This one includes news from the world of sport, policies affecting health, Big Food and farming practices.
Sardines, a working-class “stalwart,” are having something of a “revival” according to Taste magazine. Apparently young wealthy folks and posh restaurants are elevating them to “superfood” status and people can’t get enough of them. We all know the Mad Christian did it before it was cool.. Speaking of things in tins…The Hustle reports that home canning (and bottling, to be fair)… Read More Canned revival
The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio continues to be a political football. Or at the very least, a sad adventure in missing the point. Transport Secretary, Pete Buttigieg finally made a visit to the town, saying he was sorry for not being there earlier. He told the rail company responsible that they needed to foot the bill for clean up.… Read More Blowing smoke
Transgenerational epigenetics: A new mouse study suggests that what parents eat, drink and breathe may affect health outcomes for several generations. To caffeine… Coffee doesn’t give you energy, but rather borrows it by staving out the drowsy feelings. Which explains the 3:30pm payback. One reporter decided to follow Nancy Pelosi’s diet for a week. According to Insider, the former Speaker eats like… Read More Half-life diet
After much obfuscation and censorship on the part of experts and our information gatekeepers, it is finally becoming more acceptable to discuss the danger presented by COVID vaccines. But just a little. The CDC has decided to investigate “safety signals” of Pfizer’s COVID booster after the number of ischemic strokes in those over 65 met the “statistical criteria”… Read More Safety virtue signalling
Don’t put away your tin foils hats just yet. If you’ve been listening through the excellent Brief History of Power series about the Cold War, you will know that governments can find it useful to keep a nation on a permanent war footing. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatry professor would agree. He joined The Federalist podcast to discuss how… Read More All emergency, all the time
Well, what d’ya know? A new study has found there is no health risks from eating red meat. One man documented his struggles in his quest to take cold showers for an entire year – 90% mental and 10% physical. In a world first, Australia’s health authorities have approved faecal matter transplants. Such procedures aim to improve gut biome… Read More Meat, mind and…matter
We are not the first to point out that there is something funky about the famous “food pyramid”. Just when normal folk are beginning to question whether nutritional science is as settled as the cereal boxes say, Tufts School of Nutrition has released the shiny new Food Compass. Pirate Wires made it the subject of… Read More Pyramid scheme
Readers may have heard of the “15 minute city”. While the idea of a human-scale city, planned so everyone has what they need locally has long been a dream of a number of thought-leaders, the idea rose in popularity during the pandemic. With a chunk of the workforce staying at home, the vision of self-contained… Read More Fifteen-minute city
An interesting article from UnHerd challenges the claims of “Big Veganism” and highlights the threat associated with a plant-based future for food production. The push for non-meat and lab-made proteins has come about under the guise of feeding the world’s growing population and fears of climate change. However, writer John Lewis-Stempel says the problem isn’t lack of food but food waste and distribution.… Read More Beef-surrogate
More information about COVID-19 vaccines is coming to light. Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association printed the results of a small study showing that breast milk from “lactating individuals” (you may know them as “mothers”) contained trace amounts of mRNA. Although the sample was small, the assurance that the vaccines did not travel through breast milk was also extrapolated from just a… Read More Shreds of evidence
