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POPSMap of Every McDonalds’s in the Country I just finished reading ‘Don’t Eat This Book’ by Morgan Spurlock (the guy who did Supersize Me http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=98 ) . I will NEVER eat fast food again. It is truly scary what food processors do to our food and what they do to it again to make it palatable. Of course, McDonalds tries to down play Spurlock’s ‘prank’ by criticizing that he ate 5,000 calories per day and did not exercise. The problem with that logic is that there are people who do the same thing. According to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food nation, his research indicates that in 2001 there were about 30,000 McDonalds and says they open about 2,000 a year. So that means there are probably more like 47,000 McDonalds today.in the U.S.
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POPSMilking the Consumer Hettinga, who ran a big business and was no political innocent, fought back with his own lobbyists and alliances with lawmakers. But he found he was no match for the dairy lobby. "I had an awakening," the 64-year-old Dutch-born dairyman said. "It's not totally free enterprise in the United States." Most U.S. dairy farmers work within a government system set up in the 1930s to give thousands of small dairies a guaranteed market for their milk and to even out prices for consumers. Farmers who participate in regional pools operated by the federal government or the states deliver raw milk to cooperatives or food processors. They get a guaranteed price, whether the milk ends up in a gallon jug, cheese, butter or ice cream. In Arizona and other federally regulated regions, the Agriculture Department uses a formula to set the price processors pay for raw milk, issuing "milk marketing orders."
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POPSDid you know processors start from sand? I must admit I never thought about it before seeing this. Also, I highly recommend going to the source and checking out the full picture story. It is a very cool step by step of the making of a processor.
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POPSDealer’s Cash-for-Clunkers Claims Remain Unpaid This means each Transportation staff member is processing 1,500 claims. Sestak says the Administration should assign 1,000 processors to handle claims. Just imagine how many processors the government would need to handle health care claims. I wonder what percentage of those claims would get paid?
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POPSSeeing Through Industrial Food’s 'Personal Responsibility' Smoke Screen Many processed foods available today are filled with empty calories that contribute to our weight, and therefore health, problems. We have drifted away from actually cooking home meals using the same whole foods that food processors use but without all the additives, preservatives and processing that degrades the nutrition we all need. In the name of convenience were are literally starving our bodies of what is really needed and we are propping up pro food to continue on this destructive path. Let’s get reacquainted with in-home food preparation, even if its only one day a week, and tell pro food to start taking some responsibility in its part to help keep us healthy.
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POPSInfographics: Organic Industry Structure Did you know that Odwalla is owned by Coke? Or that Naked Juice is owned by Pepsi? Spectrum Organics, Garden of Eden, Celestial Seasonings and others- owned by Heinz. Boca Foods and Back to Nature- owned by Kraft. Dagoba Chocolates- owned by Hershey. Morningstar Farms- owned by Kellogg. Horizon and White Wave - owned by Dean. Nature's Farm- owned by Tyson. Annie's Naturals- owned by Solera Capital. Maranatha- owned by American Capital Strat. Ltd. Power Bars- owned by Nestle. Seeds of Change- owned by M&M Mars.
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POPSCAFOs Are Killing Us (NAIS Sucks) Bravo! Ms Blasko hit them where they cannot ignore her. But they probably will anyway because someone is going to make money from the NAIS. She speaks for millions when she lists the seven ‘inconvenient truths’. What the USDA and Ag Dept are doing in unconscionable. I don’t know how many of you understand the dire situation our food system has been put in, but Ms Blasko’s remarks will gone a long way to informing you. Please read, for a better understanding of how to protect your health and the health of your loved ones. Ms Blasko says: ‘I am deeply troubled by what I’ve learned about NAIS. Not only is it expensive, intrusive, discriminatory, and deliberately hostile to small farmers; it is downright unconstitutional. Go back to the drawing board. Stand up to big-ag and industrial food processors’.
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POPSJapan child robot mimicks infant learning
We are entering a new age of robotics. there is no doubt about that, at least in Japan. Robots integrated into everyday life is not only a technological feat but also a conceptual and social adaptation. In Japanese world view it is much easier to relate to robots as endowed with souls. This is fascinating, since it seems that we create our future technological world to reflect our beliefs and expectations. "Robots have hearts," said Kokoro planning department manager Yuko Yokota. "They don't look human unless we put souls in them. "When manufacturing a robot, there comes a moment when light flickers in its eyes. That's when we know our work is done." Public opinion in Japan may be more open to robots than in the West, where dark science fiction visions from movies such as "Bladerunner" and "Terminator" have conjured images of robo-soldiers taking over the world. Thanks to such benign cartoon characters as Astro Boy, "Japanese people have a friendly image towards robots
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POPSMaryland Inmates Might Become Crab Pickers Next will come the rebirth of the road gangs and lots of great singing. Privately run prison (I assume) allows prisoners to work in factories to overcome shortage of people willing to work for below award wages. How long since you ate crab in a restaurant. In Australia it is for the well off. (Get to taste them at times here, crab pots are legal, though a limit is necessary. Gotta leave some for the rich at their restaurants.)
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POPSAn interesting thought about Twitter per @wildcat2030 This is a very interesting idea. I wonder if as our brains are being trained to consume more information in less time, are we losing the ability to patiently listen, think, feel and learn because we're too quickly moving on to the next bit of information we need to process?
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POPSFood Safety Program Needs Restructuring
The Dept of Agriculture should inspect anything grown or raised on a farm, domestic and imported. The FDA should cover everything else that enters the human body (drugs, etc) domestic and imported. They need to agree on a schedule of inspections and they both need the ability to shutdown operations if a threat is discovered. It seems reasonable that if any manufacturer has to face the possibility of a shutdown (cutting into their profits) then it would be in their best interest to ensure their product is safe. Raw food inspections covered by USDA, this covers growers. Processed foods covered by FDA, this covers processors. An additional safety net would be provided by the health department to inspect facilities and ensure workers are following safe food-handling procedures. Did I leave anything out? We don’t need another bureaucratic agency to add to the nightmare, just shore up practices already in place. It doesn’t matter how old a law is, as long as it works.
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POPSStudies Find Mercury in Much US Corn Syrup It is amazing what foods use corn syrup. Just shows how processed foods are manufactured - you don't know what is in them. Seaweed, for instance, is used in a lot of foods as a bulking agent. Healthy, but why?
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POPSWomen 'prefer computers to men' Though anecdotal, it points to overall changes we are seeing. society and each individual spend more with/on their computer/information processors and anthropomorphism is happening, while in parallel these devices become closer to a definition of intelligence. interesting
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POPSThe typewriter symbolized the golden age of writing "The golden age of the typewriter has passed, but its memory lives on. That memory exists in the great literature it helped produce, in everyday parlance such as “Carbon Copy” (CC) and “Carriage Return" (CR), as a storyline in detective fiction and films, but most of all it lives on in the “QWERTY” keyboard design, its great legacy to the technology that consigned the typewriter to history."
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POPSIs Your Prawn Cocktail Toxic? But boycotting farmed prawns won't hurt the real villains in all this. As in any tale of shipping foods of the poor world to the rich in bulk, it is big corporations, processors and retailers which make the bulk of profits, and they should therefore take responsibility.
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POPSFuture 'Top 10' Hot Careers in 2012 5) Simulation Engineering By 2012, an increase in processing power and rich data will make simulations more realistic, and user-friendly. Simulation engineers will be working on bringing us closer to “Star Trek’s” Holodecks—the ultimate total immersion simulation. Simulations will be in every industry and every engineering field, 6) Boomer Caregiving 7) Genetic Counseling 8) Brain Analysts 9) Space Tourism 10) Roboticists
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POPSMad Cow Desease and The FDA Testings According to a law from 1913, yes 1913, that was supposed to eliminate drugs and tests that were ineffective, has been used to limit testing for meat packers and processors. So we will find out only after the bad, mad cow has been eatin'.
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POPSAnimals strick back I cannot forget terrible odor spreading around slaughter plant on I-10 and the border of Texas and New Mexico. Thousands of poor, trembling cows are standing in a mix of dirt and manure, knowing for sure their fate already. That's how the meat becoming a poison. Cruel and unusual treatment of anybody, even animals before their slaughter, cannot go unpunished. This is the rule of life and we would never escape it, regardless if it from God or the Nature.
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POPSOne more game has been won Go, played by placing stones on a uniform 19x19 grid, does not allow for that kind of shortcut. The strategy that's proved most effective for computer Go is the Monte Carlo method, in which possible moves are assembled in a tree structure, and given statistical weight based on how likely they are to lead to a win."
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