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Foodler bitcoin orders growing by 30 percent a month

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“When US restaurant delivery network Foodler began accepting bitcoin paymentsin April, it formed a natural combination for programmers: code and steaming boxes of delivered food. So it makes perfect sense that Foodler co-founder Christian Dumontet set up the interface to make Foodler bitcoin-friendly during a few late nights of delivery-fueled coding. In that week, Boston-based Foodler transformed the art of dining on bitcoin from an adventure to a few swipes of a smartphone screen and an exercise in patiently waiting for the doorbell. Bitcoin users have been eating it up.”

http://www.coindesk.com/foodler-bitcoin-orders-growing-by-30-percent-a-month/

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Man persecuted over raw milk resurrects olive oil from thousand-year-old olive trees

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“Six months ago, California ‘raw milk man’ James Stewart was sitting in a jail cell in Los Angeles county, shivering from hypothermia, his body wrapped in chains from hands to ankles. He had been raided at gunpoint by the LA County Sheriff’s office under orders from the FDA, then labeled a ‘terrorist’ and literally subjected to extreme torture in the L.A. jail system. His crime? He was distributing fresh, wholesome milk to moms and families.  Over the last year, he has risen from the dirt that the state tried to pound his face into and now commands what may soon become one of the most celebrated specialty olive oil suppliers in North America: Oliflix.”

http://www.naturalnews.com/040976_Oliflix_olive_oil_James_Stewart.html

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Sysco facing thousands in fines for ‘runaway train’ of food storage violations

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“Food distributor Sysco could be forced to pay thousands of dollars in fines after officials with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) found insects and rodent droppings at storage sheds the company used for perishable foods throughout northern California, KNTV-TV reported on Tuesday. The station reported that it secretly filmed employees using sheds in six cities to store and transport pork, bread, lettuce and cheese items. One employee, who did not wish to be identified, told KNTV in an interview that the practice had been going on for more than a decade, saying, ‘Enough is enough. The public needs to know where their food is coming from.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/17/sysco-facing-thousands-in-fines-for-runaway-train-of-food-storage-violations/

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Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? Regulators Don’t Think So

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“For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales. In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others. These sanctions include injunctions, fines, and even prison sentences.”

http://www.alternet.org/food/should-you-be-able-buy-food-directly-farmers-regulators-dont-think-so?paging=off

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Farm Bill: Are Republicans the “Stupid Party” or the “Big-Government Party”…or Both?

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“It should go without saying that America’s agriculture policy has always been a terrible, stupid, counterproductive exercise in self-dealing cronyism. But when House Republicans severed the traditional connection, arbitrary but politically effective, between farm subsidies and food stamps, it briefly seemed like they were looking for an opportunity to put libertarian populist principle into practice, by separating both outlays in order to trim or reform both separately. But no — instead they were just making it easier for the party’s congressmen to vote for a bloated, awful big government program that benefits mostly-Republican states and interest groups.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/are-republicans-the-stupid-party-or-the-big-government-party-or-both/

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Gold Diverging From Fine Wine as Bullion Investors Lose Faith

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“The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index (LIVX100) tripled in the past 10 years and gold advanced fourfold. The wine gauge rose 5.9 percent this year as bullion slid 17 percent. The Wine Investment Fund, which manages about $50 million of assets, expects the Liv-ex gauge to rise by about another 7.6 percent by the end of December. Demand for gold, wine and other alternative assets gained in the past several years as equities retreated and bond yields tumbled to record lows as central banks printed money on an unprecedented scale. Gold held through exchange-traded products exceeded all but two of the world’s central-bank reserves.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-29/gold-diverging-from-fine-wine-as-bullion-investors-lose-faith.html

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Why are Brazilian coffee-growers striking and burning sacks of coffee?

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“In Brazil, which produces a third of the world’s coffee beans, farmers are striking over falling prices and burning sacks of coffee in protest. Why are coffee-growers feeling the strain? [..]  Many Brazilian and Colombian farmers invested to boost production of arabica in response to the high prices of 2011, which has added to the oversupply and further depressed prices. And good weather in Brazil means that this year’s crop has turned out to be unexpectedly large. That is why Brazil’s farmers are striking, and are demanding more protection, in the form of fatter subsidies, from the state.”

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/economist-explains-9

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Buying Booze With Bitcoins: Yes, I Took One For the Team

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“So, it turns out buying electronic cyberbeer is practically indistinguishable from everyday pint purchasing. The only difference was that instead of handing over a tenner or your VISA card, you have to stop sexting or Instagramming the crisps or whatever, and scan a QR code using the Bitcoin wallet app on your smartphone.  Yup, not only has Stephen Early found a good use for Bitcoin, he has also managed to do the same for QR codes — formerly a technology with literally no practical applications whatsoever. I can’t be bothered googling who is in charge of the UK’s digital infrastructure but whoever it is, they need to snap this guy up and give him the keys.”

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/07/bitcoin-pub/

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Which States Are Most Drunk on Wine Taxes?

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“I shared some fascinating details the other day about how federal taxes inhibited the development of America’s beer industry. And I’ve used a story about buddies sharing beer to illustrate the dangers of redistribution and class warfare. But this blog hasn’t paid much attention to wine. Well, thanks to this new map from the Tax Foundation, that oversight has been addressed. I reckon the politicians in Kentucky don’t have much use for those effete, wine-sipping bi-coastal elites?”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/which-states-are-most-drunk-on-wine-taxes/

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French president auctions off wines in austerity fire sale

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“The expected price of the wines range from 20 euros to 2,500 euros ($25 to $3,235) per bottle and include top-end offerings such as a Chateau Latour dating back to 1936, a 1990 Petrus and a slew of 1985 Romanee wines. The cellar at the Elysee was established in 1947 during the presidency of Vincent Auriol and now holds 12,000 bottles. Burgundy and Bordeaux wines will dominate in the auction but there are also offerings from Alsace, the Loire and the Rhone valley.  Demand for wine from France, the world’s leading wine producer by value, is high especially from well-heeled buyers in China and the United States. China is the world’s biggest importer of Bordeaux wines.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/29/french-president-auctions-off-wines-in-austerity-fire-sale/

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