The calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate stood at 38% for fiscal 2024, unchanged for the fourth year in a row, the agriculture ministry said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/japan/food-self-sufficiency-rate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #maff #food
Indonesia has halted imports of scrap metal after tracing radioactive contamination found at an industrial site and in shrimp shipments to the U.S. to local metal processors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/09/indonesia-scrap-metal-shrimp-radiation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #environment #food #indonesia
So after pakoras a few days ago 👆🏽
It's time for bhajjis!!!
CW fried #Food #Vegetables





BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Hunger will also be harder to measure now that the USDA has canceled an annual food insecurity survey, calling it “redundant” and “politicized.”
“It feels like the idea is to make it harder to identify the consequences of the policy changes that we’re seeing right now”"
- @ProPublica
#Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Food #Hunger #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #News #Press
I’m at a gay Singaporean food event. Literally
Of course I got a special table

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
![Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]](https://mediacdn.aus.social/accounts/avatars/108/195/770/473/016/150/original/d5b937db377b2251.gif)
Food – like housing, water and medical care – should not be run for the profit of rich people.
I mean, if you want to over charge for absolute luxuries, that's one thing. But it shouldn't be normal for companies, run by people who only care for profit, to decrease the quality and nutrition in our food so they can chase said-profits, without letting people know.
Very few people have time to read labels to this degree, and even fewer have the competency to understand what it means for their health, and the health of those they feed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/supermarket-ingredients-changes-skimpflation/105478516
Food – like housing, water and medical care – should not be run for the profit of rich people.
I mean, if you want to over charge for absolute luxuries, that's one thing. But it shouldn't be normal for companies, run by people who only care for profit, to decrease the quality and nutrition in our food so they can chase said-profits, without letting people know.
Very few people have time to read labels to this degree, and even fewer have the competency to understand what it means for their health, and the health of those they feed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/supermarket-ingredients-changes-skimpflation/105478516
3. Ceratonia is a genus with only two species as members (so far). #Botany #PlantScience #Science
4. The part that's used directly for its flavor & sweetness is the pod itself, not the seeds. The best varieties found in nature (there is no carob breeding that I know of...everything is selection - finding and clonally propagating the best varieties) have about 50% sugars in them. #Botany #PlantScience #Science #Carob #Food
Okay, let's get this plant party started...
(It's after 9:30 pm here, so most of this may be happening tomorrow morning, but we'll see...)
1 Boost = 1 Fact About Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) (Facts will be in replies, so look below.) #Botany #PlantScience #Food
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Indonesian families whose children were offered free school meals are joining nonprofit groups calling for the flagship government program to be suspended after thousands of students fell ill from the food. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/asia-pacific/indonesia-free-meals-food-poisoning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #schools #food #foodpoisoning #poverty #health

Welcome to Day Two of the government shutdown that we are having because Republicans want people to have to pay more for health care and the Democrats don’t. …
The primary sticking point, of course, is that Democrats want to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that allow millions of Americans to afford health insurance."
Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #FederalGovernment #cruelty #food #healthcare
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/what-the-gop-is-talking-about-when
The emergence of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has fueled a growing debate over the privatization and militarization of aid, and the future of the U.N.-led humanitarian aid system in the face of massive funding cuts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/world/gaza-humanitarian-aid-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #aid #food #us #palestinians #gaza
"Confucius famously said, 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' Trump, Vance and the MAGA faithful are so consumed by their desire to inflict pain on us, to inflict pain on immigrants, that they clearly don’t realize (or don’t care) that they are ultimately going to hurt their own people just as much, if not more."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #FederalGovernment #cruelty #food #healthcare
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"There’s a time-honored rule in politics: If you want to undermine your opponents, turn their strength into a weakness. As we enter Day Two of the latest government shutdown, that’s precisely what Donald Trump and the Republicans are trying to do to Democrats as the parties wage a messaging war over the shutdown."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #FederalGovernment #cruelty #food #healthcare
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-democrats-shutdown-healthcare-lies
"Without these subsidies, 26 million people who currently qualify for subsidies will pay more than double what they are currently paying, and 4 million people who currently have health insurance will not be able to afford it.
The other sticking point is that Democrats want to undo the massive cuts to Medicaid that will lead to even more people not having health insurance.:
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #FederalGovernment #cruelty #food #healthcare
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"Confucius famously said, 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' Trump, Vance and the MAGA faithful are so consumed by their desire to inflict pain on us, to inflict pain on immigrants, that they clearly don’t realize (or don’t care) that they are ultimately going to hurt their own people just as much, if not more."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #FederalGovernment #cruelty #food #healthcare
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