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food vegan vegetarian madcow ecoli salmonella food+safety fast+food obesity
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New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Putting the brakes on thoughtlessly inhaling calories is exactly the effect New York City health officials hoped the law would have. They say calorie labels could reduce the number of obese New Yorkers by 150,000 over the next five years, and prevent 30,000 cases of diabetes. New York is not the only city pushing calorie labels. New laws in Seattle and California's Santa Clara and San Francisco are scheduled to go into effect later this year,
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Alabama Blueberry U-Pickin
Posted by Villagenyc from
J.T., his wife Shirley and their daughter all toiled together to plant the first hundred or so bushes. There are now 900 bushes directly beside his house and more than 650 across the road.
Link to "Shelby County Reporter"
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Salmonella toll tops 1,000; peppers perhaps source
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Ed Schultz said on the radio today that this was related to allowing Mexican truckers to bring more uninspected produce into the country. "More than 1,000 people now have become ill from salmonella initially linked to raw tomatoes, a sobering milestone Wednesday that makes this the worst foodborne outbreak in at least a decade. Adding to the confusion, the government is warning certain people to avoid types of hot peppers, too."
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Nathan's hot dog eating contest - can science explain how they do it?
Posted by fozapd from The Scientist
As I sit here on a overcast 4th of July, I stumbled acrossed ESPN's coverage of Nathan's hot dog eating competition. It seems interesting enough - 20+ eaters enter a competition to crown the one true great eater. As the contestants enter, I was surprised how many of them were skinny! That\\\\\\\'s right - the greatest eater is not even a fat man.
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YouTube - FAO, the true list
Posted by bugaloo from You Tube
Really list of problem during last FAO meeting or just a menu list?
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Corn, wheat prices dip sharply
Posted by marcuscrockett2 from USA Today
How does weather affect your wealth building? Well...Everything is connected.
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Nine-year-old girl finds black widow spider in red grapes bought at Waitrose | Mail Online
Posted by web2marketer from Daily Mail
Supermarket Managers have recalled red Mexican grapes from all their stores after a deadly Black Widow Spider was found in a bunch. Waitrose pulled the fruit from shelves in case other spiders had entered the country in the same consignment. The black widow - one of the world's most poisonous spider - was found by nine-year-old girl in a fruit bowl at her home.
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The Food Chain: Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher
Posted by Jeff from New York Times
After at least 29 countries sharply curbed their food exports, impoverished importing countries are finding it more difficult to afford the food they need.
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Seattle's prostitution 'problem'
Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
Though police and outreach workers acknowledge that Seattle has long had a problem with juvenile prostitution, a new report states that hundreds of girls are working the streets with little or no substantive help from authorities. They are teens like Bella, 16, already arrested numerous times for prostitution and other crimes, who told a social worker that her pimp makes her work 20 hours a day without food, according to the report. "She says he beats her, spits on her and does not allow her to look up -- ever. To cement his control, he forces her to walk naked in front of his friends. The pimp's name is tattooed on her neck." ...
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High fat level found in takeaways
Posted by Jeff from BBC News
Campaigners call for better labels on takeaway food after revealing huge levels of fat, salt and sugar in some dishes.
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To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming
Posted by cathee from Feeds.treehugger
Timothy J. LaSalle is CEO of the Rodale Institute, a 60-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to researching sustainable farming and educating farmers and consumers about the food we eat. He will be contributing posts to TreeHugger as a guest blogger on an ongoing basis.
There is no question that a perfect storm of factors – from rising oil prices to the growing climatic impact of global warming – are creating a silent tsunami of global hunger. There is also no question that the world’s most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ah...
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$200 Burger: Decadent Or Despicable?, From The Fast-Food Chain Who Made The Whopper
Posted by Jeff from CBS News
To food crisis campaigners trying to draw attention to the millions of poor around the world, who are struggling to survive at a time of shortages and rising prices for basic commodities, this is the wrong burger, and the wrong message, at the wrong time.
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