New York Times Exalts Vegan Frankenfoods
The Grey Lady celebrates the culinary alchemy that’s processing plant-based foods so it tastes like meat, dairy, and the pièce de résistance: Spam.
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Links 9/9/2021
After a Long, Hard Summer, Southern Europe’s Long Awaited Tourism Recovery Remains Largely Elusive
Global travel is still far from returning to anything like the conditions that existed prior to the pandemic — at least for non-essential travellers.
Read more...Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies
Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Read more...With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2021
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Read more...Waste Watch: New EPA Reports Document Chemical and Plastics Contamination in Compost
In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.
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A Climate Disaster Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes—And Politicians Still Refuse to Take Action
Tropical storm Ida reminds us how little U.S. politicians have done to address climate change since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005.
Read more...US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Read more...The Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
The professional-managerial class looks to be igoring Sun Tsu’s warning: “Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat.”
Read more...Links 9/7/2021
As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.
Read more...The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.
Read more...The Downton Abbey Effect: British Aristocratic Matches with American Business Heiresses in the Late 19th Century
How economically faltering British aristocrats monetized their titles.
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