UN Human Rights Council passes a resolution adopting the peasant rights declaration in Geneva Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, biodiversity, local markets and a lot …
Diggings 26 August 2018
World's oldest cheese confirmed in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease ‘Aged cheeses might have an appeal, but a 3,200-year-old sample of the popular dairy product found in Egypt may be just a little too old — and diseased — for even the most dedicated cheese connoisseurs.’ Pity …
‘Doing’ Curry and Rice
Of course I ate it, desperate not to be out of place while all the while feeling very much out of place. https://bit.ly/2vpjzZl
Diggings 5 August 2018
How not to package the daily recommended five pieces of fruit. ‘Bio-Nazis’ go green in Germany White supremacists in Germany and elsewhere are embracing diets free of animal products, demonstrating recipes on YouTube and arguing for the suitability of vegetarian diets for “Aryan” people. A 2012 study carried out by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, …
