Stephen E. Arnold: Predictive Analytics, Food Prices, Revolution

Civic Predictive Analysis Proving Accurate We find the field of predictive analysis fascinating (see here, here, and here, for example), and now we have more evidence of how important this work can be. Motherboard reports on “The Math that Predicted the Revolutions Sweeping the Globe Right Now.” The key component: high food prices. Writer Brian …

Jean Lievens: The Favela Chef Turning Food Waste Into Organic Dishes – Slow Food, Clean Food

The Favela Chef Turning Food Waste Into Organic Dishes | Food For Thought | Slow Food International – Good, Clean and Fair food. From www.slowfood.com – February 17, 10:59 PM Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food …

Jon Rappoport: Monsanto Dishonesty & Rat Tumors from GMO Food

Truth about the Seralini rat-tumor-GMO study explodes Remember a researcher named Gilles-Eric Seralini, his 2012 GMO study, and the controversy that swirled around it? He fed rats GMOs, in the form of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, and they developed tumors. Some died. The study was published in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. Pictures of …

Berto Jongman: Food Security — Rotten Intelligence, Worse Ethics

Uncertainty on figures hampering food security efforts Mark Kinver BBC News, 4 October 2013 More than 600 scientists gathered in the Netherlands for a global food security conference, described as the first of its kind. Organisers said science could help end uncertainty surrounding efforts to meet the food needs of future generations. They added that, …