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    • Seattle's prostitution 'problem'

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      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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    • To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming

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      organic_farm_uk_grain.jpg 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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    • Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study

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      Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentrations of the pesticide that had been trapped in ice are released by glacial melt and travel up the food chain. DDT has been banned in the northern hemisphere, but the World Health Organization has endorsed its controlled use to fight malaria in Africa. The purpose of the study "was not to further vilify DDT," says lead author Heidi Geisz, but to research how persistent the pesticide and other pollutants of its ilk can be.

      sources: ScienceDaily, The New York Times
      see also, in Grist: Study suggests link between DDT exposure and breast cancer

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      Wild salmon could disappear from Vancouver menus

      Posted by Shemuses from CBC

      One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable. Robert Clark, the executive chef of C restaurant, which overlooks Vancouver's False Creek, said the restaurant has made no decision yet, but wants to do its part to help protect dwindling salmon stocks. "At C, being a leader in the selling of sustainably harvested seafood, we are always considering and reconsidering and analyzing what's on our menu and should be there," Clarke told CBC Radio on Thursday morning.

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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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    Jeff

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