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Eating A Deep Fried Fish That's Still Alive (VIDEO)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:57:12 -0800

Huffington Post - Nov. 17 (Not sure) - Eating "rare" delicacies just got to a new level. In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to be eaten. Below is the shocking video of a deep-fried fish that's still living and moving on a plate. Warning, this may be too graphic for some readers.

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Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Naomi Starkman - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - BPA, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because it has been linked to a wide array of health effects including reproductive abnormalities, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

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America’s Food Revolution

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Jerry Weinberger - Sep. 20 (Special Report) - The U.S. has revolutionized its culinary culture over the last 40-odd years. No longer is it the developed world’s worst food nation; in fact, it’s perhaps the best. And it’s largely thanks to the (currently disputed) genius of America’s entrepreneurial capitalism.

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Red Snow Warning

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - By Chip Ward, - Sep. 14 (Special Report) - Pink snow is turning red in Colorado. Here on the Great American Desert -- specifically Utah's slickrock portion of it where I live -- hot 'n' dry means dust. When frequent high winds sweep across our increasingly arid landscape, redrock powder is lifted up and carried hundreds of miles eastward until it settles on the broad shoulders of Colorado's majestic mountains, giving the snowpack there a pink hue.

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Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Brian Helmuth - Sep. 08 (Special Report) - Like many scientists, I didn't start out studying climate change; it more or less became a fact of life when the organisms I was studying started to die...I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing — shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale — as a result of human-induced global warming.

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What's Your Water Footprint?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Aug. 30 (Special Report) - Even as the greenest among us cut our showers short and let our toilets go yellow, we may be blissfully unaware that our household water use accounts for only 6 percent of the water that we consume. The other 94 percent comes from the products we buy, everything from almonds and tomatoes to blue jeans and microchips. (See "Big Gulp.") The average person in the developed world drinks a gallon of water each day but "eats" another 800 gallons. And as Americans, our water consumption per capita is twice the world's average. Each one of us uses enough water annually to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool—four times what someone in Yemen uses.

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Rural well water linked to Parkinson’s; California study implicates farm pesticides

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

environmentalhealthnews.org - By Marla Cone - Aug. 05 (News) - Rural residents who drink water from private wells are much more likely to have Parkinson’s disease, a finding that bolsters theories that farm pesticides may be partially to blame, according to a new study. The risk to people in California's Central Valley was 90 percent higher for those who had private wells near fields sprayed with certain insecticides. People with the incurable neurological disease “were more likely to have consumed private well water, and had consumed it on average 4.3 years longer,” UCLA scientists reported. Unlike municipal water supplies, private wells are largely unregulated and are not monitored for contaminants.

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Solid Ground - Marra Farm

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

solid-ground.org - Jul. 29 (Special Report) - Marra Farm is a model urban community farm engaging people in sustainable agriculture and education while enhancing local food security. Tucked into the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, it has 4 acres of historic preserved farmland. Marra Farm generates tons of fresh, organic produce, with more than 13,000 pounds grown each year. In addition to residents growing food for their own families, distribution includes donations to local residents and the senior lunch program through the Providence Regina House Food Bank, Mien senior citizens, and Concord Elementary School students and their families. Produce is also sold at the University District Farmer's Market through an employment program for at-risk youth run by Seattle Youth Garden Works.

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Red Meat & Dairy Linked to Cancer

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Melissa Breyer - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - In a recent study published in the internationally acclaimed Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers examined the association between the intake of red meat and dairy products and pancreatic cancer by analyzing a cohort of over 500,000 people from the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1995 and 1996 and were followed prospectively for an average of 6 years to track a variety of health outcomes, including pancreatic cancer. Men and women who consumed high amounts of total fats had 53 percent and 23 percent higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer, respectively,

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You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Smith - Jul. 23 (Special Report) - The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke. Here's the back story.

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The Return of the Population Bomb

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

environmentalhealthnews.org - By Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - No driver of environmental deterioration is more obvious than population growth, and none has been more taboo to talk about – especially in recent decades. Even ecologists have often danced around the topic. Although more than 40 years have passed since we wrote The Population Bomb, the book is still attacked daily on blogs, misquoted and excoriated. On the positive side, however, it has received great honors from the lunatic fringe.

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Preservatives in meat linked to dementia

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Melbourne Herald Sun - By Narelle Towie - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - PRESERVATIVES added to cured meats, bacon and ground beef have been linked to dementia diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Scientists say sodium nitrite, which is added to meat and fish to destroy toxins, reacts with proteins in the meat, damaging human DNA cells similar to aging.

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Oceans in Deep Trouble, Congress Told

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

courthousenews.com - Jun. 18 (News Report) - As the globe begins to fry, ocean acidification threatens many of the finned species with extinction along with destruction of the $111 billion in economic trade that comes from the ocean, legislators were told last week by a host of witnesses, including the descendant of famed oceanographer Jaques-Yves Cousteau.

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Pesticides indicted in bee deaths

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Julia Scott - May. 18 (Special Report) - Instead of losing bees from all his colonies, Brandi watched the ones that skipped watermelon duty continue to thrive. Brandi discovered the watermelon farmer had irrigated his plants with imidacloprid, the world's best-selling insecticide created by Bayer CropScience Inc., one of the world's leading producers of pesticides and genetically modified vegetable seeds, with annual sales of $8.6 billion. Blended with water and applied to the soil, imidacloprid creates a moist mixture the bees likely drank from on a hot day.

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Cheerios Are a Drug? FDA's Surprising Letter to General Mills

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - May. 13 (News Report) - Cheerios labels claim that eating the cereal can help lower bad cholesterol, a risk factor for coronary heart disease, by four percent in six weeks. Citing a clinical study, the product labels also claim that eating two servings a day of Cheerios helps to reduce bad cholesterol when eaten as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, the FDA letter says. Those claims indicate that Cheerios -- said by General Mills to be the best-selling cereal in the United States -- is intended to be used to lower cholesterol and prevent, lessen or treat the disease hypercholesterolemia, and to treat and prevent coronary heart disease. "Because of these intended uses, the product is a drug," the FDA concluded in its letter.

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Can Japanese scientists save a species, and that tasty sashimi on your plate?

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Justin McCurry - Apr. 27 (News Report) - TOKYO — The next time you dine at a Japanese restaurant, try to steer clear of the tuna sashimi. If you're unable to resist the temptation — and, let's face it how many of us can? — make sure you savor every last slice. In just a few years, it may have disappeared from the menu for good. While Japan is often cast as the villain of the piece for its voracious consumption of bluefin, it may also offer the key to the species’ survival, thanks to a team of researchers working out of a laboratory in Tokyo.

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Can we afford to eat ethically?

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Siobhan Phillips - Apr. 25 (Investigative Report) - Last month, a report from England found sales of some organic food had fallen up to 31 percent. Ethical food advocates have been worrying about a similar trend in this country since the recession began: Just as the need for better food choices became more widely accepted, our economy fell apart, and consumers who once considered free-range, $5-a-dozen eggs a necessity may start eyeing the caged-hens carton for half that price.

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Is a Free-Range Pig a Good Pig?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

nicholas.duke.edu - By Bill Chameides - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - Free-range pigs by definition live in a less-controlled environment that should lead to greater exposure to a whole variety of microbes and parasites and thus a higher incidence of pathogens. Whether or not that means you should or should not eat free-range pigs (or any free-range meat) is a personal decision.

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate Change to Shrink Agricultural Production by Half

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Kristin Palitza - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - Environmental researchers predict Southern Africa will be hit heavily by climate change over the next 70 years. Agricultural production is projected to be halved - a development that will threaten the livelihoods of farmers in a region where 70 percent of the population are smallholder farmers.

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EU tightens bluefin tuna fishing rules

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AFP - Apr. 06 (News Report) - European Union countries adopted new rules Monday to help restore endangered bluefin tuna stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, bringing the bloc into line with international standards. The rules introduce "significant cuts" in bluefin tun quotas by 2011 and shortens the period in which the species can be fished by four months. The season begins on April 15.

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CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Mike Stobbe - Apr. 03 (News Report) - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found.

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The global economic downturn makes more African children go hungry.

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Apr. 02 (News Report) - NAIROBI, Kenya — El Wak in northeastern Kenya is more than 7,000 miles from Wall Street, and some 4,000 miles from world leaders meeting today at the G20 summit in London. But the children there are already feeling the pinch from the global economic meltdown.

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family planning surge could make population difference

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

peopleandplanet.net - By Jeremy Hamand - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - Food, energy and water shortages will get worse in the near future, unless a major boost is given to family planning programmes and rich countries cut back on their energy and food consumption, delegates to a conference in London on 26 March were told.

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Financial Crisis Boosts Local Markets

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Geography - By Richard Reep - Mar. 28 (Special Report) - The current economic crisis has many mixed impacts, including the shift of grocery customers to low-cost companies like Wal-mart. Yet at the same time we see a shift to local, community markets in an effort to cope with the new economy.

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Study: Range of Pharmaceuticals in Fish Across US

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - By Martha Mendoza - Mar. 25 (News Report) - Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder and depression, researchers reported Wednesday.

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