Josh Kilbourn: US Households on Foodstamps Hit 22 Million

Recovery?  No.  Continued looting by the 1%?  Yes. American Households On Foodstamps Climb To New Record Yesterday, briefly, we were confused by the eruption in the stock market following a not too bad sub-200K nonfarm payrolls number. Because we know that in the New Normal bad is always good, no matter what the well-coifed TV …

SchwartzReport: Corporate Cabal Taking Over World Food and Water Supplies — Until the Riots — Will Vigilantes Begin Hunting Down and Killing Monsanto Executives?

I have decided to focus today’s SR on GMOs and the transgenic sector because it represents such a clear example of the geopolitical shift we are living through: the Ascendence of the Non-geographical corporate states. NGCSs are not just corporations, in a business sense, that we mean when we say, corporatocracy. These transnational entities are …

John Maquire: One Year Away from Global Food Riots + US Food Fraud RECAP

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single …

SchwartzReport: Only in the USA — Breeding Nutrition Out of Food While Religious Zealots Buy & Further Corrupt Health Systems

Yet another aspect of our failing food system and, once again, it comes down to putting profit ahead of wellness.  Jo Robinson is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health.” Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food JO ROBINSON – The New York Times Here …

SchwartzReport: 25% of Americans Struggle to Afford Food; Latin American Inequality Improving While US Most Unequal Country on the Planet

This story, I think, more than almost any other trend I follow on SR makes me furious. Nearly twenty five percent of the people in the richest country on earth struggle to have enough to eat. And the Republicans try over and over again to cut even the little social support that does exist to …

SchwartzReport: Over-Fishing Affecting Entire Ocean Food-Chain

More warnings from the ecosystem. Seabird Bones Reveal Changes in Open-Ocean Food Chain LAYNE CAMERON , PEGGY OSTROM , and ANNE WILEY – Michigan State University Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels – both ancient and modern – show how drastically today’s open seas fish menu has changed. A research team, led by Michigan State University …