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- Riding on a sheep's back - PETA versus Australian wool
  Posted by senselessthing from The Age
  In recent months, PETA's campaigning has induced dozens of retailers to boycott or phase out Australian wool in protest at the controversial practice of "mulesing", a grim operation which involves cutting away swathes of skin around the backsides of Merino sheep.
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- Turning food crop into fuel 'not very wise'
  Posted by Jon from Canada
  Soybeans are a vastly better choice than corn as the basis for formulating alternatives to fossil fuel, according to a controversial new study out of the University of Minnesota.
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- No Bar Code
  Posted by Damianmann from Motherjones
  An evangelical Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road.
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- Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Donald Davis, a biochemist at the University of Texas, said that of 13 major nutrients in fruits and vegetables tracked by the Agriculture Department from 1950 to 1999, six showed noticeable declines -- protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and vitamin C. The declines ranged from 6 percent for protein, 15 percent for iron, 20 percent for vitamin C, and 38 percent for riboflavin.
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- Planting seeds for biofuel
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Washington State is leading the way towards homegrown fuels!
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- Government Investigating Possible Case of Mad Cow Disease
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Times
  when are we gonna admit that we have a problem?
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Damianmann comments on:
Turning food crop into fuel 'not very wise'
Uhm....there were crops before there was an oil industry. Are we that far "advanced" that we can't come up with ANY solution?
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12:32 pm 7/14/06
Damianmann comments on:
Turning food crop into fuel 'not very wise'
There's always hemp oil I think biodiesel is a good alternative.
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2:43 pm 7/13/06
Billbar comments on:
Turning food crop into fuel 'not very wise'
All the food produced by this country couldn't be made into enough fuel to replace the fossil fuels we use.
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2:15 pm 7/13/06
Jon comments on:
Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago
It should come as no surprise that industrial agricultural practices degrade not only the land but also the food itself.
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9:30 am 3/12/06