4/15/25 - On Decorating POTATOES for Easter;MAHA in control of food & farming(Back to the Dark Ages); No more BLOOD oranges?; Government Grocery stores & more

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   🐰Easter: Paint Things Other than Eggs

How to Decorate a Potato (Washington State Potatoes)

With the price of eggs still fairly high in many areas, you may be considering the wisdom of dyeing eggs. What are some things you could decorate for Easter other than eggs?

Potatoes, Apples, Plastic Eggs, Golf Balls, Bananas (Peeled or Unpeeled)

Discover Other Things to Paint Instead of Eggs This Easter

Dyeing Easter Potatoes: A Fun and Unique Twist on a Classic Tradition

✅Substack: Mythbusting MAHA’s Claims About Food & Farming

by Emily Bass

“…Kennedy's single-minded focus on certain foods, chemicals, and processes is based on thin scientific evidence and overly simplistic assumptions about the relationship between agricultural systems and food-related health outcomes. There is little reason to believe that his proposals to restrict or regulate these food production practices will measurably improve public health or environmental outcomes in the United States. Worse, should Kennedy succeed in implementing his agenda, he risks making America's food supply less healthy and more expensive—undermining the Commission’s own objectives….”

🚫🥚🥚No Eggs?: Egg-Free Breakfast Ideas

The Ultimate Guide to Egg-Free, High-Protein Breakfasts - Food & Nutrition - from N. Jay Sorensen.

When you’re trying to replace eggs, whether because of availability/cost, allergies, vegan diet…what do you suggest? Tofu? Greek Yogurt? Nut Butters? Cottage Cheese? Here are some ideas from dietitian N. Jay Sorensen. What would you suggest?

🍊Same Fruit - New Name (Rebranding)

Blood Orange

Raspberry Orange

If you grew up with “blood oranges”, this is the common name for the Moro Blood Orange. This variety of orange is known for the deep red flesh that is high in antioxidants. It is believed to have originated in Sicily as a genetic mutation (it’s a natural “GMO”) of a sweet orange. Moro Blood Oranges – Pearson Ranch

Raspberry Oranges Vs Blood Oranges: Is There A Difference? (Spoiler: NO)

Recently there’s been a push to rebrand the blood orange and call it a raspberry orange, just in case the name “blood” has a more negative association for shoppers.

🛒Are Government/Public Owned Supermarkets a Solution?

What do you do in urban or rural areas where there are no supermarkets or the time and transportation to get to a supermarket is prohibitive? How about urban areas where residents have limited options on where to get groceries or the landscape is dominated by fast food restaurants or convenience stores? What if inducements and incentives offered to corporate chains to build don’t work or those supermarket chains aren’t successful, so they close down? Could the answer be government owned stores? Can government-owned grocery stores help solve America’s food-desert problem? | Food and Environment Reporting Network

“…Public grocery stores can also put pressure on existing food sources, like corner stores and dollar stores, to offer better options and lower prices. They might even attract other businesses with their heavy foot traffic, creating more economic activity.”

But will government funded stores solve the problem with access, transportation, prices of products? Will government funded stores guarantee better health for residents? Or do these efforts just avoid getting to those issues?

MAHA + MAGA = Pro Organic

(and how this could be bad for all of us)

RFK Jr’s Organic Crusade: The Perfect Greenwashing for Republican Climate Denial

by Clinton Tyree

“…Kennedy’s rhetoric on organic farming taps into a deep well of pseudoscience. He claims industrial agriculture is poisoning us, that synthetic pesticides and fertilizers are leading to mass extinction, and that only organic farming can save us.[¹]…But here’s the problem: organic farming is less efficient than conventional farming. Study after study has shown that organic yields are lower—sometimes by as much as 40%.[²] That means feeding the same population would require more farmland, leading to deforestation and increased carbon emissions.[³] Not exactly the climate-friendly utopia RFK Jr. imagines.

…RFK Jr. and the Republican Party’s newfound love affair over organic farming is a match made in pseudoscience heaven. One side gets to keep spreading anti-GMO, anti-vaccine hysteria under the guise of “health freedom.” The other gets a convenient excuse to ignore actual climate solutions while claiming they’re “pro-environment.”…”