The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days):
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Topics For The Show:
Food Security:
- Supply and Demand
- What-is-food-security (PDF)
- https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2017/farm-size-and-agricultural-policy/
- https://foodsecurecanada.org/community-networks/new-farmers-fishers
- http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020/en/
- https://proof.utoronto.ca/news/
- https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/understand-food-insecurity/
- CBS News Video: 54 million people expected to have food security issues due to pandemic (2020)
- Feeding America projects 1 in 8 Americans (including 13 million children) may experience Food Insecurity.
- Families with children have suffered most: the rate of hunger has been 41% to 83% higher for households with children than adult-only ones.
- https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-dakota/articles/2021-06-14/food-insecurity-worsens-even-in-americas-breadbasket
- https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/local-food-insecurity-projections
- https://www.feedingamerica.org/research/coronavirus-hunger-research
- https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/wheat-supplies-are-shrinking-and-its-bad-news-for-bread-prices
- CBS News Video: Tackling food insecurity in the U.S. as hunger grows due to COVID-19 pandemic
- https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/understand-food-insecurity/hunger-health-101/
- http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2021/en/
- https://windsorstar.com/life/food/grass-fed-lab-beef-how-researchers-are-growing-cultured-meat-on-blades-of-grass
- https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/think-youre-buying-snapper-not-so-fast
- https://www.worldvision.ca/stories/food/the-basics-of-food-security
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cjag.12227
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27198157/
- https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-6344-2
- https://foodsecurecanada.org/
- Domestics versus Imports
- https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46440
- https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd
- In 2020, food imports for United States of America was 6.8 %. Food imports of United States of America fell gradually from 16.1 % in 1970 to 6.8 % in 2020.
- Agriculture has a positive trade balance, which means we send out (export) more than we bring in (import). In 2019, the United States agriculture exports accounted for $135.54 billion with soybeans, beef, veal, pork, poultry and fresh and processed fruits and veggies topping the list.
- New Technologies
- Urban Vertical Gardens
- GMO (Monsanto)
- A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.
- Even though, on the outside, it seems like a movement or initiative of ordinary people, the power behind the whole legalization process, be it hemp for recreational or medical purposes, is no other than George Soros himself. Together with his team of rich sponsors, Soros has invested at least 80 million dollars into hemp legalization.
- Engdahl believes one does not need a big imagination to figure out that Monsanto is creating the foundations for future control of patented hemp varieties, especially in Uruguay, where even president Mujica himself said, that he would like to create a unique code for hemp coming from his country in order to prevent a black market.
- https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/seeds-evil-monsanto-and-genetic-engineering
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gmos-and-the-march-agains_b_10137492
- https://gmwatch.org/en/gm-firms/10595-monsanto-a-history
- https://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost/
- https://livelovefruit.com/complete-list-monsanto-owned-food-products-you-should-avoid/
- Hydroponics
- Find information on self sustaining Homes and Building (growing their own food, solar panels, energy independent)
- https://inc42.com/resources/soilless-farming-the-need-of-the-hour-for-the-environment/
- https://www.greenhousegrower.com/technology/new-technology-developments-advance-hydroponic-growing/
- https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2021-01-21/hydroponics-agriculture-vertical-farming
- Self Contained Inland Fish Farms
- Urban Vertical Gardens
Shorter Stories and Bizarro News:
- Updates on Belarus
- Differences Between Unemployment Benefits (Pandemic Relief) for US and Canada
- Incarceration Rates in North America
- https://www.aptnnews.ca/infocus/justice-system-an-industry-profiting-off-indigenous-offenders-and-victims/
- https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/were-doing-something-really-wrong-advocates-react-to-rising-rates-of-indigenous-people-in-canadas-prisons/
- https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html
- Prisoners Per 100,000 Inhabitants. (Not finding prison population for China)
- Wikipedia mentions China prison population but it’s not up to date or accurate
- (Per Article For China) : According to the World Prison Brief, the rate for only sentenced prisoners is 118 per 100,000 (as of 2015).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_incarceration_rate_with_other_countries
- https://medium.com/@canadavsamerica/incarceration-rates-in-canada-vs-america-9b9ea1d24b6d
- US Eviction Moratorium
- Helicopter Pilot Lands At Dairy Queen To Pick Up Cake: