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South Korea: Fearing Mad Cow Disease, New Protests Against US Beef

Global Voices Podcast: Food for Thought, Food to Eat

In this edition we explore the latest work and events in the Global Voices community. We also speak with some friends about the cross cultural elements of our lives, with a special focus on food: both food for thought, and to eat!

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Cuba, USA: Blogger Perspectives on the Embargo's 50th Anniversary (Part 1) 29 February 2012
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Cuba: Bloggers React to Death of Hunger Striker 20 January 2012
China 2011: From Jasmine Crackdowns to Grassroots Uprisings 5 January 2012

Latest stories about Food

12 May 2012

South Korea: Continuing Mad Cow Controversy Over US Beef Imports

Written by Lee Yoo Eun · East Asia, North America

Since last week, South Korea has seen continuing protests against importing beef from the United States after mad cow disease broke out in California. Korean government dispatched its inspection team to the US to quell the public anger incited by the government's unkept promise to halt the beef import immediately when the disease was detected. However, the inspection team's lack of control over the investigation process and the biased member selection process further deepened South Korean's distrust of the government.

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9 May 2012

Kenya: Chronicles of a Kenyan Farmer Online

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

E.K. Kamwenji is a Kenyan blogging farmer residing in Nyeri. He believes that farmers need to use new technologies for networking and marketing of farm produce. His blog, Chronicles of a Kenyan Farmer, was nominated in the Agriculture Category in this year's BAKE Blogger Awards.

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30 April 2012

Sri Lanka: Tackling Agricultural Surpluses

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

The Sri Lankan Government is facing a new kind of challenge, tackling surplus production of rice. However a Sri Lankan farmer sheds a light into the plights of the rice farmers in Sri Lanka, who are not obtaining a fair price for their produce.

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Cuba: Diaspora Reacts to Ferrer García's Release

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Cuban prisoner of conscience Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia was released over the weekend. Diaspora bloggers comment on this most recent development.

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25 April 2012

Cuba: Resorting to Hunger Strike

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Cuban netizens, primarily from the diaspora, are once again blogging about instances of police abuse in the country and how the island's justice system routinely makes hunger-strikers out of prisoners of conscience.

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21 April 2012

Iran: Ahmadinejad's Car, A Woman, And a Hungry Old Man

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

An online video showing a young woman jumping onto the hood of the car of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was visiting Bandar-Abbass on 10 April, is making a big splash. But Iranian bloggers seem more interested in the old man shouting beside the car.

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This Week in the Caribbean Blogosphere

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

In last week's summary of the regional blogosphere, a young comtemporary artist from Barbados made the observation that the region is “more than the beach and coconuts.” Here's a round-up of what Caribbean netizens were talking about this week, with not one mention of beaches or coconuts...

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21 March 2012

Mali: Facing Secession and Food Crisis as Elections Loom

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa

Mali is currently facing critical challenges while preparing for the presidential elections on April 29. After the fall of Gaddafi in Libya, returning Tuareg armed groups posted there threaten to seek secession for the Azawad territory, or Northern Mali.

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29 February 2012

Taiwan: Say No to Ractopamine Tainted American Meat

Written by I-fan Lin · East Asia

Ractopamine, a leanness-enhancing feed additive, is banned in Taiwan and more than 150 other countries. However, under pressure from the US government, the newly elected Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is now considering lifting the ban.

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29 December 2011

China: Dairy Company's Website Hacked by Angry Netizens

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

The latest round of tainted milk scandals broke out last week in China. The country's biggest dairy producer, Mengniu Dairy Co., admitted that some of its milk products contained aflatoxin...

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Updates about Food

16 May 2012

China

The Presurfer shares a video where we can see how the Beijing Jianbing is made. This large breakfast crepe is made possible thanks to a very steady hand and a motorized wheel that allows a really large and thin crepe to be evenly cooked.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

13 May 2012

Singapore

Singapore's Health Promotion Board uses the What’s Eating Singapore? data visualizer to survey the five most popular foods in Singapore based on social media posts. It's updated every three days. This week's most popular food items are pizza, curry, and sushi

• Mong Palatino

6 May 2012

India

There is a new hype in India - the rise of tea cafés (tea lounges or tea bars). Charukeshi lists some of the best tea cafés in different Indian cities which you can explore.

• Rezwan

1 May 2012

27 April 2012

Haiti

“In early 2011, a dozen people died after drinking ‘clairin' – a traditional Haitian alcohol drink – made with methanol in the Fond Baptiste region, north of the capital. Another 20 or so were blinded or paralyzed”: Haiti Grassroots Watch learns that “judicial, health and commerce authorities have not investigated who was responsible for the tragedy” and that “the production and sale of clairin – and ‘fake clairin' – continues with no regulation”, saying: “The tragedy could occur again at any moment, on an even larger scale.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Estonia

Nami-Nami recommends places to eat out in Tallinn in Spring 2012.

• Veronica Khokhlova

30 March 2012

Spain

Shared Vegetable Gardens (Huertos Compartidos) is a project in Spain that brings together people who wish to grow their own food but don't have the land, with landowners who may have the land but not the time to tend to them. This video [es] explains how this non-commercial system works, where food grown on these plots is not sold but only used for personal consumption.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

23 March 2012

China

Ministry of Tofu translated a local news report about restaurant's trick by giving duck plastic surgery, making it looks like goose so as to making bigger profit.

• Oiwan Lam

16 March 2012

Cameroon

Oriane Alix in Cameroon reacts to the joint press release from UNICEF and WHO that states that 89% of the world has access to drinking water today. She writes [fr] the following on the collaborative blog of the West Africa WASH Journalists Network: “To announce having reached these United Nations Millennium Development Goals while at the same time acknowledging “the persistent delay in the field of sanitation”, makes one wonder about the validity of the figures.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

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