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    • Cows Can Be Transported For 52 Hours Without Food or Water

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.treehugger

      transporting pig image There are myriad reasons to eat less meat or at least eat local and "happy meat" that has been raised on grass and treated properly. Here is another that I didn't know: Current regulations allow cattle to be transported for up to 52 hours without water, food or rest. Pigs, horses or poultry can be without water, food or rest for 36 hours. Transport trucks don't have heating or cooling, so imagine a trip from Alberta to Texas in winter. ...

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      A Tall, Cool Drink of ... Sewage?

      Posted by Jon from New York Times

      When you flush in Santa Ana, the waste makes its way to the sewage-treatment plant nearby in Fountain Valley, then sluices not to the ocean but to a plant that superfilters the liquid until it is cleaner than rainwater. The "new" water is then pumped 13 miles north and discharged into a small lake, where it percolates into the earth. Local utilities pump water from this aquifer and deliver it to the sinks and showers of 2.3 million customers. It is now drinking water. If you like the idea, you call it indirect potable reuse. If the idea revolts you, you call it toilet to tap.

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    joefriday comments on:

    Superfood or Monster From the Deep? | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL

    Interesting stuff , I wonder how much truth there is to this matter. this brings a whole new meaning to the term Alternative Medicines

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    3:37 am 9/27/08
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    koroth comments on:

    Just the Facts: How the Middle Class Got Stuck

    Rising price hurt, but don’t forget the soon to come massive tax hikes, plus the Dem plans to further yank up fuel prices. Guess we all better start looking into making more money and finding ways to shelter it from Obama.

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    10:05 am 9/05/08
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    jamesmurray comments on:

    High fat level found in takeaways

    Gee, imagine that. Heck that is why kids and others like it so much. Usually, it isn't called health food for a reason. James

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    12:39 pm 6/27/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Call For Action On Food Prices

    it starts with the cost of fuel…and gets worse with the demand for biofuels. We’re in deep poo right now.

     

    I think we have to grow more hemp. Hemp seeds can feed people. It can also be used for fuel.

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    6:30 pm 4/20/08
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    jimurl comments on:

    Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

    Where does hunting fit in with all of this? Sure, a lot of greens may not identify with hunters; but I’m not talking about sitting in an idling truck until a critter wanders by, then blasting away. I’m talking about ethical hunting: getting up pre-dawn, walking for miles into the wilderness, sneaking up, and killing only when it can be done quickly and painlessly. And for the purpose of providing food.

    Lots of people make their own beer. Why? Not because its significantly cheaper than a fine professioinally-made, tasty, store-bought microbrew. Rather, people make their own beer because it gives them a closer connection to what they consume.

    Likewise with In Vitro Meat production (Yuk, that is a bad name!). It might be possible , but it distances the human with their source of sustanance- making humans more uncaring and wasteful of the product.

    Producing meat might be beneficial ecologically/economically/antiboitically/morally. But what effect does it have psychologically on the humans?

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    11:07 pm 4/17/08
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    sunbal87 comments on:

    Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

    plants/trees/shrubs/creepers  are only living beings which do not eat other living beings and create their own food with the help of  5 elements of universe namely space and matter (matter is earth/land,fire,water and air.).they live longest.can mankind  take plants as role model and with the help of science,engineering and technology, create synthetic food out of 5 elements for all living beings including human,animals,birds that crawl,swim and fly.Then man can claim to be highest living creation among all that live.I toyed/wondered with this  idea for a verrrry long time.

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    sundarrajan balaji

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    9:03 pm 4/16/08
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

    meat is murder. period.  domestication is worse than slavery and torture, and this comes from a life long vegetarian, who can prove it is completely unnecessary and unhealthy.  Lab grown meat is even sicker becuase like GMO it is dangerously messing with life’s balance and has unknown consuquences.

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    8:47 am 4/16/08
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