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  • Why Are Some Tomatoes Yellow? Researchers Solve the Mystery

    10/30/2025 7:45:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | October 30, 2025 | Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
    Scientists have pinpointed a single genetic alteration that transforms tomato pigmentation, revealing how a minute molecular shift can ripple through complex metabolic pathways. Credit: Shutterstock A single mutation in the YFT3 gene turns tomatoes yellow by disrupting a crucial pigment-producing enzyme. Researchers have discovered that a single genetic change in the YFT3 gene disrupts a vital enzyme involved in producing carotenoids, the pigments responsible for tomato coloration. The gene encodes the isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase enzyme, which maintains the delicate balance between IPP and DMAPP, two essential C5 molecules in isoprenoid synthesis. When one amino acid (Serine) is replaced by another...
  • Check out the "EBT of TikTok" account that's sharing videos of people threatening to burn the country down over food stamps

    10/29/2025 6:24:57 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 53 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | October 29, 2025 | Edward Teach
    The account "EBT of TikTok" has dozens of videos of entitled Americans complaining that YOU, the taxpayer, aren't feeding them in addition to your own struggling family. Let's start with a woman who says she would have aborted her kids if she knew she wouldn't get food stamps. Look at this next guy, who is wearing a nice hoodie in a nice car while he threatens violence if he can't get some of YOUR tax dollars to shove food down his gullet. [Warning: Language] ALL VIDEOS AT LINK................... Dude looks like he drives a newer car than me! Next, there's...
  • This common phone habit could indicate whether you’re rich or not

    10/29/2025 5:42:55 AM PDT · by dennisw · 27 replies
    NY POST ^ | Oct. 29, 2025 | Fabiana Buontempo
    Pay attention to those around you on their phones. Supposedly, the common habit of doomscrolling — endlessly scrolling on your phone, consuming negative content — could indicate someone’s income bracket. “Do you know what I think will be one of the biggest class indicators going forward, not even that long from now, I think in the very near future? It’s going to be overreliance on the use of technology,” a woman named Jamie said in a recent Instagram post that has since gone viral. Jamie went on to explain how these days, most people have a dopamine addiction and scroll...
  • Newsom invokes Scripture in attack on GOP over shutdown affecting food assistance: ‘Cruelty is the policy’

    10/29/2025 1:59:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/28/25 | Jasmine Baehr
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom invoked biblical teachings while criticizing Republican leadership and the Trump administration for the federal government shutdown’s impact on food assistance, arguing that Scripture commands care for the hungry and that Washington is failing that moral test. Speaking Tuesday in Sacramento alongside state Attorney General Rob Bonta and Health and Human Services Secretary Kim Johnson, Newsom cited teachings from Matthew, Isaiah, Luke and Proverbs as evidence that feeding the poor is "core and central to what it is to align to God’s will." "It’s not a suggestion in the Old [and] the New Testament," Newsom said. "These...
  • Popular Sweetener Generates a Substance in the Body That Damages Human DNA

    10/28/2025 12:29:20 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 26 replies
    Earth.com ^ | Jordan Joseph
    A lab team in North Carolina reports that a compound formed when people consume sucralose can damage DNA. The same compound also appears in trace amounts in some store bought sucralose. The team used human cells and lab grown gut tissue to probe effects of sucralose byproducts. A new study mapped DNA damage, gut barrier changes, and gene activity. “Our new work establishes that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic,” says Susan Schiffman, corresponding author of the study and an adjunct professor in the joint department of biomedical engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
  • Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering

    10/28/2025 6:00:14 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    AP News ^ | October 28, 2025 | JENNIFER McDERMOTT
    NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease. A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world, Gates...
  • DEMOCRAT BACKFIRE: The Government Shutdown Has Awakened the Public About How Many People Are on Food Stamps

    10/27/2025 7:43:20 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | October 27, 2025 | Mike LaChance
    One aspect of the government shutdown that probably wasn’t anticipated by Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, is that it has revealed to the public just how many people receive food stamps. Years ago, when the program was still called ‘food stamps’ it was seen as something that struggling families might use temporarily to get through a hard time. Then it was re-branded as the ‘SNAP’ program and destigmatized. People were encouraged to enroll. Now there are many more people using the program, many who probably don’t even really need it. The longer the shutdown goes on, the more reports there...
  • ALERT: Possible Contamination Prompts Recall Of Nearly 5 Million Pounds Of Chicken [HORMEL]

    10/27/2025 6:47:55 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 8 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | October 27, 2025 | Staff
    Hormel Foods is recalling nearly five million pounds of frozen ready-to-eat chicken products due to potential metal contamination. “Hormel Foods Corporation, an Austin, Minn. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,874,815 pounds of foodservice ready-to-eat frozen chicken products that may be contaminated with pieces of metal,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. USA TODAY shared: The poultry was distributed nationwide to HRI Commercial Food Service locations from February to September. The recall was issued after multiple foodservice customers reported finding metal in frozen chicken breast and thigh products they were served at an establishment, and the...
  • Largest federal workers union calls for an end to the shutdown, putting pressure on Democrats

    10/27/2025 6:18:34 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    NBC News ^ | October 27, 2025 | Monica Alba
    WASHINGTON — The country’s largest union representing federal workers is calling for lawmakers to pass a short-term spending measure to immediately end the government shutdown, urging Democrats to abandon their current position and join Republicans in supporting a stopgap solution. “Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight,” American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley wrote in a statement first shared with NBC News. “It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship.” The statement could increase pressure on Democrats to...
  • Reo. Massie in 2015: Americans deserve to know where their food comes from

    10/27/2025 1:38:03 AM PDT · by RandFan · 14 replies
    X / US Congress ^ | Oct 26 / March 2025 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie 🥩 How is it that Congress is in recess, the lights are turned out, and the doors are locked, yet I can post a five minute speech on why we need Country of Origin Labels for beef? Because I gave this speech 10 years ago!
  • The menu and grocery price gap shrunk in September

    10/26/2025 6:49:05 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    National Restaurant News ^ | October 24, 2025 | Alicia Kelso
    Full-service menu prices were unchanged in September, breaking a streak of seven consecutive monthly increases Full-service menu prices flattened in SeptemberPhoto courtesy of Pexels / Roman Odintsov The Consumer Price Index for September, announced Friday, shows that inflation rose 0.3% month-over-month and 3% year-over-year. The CPI reading is at its highest level since January but fell below expectations, which could support another interest rate cut next week. Economists’ expectations for September were respective readings of 0.4% and 3.1%. According to federal data — delayed by 10 days due to the government shutdown — the overall food index rose 0.2% over...
  • With Food Stamp Armageddon Coming Next Week, Americans MUST Be Told It’s the Democrats’ Fault

    10/26/2025 2:00:21 PM PDT · by MarlonRando · 91 replies
    Patriot TV ^ | 10-26-25 | Jeremiah Shell
    Next week, millions of Americans who rely on food stamps are going to feel something brutal and immediate: their benefits won’t show up. The money simply won’t load onto EBT cards. Grocery trips that were already hard are about to become impossible. Food banks are already warning they can’t absorb the impact if this drags on. This is not an accident. This is not a “glitch.” This is a direct result of the ongoing federal shutdown — a shutdown driven by Democrat demands to force taxpayer-funded health coverage for illegal aliens back into the budget.
  • These Wyoming Ranchers Want a Regenerative Revolution...Could their high-tech approach to age-old practices change the game for other ranchers?

    10/26/2025 7:56:43 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | October 25, 2025 | Beige Luciano-Adams
    R.C. and Annia Carter survey their ranch near Ten Sleep, Wyo., on Oct. 14, 2025. The Carters have practiced regenerative or holistic agricultural practices to cultivate their pastureland. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times ================================================================ TEN SLEEP, Wyo.—The alfalfa weevil, scourge of Western ranchers, appears when the frost melts, skeletonizing leaves and profits. There are ways to limit its damage—early harvest, livestock grazing, and intercropping alfalfa with grass—but most growers opt for insecticides. R.C. Carter, a third-generation rancher in Northern Wyoming, recalled a realization he had while using a 1.5-gallon container of concentrated pesticide to spray a 60-acre alfalfa pasture. “I was...
  • How many people receive SNAP benefits in the US every month?

    10/26/2025 3:09:20 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 80 replies
    USAFacts. ^ | Oct. 2025 | USAFacts.
    About 41.7 million people during fiscal year (FY) 2024. That’s 12.3% of the US population. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is determined based on household income levels.... The 12.3% of the population receiving SNAP benefits in FY 2023 is more than double the share in FY 2000 when 6.1% of people were recipients... SNAP...is administered primarily by state governments... In FY 2024, New Mexico had the highest share of its population receiving SNAP payments... Qualifying for SNAP benefits is based on how close a household's income level is to the national poverty line. If expenses aren't considered...
  • 2025 SNAP Crisis: Walmart Theft Threats Rise as Shutdown Drags On

    10/26/2025 1:33:42 AM PDT · by dennisw · 50 replies
    snapbenefitcalculator ^ | / October 22, 2025 | By Akash Biswas
    The U.S. government has been shut down for three weeks since October 1. If it doesn’t end soon, millions of people will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments starting November 1. With 41.7 million recipients nationwide relying on these food stamps, states warn of halted payments without federal funding. Social media erupts with videos of desperate individuals threatening to loot Walmart stores, turning policy gridlock into potential retail mayhem. The USDA’s SNAP program, which injected $99.8 billion into economies in FY 2024 with average monthly benefits of $187 per person, faces a funding freeze. October payments should proceed,...
  • Massie says there's a FRAUD going on with beef and Country of Origin

    10/25/2025 7:57:29 PM PDT · by RandFan · 30 replies
    X ^ | Oct 23 | @TomiLahren
    @TomiLahren If they want to import cheap foreign beef, at least LABEL it as such!
  • Study shows massive decline in peanut allergies after previous experts proven wrong

    10/25/2025 6:19:07 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    The Blaze ^ | October 25, 2025 | Joseph MacKinnon
    It turns out that more peanut exposure earlier on means fewer allergy cases later. Health experts suggested in years past that mothers with familial predispositions to developing allergies should avoid peanut consumption during pregnancy and breastfeeding and that parents should avoid giving their children peanut products and other common allergens before the age of 3. According to a National Institutes of Health-backed study published on Monday in the American Academy of Pediatrics' medical journal, Pediatrics, the strategy of avoidance appears to have been the wrong approach. Background After observing the prevalence of peanut allergy among children in Western countries double...
  • The Obesity Capitals of the World

    10/25/2025 5:23:58 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    The Economist ^ | 10/25/2025
    A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhereIT WAS NOT that long ago that more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much. Now the scales have tipped. A study published on February 29th in the Lancet , a medical journal, shows that more than 1bn people were classified as obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are available. The researchers based their findings on the weight and height measurements of more than 220m people from roughly 190 countries. They found that obesity rates have doubled among adults since 1990 and...
  • New Research Shows Eggs Don't Raise Your Cholesterol—But Here's What Does

    10/25/2025 8:40:17 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    HEALTH.com ^ | August 01, 2025 | Kim Fischer
    Eggs likely aren’t responsible for high cholesterol—but new research may have found the real culprit behind rising cholesterol levels. The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in July, found that the saturated fat in food, not dietary cholesterol in eggs, was linked to higher cholesterol levels. In fact, participants who ate two eggs a day for five weeks actually saw improved cholesterol levels.1 “When it comes to a cooked breakfast, it’s not the eggs you need to worry about—it’s the extra serve of bacon or the side of sausage that’s more likely to impact your heart health,”...
  • “First Salmon”: 73-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Fish History

    10/25/2025 5:18:12 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | October 25, 2025 | University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Seventy-three million years ago, Alaska’s ancient rivers flowed with the early ancestors of today’s salmon and pike. Researchers have identified three new species, including Sivulliusalmo alaskensis, the oldest known salmonid. Credit: Shutterstock ================================================================ Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the waterways of the Arctic were home to creatures that would seem surprisingly familiar today. About 73 million years ago, Alaska’s rivers and streams supported an abundance of ancient fish related to modern salmon, pike, and other northern species. According to a new study published in...