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May 15, 2006
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"Fast Food Nation" mega-selling author Eric Schlosser must be doing something right. He's under vicious attack from food industry lobbyists and front groups mimicking his book title in their website smearing him. Fleishman-Hillard's Becky Johnson and her fellow flustered food flacks risk publicizing Schlosser's writings in their over-the-top efforts to condemn him.
May 16, 2006
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has announced plans to sell more organic food, and has asked its suppliers - including Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods and Pepsi - to increase their range of products to meet demand. The Bentonville based retailer told the New York Times that it intends to sell a greater range of organic products at a 10% premium - significantly lower than the current organic premium, which stands at 20-30%.
May 15, 2006
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As "mad cow" disease spreads outward from Britain, a silent epidemic of carriers in humans has begun to emerge. Jennifer Cooke reports. THE bad news came with the death of an elderly patient in Britain two years ago. While seemingly unremarkable, this was automatically the subject of an autopsy because the patient had a blood transfusion in 1999 from a donor who had died later from the human form of mad cow disease: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
May 11, 2003
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PAULDING, Ohio, May 8 Robert Thornell says that five years ago an invisible swirling poison invaded his family farm and the house he had built with his hands. It robbed him of his memory, his balance and his ability to work. It left him with mood swings, a stutter and fistfuls of pills. He went from doctor to doctor, unable to understand what was happening to him.
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
May 15, 2006
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The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches today issued a strong condemnation of Terminator seeds and called on churches and ecumenical partners to take action to stop the technology. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia warned that sterile seed technology would increase economic injustice all over the world.
World Council Of Churches Take Action to Stop Terminator Seeds Demands WCC General Secretary
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America is swooning over ethanol, the renewable fuel which, in the US, is derived from corn. President Bush predicts ethanol will replace gasoline. Congress has mandated nearly doubling its production. But so far, ethanol is more politics than promise.
Over the next five years, $5.7 billion in federal tax credits will support the ethanol market - a boon to Midwest corn growers who are certainly no hayseeds when it comes to lobbying members of Congress.
Over the next five years, $5.7 billion in federal tax credits will support the ethanol market - a boon to Midwest corn growers who are certainly no hayseeds when it comes to lobbying members of Congress.
May 15, 2006
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Professors Peter Rosset and Miguel Altieri of the University of Calilfornia
at Berkeley praised the model of urban organic agriculture used in Cuba, noting that it has the support of the community and government authorities and is an example to the world on taking advantage of local resources.
at Berkeley praised the model of urban organic agriculture used in Cuba, noting that it has the support of the community and government authorities and is an example to the world on taking advantage of local resources.
May 13, 2006
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COLOGNE, GERMANY, MAY 12: The world should do more to develop drought-resistant crops or new flood controls as part of a drive to ease the damaging impact of climate change, the head of environment at the World Bank said.
"As a development institution we have to focus on the fact that millions of people will suffer from climate change," Warren Evans told Reuters on the fringes of a carbon markets trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
"As a development institution we have to focus on the fact that millions of people will suffer from climate change," Warren Evans told Reuters on the fringes of a carbon markets trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
May 12, 2006
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House Faces Moment of Truth on Global Warming Will Members Embrace Science and the Need for Real Pollution Limits?
WASHINGTON - May 12 - Members of the U.S. House of Representatives next week face a fateful vote next week that may have repercussions for generations to come. Will they, or won't they, confront the truth on global warming?
WASHINGTON - May 12 - Members of the U.S. House of Representatives next week face a fateful vote next week that may have repercussions for generations to come. Will they, or won't they, confront the truth on global warming?
May 12, 2006
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Ventura-based clothing company Patagonia recently tied for second in the Organic Exchange's spring 2006 Global Organic Cotton Market Report that ranked businesses in terms of global organic cotton consumption.
Patagonia founder and owner Yvon Chouinard established the company in 1973, intending to rappel the limitations of the original outdoor climbing industry. Now, Patagonia¹s success comes at a time when the use of organically-grown cotton is becoming a trend in the apparel industry.
Patagonia founder and owner Yvon Chouinard established the company in 1973, intending to rappel the limitations of the original outdoor climbing industry. Now, Patagonia¹s success comes at a time when the use of organically-grown cotton is becoming a trend in the apparel industry.
