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• The Missing Mass of American Food

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 435
  Do What Grandma Told You...Dont Waste Food Kevin Hall, a quantitative physiologist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleague Carson Chow, a mathematician at NIDDK, would like to know where the missing mass of American food has gone. Hall and ...
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• Trends in world agricultural exports

  
  Random graphic of the day: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library — Authority: 129
  The availability of food within a specific country can be guaranteedin two ways: Either by food production in the country itselfor by trade. The first option has been discussed extensivelyin the previous chapters. The second option has become moreand more important (Figure 29), with increasing transportpossibilities ...
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• wealthy nations outsource crops to african land

  
  subrealism — Authority: 143
  WaPo | "If these deals are negotiated well, I tell you, it will change the dynamics of the food economy in this country," said Mafa Chipeta, the FAOs representative in Ethiopia, dismissing the worst-case scenarios. "I cant believe Ethiopia or any other government would allow their country to be used like an empty ...
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• Building A Habitat For Scorpions And Trying To Keep Them

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 125
  I thought I would try to turn a negative into a positive with my scorpions situation by capturing them and keeping in them in a glassed habitat in the house. Perhaps there’s money to be made selling scorpions. The first thing I did was to clean out a 10 gallon aquarium that was being unused. I then added ...
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• Food Inc.

  
  WillTaft.com Full Feed — Authority: 121
  I rented and watched this DVD this weekend as I did not get to see it in the theater. My review is simple. The movie tells it like it is. Watch it even if you think you already know the truth about the U.S. food industry. Especially watch it if you don’t really give much thought to what you eat. Different from ...
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• Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary ...
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• is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?

  
  subrealism — Authority: 143
  NYTimes | In a series of meetings, Saudi government officials, bankers and agribusiness executives told an institute delegation led by Zeigler that they intended to spend billions of dollars to establish plantations to produce rice and other staple crops in African nations like Mali, Senegal, Sudan and Ethiopia. ...
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• Zimbabwe farmers turn to Nigeria

  
  Africa Blog — Authority: 490
                      When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water and build a new farm. His dairy farm now has 300 Jersey cows, some of among 800 imported from South Africa to ...
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• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA.Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
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• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA. Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
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• Stop the global land grab! GRAIN STATEMENT AT THE JOINT GRAIN-LA VIA CAMPESINA MEDIA BRIEFING

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  Rome, 16 November 2009                       http://www.grain.org/o/?id=87 ”The question we should be asking is not “How do we make these investments work?” It is “What farming and food systems will feed people without making them sick, keep farmers on the farm instead of the city ...
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• Agility out of contracts

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 460
  Agility, a Kuwaiti firm supplying food to US sold-iers in Iraq and Kuwait, said it had been temporarily suspended, but not debarred, from new US government contracts pending the outcome of a grand jury indictment on allegations that it overcharged. Agility was indicted on Monday. The firm is accu-sed of overcharging ...
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• Prehistoric goat lived like a reptile on Spanish island

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 18 (ANI): A new study has determined that a prehistoric goat on a Spanish island survived for millennia on a resource-poor island by living like a reptile, changing its growth rate and metabolism to match the available food supply.Fossils of the ancient goat, called Myotragus, were first found on ...
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• hunger, a growing problem in america?

  
  subrealism — Authority: 143
  WaPo | The nations economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to ...
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• Hungry mouths: food supply forgotten issue of U.S. innovation

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 131
  Record Number of Americans Go Hungry WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than one in seven, or 14.6 percent of American households, suffered from food insecurity in 2008, according to the most recent data on hunger released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture today. The 3.5 percentage point ...
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• Terrorism That Could Hit Our Bread Basket

  
  Diane Dimond — Authority: 108
  "... I noticed an unattended child in the cookie aisle. Fast as a cat he opened a bag, snatched a cookie and shoved it in his mouth. He then expertly sealed up the package again lickedy-split. No one was the wiser except for me. In retrospect I think I should have stopped the boy, demanded he take me to his mother, ...
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• The Festering Fraud behind Food Safety Reform

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  By Nicole JohnsonFarm Wars“The general public must recognize that only after the demystification of U.S. agriculture will family farmers, labor, and consumers see beyond corporate agribusiness’ manipulations to the point where they will recognize that both their mutual interests and the future of agriculture can ...
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• The Effects of Global Warming and What it Means to You and Me

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 160
  Have you ever listened to discussions and read articles about global warming and wondered why the resource person or the writer appears so emphatic and urgent in their call for fighting it? Well that is because global warming is an urgent problem that needs immediate action and resolution before it gets worse and ...
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• Gardening During Hard Times or Emergencies – You Can Feed Yourself!

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 119
  Do you ever worry about always having to rely on getting seeds and fertilizer from the store? What would you do in a survival situation, if you could not go to a store to purchase these things? Let’s compare it to your food supply. What would you do about your store-purchased food? Many wise people buy more than ...
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• Climate Change 2009

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 128
  Want to see what climate change means in reality – right now?  what’s it like watching your entire food supply disappear in a brackish morass? or your children dying of highland malaria? would you travel miles to fetch a jug of water? Look at some of the videos from the new Climate Change 2009 Conference site ...
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