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• My Recent Interaction with a Green Peace Campaigner

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  Last week as I emerged from a grocery store I was met by a young GREENPEACE campaigner.  He asked me it I would like to sign a petition to  ”help save the whales.”  I told him that as much as I like whales, I could not in good conscience support GREENPEACE as an organization.  He looked genuinely stunned and ...
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• More Ag Disaster Areas, Emergency Aid For Farmers, And Latest USDA Propaganda

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 131
  USDA declares more disaster areas The News Star reports that 53 named ag disaster areas in Louisiana . (emphasis mine) [my comment] December 1, 2009 53 named ag disaster areas Parishes may see financial relief By Stephen Largen Some financial relief could be on the way for northeastern Louisiana ...
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• The Resourceful Ganges River

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 430
  Image of the Day: Day of the Dead on Holy Ganges River“THE UNCARED FOR.”  A dead body floats on the banks of the Ganges as a devotee Hindu performs rituals in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, considered to be one of Hinduism’s holiest cities. Photo: K.R. Deepak. The Hindu. Image may be subject to copyright.Will ...
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• Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 709
  Dutch scientists are doing their bit to address the food crisis, the climate crisis and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals by growing pork meat from muscle cells harvested from a live pig. Their hope is to turn the cells from one animal into the meat from a million without killing any. Right now, you ...
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• Ag News Update

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 131
  Below is a batch of entries from Nogger’s Blog . (Definitely take the time to read Noggers blog if you want to keep track of what is going on in the agricultural world.) (emphasis mine) [my comment] Tuesday, 24 November 2009 Chinese Crop Estimates Grossly Overstated A very interesting report on ...
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• Finding Local Solutions to Weather the Ongoing Global Food Crisis

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 421
  The entire world is going through a severe economic crisis, and these difficult conditions have also produced a food crisis in many countries around the globe. México’s economy is not in good shape, and although México has not had a major food shortage; the main problem has been the constantly rising food cost ...
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• Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The amount of food Americans throw away has risen by approximately 50 percent since 1974 according to a new study in PLoS ONE . American now waste on average 1400 calories per person everyday, equaling 150 trillion calories a year nationwide. Considering that the average person requires approximately 2,000 calories ...
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• Ethiopia: Shoots of life in drought-ravaged land

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  What’s being done to protect people from the worsening drought in Ethiopia? Caroline Gluck reports. Mother of eight Momina Hashu surveyed her field of maize with despair. ”We hardly have anything to eat – just leftovers”, she said, pointing to a couple of stunted cobs of maize that she’s managed to ...
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• Fear of hard times ahead

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 127
  Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis — and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform.Hurricanes, the global recession, U.S. sanctions and the inability of the communist-run island’s command ...
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• WFP: CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA – Food Crisis + Financial Crisis

  
  Truth Seeker — Authority: 130
  —————————————–—————————————–—————————————–—————————————–——-FOR MORE: IMPACTFOR MORE ON HOW YOU CAN HELP: VISIT A BILLION FOR A BILLION + WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME—–The food price crisis, dubbed a ...
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• Military mission now includes internal warfare (Updated)

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 127
  The War of All the People (Guerra de todo el pueblo) has been the fundamental underpinning of the Cuban armed forces’ military doctrine where the social masses are responsible for the national defense of the country against U.S. agression.However, with Bastion 2009, that fundamental is evolving for the first time to ...
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• Land of plenty: 50 percent rise in the amount of food wasted in America worsens global warming, consumes freshwater

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Just before Thanksgiving a new study shows that Americans are throwing away more food than ever. Since 1974 the amount of food Americans water per capita has risen by approximately 50 percent, according to a new study in PLoS ONE. Researchers found that food waste is adding to Americas greenhouse gas emissions and ...
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• Thanks and Giving

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 135
                                                                                  Yesterday, the United Natio ns World Food Program (WFP)received a donation of $400,000 from the government of South Africa to aid foodsecurity in ...
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• Musical Preview (part 2)

  
  FOR THE RECORD — Authority: 116
  More artists performing at the Compassion International benefit on December 2nd at Mercy Lounge in Nashville.  All proceeds go to the Global Food Crisis Fund to help children and families in the most needed areas where Compassion serves. Leigh Nash: From 2007 when Leigh released her solo project and appeared on Music ...
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• SYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINSYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall DAMASCUS, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) – With a few weeks left before the end of this year’s planting season, UN officials have raised concerns over the lack of funds to help drought-hit farmers and herders in northeastern Syria.“The situation is worrying. ...
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• Stage 1 Of The Dollas Collapse: Pressure Builds Until Food/gold Shortages Reach Breaking Point

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 131
  (will add pictures in the next hour) The world is currently nearing the end of this phase. The global financial system is facing a critical shortage of both gold and food, which will soon be revealed to the world triggering the next stage of the dollars collapse and the start of true financial crisis. It doesnt ...
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• Rally for food security in Delhi Thursday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Hundreds of people are expected for a rally in Delhi Thursday to demand change of government policies to ensure food security for all.Announcing the initiative at a press conference in the capital Tuesday, Colin Gonsalves of the Right to Food Campaign said: “Much of the present food crisis ...
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• Musical Preview

  
  FOR THE RECORD — Authority: 116
  Just some of the artists performing at the Compassion International benefit on December 2nd at Mercy Lounge in Nashville.  More artist info and videos to come…..Bryan WhiteRob BlackledgeJulie RobertsBlaine LaresenAlathea
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• The Golden Fields of Amhara-land

  
  Chronicles Of The Return — Authority: 116
  The fields stretch out across the horizon. An attenuated, high altitude light falls on the dark volcanic soils. The rusted hulks of dead war machines litter the roads. A shepherd boy smacks a goat into line, driving them all back into line. Baboons scamper across the highway. The main north-south artery between ...
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• Mainstream Waking Up To Miserable 2009 Harvest

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 131
  The New York Times reports about a promising summer washed away In Mississippi Delta . (emphasis mine) [my comment] November 23, 2009 In Mississippi Delta, a Promising Summer Washed Away by the Fall By SHAILA DEWAN LEXINGTON, Miss. — It was a long day for John Hart, a farmer in the hills just east ...
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