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    • Food safety concerns grow as imports to US surge

      Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor

      Now, with news that Chinese feed suppliers may have intentionally disguised the contents of exports to escape food inspection, the questions have reached the broadest level yet: "With the increased globalization of America's food supply, who should be monitoring all the food coming in from foreign countries?"

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    • Food prices to rise as biofuel demand grows

      Posted by Jeff from Financial Times

      "Feed prices are rising, so that pushes up the costs of poultry, hogs and cattle and therefore a rancher is going to lower the size of his herd to keep costs down. In turn there is going to be less meat, which means prices are going to go up," said Mr Collins, who is responsible for the USDA's agricultural forecasts and is adviser to Mike Johanns, the US secretary of agriculture.

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      Unhappy Meals

      Posted by rhoehn from New York Times

      Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

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      Movie Review of 'Our Daily Bread'

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      There’s a haunting scene of a woman, seated seemingly alone and cutting the necks of the chickens that survived the initial kill room. Hers is actually an act of mercy. If she does her job properly, the birds will be dead by the time they are cleaned and butchered, which isn’t always the case in industrial slaughterhouses.

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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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    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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    saraearthmama2 comments on:

    Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?

    Great article.  Interfacing with the global food crisis, and the current drive toward more ethical and environmentally friendly production practices, this is an interesting option.  I still prefer my grass-fed beef, but I’d rather eat this stuff than go hungry!  You prompted an entry  on my own downtoearthblog.com.

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    7:47 am 4/16/08
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