Liquid breakfasts have on average 1.5% fibre, which is
well below the 10 per cent benchmark for high fibre. It is grains away from the
39.5 per cent fibre offered by some bran cereals."
Oh no; my up and go just got up and went :)
4.Food Wastage: The Irony of
Global Gluttony
“Current methods of agricultural
production and distribution account for almost a third of global food waste,
and are unsustainable.
In both
developing and developed countries the bulk of foods wasted are the more
nutritionally dense fresh fruits and vegetables, with heavily processed foods
stored for increasingly longer periods.
Equal responsibility lies with practitioners of unsustainable
farming practices in developing countries as with irresponsible consumers in
the developed world.”
Cold comfort that it isn’t just me not eating my left overs
that’s the problem.
5. 5.
Romancing the north: The food bowl furphy
“The argument that we should
develop northern Australia is based on rent seeking, opportunism, romanticism
and an ability to ignore countless studies stating the national economic,
social and environmental folly of such an exercise.”
Nearly fifty years since Bruce
Davidson released the The
Northern Myth and comprehensively duded the idea it’s getting a run again.
What was that about those who forget the past...?
6.
6. Big Soda do you think we’re all stupid?
“Science
suggests that one can of soft drink per day increases your chances
of diabetes by 22%. Digest that one for a moment! Less than one can per day and
your chances of diabetes goes up by one-fifth.”
If
I’ve done nothing else to keep just this side of my inherited diabetes giving
up fizzy drinks makes me feel slightly more able to front up to my dear GP
every six months for the usual self-flagellation session.
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