Yes, I actually used that awful pun.
I don’t care. Ich stehe dazu (I stand by it).
Germany news: Minister sounds alarm on food security – Germany’s farming minister says the country needs to be more prepared for future food emergencies.
Germany’s Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer says farms and food producers must be included in future Bundeswehr emergency exercises, calling them “critical infrastructure.”
He warned that if agriculture failed, “our food supply would collapse.”
No. Well, yes. The criminal gangs known as “politicians.”
The old and the poor are doing the shoplifting because they can’t afford the food.
Shoplifting hits record high in Germany: Are criminal gangs behind it?
Shoplifting cost the German retail sector nearly €3 billion in 2024, a new record that was partially driven by organised crime. The federal government is also missing out on millions of euros in tax revenue.
German retailers noticed a gaping hole of missing merchandise worth €4.95bn when they completed their inventories in 2024. That’s according to a new publication by the country’s EHI Retail Institute, based on a survey they carry out each year.
That means, well, I’m not really sure what that means.
I think it means Planet Earth has to go on a diet. Is that how they’re saving it now?
‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet.
That’s right. People mustn’t think meat is being taken away just because we’ve taken away the meat. Our meals still meat the minimum daily requirements of… what? Of what we require our patients not to eat.
Always look on the bright side of Russian invasions – of one of the world’s top wheat exporters.
Germany to host G7 meeting on Ukraine invasion’s impact on food security – Germany will host a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries on Friday to discuss the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on global food security and how to best stabilize food markets, the government said.
“The provision of foodstuffs in Germany and the European Union is safe but greater shortages can be expected in some countries outside the EU – especially where scarcity already reigns today due to issues like drought,” German Agriculture Minister Cem Oezdemir said in statement.
“Price hikes for agricultural products cannot be excluded in industrialized nations either.”
The number of people relying on food donations has increased to 1.65 million in the past year, a 10% increase overall, and 20% increase among people 65 and older.
They need to approach this problem differently.
1) Go to Austria.
2) Throw away your passport.
3) Enter the country as a refugee from, well, it doesn’t really matter where you’re from as long as you call yourself a refugee.
You’ll get free room and board for as long as you want
“This development is alarming — old-age poverty will overrun us in the coming years.”
German oddity 415. The pig is big here. Germans have more pig and sow idioms then wurst varieties – and that’s a whole lot. They also seem to think that any phrase or saying can be improved just by adding the words pig or sow to it, thus making said phrase or saying saugut (sow good or damned fine).
So what about this German oddity in the news today? After a German day care center in Leipzig decided not to offer pork on its meal plan anymore (gee, I wonder why?) threats started coming in. The police have now decided to guard the place.
And after BILD decided to report about the day care center’s decision the hashtag #Schweinefleisch (pork) reached the number one spot in Germany.
Polizeischutz für Kita ohne Schweinefleisch in Leipzig.
That means bratwurst. Oh, brother. Dopey Americans eating goofy German food.
“It smells like prune juice and beer had a baby.”
Amerikaner mögen Pizza, Burger und Cola. Was passiert aber, wenn sie deutsches Essen probieren? Was halten sie von Vitamalz, Lakritze und Bratwurst? Ein Youtube-Video zeigt die Antwort.
The racist, xenophobic swine.
A food bank in Germany has temporarily stopped taking on new foreign clients after saying a huge influx of migrants had displaced desperate locals.
Joerg Sartor, chairman of the Essener Tafel charity that serves free meals to the poor in the western city of Essen, said: ‘We want the German granny to be able to keep coming to us’.
He said especially German elderly people and single mothers had been gradually displaced over the past two years as the share of migrants had risen to three-quarters of recipients.
“Wasser auf die Mühlen der Rechtspopulisten.”
Is that like… Clearly confused? Passive aggressive? Least favorite? Pretty ugly?
Only oxymorons at Berlin’s Green Week talk that way. No open secret.
International Green Week has been running in Berlin since 1926, showcasing innovation in food and agriculture industries to 400,000 visitors a year. In celebration of Green Week, German news publication BR24 featured a segment on vegan meat startup AMIDORI.
AMIDORI is the name behind upcoming vegan line M¡dori, who specialise in meat-alternatives made from pea protein. Their products contain 25-35% protein, with just 2-4% fat. The line includes stripes, sticks and Crunchlets of ‘meat’, as well as food resembling pulled pork and mince.
Grüne Woche – Großes Gedränge und kaputte Rolltreppen.
Huh? That’s absolutely, positively my favorite German food!
Leave it up to the Enlightened Left to help protect us from ourselves again.
The EU’s Umweltausschuss (ecology committee) plans to restrict the use of phosphates in frozen meats. A loophole in their legislation had allowed frozen Döner Kebab to contain phosphates up until now. Only fresh Döner will be allowed to have phosphates in the future.
The problem here: Almost all of the Döner restaurants in Europe depend upon frozen Döner meat being delivered to them. Some 500 tons of it are eaten every day. 80% of that in Germany. Over 110,000 jobs would be affected. And please note: The same EU bureaucrats (from another EU department, of course) have declared that 4200 mg of phosphates per day does not pose a health hazard. A Döner Kebab has on average 134 mg.
What can you say? What else can you say? “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Wegen Sozialisten und Grünen im EU-Parlament – Dem Döner droht das Aus!
Observing Hermann 