#Food Politics

[farsight-the-char]

Neat.

[ceevee5]

“On 31 October, after four postponements to get infrastructure in place, the UK will finally introduce checks on fresh and chilled food imports. The EU has already introduced its checks, which come with a vast amount of paperwork and significant costs. The impact on the export of fruit from the UK to the EU has been dramatic, reducing the value from £248.5m in 2021 to £113.8m by 2023, a drop of more than 50%. Now it’s going to work the other way. EU producers of meat products wishing to export to the UK will have to employ a vet to certify their goods, which will cost up to €700 a time. All sectors will have to employ agents for data entry compliance which could add another €200. They will have to train themselves on the paperwork. Then, come January, there’s the border inspection charge of up to £43 for each consignment regardless of whether it’s physically inspected or not. Faced by all of this, thousands of small producers from across Europe who have kept this country supplied with a fabulously diverse range of quality products will simply decide it’s not worth the trouble. They’ll sell elsewhere. The quality of our lives will be diminished.”

[hylianengineer]

We've been talking in sociology class about the concepts of Food From Nowhere vs Food From Somewhere.

Obviously, all food comes from somewhere, but Food From Nowhere is the concept where the people eating the food are very intentionally distanced, physically and mentally, from those origins. The people who grew it, processed it, prepared it, the land it grew on, the agricultural methods (usually industrial, with lots of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the case of plants or feedlots in the case of meat/other animal products - industrial ag has a vested interested in being Food From Nowhere because it's not from somewhere nice). It's called distanciation - the creation of that distance between people and where the food they rely on comes from. And for industrial agriculture this is the GOAL. It's seen as a good thing, more efficient, for food to be part of this big complex supply chain where it's almost impossible to sort out where things come from or how they got there.

But it's kind of... empty, isn't it? Disconnected. Hollow. Food From Somewhere is now a pushback against this system, instead of the default. Food From Somewhere is intentionally connecting people to where food comes from, to the people and places and knowledge involved in making that food. It says that place MATTERS, that how our food gets to us matters, that we should and do care about what happens to people at the other end of that supply chain. We care if the farm workers are getting paid well. We care if the factory workers have safe working conditions. We care about the environmental and human impacts of the things we eat - those hidden costs that Food From Nowhere tries to hide from us. They're there and they're real and we're not looking away.

[orchidvioletindigo]

I've started eating avocado toast regularly because avocados came highly recommended to me by my doctor for anti-inflammation and it's just making me even madder that wealthy Boomers raised hell about broke Millennials eating this stuff.

How did we have an entire national moment explicitly about health foods being expensive and yet it's still common culture to shame poor people for not eating healthier like that's an active choice and not a financial issue?

[seriousbusinessforhumans]

Mon 24 Apr 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers’ toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge.

Instead of permanently yanking the products from the market after the 2020 order, the EPA only required industry to add further application instructions to the herbicides’ labels before reapproving the products.

A late 2021 EPA investigation found the same problems persist even with new directions added to the label, but the agency still allows Monsanto, BASF and other producers to continue using dicamba.

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[destielmemenews]

"School districts currently work with processing companies to offer cashless payment systems for families. But the companies can charge “processing fees” for each transaction. By law, students who are eligible for reduced price meals cannot be charged more than 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch. With processing fees, however, families can end up paying 10 times that amount. Processing companies charge as much as $3.25 or 4% to 5% per transaction, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."

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[anexperimentallife]

Reminder that all these food recalls and food poisonings are a direct result of the orange shitgibbon administration gutting food safety regulations.

[stephen-barry]

Louisiana becomes 1st state requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms

BUT...

Louisiana turns down summer food assistance again, citing need for ‘self-sufficiency’

and...

Report: Louisiana has worst school lunches in United States

[mysharona1987]

[deathtokillian]

Not to be “woke” on main but

SCHOOL LUNCH SHOULD BE FREE!!📢

WATER SHOULD BE FREE!! 📢

FOOD SHOULD BE FREE!!📢

HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE FREE!!📢

MEDICATION SHOULD BE FREE!!📢

IF YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT, THEN IT SHOULD BE FREE!!📢

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[batboyblog]

Link

Both Parties are not the same.

[what-marsha-eats]

[odinsblog]

The U.N. Human rights Council has found Israel is deliberately responsible for the collective punishment of all Palestinians including noncombatant men, (pregnant) women and children; gender targeted violence; torture; using starvation as a weapon of war; and the intentional extermination of Palestinians living in Gaza.

[rashmeerl]

https://www.rashmee.com/2023/09/25/the-politics-of-soy-sauce-a-cookbook-from-taiwan/