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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reported that it found a high level of cancer-causing benzene in five of the 100 soft drinks and beverages that it tested. The levels of benzene were more than the recommended 5 parts per billion limit for drinking water.
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May 29, 2007 A major milestone occurred last week, when the earth's population became more urban than rural - though only a symbolic date calculated from an estimation, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, represents a major demographic milestone and is sometimes referred to as the "Urban Millennium." The last century has seen the rapid urbanization of the world's population", as the global proportion of urban population rose from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 billion) in 2005.
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It's easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime (a plastic bag fluttering in a Japanese maple). The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these. They are almost too commonplace to notice, too dreary to evoke anything at all. Foundered on a roadside or slumped in a bag of spent Chinese takeout, the can without its Mountain Dew and the bottle without its Bud are unremarkable things.
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Flavors: Everything You Want to Know
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An ingredient or a blend of ingredients comprised primarily of natural and/or artificial aromatic substances i.e. aroma chemicals (found in nature or not), plant extracts, essential oils, reaction products, etc.) recognized by the FDA as GRAS (generally recognized as safe).
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Flavors can be simple or complex mixtures which are used in finished food/beverage/pharmaceutical products to impart, modify, enhance the flavor of choice or to mask undesirable, off notes.
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An ingredient or a blend of ingredients comprised primarily of natural and/or artificial aromatic substances i.e. aroma chemicals (found in nature or not), plant extracts, essential oils, reaction products, etc.) recognized by the FDA as GRAS (generally recognized as safe).
Description
Flavors can be simple or complex mixtures which are used in finished food/beverage/pharmaceutical products to impart, modify, enhance the flavor of choice or to mask undesirable, off notes.
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If you've visited your local feed dealer or veterinarian recently, or read any of the dozens of livestock or poultry magazines targeted at small farmers, you probably already know what "NAIS" stands for. The National Animal Identification System is arguably the most hated federal program in rural America. The plan, released in draft form in April 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), proposed sweeping changes in the way animals are managed on small farms and homesteads.
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Questions from Grist Editors
Q: What work do you do?
A: I am the president of T.S. Designs.
Q: How does it relate to the environment?
A: We provide the highest-quality, most-sustainable printed T-shirts on the market. We define that as being made of organic cotton or other sustainable fibers, manufactured in the U.S., and printed and dyed with our environmentally friendly REHANCE process. We also want to be an example of a successful triple-bottom-line business.
Q: What work do you do?
A: I am the president of T.S. Designs.
Q: How does it relate to the environment?
A: We provide the highest-quality, most-sustainable printed T-shirts on the market. We define that as being made of organic cotton or other sustainable fibers, manufactured in the U.S., and printed and dyed with our environmentally friendly REHANCE process. We also want to be an example of a successful triple-bottom-line business.
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Excerpted from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, May 2007)
Farming is not for everybody; increasingly, it's hardly for anybody. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the life's work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Farming is not for everybody; increasingly, it's hardly for anybody. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the life's work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
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This is the followup 49-100 peak oil tools as written by Sharon Astyk. To read tips #1-49 read here
49. Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly - sharing food is an important part of community building.
49. Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly - sharing food is an important part of community building.
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Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:
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Wal-Mart is such a dominating force that when it enters a market, few rivals are left unscathed. But in the tiny town of Emo, Ont. - population, 1,186 - grocers Dan and Mark Loney found a formula for their store to take on the discount titan.
And they're doing it with Wal-Mart's own products.
And they're doing it with Wal-Mart's own products.
