Tag: food
Awesome Vintage Posters on Wasting Food
Over at NRDC Switchboard, Dana Gunders writes Dear Government: Food Waste is a Matter of Urgency. Please Take It Seriously. It’s a significant post about a subject that is often ignored: that well over 40% of food in North America is wasted. Worldwide, almost a third of all food is lost to poor harvesting, lousy [...]
Famous Athletes Who don’t eat Meat
It’s still a typical dilemma: could vegetarians be as good as their meat-eating counterparts in physical competition? Check out each of the top level athletes in this article, and you should get your answer. These 10 vegetarian athletes rose to the top of the sports world–without any help from meat. Bill Pearl image credits [...]
Factory Farming and its Bizarre Stories
You may not know just what your factory farming meat went through before it ended up on your dish? (Caution: Many of the photos and stories in this article are beyond disturbing. ) The truth is, this tour is not for the faint of heart, and these reports from the 400, 000 baby birds wiped [...]
Impressive Microscopic Photos of Food
Caren Alpert spent eighteen years as a photo editor as well as food photographer before transforming her artist’s eye to the things we see each day yet never look closely at: What we eat. Red Licorice: Can you recognize this volcano opening? It’s red licorice, and is made from sugar, fruit flavoring, and gelatin. Though [...]
Endangered Species of the week – Asiatic Cheetah
Species Acinonyx jubatus venaticus Extinction is not new and in the wild, the future of the Asiatic cheetah is uncertain and is a global problem. Living in an unsuitable environment the extinction rate is all the more accelerated due to ignorant human beings. The term “ cheetah” originates from the Hindi word chitraka, which means speckled. It [...]
Strange Disease: Dog Can Only Eat When Standing on Back Legs !!!
A cute Labrador rottweiler-cross called Ronnie suffers from a rare condition… he can only eat while standing on his hind legs. Image credits The abandoned seven-month-old dog suffers from megaoesophagus, which means that he can’t swallow foods or liquids. Whenever it’s feeding time, Ronnie has to stand on his hind legs and allow gravity to [...]
Ten Terrific Tropical Fruits
image credits 1. The Horned Melon Native , in actual fact, to the Kalahari Desert, in Africa, the African Cucumber, known by some as the Horned Melon, is a fruit that looks exactly as the name implies that it might . Grown around the world in this modern age, and often seen in New Zealand [...]
The Most Intriguing Bean in the World
When the word ‘bean’ enters your mind I’m sure you would picture a type of food? Something in the shape of a kidney or maybe something that leads to the flavours of coffee? Well not in this case… Do you know what is behind the jump of the jumping bean? The deserts of mainland Mexico [...]
Eight Explanations of old wives tales.
Do you recall that, as a child, you would often hear your mother saying something, that she had learned from her own, that was meant to reassure you about something, or encourage you to do something in particular, like eating apples, for example. So-called ‘old wives tales’ are often taken as truth, but recent research [...]
Awesome art from cheese
image credits Being born and raised in Wisconsin, USA, seems to be a must for artistic people whose talent is for using cheese as their medium of choice when sculpting. Two notable exponents of this unusual art are Sarah ‘Cheese Lady’ Kaufman, and winemaker Troy Landwher, both of whom are truly amazing artists in this [...]
Scariest Fish in the World
image credits You may have been under the impression that, where freshwater fish are concerned, the one you would least like to encounter would be the Piranha, famous flesh-eater from the Amazon river, but you might need to think again. Recently, another kind of fish, so savage that it makes the terrifying t piranha seem [...]
Dieter Roth-Pioneer environmental artist
The grandaddy of envitonmental art, who was so multi-talented that his works are featured all around the world in galleries, myseums and private collections. Dieter Roth was an artistic genius, without a shadow of a doubt.
Study Found Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation, But It Needs Technology !!!
A new study showed that African nations can produce enough food to feed a growing population within a generation, despite extra strains from climate change. According to the study, Africa can break dependence on food imports. “Africa can feed itself,” said an international study led by Harvard University and development scientist Calestous Juma. “And it [...]
