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(it's not actually about oranges)

[sayruq]

As always don't forget about eSims

[luxmundi-i]

Iman Atallah, speaks from the northern Gaza Strip about her story of suffering, fear, pain, fatigue, thirst and hunger.

[sayruq]

P@yp@l: [email protected]

V3nmo: @adulthindoo

[sayruq]

Urgent medical support for 9 year old girl from G, organized by Andrea Ranta

Just like anywhere in the world, people have important health issues to… Andrea Ranta needs your support for Urgent medical support for 9 ye

Boost. Donate if you can. Let's help this little girl's life

[sayruq]

Urgent: Help my family evacuate from Gaza, organized by Farah Baker

Israel abducted my dad (Dr. Basil Baker) and forced him to strip down to his und… Farah Baker needs your support for Urgent: Help my family

Help evacuate her father from Gaza

[thewightknight]

The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands

Supposedly, even 70% of olive oil in the USA markets is fake, cut with cheap bad oils like sunflower and canola. This item is supposed to be healthy, but this is now corrupted. It was found that even 7 of the biggest olive oil makers in USA, mix their items with cheap oils to get more profits. This is like the 2008 practice in Italy when 400 police officers were involved in the breakdown known as operation Golden Oil. This meant seizure for 85 oil farms that mixed some percentage chlorophyll with sunflower and canola to the olive oil. The oil was mixed, colored, perfumed and flavored too, and these things made the Australian government investigate their own oils. The results were awful. After that, not one brand named extra virgin olive oil got the 2012 certificate of approval.

This scam made the California University study 124 imported oils and found that over 70% of samples failed the tests.

These failed:

Mezzetta

Carapelli

Pompeian

Primadonna

Mazola

Sasso

Colavita

Star

Antica Badia

Whole Foods

Safeway

Felippo Berio

Coricelli

Bertolli

These brands passed:

Corto olive

Lucero

McEvoy Ranch Organic

Omaggio

California Olive Branch

Bariani Olive oil

Lucini

Ottavio

Olea Estates

Cobram Estate

Kirkland Organic

Also, test the olive oil yourself at home. Put the bottle out when cold, or in the fridge for 30 min. if it gets solid, it is pure and has monounsaturated fats.

[brownmonalisa]

The lies!!!!

[sauvamente]

*throws out all the bertolli*

[julianahuxtable]

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

[trapcard]

this is a real scandal

[note-a-bear]

Ain’t that a bitch

[earthshaker1217]

They selling fake olive oil.

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was the most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, prompting the E.U.’s anti-fraud office to establish an olive-oil task force. (“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.) The E.U. also began phasing out subsidies for olive-oil producers and bottlers, in an effort to reduce crime, and after a few years it disbanded the task force. Yet fraud remains a major international problem: olive oil is far more valuable than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to produce—and surprisingly easy to doctor. Adulteration is especially common in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer, and exporter of olive oil. (For the past ten years, Spain has produced more oil than Italy, but much of it is shipped to Italy for packaging and is sold, legally, as Italian oil.) “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S. Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, told me.

In Puglia, which produces about forty per cent of Italy’s olives, growers have been in a near-constant state of crisis for more than a decade. “Thousands of olive-oil producers are victims of this ‘drugged’ market,” Antonio Barile, the president of the Puglia chapter of a major farmers’ union, told me, referring to illegal importations of seed oils and cheap olive oil from outside the E.U., which undercut local farmers. Instead of supporting small growers who make distinctive, premium oils, the Italian government has consistently encouraged quan-tity over quality, to the benefit of large companies that sell bulk oil. It has not implemented a national plan for oil production, has employed a byzantine system for distributing agricultural subsidies, and has often failed to enforce Italian laws and E.U. regulations intended to prevent fraud. The government has been so lax in pursuing some oil crimes that it can seem complicit. In 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported that Italy was responsible for eighty-seven per cent of misappropriated E.U. subsidies to olive-oil bottlers in the preceding fifteen years, and that the government had recovered only a fraction of the money.

[white-throated-packrat]

I’ve been reading Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

[thebibliosphere]

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out. If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

[bonehandledknife]

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

[trackingshot]

YO FUCK THESE GUYS my mom is allergic to corn and some of them were cut with corn oil. We very aggressively research any oil we purchase now.

[mossdftba]

I tried to click on the original article and got sent to a weed site, but here’s a Forbes article from 2016

The Olive Oil Scam: If 80% Is Fake, Why Do You Keep Buying It?

It's a safe bet that all that extra virgin, high quality olive oil you've been buying in recent years is not that at all but, rather, poor q

[evergreen-scripture]

The Lord says, "I will rescue those who love me, I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation."

Psalm 91:14-16

[fairywomb]

[lesbianbeliever]

One thing I really REALLY just love about God is that I can pray to Him and worship Him anywhere and at anytime! Honestly, how cool is that??? Like I can connect with God and speak with Him in prayer literally anywhere and at any hour of the day, and He’ll hear me! Also I can go to God with whatever I’m feeling and feel the warmth of His comfort??? Like??? SUPER RAD. God is so good y’all, and I love Him so much. 

[sgeoffa]

[catchymemes]

[ebonyheartnet]

Yup, and that’s okay.

It feels like it for at least the first couple of years, so why not lean into it and make it camp?

You’re the BBEG staging an epic battle to get revenge on all of life’s little assholes! Fuck up somebody’s day with an evil laugh as you assert that they’re not allowed to hurt you indiscriminately! Write that dastardly letter to HR about the harassment!

If defending yourself makes you feel like a villain, just fucking lean into it a bit. You’ve gotta fake it til you make it, so why not put on a show?

[tzikeh]

HEY!

Back up your computer!

Go get the external drive you bought specifically for this purpose and then left in a drawer somewhere and RUN A FULL BACKUP.

There are lots of posts that make the rounds reminding us to sit up straight, stretch, drink water, refocus our eyes, take our meds, etc. But while this may not be about your health, it's still super-important.

Back up your whole-ass computer. If you can afford a second backup drive, buy one so that you have one SSD and one HDD, and back up to both of them (you can back up just the current important stuff to the SSD and let the HDD do the heavy-duty lifting).

Do not rely on 'the cloud' or the internet to keep jack shit.

AND BACK UP YOUR GMAIL AS WELL HOLY SHIT. The last thing you want is a catastrophic issue where literally every single thing you have in gmail is gone. It's happened. It happened to a friend of mine and basically her entire life was in there and now it's all gone. 20 years of it.

Reblog to save a life.

[sayruq]

Help Aser and his family evacuate Gaza, organized by Mohammed Alassar

Hello, my name is Mohammed Alassar, currenlty living in Sweden and I am fundra… Mohammed Alassar needs your support for Help Aser and his fa

[catdotjpeg]

Day 93 of the one-person relay protest in front of the Israeli Embassy! Today, we thank the Information and Human Rights Research Institute and the Progressive Network Center for their hard work. Israel is starving its residents, banning the entry of relief goods, and continuing to kill starving residents who are packed into trucks that happen to arrive. A total of 400 starving residents were killed by Israeli tanks and snipers.

-- 🍉 팔레스타인평화연대 - BDS Korea 🇵🇸, 14 Mar 2024

[confessionsofcalling]

“We want the war horse.

Jesus rides a donkey.

We want the bird of prey.

The Holy Spirit descends as a dove.

We want the militia.

Jesus calls fishermen, tax collectors, women, and children.

We want the courtroom.

Jesus sets a table.

We want the gavel.

Jesus washes feet.

We want to take up swords.

Jesus takes up a cross.

We want the empire.

Jesus brings the Kingdom of God.

We want the nation.

Jesus calls the church.

We want the roaring lion.

God comes as a slaughtered lamb.

We keep trying to arm God.

God keeps trying to disarm us.”

~ Benjamin Cremer

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Call to Action: Keep Gazas Talent Alive, organized by Etty Alberto

Said Fadel is currently living in Gaza. He is a band member and co-founder of Sol… Etty Alberto needs your support for Call to Action: Keep

[intersectionalpraxis]

The way he keeps re-assuring him that he will have food too, and affectionately calls him Habibi... I just -never stop talking about Gaza. Don't stop talking about this.

Youssef, I wish you the fullest of recoveries.

This doesn't end with a permanent ceasefire -the occupation must end and Palestine must be free.