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Farmers’ Protest in India – Price of Failure Will Be immense - by Colin Todhunter (off-guardian)
"What happened in Mexico should serve as a warning as Indian farmers continue their protest against three recent farm bills that are designed to fully corporatize the agrifood sector through contract farming, the massive roll-back of public sector support systems, a reliance on imports (boosted by a future US trade deal) and the acceleration of large-scale (online) retail."
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Balanced Life, Peaceful World - A Discussion with Wushu and Qigong Master Lee Feng-San
Pingshuai Gong - 平甩功 - a hand-swinging exercise pioneered by Taiwan Qigong (氣功）master Li Feng-shan (李鳳山）
Pingshuai Course—Live Webcast For The First Time
Pingshuai 30min exercise
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Gut bacteria strain found to confer mental health and metabolic benefits
A strong new study has investigated the prospective anti-obesity effects of a specific strain of gut bacteria. From preclinical animal studies to a placebo-controlled human trial, the robust translational research suggests a novel bacterial strain may confer several metabolic benefits.
Term used in preliminary research to refer to live bacteria that, when ingested in appropriate amounts, might confer a mental health benefit by affecting microbiota of the host organism.[
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In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating? (aljazeera)
Plastic production surged in the last 50 years, and we could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week.
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Gut microbiota plays a role in brain function and mood regulation (pasteur.fr)
Scientists recently discovered that a change to the gut microbiota brought about by chronic stress can lead to depressive-like behaviors in mice, by causing a reduction in endogenous cannabinoids. These findings, which show that a healthy gut microbiota contributes to normal brain function, were published in Nature Communications.
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McDonnald's - illustration by Nicolás Ortega
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HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene - Photobook Uncovers “Darkest, Most Unsettling’ Realities Of Slaughterhouses”
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KFC starts selling fried chicken in China with self-driving "5G" unmanned food trucks
#Comment: Clearly this is the perfect use-case for artificial intelligence, besides killer robots..
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Aztec Forest Garden
Mexico city was formerly an island that was self sufficient, it fed 200 000 inhabitants from floating gardens called Chinampas.
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Seven out of ten workers in the German meat industry are precariously employed
The data from the federal government speak for themselves: the majority of workers in the meat industry are neither permanently employed nor well paid. And the number of employees from abroad is growing.
#Comment: An industry which very frequently treats animals like garbage, inevitable can't & won't care about it's employees or customers either. It's a ticking time bomb.
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Blockchain Chicken Farm, and Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside - The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China (NYtimes)
So Jiang turned to high-tech chicken surveillance. He outfitted his chickens with wearable legbands that record their movements — “a chicken Fitbit of sorts” — and worked with a tech start-up to record the data on a blockchain.
"To increase the yield of pork farms, Alibaba trained a new artificial intelligence, “ET Agricultural Brain,” on vast amounts of data from pork operations, the better to predict how to increase yield."
