Heirloom Gardening, Food and Other Thoughts
The Dutch government plans to subsidize soft drinks with artificial sweeteners.
Until now the government has resisted a direct tax on sugar sweetened soft drinks, because for a long time now a sort of luxury tax has been imposed on all soft drinks anyway. In order to improve public health, the government plans to subsidize chemical sweetened soft drinks by €0,09 per liter, by way of lowering this existing tax.
After all, we all know the secret to good health is drinking cola light.
I posted a few days ago about the issue of patents on plants. Now it seems the latest victim of patents is cannabis. It also seems the problem is not uniquely European…
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Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming
Frank Holzman sent me an email and asked me to mention his book. His resume is pretty impressive, going back to 1971 when he was a student. He then spent most of the rest of his life working with sustainable and organic gardening and farming. Honestly, I was too young to remember what I was doing in 1971, but I didn’t take a serious interest in gardening and agriculture until several decades later.
I think it’s great Frank has put his thoughts and experiences in a book for the rest of us to learn from and enjoy. We all owe him a great deal of thanks for his vision, and helping keep sustainable agriculture alive in a period dominated by commercial agriculture.
Have a look at his blog.
Advertised the car without any accidents. Told me it was accident free. Gave me a contract in German, which I don’t understand, that said it had a previous accident and was sold as-is. The contract said I was aware of the damages and accepted them. Took my €1000 deposit.
What a ripoff. Don’t buy any cars from him.
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Kommentare in einer beliebigen sprache hinterlassen
There was an article recently on the BBC website about instant noodle consumption in China. No surprise, it turns out by far in a way, China consumes more instant noodles than any other country in the world. Many times more than second place holder Indonesia.
Maybe it’s not real news then when there’s an unexplained, small drop in Chinese consumption of instant noodles? The BBC offers three ideas including increased availability of alternatives via the Internet, like apps where you can order food for delivery, changes in migration patterns mean people are away from home less, or finally the Chinese aspire for better food.
Could it be that China will be the new force driving for change in world food production? Imagine what this could mean for the rest of us!
I’ve noticed something similar on this blog. The number of readers in China is still small, but growing fast. Roughly in order of numbers of readers, over the last few weeks, most people reading this blog are coming from the following countries:
United States
European Union*
Brazil
India
Italy
China
Poland
Russia
Spain
The Netherlands
Serbia
*Traffic from the EU is primarily from a French company, Poney Telecom, which does some anonymizing of it’s customer data and doesn’t leave much information in my log files. I think some of this traffic comes from France and Belgium.
I think it’s exciting to think that these are the up and coming countries interested in food, food politics, biodiversity and agriculture in general. Especially China’s presence in my log files has been growing recently.
If you’re from one of these countries, or have information about the food movement there, or think your country should be on this list, I’d like to hear from you. You can either leave a comment or send me an email.
