Michael Parkes, Staff Writer
Waking Times

We all know something is not quite right with our food system when organizations can sell burgers for under 2 bucks. Whether it is euros, dollars or pounds the idea that the cows grow to produce these beef burgers is reduced to a value only, means nutrition, sustainability and systemic wellness have all gone out the window.

Take a moment to watch this Vice feature on the beef industry, and you’ll get the message that the priority of this industry is to produce the cheapest cow patties as possible. Involved here are not just global corporations (even though they may be the driving forces), but also governments, food associations, and academic institutions, which work together to validate the force feeding of animals for human food.

Beef has been rolled out across the emerging world as foundational part of the diets of the everyday man, women and child. Now the research is pointing to the issues of how making beef available on such a scale is having not only on the environment, but also we humans who are meant to be nourished by its consumption. So the challenge now, if one chooses to enjoy a steak or homemade burger, is to identify where the beef has come from and what has the cow been fed?

By Luke Miller Truth Theory

A group of Chinese researchers have just teleported the first photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite sitting five hundred kilometres above the surface of earth.

The team done this through a process called quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement is when 2 subatomic particles become entangled by interacting together, and while this is not fully understood by modern science it shows that when the 2 particles are separated by infinite distance and 1 is altered the other is also altered.

This is not the first time this has happened as 20 years ago quantum scientists teleported a photon over a distance of 10 miles. Then in 2010, another team out of  the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai set the record by teleporting photons over 60 miles on the Earth’s surface. Now a new team comprised from many different institutions have gone one step further, doing it over 500km showing that quantum entanglement can move objects through space instantaneously.

Taken from their study “This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum internet.”