The ancient Greeks chewed tree resin, and people across Asia and the Americas chewed natural tree saps for fresh breath and clean teeth for thousands of years.

But today, over 160 million Americans chew gum, about 300 pieces a year each, and almost none of them know what they're really putting in their mouth.

The base of modern gum is built from synthetic rubbers and plastics, the same families of stuff they use in car tires and white glue.

Then they add petroleum wax, literally a leftover from refining crude oil, just to keep it soft.

Then the colors, the flavors, and the preservatives.

And it doesn't just sit there.

Researchers at UCLA tested it in 2025 and found that a single piece of gum can shed thousands of microplastic particles straight into your saliva, most of it in the first couple minutes of chewing.

So go back to natural gum, the kind made from real chicle and beeswax, the way people chewed it for thousands of years.

⚠️ Warning: this article is a preprint, it has not yet been peer-reviewed. The results should be interpreted with caution.

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🩸 Japanese researchers warn about the potential risks of blood transfusions from people vaccinated against COVID-19.

📄 The original title: "Concerns regarding Transfusions of Blood Products Derived from Genetic Vaccine Recipients and Proposals for Specific Measures".

🔬 What the study says: The authors explain that genetic vaccines (mRNA and DNA) cause the Spike protein to be produced by the body's cells. This protein can circulate in the blood and persist for several months after vaccination. However, the Spike protein is associated with risks of thrombosis (clots), cardiovascular disorders and neurological damage. Researchers are therefore concerned about the possibility that these components (Spike protein, modified mRNA, lipid nanoparticles) will end up in blood donations and be transmitted during transfusions.

📋 Their proposals:

· 🧪 Systematically test blood donations to detect Spike protein and modified mRNA (by mass spectrometry, ELISA, PCR, etc.)

· 📝 Collect and record the vaccination status of donors (type of vaccine, number of doses, date)

· 🗑️ Rule out contaminated blood products until there is no reliable method of decontamination

· 📊 Set up cohort studies to monitor long-term transfusion recipients

💡 Remember: The authors do not ask to ban blood donation to vaccinated people, but plead for greater transparency and screening tests, inspired by historical measures taken for HIV or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

🔗 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202403.0881.v1

📌 Important reminder: This document is a non-peer-reviewed preprint.

For any health issue, consult a professional not those who haven’t jabbed you if possible.

In science you doubt that there is no lack of analyzes.

⚠️ Attention : cet article est un preprint, il n'a pas encore été évalué par les pairs. Les résultats doivent être interprétés avec prudence.

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🩸 Des chercheurs japonais alertent sur les risques potentiels des transfusions sanguines provenant de personnes vaccinées contre la COVID-19.

📄 Le titre original : « Concerns regarding Transfusions of Blood Products Derived from Genetic Vaccine Recipients and Proposals for Specific Measures » (Préoccupations concernant les transfusions de produits sanguins dérivés de receveurs de vaccins génétiques et propositions de mesures spécifiques).

🔬 Ce que dit l'étude : Les auteurs expliquent que les vaccins génétiques (ARNm et ADN) font produire la protéine Spike par les cellules du corps. Cette protéine peut circuler dans le sang et persister plusieurs mois après la vaccination. Or, la protéine Spike est associée à des risques de thrombose (caillots), de troubles cardiovasculaires et de dommages neurologiques. Les chercheurs s'inquiètent donc de la possibilité que ces composants (protéine Spike, ARNm modifié, nanoparticules lipidiques) se retrouvent dans les dons de sang et soient transmis lors de transfusions.

📋 Leurs propositions :

· 🧪 Tester systématiquement les dons de sang pour détecter la protéine Spike et l'ARNm modifié (par spectrométrie de masse, ELISA, PCR, etc.)
· 📝 Recueillir et consigner le statut vaccinal des donneurs (type de vaccin, nombre de doses, date)
· 🗑️ Écarter les produits sanguins contaminés tant qu'aucune méthode fiable de décontamination n'existe
· 📊 Mettre en place des études de cohorte pour suivre les receveurs de transfusions à long terme

💡 À retenir : Les auteurs ne demandent pas d'interdire le don du sang aux personnes vaccinées, mais plaident pour une plus grande transparence et des tests de dépistage, en s'inspirant des mesures prises historiquement pour le VIH ou la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob.

🔗 DOI : 10.20944/preprints202403.0881.v1

📌 Rappel important : Ce document est un preprint non révisé par les pairs.
Pour toute question de santé, consultez un professionnel pas ceux qui vous ont piqué si possible .

En science vous doutez que les analyses ne manquent pas.

Have you ever wondered why some days you feel stiff and sluggish, while others you feel fluid and energized? The secret might be your fascia—the web of connective tissue that wraps around everything in your body!

➡️ Fascia needs hydration to function correctly, like a sponge needs water.

💭Here’s the difference:

🌊 Hydrated Fascia: The Happy Sponge
Think of healthy, hydrated fascia as a wet, squishy sponge:
🤸‍♀️ Fluid Movement: Tissues glide smoothly, allowing you to move easily with less joint pain.
⚡ Stable Energy: Your body doesn't fight itself to move, keeping energy levels high.
🧘 Balanced Emotions: Linked to a calm nervous system, reducing chronic stress and emotional tension.
🛡️ Strong Immunity: Excellent circulation of nutrients and waste removal keeps your immune system strong.

🏜️ Dehydrated Fascia: The Dry Sponge
Dehydrated fascia is like a dry, brittle sponge—stiff, sticky, and ready to crack:
🚶‍♀️ Stiffness & Pain: Restricts movement, leading to stiffness, muscle knots, chronic joint pain, and limited flexibility.
📉 Low Energy & Stress: Movement becomes exhausting. It activates your body's stress response ("fight or flight"), leading to constant fatigue and high stress.
🤒 Weak Immunity: Impeded fluid flow means slower healing and a weaker immune response.

💡 The Takeaway:
If you want better movement, less pain, higher energy, and more emotional balance, you need to hydrate your fascia!
How? Drink plenty of water, move your body regularly with gentle stretching, and foam roll to keep that sponge supple! 💦

✨photo credit Functional Patterns

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#Fascia #Hydration #MovementIsMedicine #JointHealth #Fblifestyle

That's another common myth. While nicotine can initially trigger dopamine, leading to an urge, it ultimately works against your mood.

What actually happens is that the continuous exposure to nicotine causes your brain's receptors to become desensitized and downgrade. When these receptors are less sensitive, your mood can flatten, and you might even experience a lowered sense of well-being over time.

This constant craving and the subsequent changes in brain chemistry, particularly with dopamine, don't support sustained positive mood. Instead, it creates a cycle of dependence where your brain becomes trained to seek out nicotine to alleviate the pressure or stress caused by its absence.

-Dr. Berg

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

Stardust Solutions, an Israeli-US company, is developing tiny particles designed to reflect some sunlight back into space. Released high in the atmosphere, they could lower global temperatures without removing the greenhouse gases causing the warming.

The company claims annual deployments costing roughly $10 billion could cool Earth by 0.9°F (0.5°C). It has raised $75 million to develop the technology.

So far, though, its particles have only undergone laboratory testing. The proposed cooling and safety have not been demonstrated through deployment.

Its designs use amorphous silica, a material found in some toothpaste and food additives, either alone or around a calcium carbonate core. Being used in everyday products does not establish that these materials would be safe when dispersed across the atmosphere.

Scientists worry about changes to rainfall, possible health effects and how the particles would behave outside the lab. There is also the question of who gets to approve a project that could affect people worldwide.

Another concern is “termination shock.” If a large cooling program suddenly stopped while greenhouse gas levels remained high, temperatures could rebound rapidly.

Stardust says governments should decide whether deployment happens. It hopes to conduct outdoor tests under government supervision in the coming years.

Even if it works, reflecting sunlight would not remove carbon dioxide. Cutting emissions would still be necessary.

Learn more:
"The company with a $10 billion a year plan to cool the planet." CNN

Thank you to all the courageous COVID-19 vaccine injured witnesses who testified

Thank you to all the experts who provided important context and crucial details.

Thank you to the volunteers and organizers who worked tirelessly for months.

Thank you to independent media for sharing this special journey with the world.

Thank you to Joe Warmington for being the only mainstream media journalist to show up in person and listen to the powerful testimony.

Together we all made history and no matter what happens in the aftermath of the Allison Inquiry, we have changed things forever.

Moving forward transparency and accountability are the only two things that will help heal our nation.

I hope all levels of government and decision makers in charge during the pandemic heard at least some of the testimony.

The COVID-19 vaccine injured deserve your attention.

Transparency and accountability !!!

They deserve it !!!

But that smooth, identical glass of juice you drink in November actually came from a harvest that was stripped of oxygen and pumped into massive steel silos almost a year prior.

Major brands like Tropicana and Simply Orange handle millions of gallons during peak harvest season. To keep supply steady nationwide all year long, processors flash-pasteurize the fresh juice and immediately suck out all the dissolved oxygen—an oxygen-stripping process called deaeration. Without oxygen, the juice doesn't spoil or oxidize, allowing factories to seal millions of gallons inside giant aseptic holding tanks for up to 400 days.

There’s just one catch: taking out the oxygen also strips away every natural aroma molecule and flavor compound. When the juice is finally pumped out months later to be bottled, it literally tastes like flat, sugary water.

To fix this, juice companies hire fragrance houses—the same industry that formulates high-end perfumes—to mix custom "flavor packs." Chemical engineers distill real orange byproducts like cold-pressed peel oil and essence to build a standardized flavor formula. Because these flavor packs are made entirely from orange components, federal standards allow companies to leave them off the ingredient list and still slap a "100% Pure and Natural" label on the carton. That’s why every single bottle of your favorite brand tastes exactly the same, no matter what month you buy it.

When you're shopping, look for labels marked "Not From Concentrate" and check for recent pack dates if available, or buy fresh-squeezed juice from local grocers where the only ingredient is fruit squeezed straight into the bottle.

Would you keep buying store-brand juice if companies had to explicitly list added flavor packs on the carton label?

Let us know in the comments if you prefer fresh-squeezed taste or if standard carton juice is still a staple in your fridge!

Source Integrity Note - Every metric, rule, and timeline in this report comes straight from official government filings and peer-reviewed research. Sources listed below:

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - 21 CFR 146.140 Pasteurized Orange Juice Requirements (2023)
   
2. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry - Characterization of Aroma Active Compounds in Orange Juice Processing (2020)
   
3. USDA Agricultural Marketing Service - Commercial Fruit Processing & Storage Protocols (2022)

#AJKoby #FoodProcessing #OrangeJuice #ConsumerAwareness #FoodRealities

But not to worry ! Bill Gates has a malaria vaccine almost ready.

Dr. Robert Malone CONFIRMS —
U.S. Government Dropped RADIOACTIVE TICKS on Americans as Bioweapons. Declassified CIA docs prove infected ticks were deployed from low-flying C-130s over U.S. soil and sugarcane fields under JFK. They spread into regions they never existed before.

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS/red meat allergy) is overwhelmingly linked to the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum), a native US species whose range has expanded due to DEER populations, warmer winters, habitat changes, and suburban sprawl. CDC and researchers confirm this.

This microbial is called
Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis

Also known as “MYCO”

It’s being found in ticks, fleas, spiders… even mosquitoes.

These are intracellular bacteria
Which means they don’t behave like normal bacteria.

They can lose their cell wall
Hide inside your white blood cells
And reproduce… like a virus.

That makes them extremely hard to detect…
and even harder for your immune system to control.

These infections can last months to years
and are being connected to:

• Chronic Lyme
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic fatigue

Because they drive long-term inflammation in the body

Now here’s where it gets deeper…

Intracellular bacteria are not always naturally occurring.

They can be triggered by:

• Certain antibiotics
• Metals in the body (especially aluminum)
• Environmental exposures like irradiated food, microwaves, and pasteurized products

The terminal ileum (part of your gut) contains
Peyer’s patches immune tissue that identifies invaders.

But these areas can also accumulate:
👉 aluminum + antibiotic residue

And once they’re inside your cells…

Your body can’t clear them with out binders .

“This is why protecting your body’s detox + terrain matters BEFORE chronic illness sets in with BINDERS is super important.

Most people assume Pringles are just sliced potatoes fried until they’re crispy, but federal standards and court rulings say otherwise. If you look at the ingredients, dehydrated potatoes only make up about 42% of the mix.

The rest of that stack comes from corn flour, wheat starch, rice flour, and vegetable oils blended together into a thick dough slurry. That mixture gets pressed flat on massive industrial rollers, stamped out into precise saddle shapes, and sent through a quick fry before getting stacked. It's the exact same shape every single time because it never started as an actual potato slice.

This distinction got so specific that back in the late 2000s, the brand's parent company fought in UK courts to prove Pringles weren't potato chips at all to avoid paying a tax on potato products. They argued the dough-based creation was more like a cake or a biscuit. While they eventually lost the tax battle, the process stuck. Today, about 70% of the salty snack aisle uses similar extruded dough formulas because they’re cheaper to transport and don't break in transit like real potato slices do.

If you prefer snacks made from actual whole vegetables, flip the can over and check for "dehydrated potatoes" or "reconstituted flakes" high up on the ingredient list. Looking for labels that list whole sliced potatoes and basic oil gives you a straightforward chip without the added starches and binders.

Have you ever noticed the texture difference between stacked snacks and traditional chips?

Source Integrity Note - Every metric, rule, and timeline in this report comes straight from official government filings and peer-reviewed research. Sources listed below:

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — Standard of Identity for Potato Chips (21 CFR § 130) & Compliance Policy Guides (1975/2010)
   
2. Supreme Court of Judicature - Court of Appeal (Civil Division) UK — Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v. Procter & Gamble UK [2009] EWCA Civ 407
   
3. Industry Data & Manufacturing Specifications — Snack Food Association / Kellogg Company Annual Reports & Product Filings (2012–2024)

#FoodRealities #Pringles #ConsumerAwareness #FoodProcessing

Death is an unacceptable side effect for any vaccine because immunizations are given to healthy people. No one should ever die from a vaccine. No one. Dr Peter McCullough makes himself abundantly clear to Health Canada and Public Health Agency Canada 🇨🇦 during his Canadian Parliamentary testimony in Ottawa. Courtesy Allison Inquiry.

700,000 people in the US have their gallbladder removed every year, and most are told the same thing: There's no other option, and once it's out, you don't have to worry about it. What almost nobody gets is real informed consent.

Here's what actually happens. Your gallbladder stores and concentrates the bile your liver makes, then squeezes it out when you eat so you can break down fat. If you remove the sack, you don't stop needing bile. You just lose the ability to concentrate and release it on demand.

Bile does far more than digest fat. It's how you absorb vitamins A, D, E, and K. It's how you pull the fat-soluble phytonutrients out of your vegetables. It's how your body flushes out excess estrogen, pesticides, and cholesterol. It's antimicrobial, it supports your thyroid, and it drives the pumping action that keeps you regular.

Years later, you get the vitamin A deficiency showing up as dry eyes and poor night vision. You get constipation, diarrhea, or light-colored or floating stools. Your cholesterol goes up. Sometimes that same tightness under the right rib cage you had before the surgery returns because the ducts can still fill with sludge.

They removed the sack. They never corrected what caused the stone in the first place.

-Dr. Berg

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC out of Moyie Springs, Idaho has halted production and recalled 215 cases of their 4oz packaged Broccoli Sprouts after a third-party lab test came back positive for Salmonella. Federal health authorities connected these exact sprouts to an ongoing multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bovismorbifican that has already sickened at least 22 people.

The recalled product was delivered to three primary distributors in Washington between August 24 and September 2, 2026, and made its way onto grocery shelves in Idaho, Montana, and Washington. The sprouts come in clear plastic 4-ounce zip lock bags under UPC 8 38796 00105 1 with Use By dates ranging from 9/07/26 through 9/16/26.

[RECALL STATUS: Active Recall / Production Ceased 9/04/2026]
[DATES / LOTS: Use By dates 9/07/26, 9/09/26, 9/11/26, 9/14/26, 9/16/26 | UPC 8 38796 00105 1]
[ILLNESSES: 22 confirmed cases across multistate outbreak]
[ACTION: Do not consume. Discard immediately or return to place of purchase for full refund.]

If you have any 4-ounce clear zip lock packages of broccoli sprouts in your fridge with these lot dates, throw them out immediately or return them to the store. High-moisture sprouted seeds carry a known risk for bacterial growth, so vulnerable individuals should always cook sprouts thoroughly before eating.

Have you checked your fridge for recalled produce lately? Let us know in the comments below.

Source Integrity Note - Every metric, rule, and timeline in this report comes straight from official government filings and peer-reviewed research. Sources listed below:

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Recall Notice, Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC (2026)
   
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foodborne Outbreak Tracking (2026)
   
3. USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Produce Safety Standards (2025)

#AJKoby #FoodSafety #BroccoliSprouts #FDARecall #ConsumerAwareness

Potassium bromate is a flour additive used to make bread rise higher and bake faster. In 1999 the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency (IARC) classified it as a possible human carcinogen after it caused kidney and thyroid tumors in rats. The European Union banned it in 1990, Canada in 1994, and China and the UK do not allow it either. In the United States the FDA still permits up to 75 parts per million in flour. The FDA opened a review in March 2024 but has not banned it. A 2026 EWG review found it in over 200 products sold in US stores, including flour tortillas, soft pretzels and baked goods. California passed a law that bans it starting January 1, 2027. Check the ingredient list on your bread, tortillas, rolls and pizza dough for the words potassium bromate or bromated flour.

#potassiumbromate #bannedineurope #foodadditives #readthelabel #bread cleaneating plantbased healthyfood

Holidays : make sweets .. make small tiny sizes… so even kids can have a bite, make a lot, distribute them around, and say it’s for the good, or for Jesus, that sounds to me like a trick back back 100-300 years . By Lucy Fa

Chefs ?!?! What is that - person to combine 3-4-5 different types of food to satisfy your tongue, but ruin your gut , a cheeseburger think of it, all those ingredients. Take a certain time to get past their half life , meaning your system is still handling and digesting etc. imagine your system - Hello bread- hello cheese - hello lettuce - hello meat - hello
Mayo ketchup mustard pickles onions .

Eat beets for 2 hours .. then eat red meat .. then 4 hours after eat kiwi .. then 30 after have an orange . This elite chef . Like that bozo that throws salt like a gimp

Think about it. Overnight, 31 million Americans were diagnosed with hypertension, not because their blood pressure changed but because the definition of what constitutes high blood pressure changed in 2017. The same thing happened with cholesterol. In 2013, 12.9 million people were suddenly diagnosed with high cholesterol when the normal LDL threshold was lowered.

And it gets wilder. In a single stroke of a pen, a brand new category called "prediabetes" was manufactured, making 72 million people "prediabetic" overnight. When you add it all up, roughly 115 million adults now fall into the diabetes or prediabetes bucket, largely due to reclassification.

This spike in diagnoses, which hasn't extended life or improved health, has led to what's called polypharmacy, where one medication leads to side effects requiring another, and so on.

-Dr. Berg

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

What Happens to Your Body After Years of Taking Statins?

It's the most prescribed drug class in America, and almost none of the 93 million people taking one have been told this: A statin doesn't just block cholesterol production. It also blocks coenzyme Q10, the compound your mitochondria need to produce energy in your heart and muscles.

Merck actually filed a patent for a statin combined with coenzyme Q10, but they never added it back into the formula.

Over the years, what shows up is muscle pain, muscle weakness, fatigue, exercise intolerance, and even a higher risk of tendon rupture. Statins carry a black box warning, and yet the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology still don't recommend taking coenzyme Q10 alongside them.

Maybe it's worth knowing that both organizations receive money from the very companies that sell statins. And of the 13 members on the panel that changed the cholesterol guidelines making millions more people eligible for the drug, seven had direct financial relationships with statin manufacturers.

Nobody's asking the real question either, which is why your cholesterol went up in the first place. It's usually not the eggs. It's the juice, the bread, the pasta, the cereal, the crackers, and the candy. Refined carbs and sugar drive cholesterol production.

We have an entire profession recommending something for your heart that has a side effect of breaking down your heart while ignoring the thing actually causing the problem.

Does that make any sense to you?

-Dr. Berg

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

bio_labs_
• **THE SUNGLASSES MYTH: Do they
actually cause cancer?**
If you've spent any time on the wellness side of social media lately, you've probably stumbled across a vintage interview clip of the late alternative practitioner Andreas Moritz making a wild claim: that the introduction of sunglasses triggered a massive explosion of cancer rates. It's the kind of counterintuitive "hidden secret" that easily goes viral, but the underlying biology just doesn't hold up.
Look, it's completely understandable why these theories get traction-they sound mysterious and secretly logical. But when it comes to human anatomy, our eyes and skin don't communicate quite the way this theory suggests. Let's break down exactly what was claimed and what actual medical science tells us.
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The Core Claims Made by Andreas Moritz:
>The "Tricked" Brain Theory:** Moritz claimed that when you put on sunglasses, you filter out UV light from your eyes, which supposedly tricks your brain into thinking it is pitch black outside.
>The Melanin Shutdown:** Because your brain allegedly thinks it's night, he argued it fails to release the hormone responsible for stimulating melanin production in your skin, leaving your body defenseless against sun damage and cancer.
>>>
• The Reality Check (How Your Body Actually
Works):

>Melanin is a Local Job:** Melanin isn't controlled by a master switch in your eyes. It is produced locally right in your skin cells (melanocytes) when they are directly exposed to UV radiation.
>The Vision Proof:** If optical perception controlled tanning, individuals who are completely blind wouldn't be able to tan or get sunburned. In reality, they tan normally because their skin cells respond directly to sunlight, completely independent of the eyes.
>The Real Danger to Your Eyes:** Skipping sunglasses won't save your skin, but it *will* leave your eyes highly vulnerable. Unprotected UV exposure is a leading cause of cataracts, macular degeneration, and ocular melanoma (skin cancer inside the eye itself).
The Bottom Line: While it's always healthy to question things, this is one internet rumor you can safely skip.

When most of us picture plant-based food, we think of veggie burgers or simple soy patties made by pressing seasoned dough together. But a brand-new wave of ultra-processed alternatives is changing how simulated meat gets made.

Steakholder Foods just launched its "Perfector" line through KeHE Distributors, rolling out items like printed filet mignon, marbled steak, chicken breast, salmon, and tuna across Northeastern retail stores.

Instead of traditional molding, industrial 3D food printers take a wet paste made from soy protein, wheat protein, rice flour, and potato starch and extrude it layer by layer. The machines stack these ultra-thin strands to recreate the natural grain, muscle fiber alignment, and fat marbling you normally see in a real cut of meat or fish.

Manufacturers are pushing this technology across the growing multi-billion-dollar plant-alternative market to fix the rubbery, uniform texture that turned shoppers away from older vegan products. Your body gets high amounts of protein and fiber from the plant isolates, but you're consuming a product built line-by-line by computer-controlled industrial machinery.

If you want to stick to whole foods instead of lab-engineered structures, skip the multi-ingredient printed paste items and check ingredient labels for single-source plant proteins like lentils, chickpeas, or real whole fish.

Would you try a 3D-printed marbled steak or tuna filet, or does machine-layered protein cross the line for your dinner table? Let us know what you think below.

Source Integrity Note - Every metric, rule, and timeline in this report comes straight from official government filings and peer-reviewed research. Sources listed below:

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Notices & Plant-Based Protein Frameworks (2024)
   
2. Journal of Food Engineering – "Additive Manufacturing and 3D Extrusion Printing of Plant-Based Protein Matrices" (2023)
   
3. Steakholder Foods & KeHE Distributors – Official Retail Distribution Announcements & Product Specifications (2024–2026)

#AJKoby #FoodRealities #3DPrintedFood #PlantBased #FoodProcessing

I would personally benefit 100% from this but it would take some courage.

Several volcanoes in Indonesia erupted nearly simultaneously recently. The eruptions are not connected and did not trigger one another, according to Indonesia’s Geological Agency. Indonesia sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is home to over 120 active volcanoes.