For the self-reliant, the wild is a free buffet

Those pesky “weeds” that you routinely pull in your backyard might be lambsquarters, greens rich in vitamins A and C that can be eaten just like spinach and are good raw or sautéed. Or maybe they’re amaranth, which is also called pigweed. (In Jamaica it is steamed and served with butter and cheese.) The list [...]

Singapore eggs found with Doxycycline residue

The farm staff’s plea of innocence is hard to accept – you see a variety of locally produced ‘designer’ eggs with such enhancements as cordyceps and pro-biotics – it isn’t surprising they’d find anti-biotics in the eggs anyway. The price hike comes after food safety authorities suspended the sale of eggs produced by N & [...]

Is Singapore ready for a plant-based food day?

One type of day that has gained a small amount of popularity on various continents, including Asia, is a weekly day in which people go meat-free. Although the idea isn’t entirely new, it received renewed attention in 2009, when the city government of Ghent, Belgium urged its citizens to make Thursday the day every week [...]

“Frankenfoods” That Could Feed the World

GM foods can be beneficial, if you don’t get hampered by greed. Its been almost 20 years since the first genetically modified GM crop was approved for commercialization, and still the range of biotech foods available to the public is paltry. Soybeans, corn and cotton that tolerate high doses of herbicides and fend off pests–technologies [...]

Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish

Our very own Channel Newsasia ignores the fact that the Giant Garoupa or Queensland Grouper was put on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2006, and instead celebrates the story of a restaurateur who bought one this week and is selling it to customers at $20 per 200g. via Channel NewsAsia: The owner of [...]

Fresher and smellier

Would you like some poo with your garlic? If not, ask where it comes from. And if you don’t like it, grow your own. Bell also calls into question some growing practices in China. “I know for a fact that some garlic growers over there use raw human sewage to fertilise their crops, and I [...]

The farmer gets $5 a kilo. You pay $69

KEL SHARMAN, a Tasmanian beef farmer, was astonished to find out that meat from a beast he sold for about $5 a kilogram last month was on sale at a Surry Hills butchery this week for $69. “You’re joking,” Mr Sharman said. “I’m in the wrong line of business.” In theory, every piece of meat [...]