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Monsanto can run competitors out of business, sue farmers who don't buy their products, and generally be underhanded bastards. But they can't beat Mother Nature. Gee, thanks for helping to screw the rest of us agribusiness.

For those too cowardly to eat the hot stuff, take heart. Even the mild stuff is good for you.

Here ya go. Now you can eat AND drink instead of just surviving on beer alone.

Here is a prime example of what happens when corporations sink their venomous fangs into public news. If you only read the headline you would be correct in thinking "oh man, I didn't know solar plants were so bad for us".

Read the article, however, and you run into information like "According to the developer, the Amargosa (solar) plant would produce about 4.9 pounds of carbon monoxide per megawatt hour of electricity produced, compared with 822 pounds per megawatt hour for a natural gas plant."

Wow, wait a minute. I thought you said the solar plants would WORSEN things? Worsen as in being more polluting than doing nothing? Sure. If I stopped breathing the Earth would have more oxygen. But I don't plan on dying right now.

And sure, if plants here - where there is a lot of sun - replaces a more inefficient fossil fuel facility somewhere else, then yeah, the local environment may suffer a bit. Overall, however, we're in better shape for it.

That said, measure the impact responsibly, and move forward if the plan looks to benefit more people than, say, plopping a few more oil derricks off the American coast. Yes, there is a cost to develop. But casting doubt on methods that are WAY more safe than those currently in use only earns you thirty pieces of silver and a reputation for being a corporate whore.

My other example of corporate propaganda comes from NPR, now apparently funded by Monsanto. In an article that should be touting the benefits of grass-fed beef - which should be obvious - the article snidely goes about trying to diminish what thinking people and our ancestors knew: animals each grass to survive when given a choice, not corn meal or the ground up bits of other animals.

Monsanto, and their paid NPR reporter, wants you to question what just seems right and obvious. Once again, why should I donate to put more of this filth on the air?

Teacher plans to eat school lunches every day and then blog about it. Here is a writeup about the project, and then the blog itself: Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project.

Good luck to her.

India is planning to weaponize the ghost chili. That's right, the hottest chili known to man is going to be made into a smoke grenade.

This was covered earlier by both NPR as well as by HuffPo.

Check out this Man vs. Food episode regarding a ghost chili burger. Adam is hurting and it shows.

Well, you can't get any of the rabid Republicans to admit there is such a thing as climate change going on, but they'll soon know the problems it creates when their coffee changes due to the new environmental challenges created by the world getting warmer.

Bonus coffee story on why dark coffee is better for you.

Gustavo Arellano lays down the cultural legacy of Taco Bell as he reflects on the death of it's founder.

Here is a fun graph related to dropped food.

This is an old link, but a damn cool one that I've been forgetting to pass along. Well, here ya go. Everything on each "flag" are foodstuffs from the nation it signifies. Cool, huh?

I forgot about this when mentioning the Eggo shortage, but apparently we might also have a pumpkin pie shortage as well. Seriously, why don't we ever have Brussels sprout shortages?

Yep, you read that right. We as a nation are low on Eggos and rationing is kicking in.

I heard this on the way in this morning and I almost turned around to stock up on some multigrain waffles.

Granted, it's related to a weather event but I just can't help feeling this is just another dark cloud of the recession.

Now I don't eat much fish, at all, but that doesn't mean I want others to not have any. In a two part interview on Fresh Air this week, the problem of overfishing was discussed. More to the point, the problem of fishing for the wrong kinds of fish seem to be the issue. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.

Awhile back I read a story about the types of fish that make up a McDonalds Filet-o-Fish, particularly the New Zealand hoki. Here is the story.

And at lunch today, one more related story on NPR. Looks like some more thought should be taken into the things we eat.

We made a conscious decision to keep Gabriel drinking from bottles and sippy cups without BPA in them.

Turns out we're screwed anyway. Turns out the crap is already in our food.

I am looooong since being willing to eat Pizza Hut, but I love this.

Granted, it's not a Deliverator, but it's a damn cool concept. If that last sentence confused you, you really, really need to read Snow Crash.