Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

It's illegal to sell cicada infused liquor in Illinois

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 Alcohol and insects don't mix in Illinois.   The Chicago Sun Times has the story: Suburban brewery fined for selling cicada-infused Mal...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Black markets in everything bagels (in S. Korea)

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 South Korea is not a hub of everything bagels, it turns out. In fact they are banned. The NYT has the story: Why Everything Bagel Seasoning...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Baby formula and U.S. supply chains

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 Martha Gershon points me to her latest column, to be followed in due time by a book on feeding babies in America. The U.S. needs a reliable...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Does high pay equal "undue inducement"? An experiment by Sandro Ambuehl

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  Here's an experiment about repugnant transactions, by Sandro Ambuehl . Ambuehl, Sandro, " An experimental test of whether financi...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

When "demand can't keep up with supply"

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Headlines catch my eye more often than subheadlines, but the story below was the exception that proves the rule (a confusing saying in itsel...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving cranberries (brought to you by the Ocean Spray cranberry cooperative)

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  The WSJ has the story: These People Are Responsible for the Cranberry Sauce You Love to Hate   By Ben Cohen "Ocean Spray['s...] f...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Repugnance watch: British satire considers cellular agriculture in human meat

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In The Conversation: The British Miracle Meat: how banning repugnant choices obscures the real issue of poverty   by Renaud Foucart " A...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Black market for mustard in Bogotá

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 The NYT has the story: Colombia’s Mustard Lovers Grow Desperate Amid Saucy Shortage of Dijon . Colombians are scrambling to find the belove...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Markets in human milk, placenta, and feces

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I've blogged earlier about markets for breast milk, but here is an article that considers them also in connection with placenta and fece...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Artificial breast milk may be on the cellular agriculture horizon

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 Cellular agriculture isn't just aspiring to produce meat; now breast milk is queueing up as a (still distant) possibility. The New York...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Donkey meat for sale on Amazon: is a donkey a horse in California?

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  Is a donkey a horse in California, where state law prohibits the sale of horse meat for human consumption. In particular, the 1998 law sta...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

Illegal to sell fur coats in California

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  The NY Times has the story. (And you still can't eat horsemeat here.) Fur Sales Are Illegal in California. Does Anyone Care? .The popu...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Human evolution in the last 12,000 years, in PNAS

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My loose impression is that, not so long ago, scholars of human evolution discounted recent changes in the human genome, pointing out that m...