1 hour until port strike. ETA until toilet paper hoarding?
WATCH:
The head of the International Longshoreman's Association, the largest maritime union in North America, pledged to cripple the country until his members demands are met.
Over 45,000 port workers and ILA union longshoremen have officially walked off the job at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports from New England to Texas.
Billions of dollars in trade have now been halted.
Stock up on goods. You may not be able to get any for a long time.
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You think you're just eating "cheese"?
Think again.
90% of the American cheese on store shelves right now is made with a lab-engineered fake rennet called FPC — fermentation-produced chymosin.
And it was originally developed and patented by Pfizer in 1990. Yeah, that Pfizer.
Here's how they did it: They took the gene for chymosin (the key clotting enzyme from a calf's stomach), spliced it into Aspergillus Niger — black mold — using CRISPR gene-editing tech, then let the mold ferment in giant vats like some dystopian bio-reactor. The result? A synthetic enzyme that's cheaper, faster, and more consistent than the real thing.
Big Food loved it. No more baby calves. No supply limits. Just endless, uniform cheese bricks rolling off the line. FDA called it "substantially equivalent" to real rennet and gave it GRAS status with zero long-term human safety studies — just a 90-day rat trial. Sound familiar?
The worst part? This stuff isn't even listed properly.
On ingredient labels it hides behind ...