Nurture
Imagine a game where you get to ‘toy’ with living creatures before eating them. This is the premise behind The Lobster Zone vending machine game found at various bars in the USA. Similar to children’s arcade games, people pay US$2 to swing a mechanical claw to grab at live lobsters and make their ‘meals more sporting’. According to PETA, the lobsters may be injured during the ‘grab’ before the customer finally manages to grab one to eat.
Dutch scientists are attempting to grow a reasonable facsimile of pork in a laboratory from muscle-harvested pig stem cells. To date, the scientists have c...
The ingenious Urb Garden, more like a mini urban farm, is a vertical garden that comes complete with an integrated worm composting system.
Shocking new analysis of the US Department of Agriculture’s 2009 figures show that biofuel is taking a major bite out of world food supplies. In fact, more...
The World Health Organization reports that there are more than a billion people worldwide who are overweight, more than 300 million of whom are considered ob...
Japanese designers Ryota Morikawa and Tetsuya Ozawa, from the art collective Gelchop , turn farmer’s tools into functional and clever works of art. Their Farm...
Clean your appliances and countertops with abrasive scrubbers made from peach pits and corncobs. These eco-friendly abrasive scrubs are a natural option in...
Next time you are feeling thirsty, you might want to reach for something other than fast food soda. A recent study found that a whooping 48% of soda founta...
Testing food and water for pesticide residues just got easier with a new ‘laboratory on a strip’ developed by Canadian scientists at McMaster University . The...
Hopefully, in the not so distant future, the only place excessive examples of meat eating will be found is in museums like the Big Mac Museum in North Huntin...
Dead squid skins are upcycled into stylish (and stinky) Sake bottles. The dried skins of cuttlefish are enjoying a resurgence in Takahama, Japan as a commi...
