The Event 201 for Food - Food Chain Reaction A Global Food Security Game (video)
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Brand NewTube ^
| 01/13/2021 | Center for American Progress
In November 2015, sixty-five international public and private sectors leaders participated in Food Chain Reaction, a simulation and role-playing exercise to improve our understanding of how governments, institutions, and private sector interests might interact to address a crisis in the global food system. Over
the course of two days, the players reacted to a scenario set five years in the future in a world where population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather and political crises combine to threaten global food security. By collaborating, negotiating, and confronting tradeoffs, they offered new insights into our food future. Findings from game will be announced...
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French food is now racist, according to professor who studies 'food whiteness' and 'food privileges'
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The Blaze ^
| July 2, 2021 | Dave Urbanski
Turns out French food — all those crunchy baguettes, tasty pastries, scrumptious cheeses, and fine wines — is racist, according to a law professor who studies "food whiteness" and "food privileges." What
are the details? The Times U.K. reported that a video of Mathilde Cohen discussing the issue for a seminar outside Paris is upsetting folks in France, as the paper noted that the country's cuisine is "seen as a cornerstone of the national identity." Cohen, who hails from the University of Connecticut School of Law, suggested that French eating habits reinforce the "dominance" of white people over ethnic minorities,...
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From Food Inflation to Food Shortages to Food Crisis to — Famine?
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The New American ^
| May 3, 2022 | William F. Jasper
Is famine in our future? Could
that possibly happen here in America, the land of prosperity and plenty?And, if the answer is “yes,” then how near might that awful future be? And what might be done to prevent or mitigate it? Right now, tens of millions of people in the world’s poorest countries are facing starvation. The blame for much of that human desolation can be laid squarely on the shoulders of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the national “health” bureaucracies that have used politicized “science” to force deadly lockdowns on...
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California food waste law proves heavy lift in small towns as fuel costs spike [Politicians said the new law would help food banks. But the people who actually run some food banks say it's hurting them.]
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Reuters ^
| April 8, 2022 | wNathan Frandino and Christopher Walljasper
CHICO, Calif., April 8 (Reuters) - A California law requiring grocery stores and restaurants to donate leftover food has been hard for local food banks and small towns to implement due to climbing fuel costs and uncertainty over who pays for food recovery. While
other states restrict food going into landfills, California is the first to require food be donated for human consumption. Food waste makes up a fifth of climate warming gas emissions in California dumps, according to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecyle). Implementing the new rules has been especially challenging in rural California. As...
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Fast-Food Restaurants Fight To Keep Customers As Food And Wage Costs Spike
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Epoch Times ^
| 08/22/2024 | Kevin Stocklin and Andrew Moran
Fast-food restaurants survive by providing affordable, quick, and convenient meals, but cost inflation is now pushing their business models to the brink.It has become more expensive to eat out over the past five years, with food away from home increasing by 30 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In just
the past year, the cost of eating at a fast-food restaurant has increased by more than that of a full-service restaurant.Within the consumer price index, the limited-service meals category (food that is ordered at a counter and taken to go) rose by 4.3 percent year over year in...
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'That's not even cool': Watch food-stamp recipient complain she can't buy junk food with your tax dollars
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World Net Daily ^
| December 16, 2025 | Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation
A Missouri woman on Thursday receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds complained about only being able to buy "real food" with the program, according to St. Louis TV station KMOV. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday the approval of a waiver request from Missouri and five other states to restrict
the purchase of candy, sugar-sweetened drinks and other items after Oct. 1, 2026. Hannah Moore complained to KMOV reporter John Kipper in a story that the restrictions were "not even cool."
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Sheriff: Deputies taunted, served tampered food at fast food restaurant
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WBTV.com ^
| 07/11/16 | WBTV Web Staff
CLEVELAND COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - The sheriff of Cleveland County says his deputies were taunted by employees and served tampered food at a fast food restaurant while taking a lunch break in their uniforms. Sheriff
Alan Norman confirmed the accusations to WBTV after a post was made online by the wife of a deputy. "As they walked up to place their orders, the boys in the back cooking the food started yelling at them and calling them names," she wrote about her husband's trip to the Zaxby's restaurant in Shelby. She said her husband and his partner, who were both...
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MN Muslims Demand Pork-Free Food Products From Welfare Food Bank
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| September 22, 2014 | Jim Hoft
Minnesota Somali-Americans protested last week demanding pork-free food products from their welfare food bank. “It’s
about human rights also, basic human rights to get the proper food and also healthy food,” said Imam Hassan Mohamud. “Some food shelves are trying to meet the need, but some of them already got canned beans that have already been mixed with pork — and there is a literacy issue here,” said community activist Fartun Weli. With signs in hand, they marched to the Hennepin County commissioners’ office to ask Peter McLaughlin for help. Most live in his district and feel he can help...
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Food export restrictions by a few countries could skyrocket global food crop prices
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https://phys.org/ ^
| JANUARY 28, 2021 | by Aalto University
Recent events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, locust infestations, drought and labor shortages have disrupted food supply chains, endangering food security in the process. A
recent study published in Nature Food shows that trade restrictions and stockpiling of supplies by a few key countries could create global food price spikes and severe local food shortages during times of threat. "We quantified the potential effects of these co-occurring global and local shocks globally with their impacts on food security," explains Aalto University Associate Professor Matti Kummu. The results of this research have critical implications on how we should prepare for future...
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Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
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Ammo.com ^
| 8/31/2020 | Sam Jacobs
Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While
entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the U.S. government spends $20 billion annually on farm subsidies, with approximately 39 percent of all farms receiving some sort of subsidy. For comparison, the oil industry gets about $4.6 billion annually and annual housing subsidies total another $15 billion. A significant portion of this $20 billion goes not to your local family farm, but to Big Aggie.
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Cruz: Favorite Food is Cheese, Not Pandering WI. But in Iowa: Fav. Food is Beef Enchiladas
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YouTube ^
| 3/29/2016 | YouTube
Last night Ted Cruz said his favorite food is cheese and he's not saying it to pander in Wisconsin, watch clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFrKwjm in an interview with the Des Moines Register, she said his favorite food is beef enchiladas and Guinness stout. http://news.yahoo.com
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Global Food Crisis: IMF Warns Of Unrest Amid Food Supply Shortages
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Breitbart ^
| 4-230-2022 | Peter Caddle
The IMF has become the most recent global body to release a warning regarding potentially forthcoming global food shortages, saying that vulnerable nations are at risk of civil unrest amid supply issues. Civil
unrest linked to sky-high food prices is on the cards for poorer countries, the IMF has warned amid fears that the world could be heading into a global food crisis as a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Amid past warnings of starvation and “Hell on Earth” migrant crises over a lack of food, the international finance body has predicted that growth across the world will...
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Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
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Ammo.com ^
| 5/14/2021 | Sam Jacobs
Farm subsidies are perhaps the ultimate, but secret, third rail of American politics. While
entitlements are discussed out in the open, farm subsidies are rarely talked about – even though they are the most expensive subsidy Washington doles out. All told, the U.S. government spends $20 billion annually on farm subsidies, with approximately 39 percent of all farms receiving some sort of subsidy. For comparison, the oil industry gets about $4.6 billion annually and annual housing subsidies total another $15 billion. A significant portion of this $20 billion goes not to your local family farm, but to Big Aggie. (Note...
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Biden’s Soaring Food Costs Strike the Hungry at Local Food Banks
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Breitbart ^
| 11/10/2021 | Wendell Husebo
President Joe Biden’s soaring food costs are impacting the hungry at local food banks across the nation. Food
banks, which run off the generosity of American workers in local communities, are having difficulty feeding the hungry due to increased food prices since Biden became president and took over the levers of the supply chain. Breitbart News reported Tuesday that food costs increased almost one percent last month and 5.3 percent in the last year.
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Curry Con! Food Delivery Driver Spices Up With Bogus Food Order (Thailand)
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Thaiger ^
| Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Victim gutted as thief nicks bag of loot and vanishes mid-shiftA slick scammer posing as a food delivery rider cooked up a brazen heist at a humble curry stall in Pattaya, vanishing with a bag of cash after placing a fake order for nearly 30 meals. The
early-morning con unfolded at 5.06am yesterday, July 21, when 30 year old Anirut Thiamtha was manning his family’s Chef Basil Curry Rice Shop on Jomtien Second Road. The smooth-talking suspect rolled in wearing a delivery uniform and ordered 28 takeaway boxes, offering to help pack them as Anirut whipped up the cheap...
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Facing a food crisis, Cuba calls on citizens to grow more of their own food
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Reuters ^
| 07/05/2020 | Sarah Marsh
HAVANA (Reuters) - In the courtyard of a temple belonging to the Abakua Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood in Havana, Nelson Piloto is pulling up the lawn to plant bell peppers and cassava in the face of Cuba’s looming food crisis. Piloto,
40, says he is responding to the Communist government’s call for citizens to produce more of their own food, including in big cities, in whatever spaces they can find, from backyards to balconies. Standing across from two giant ceiba trees that are considered sacred by many in Cuba, the temple usually resounds with ceremonies involving drumming, animal sacrifices and dance....
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Food stamp fraud and the opioid epidemic: More reasons to go to food boxes
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American Thinker ^
| 02/16/2018 | Monica Showalter
A couple years ago, someone who stole $3.5 million from the government food stamps program was sentenced to...one year in jail. WORCESTER
– A federal judge Monday sentenced a local woman to a year in jail and ordered her to forfeit $3.5 million and pay restitution in what lawyers said was the largest food stamp fraud case in Massachusetts history. Vida Ofori Causey, 46, owner of J&W Aseda Plaza at 753 Main St., pleaded guilty in December to charges of conspiracy to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits fraud, SNAP fraud, and money laundering in a $3.6 million cash-for-benefits scheme. The...
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Trump’s new food-stamps plan: A basket of U.S. food, direct to your doorstep
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MarketWatch ^
| Feb 12, 2018 3:01 p.m. ET
The White House says the changes could save $214 billion over a decade. “The
Budget proposes to combine the traditional retail-based SNAP electronic benefit with the direct provision of nutritious and 100 percent American-grown USDA Foods to participating households. This cost-effective proposal maintains our commitment to helping needy families avoid hunger while generating substantial savings,” the budget said. Households receiving $90 per month or more would get a portion in shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit, vegetables, and meat, poultry or fish. The remainder of the benefit would go onto the debit card...
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Wisconsin Bill Would Limit Types of Food That Could Be Purchased With Food Stamps
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daily signal ^
| May 20, 2015 | Kate Scanlon
Wisconsin’s State Assembly approved legislation last week that puts in place new rules about what recipients of food stamps may purchase with the benefits. Assembly
Bill 177 would limit the types of food that could be purchased with Wisconsin’s food stamp program, FoodShare.In addition to banning the purchase of foods such as lobster with the publicly-funded program, the legislation would also require that just over two-thirds of the benefits be used to purchase healthy foods:“Under this bill, DHS [Department of Health Services] must require that not less than 67 percent of the SNAP benefits used by a recipient in a...
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Harris plans to lower your food costs by making food disappear
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Flopping Aces ^
| 08-14-24 | DrJohn
“The goal of Socialism is Communism.” - Valdimir Lenin All we had to do was sit back and wait. Kamala
Harris's a first quasi-solid policy proposal was plagiarized directly from Donald Trump. It was Trump's proposal to end taxes on tips. Then Harris decided that she thought of it. Now we have her first real policy and it's everything you'd expect from her. She needed a villain - it's the food industry- and she has decided on a plan to slay the demon. She will lower your food costs by making food disappear. Vice President Harris on Friday will outline...
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