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    • Feedback on the Google food story

      Posted by Jeff from Blog.seattletimes.nwsource

      Seattle University's Melanie Apostol provided the best response so far to today's story on life and lunch at Google's Kirkland offices: I've read and heard enough about the Mountain View perks, and was curious about the local benefits in Kirkland. It was definitely good to read it as I sit here at my desk having my late lunch -- a dry P & J sandwich, a can of coke, and a fattening "low fat" granola bar and a banana for "dessert." Whoop de do. Talk about drooling over a menu....

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      Beware the Food Wrappers

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.treehugger

      As if you didn't already have enough reasons to dump those packaged meals and snacks (artificial/indecipherable ingredients, unhealthy, wasteful), here's a study that should give you some food for thought: researchers from the University of Toronto found that perfluorinated chemicals commonly found in wrappers can migrate into some foods which, once ingested, become bioavailable in the human body. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board classified perfluorina...

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      Farmers-market food costs less

      Posted by Jon from Seattle Times

      Last month, the economics professor and her business-statistics class at Seattle University compared prices for organic produce at the Broadway Farmers Market with that sold at the local QFC supermarket and Madison Market, one of several cooperatively owned grocery stores in the region. To their surprise, the farmers market was slightly less expensive pound for pound, on average, for 15 items that included Fuji apples, red potatoes, baby carrots, spinach and salad mix.

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    • China Contests Complaints on Exported Food

      Posted by Jeff from Washington Post

      BEIJING, May 31 -- China on Thursday strongly contested complaints it is exporting tainted food and other products to the United States, saying controls here are improving and U.S. inspectors have approved 99 percent of its shipments during the past three years.

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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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    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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