News on Food Scales

2010-03-12 Metabolix, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha

Yeah. Good question. Ill clarify. What weve said historically and we continue to say is that we have sufficient non-food contact demand, we believe to sell at Clinton one. Now, that we are feeling comfortable and are optimistic on the food contact process, it then becomes a process of optimizing how much non-food contact and how much food contact customers and applications will fill our Clinton 1. We are now starting to aggressively move forward with food contact customers in certain areas and so I could expect that Clinton 1 will consist of non-food contact and food contact applications in some mix which will be determined. But I think the statement you are referring to, Michael, is that we just dug consistently and still do that because of the uncertainties with the FDA process. We have designed a primary entry strategy around

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2010-03-11 WHAT ON EARTH Herald Sun

It is a logarithmic scale, so each number represents a much larger gap than those on a numerical scale, such as that used for temperature. For example, a temperature of 27C is not much warmer than a temperature of 25C, but an earthquake recording 5 on the Richter scale is 10 times greater than one recording 4.

Imagine you have lost your home and all your possessions in the recent earthquake. You have two children to care for but no food or other goods. Nearby lie the ruins of a supermarket, littered with its full stock. Looting is illegal and you have never stolen anything in your life. But your children need food, nappies and clothing.

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2010-03-09 Most in Chiles Capital Unhappy With Quake Response

Without the military present, widespread looting and vandalism occurred in Concepci and oacute;n and other areas in the two to three days after the quake. And aid was initially slow in arriving, with residents in coastal towns just south of Concepci and oacute;n still complaining three days after the quake that they had yet to receive a single shipment of food or water.

An aid official, Andres Vera of the Christian charity World Vision, defended the government and rsquo;s response, saying that because of electric and cellphone breakdowns, no one knew at first the scale of the devastation.

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Many say the government was late and inefficient in delivering aid and in re-establishing order, according to a newspaper poll. - Earthquakes Bachelet Michelle Chile

2010-03-06 Merauke estate not the answer to RIs food problem: Coalition The Jakarta Post

A coalition of activists called on the government to review a policy on a large-scale food production systems being built over 1. 6 million hectares of forest areas in Merauke, Papua province.

The Alliance of Prosperous Villages consists of 18 non-governmental organizations, including Sawit Watch, Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty and the Peoples Coalition for Justice in Fisheries (Kiara).

They said the 2010 government regulation on cultivation would not improve the countrys food sovereignty issue as it only accommodated the interests of the giant private companies to reap benefits.

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2010-03-03 Large-scale looting in Chile leads to overnight curfew Entertainment and Showbiz.

The earthquake and tsunami devastated country became vulnerable to an alarming looting spree. The helpless residents who managed to survive the catastrophe resorted to large-scale looting stores in Concepcion for food and water. The police and law officials opened tear gas and water cannons to ward off the looters which virtually ransacked almost every market there.

Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera, scheduled to be sworn in this month, forewarned that the robbing spree would get worse with nightfall summoning for more government help to restore peace. Concepcion, the capital of the Bio Bio region, lacked adequate law enforcement to curb those who were ransacking supermarkets and stores for food and supplies for survival. Desperation reached its zenith supermarkets closed and gasoline was unavailable. Sunday afternoon saw the quake victims breaking into a mill scrounging for ingredients for bread. CNN team passed several gas stations that were being looted, with people siphoning gas while a handful of gas stations were under the watchful gaze of military officers.

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An overnight curfew from 9 p. m. Sunday to 6 a. m. Monday was imposed in the earthquake and tsunami devastated region of Chile to curb the looting spree and

2010-02-27 Haiti aid effort marred by slow U. N. response Reuters

One gripping image of chaotic food distributions came when U. S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians opened them up only to toss them away in disgust because no French or Creole-language instructions were included with the apparently useless packets of dust, explaining that they needed to be mixed with water as part of their preparation.

But more than six weeks after the quake hit, the mission is still largely in an emergency response mode. The U. N. s World Food Program is limiting its food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian government estimates that a million quake survivors are still living in the streets in makeshift encampments with no running water or toilets.

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2009-12-10 Fishy sustainability myths debunked - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - General - Stock and Land

The study is one of the first to take a comprehensive, global-scale look at a major food commodity from a full lifecycle perspective, and the researchers examined everything: how salmon are caught in the wild, what theyre fed when farmed, how theyre transported, how theyre consumed and how all of this contributes to both environmental degradation and socioeconomic benefits.

Air-freighting salmon, or any food, results in substantial increases in environmental impacts. If more frozen food were consumed, more container ships would be used to ship food. Container ships are the most efficient and carbon-friendly way to transport food. (In Japan, which gets much of its fish by air, switching to 75 pct. frozen salmon would have more benefit than all of Europe eating locally farmed salmon. )

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POPULAR thinking about how to improve food systems often misses the point, according to results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems from Dalhousie University, Ecotrust and the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology.

2009-12-09 Farmers say budgetary allocation to sector is too small

He said that "Small scale farmers have also not been able to access most of the agricultural developmental funds released by the government for this year as most of them do not have the collateral asked for. If the government is serious about developing the sector, it should look critically into the activities happening in the agricultural sector before releasing funds for it," he said.

The are united under the platform of the Voice for Food Security coalition, to fight for better agricultural practices and funding for small scale farmers in the country.

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2009-12-07 OPINION Blog The Dallas Morning News

This holiday, I hope the North Dallas Food Bank will flourish through donations and volunteers. Working in the warehouse or participating in canned food drives are two easy ways to help people in need all over the metroplex -- and theyre actually fun to do.

The North Texas Food Bank, nonprofit hunger relief organization that distributes food in 13 North Texas counties. Secondly, the Salvation Army, which currently provides assistance to over 27 million people, in nearly 10,000 different centers worldwide.

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2009-12-06 Colombia Says Venezuela Destroys Bridge, Holds Soldier

Troops took out a walkway which was used to transport a lot of contraband food and fuel," said Gen. Franklin Marquez, a regional commander for the Venezuelan National Guard. "They are always patrolling to make sure these bridges are not rebuilt. "

Chavez and Uribe were once dubbed the Andean "odd couple," able to resolve disputes with hugs and handshakes despite a growing political gulf. Now, while conflict is unlikely, analysts see a growing risk of small-scale border violence.

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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Friday Venezuelan troops had blown up another makeshift bridge across their frontier and were holding a Colombian soldier who crossed the border in the latest incidents to test fraying ties.