industryterm:food chain

Lasagnes à la viande de cheval : un scandale européen - francetv info
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/lasagnes-a-la-viande-de-cheval-findus-se-dit-trompe-et-va-porter-plaint

…la Roumanie ne représente qu’une part minime des approvisionnements extérieurs du groupe, « pour lesquels la Pologne est majoritaire », poursuit le quotidien. « La Hongrie , la Bulgarie, l’Irlande et l’Allemagne figurent aussi parmi les pays d’origine de ces viandes exportées. »

Il faudrait que le Monde mette sa carte à jour !
Les pays exportateurs sont majoritairement les enfants #pauvres de l’Europe, leur population est dans l’obligation d’abandonner leurs animaux à l’abattoir à cause du manque de moyens et d’une politique d’exploitation du toujours plus pour moins. Et ceux qui achètent le steack haché ont eux aussi, bien du mal à joindre les deux bouts. Même si les chevaux polonais arrivent depuis 30 ans pour un moindre coût dans les abattoirs français, aujourd’hui, c’est un marché douteux digne d’une mafia à très grande échelle qui se dévoile.
http://seenthis.net/messages/114606#message114702

#findus #viande #cheval #barbarie #progrès
#pauvres-de-tout-les-pays-caressez-vous

Defending seed sovereignty - The Ecologist
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1547385/defending_seed_sovereignty.html

A new Global Campaign for Seed Freedom will be celebrating the fortnight from Ghandi’s birthday (October 2nd) to World Food Day (October 16th) as the first Seed Satyagraha during which all participants will declare No Patents On Seeds

The brainchild of Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva and her Navdanya organisation, the new campaign is circulating a declaration (see details below) that you can sign to become a Seed Defender.

#semences #résistance #agriculture #alimentation

Alimentation Agriculture Faim

Du grain pour la bouffe, pas pour le carburant

http://www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/world-hunger/general-analysis-on-hunger/51810-corn-for-food-not-fuel.html?itemid=id#1291

By Colin A. Carter and Henry I. Miller
New York Times
July 30, 2012

Given the current drought in 32 US states, this article calls on the Environmental Protection Agency to lower the renewable- fuel standard by 20 percent and divert corn from ethanol production back into the food chain. While corn is indeed a renewable resource, the current ethanol policy rests on false assumptions pushed by the ethanol lobby about how ethanol lowers the price of gasoline and reduces global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing the renewable-fuel standard would offset nearly half of the expected crop loss and ease the drastic impacts that the drought would otherwise have on inflation, food security and political instability in many parts of the world.

EU member states refuse nomination ex-Monsanto employee for #EFSA management board | Corporate Europe Observatory
http://www.corporateeurope.org/blog/eu-member-states-refuse-nomination-ex-monsanto-employee-efsa-manage

Mella Frewen, #lobby chief at food industry lobbygroup FoodDrinkEurope (previously known as the CIAA) and former Monsanto employee was on the list of 14 potential candidates, from which 7 will have to be selected to replace half of the EFSA management board members this summer. Frewen has been the chief lobbyist at FDE since 2007 where she actively lobbied for instance to allow contamination of the #food chain with genetically engineered plants which were not authorised in Europe. Frewen would replace Matthias Horst, chief lobbyist of the German food industry, who is now on the EFSA management board.

BBC News - The race to get rainforest frogs into arks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17130758

Frogs matter - they play a vital role in the food chain, and some have been found to produce chemicals that cure human diseases.

#environnement

Chernobyl still a disaster area 25 years on - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201111240009

Raw milk that has radiation exceeding the government standard is processed into butter if the level falls within a certain range. The butter is also checked for radiation.

Research has shown that while 80 percent of strontium and cesium is transferred to powdered skim milk, only 1 to 4 percent of those radioactive materials are transferred to butter.

#nucléaire #cuisine

Nuclear Disaster in the US : How Bechtel Is Botching the World’s Costliest Environmental Cleanup | | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/152816/nuclear_disaster_in_the_us%3A_how_bechtel_is_botching_the_world%27s_costli

Autant passionnant qu’inquiétant. Comment organiser le nettoyage de la plus grande décharge radio-active des États-Unis, alors que les techniques employées ne sont pas fiables ? Comment piloter un entrepreuneur externe de la taille et puissance de Bechtel alors qu’il n’y a pas assez de spécialistes au DOE ?

McNulty is concerned that Bechtel and DOE management are ignoring sound science, moving forward with a project that has failed small-scale testing on numerous occasions. These tests have shown that solids end up accumulating into small piles, causing the mixers to malfunction. The substances that build up during the mixing process, these studies note, are far more dense and cohesive than originally thought. Consequently, the mixers will likely fail. If these small-scale studies are correct, and the pulse jet mixers start mixing waste, this could cause a radioactive accident.

“We took Dr. Alexander’s report into consideration and determined there was no imminent risk to safety if the heads were welded on [the non-Newtonian vessels],” says DOE spokesperson Carrie Meyer. “In the end we looked at the bottom line of the project, and it was a business decision to move forward .”

#nucléaire #partenariats-public-privé

The Crucial Role of Predators: A New Perspective on Ecology by Caroline Fraser: Yale Environment 360
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_crucial_role_of_predators_a_new_perspective_on_ecology/2442

Scientists have recently begun to understand the vital role played by top predators in ecosystems and the profound impacts that occur when those predators are wiped out. Now, researchers are citing new evidence that shows the importance of lions, wolves, sharks, and other creatures at the top of the food chain.

#recherche #environnement #écologie

(...) marine ecologists James Estes and John Palmisano reached the astonishing and widely reported conclusion that hunting of sea otters had caused the collapse of kelp forests around the Aleutian Islands. While the cat was away, the prey (sea urchins) stripped the larder bare. When otters returned, they regulated urchins, allowing “luxuriant” regrowth of biodiverse kelp communities. Around islands farther out to sea, where the mammals had not reestablished themselves, “urchin barrens” remained.

Les médias français dits dominants occultent totalement les conséquences de la catastrophe #nucléaire de #Fukushima, et pourtant celles-ci s’alourdissent de plus en plus...

Les menace sur la chaîne alimentaire au Japon se multiplient alors que la contamination au césium se diffuse

Threat to Japanese Food Chain Multiplies as Cesium Contamination Spreads

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/threat-to-japanese-food-chain-multiplies-as-cesium-contamination-spreads.

Decline of predators such as wolves throws food chains out of whack, report says - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/decline-of-predators-such-as-wolves-throws-food-chains-out-of-whack-report-says/2011/07/14/gIQAaeY1EI_story.html

Finalement le loup était gentil:

The decline of large predators such as big cats, wolves, sharks and giant whales may be “humankind’s most pervasive influence on the natural world,” causing prey animals to swell in population and throw food chains out of balance, a new report says.
(...)
“Recent research suggests that the disappearance of these animals reverberates further than previously anticipated,” says the report, “Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth.” In addition to creating an overabundance of prey, the dwindling number of predators contributes to the spread of disease, wildfires and invasive species.

#environnement

Maldives ’trashing’ an island - Asia - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/05/20115154288825524.html

In a bid to battle a growing waste problem, the #Maldives has been dumping almost all of its rubbish on a single one of its some 1,200 islands.
Thilafushi island has turned into a dump, and environmental activists say the bad practices adopted there are causing contaminants to seep into the Indian Ocean nation’s once pristine sea water, and then into the food chain.
Al Jazeera’s Steve Chao reports from Thilafushi Island in the Maldives.

#pollution

Quagga mussels : 950 trillion tiny time bombs in our lakes ? | MLive.com
http://www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/04/quagga_mussels_950_trillion_ti.html

invasion de moules dans le lac Michigan : ça éclaircit l’eau, mais les poissons disparaissent

The result: a clearer lake that is becoming an increasingly barren, hostile environment for fish and other aquatic life, particularly salmon and the fish they eat.

“People want their lakes to have the water of a swimming pool and the fishery of a trout pond,” Fahnenstiel said. “You can’t have both.”

There are 186 invasive species in the Great Lakes, 57 of which were imported by ocean freighters that reach the lakes through the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Quagga mussels are widely regarded as the most destructive invasive species to colonize the Great Lakes, surpassing even the ravenous sea lamprey.

#environnement