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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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    • FDA Approves First Use of Viruses as a Food Additive

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      The approved mix of six viruses is intended to be sprayed onto ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, including sliced ham and turkey, said John Vazzana, the president and chief executive of Intralytix, which developed the additive. The viruses, called bacteriophages, are meant to kill strains of the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium, the food agency said.

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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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    markvs comments on:

    China's economy cools

    Who will pay for all of our debt (in the U.S.) if China doesn’t have enough money to bail out the deficit spenders in Washington DC?

     

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    11:08 am 12/04/08
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    steelhead comments on:

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

    Interesting to find out if the anchovies are a biproduct of some other product – maybe cheaper to reuse it rather than dispose of it and dupe the public into believeing it is for their benfit. 

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    7:52 am 11/14/08
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    pongpong comments on:

    China's economy cools

    China’s economy grow very fast this year!

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    12:09 am 10/26/08
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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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    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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