3rd week of January – Talking points from this week’s news

Make meals and car rides more engaging when you toss out one of these questions to family members. 1. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new program that will provide eligible families with money during the summer months so they can buy food for their children. The agency expects that nearly 21 million children

Want to make a difference on air pollution? Cut down on your meat and dairy

A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.

For Passover 2023

By the eighth day, you’re eating matzah topped with ketchup and overpriced cheese like it’s the best pizza you’ve ever had.

Composted Reads for the week of 2023 January 27

Story of the week Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc   The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds.

What’s Shaping Your Grocery Shopping Habits?

Understanding why supermarkets are set up the way they are enables us to avoid falling for the trickery quite so easily.

About Human Nature

Theories about the nature of humankind form a part of every culture. While the class structures imposed on the different societies may not have been desirable per se, they were in a sense necessary for society to keep progressing.

The New-York Times looking at June 16 – June 26

Ten days in the spotlight: Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Colombia, Israel, France, Great Britain, a.o. countries.

The Guardian’s view on the world 2nd week of June

From wheat esports to food crises and price rises, from poor to super-rich people.

Asking God to give Ukrainians strength and courage to go on with their lives

Asking God to provide courage, strength and patience and to be a good example to others whilst waiting for Jesus’ return.

Seed banks: the last line of defense against a global food crisis

Humans have increasingly relied on fewer and fewer crop varieties that can be mass-produced and shipped around the world. Two in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction; and therefore we need to safeguard seeds, for the next generations.