A Bitter Red Pill

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Mac and cheese candle. (Sorry kids, it isn’t scented.)

Source: etsy.com

16 January

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Jedi Burgers: May the secret sauce be with you.

Source: The Huffington Post

5 January

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The Venn Piagram. (À la mode, anyone?)

Source: flowingdata.com

24 October

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Over the last half-century or so, we have come to take agricultural progress for granted. Decade after decade, advancing technology underpinned steady gains in raising land productivity. Indeed, world grain yield per acre has tripled since 1950. But now that era is coming to an end in some of the more agriculturally advanced countries, where farmers are already using all available technologies to raise yields. In effect, the farmers have caught up with the scientists. After climbing for a century, rice yield per acre in Japan has not risen at all for 16 years. In China, yields may level off soon. Just those two countries alone account for one-third of the world’s rice harvest. Meanwhile, wheat yields have plateaued in Britain, France, and Germany—Western Europe’s three largest wheat producers.

- Lester R. Brown, from his piece “The New Geopolitics of Food”

Source: foreignpolicy.com

1 June

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I was looking for something worthy of an 800th post. The Stay Puft S’more will do nicely.

Source: geeks.thedailywh.at

16 May

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Where the soy sauce lives (today’s Project 365 shot)

22 January

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A Bagel Romance (by the Mount Royal Bagel Bakery in my hometown)

Source: ohjoy.blogs.com

30 November

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Best cake ever?

Source: Flickr / its-a-piece-of-cake

13 October

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Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it.

Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this.

There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?

High five, America!

*smack*

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