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Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed - PT 1/2

Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed - PT 2/2

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Mcdonalds actually puts homeless people in their meat.   Oh maybe not that would be too terrible to see.

I've heard of the aspartame being bad before.

the only thing is ... he talks about global population reduction as a result of this ... doesn't he know?

We only targetted the US.  No I'm sorry okay, I don't know.  I should not be posting.  I leave now.

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Does anybody else suspect Canada will be in the midst of a full blown famine this winter?  Cause .. I'm thinking maybe I should delay losing weight.  No seriously .. is this story designed to scare me ... or is it true?

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/05/russian-wheat-export-ban.html


Wheat prices on the Chicago exchange hit a 23-month high Thursday after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ban on grain exports.

"We cannot allow an increase in domestic prices and we need to maintain the number of cattle," he told a cabinet meeting.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with fire-fighting pilots Wednesday. The same drought that has caused wildfires in Russia has led Putin to ban grain exports. (Denis Sinyakov/Associated Press)
A government spokesman said the ban would take effect Aug. 15.

Wheat prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose by its daily limit of 60 cents to above $7.85 US a bushel. That's up almost 80 per cent in a bit more than a month.

A 42 per cent jump in July alone was the biggest monthly gain in at least 51 years.

Russia is the world's third-biggest exporter of wheat, but earlier in the week the government cut its forecast for this year's grain harvest to between 70-75 million tonnes because of the driest conditions in decades.

The drought — which has also spurred hundreds of wildfires — has already destroyed a fifth of Russia's wheat crop, and forecasters predicted continuing hot and dry weather there.

Last year, Russia exported 21.4 million tonnes of grain.

"It almost feels like no one thinks it is going to rain in Russia anymore or ever again," said John Sanow, an analyst with Telvent DTN in Omaha, Neb. There's some talk that if it stretches into the fall, it could effect 2011 production."

UN cuts production forecast
On Wednesday, the United Nations' food agency cut its forecast for production in 2010, citing bad weather not only in Russia but also other countries.

Flooding in Canada has led to a record level of unseeded acreage on the Prairies. Excessive moisture conditions also affected the U.S. corn belt in late spring, and China has been hit by flooding.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization cut its wheat production forecast Wednesday by 3.7 per cent to 651 million tonnes from its forecast of 676 million tonnes in June.

Still, it said world commodity supplies remain "more balanced" than during the crisis in 2007-08, when wheat peaked above $13 a bushel.

"Fears of a new global food crisis are not justified at this point," FAO said in a report.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/05/russian-wheat-export-ban.html#ixzz0vnaww53c

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I noticed an interesting comment on the board over their and thought I'd bring it over. 

Keep in mind our government just bought a ton of planes to supposedly secure us from invaders, and to protect our sovereignty; obviously they aren't working out well at all.:

The Canadian Wheat Board announced Monday it has signed a deal to export 500,000 tonnes of wheat to China.

The size of the contract is twice what recent sales have been and is worth $130 million.
-http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/07/05/china-wheat-deal.html#socialcomments

So how much does that work out to per bushel price when the price of a bushel above says, Wheat prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose by its daily limit of 60 cents to above $7.85 US a bushel.

And the peak price was 2007-08, when wheat peaked above $13 a bushel.

So, just how much is the farmer going to be paid per bushel this summer in Canada?

How much will that be under the market price?

I support the CWB, but one would have been blind to not see the price of grains sky rocketing when one factored in the known weather related crisis of the grains in Canada, and the rest of the world.

It appears that the CWB has locked in the price of about $7 Canadian per bushel to the Chinese, and so the Canadian farmer will be paid...$6 dollars and some cents a bushel, and considering this contract is for two years and next year grains will only increase rather than decrease in price/value (increasing population & increasing input costs)...Why did we sell a valuable product for so much less than it IS & WILL BE WORTH?

Keep the CWB, and put some smart cookies in charge that will work for farmers rather than against them...they are after all an integral part of the CWB's livelihood...no HEALTHY farmers..no CWB...it is that simple.
Was this deal a stealth way to poison pill the CWB by "COLD CUTS" Ritz(MP)?

As Chinese will enjoy a nice low fixed price for the grains bought will Canadians have to pay double for the subsidy?

If we don't have healthy farming we don't have a healthy Canada.

-Snowy Owl

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/05/russian-wheat-export-ban.html#socialcomments#ixzz0vndjASrv

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I didn't know where to put this random thought... but I was thinking:

If cockroaches can survive a nuclear blast; shouldn't we be eating them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy


I know Lysine is supposed to be very important right now cause I heard of it in a dream...Actually right before signing bankruptcy papers;   I think it works like a steroid.

Insects generally have a higher food conversion efficiency than more traditional meats, measured as efficiency of conversion of ingested food, or ECI.[25] While many insects can have an energy input to protein output ratio of around 4:1, raised livestock has a ratio closer to 54:1.[26]

Vegeterian instead?

Insects reproduce at a faster rate than beef animals. A female cricket can lay from 1,200 to 1,500 eggs in three to four weeks, while for beef the ratio is four breeding animals for each market animal produced. This gives house crickets a true food conversion efficiency almost 20 times higher than beef.[10] For this reason and because of the essential amino acids content of insects, some people, on ecological grounds, propose the development of entomophagy to provide a major source of protein in human nutrition. Protein production for human consumption would be more effective and consume fewer resources than vertebrate protein. This makes insect meat more ecological than vertebrate meat.

Insects have attractive qualities for food production besides their high energy efficiency. For example the spatial usage and water requirements are only a fraction of that required to produce the same mass of food with cattle farming. Production of 150g of grasshopper meat requires only very little water, while cattle requires 3290 liters to produce the same amount of beef.[28]

Oh wow look, in a 1000 or million year period, our use of pesticides today ensures that eventually, the insects will eat us.

Toxicity
Pesticide use can make insects unsuitable for human consumption. Herbicides can accumulate in insects through bioaccumulation. For example when locust outbreaks are treated by spraying, people can no longer eat them. This may pose a problem since edible plants have been consumed by the locusts themselves.[10]

Cases of lead poisoning after consumption of chapulines were reported by the California Department of Health Services in November 2003[29] Adverse allergic reactions are also a possible hazard.[30]

In the Carnia region of Italy, moths of the Zygaenidae, known for manufacturing hydrogen cyanide precursors in their body, are eaten by children despite their toxicity. The moths concerned are from the brightly coloured day-flying genus Zygaena and its mimic, Syntomis. Cyanogenic glucosides were present in the larvae and imagos (adults) as well as in the ingluvies but in extremely low quantities along with sugar which is found in much higher concentrations. In early summer, Zygaena is very common and easy to catch by hand and the ingluvies serves as a convenient, supplementary source of sugar. Because the ingluvies have a very low cyanogenic content, children can include this resource as a seasonal delicacy at minimum risk.[31]