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November 8, 1974 - Hunger, Sweeps And Pardons.

Another crazy week in history.

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Small, Local Farms Produce More Than Industrial Agriculture

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DIRT: The Movie

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Marcus Samuelsson, How U.S. Farm Policy Impacts People Worldwide

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Stop bankers from betting on food and causing hunger | World Development Movement

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Students Work To End Hunger One Grilled Cheese Sandwich At a Time

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Two Degrees Food Feeds a Hungry Child with Every Product Sold

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World hunger

World hunger is a terrible problem everywhere and is affecting people from all walks... more

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Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record

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Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Approximately 1 billion people will participate in Earth Day celebrations this month, and today alone countless people will plant trees, clean up rivers, pledge not to use plastic bags and decide to walk rather than drive. All of this helps, of course, but it's not going to save the planet. To be truly "green", we've got to make our diets more environmentally friendly by kicking the meat habit and going vegan. An apple a day can help keep environmental destruction away.

Our most serious environmental problems – climate change, overexploited natural resources, deforestation, wasted land, water and air pollution – as well as today's most serious health problems, including heart disease and cancer, are all directly linked to the consumption of meat, eggs and dairy products.

A 2006 United Nations report revealed that the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships in the world combined. The report attributed 18% of annual worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions to farmed animals, but new research indicates that the figure actually could be much higher. In Livestock and Climate Change, the Worldwatch Institute estimates that raising animals for food actually accounts for 51% of all greenhouse-gas emissions.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates that 30% of the Earth's ice-free land is now involved – either directly or indirectly – in livestock production. Huge swaths of forests are being bulldozed to make more room for animals and the crops that feed them. According to Greenpeace, all the wild animals and trees in more than 2.9m acres of rain forest were destroyed in one year's crop season in order to grow crops that are used to feed chickens and other animals on factory farms.

Some activists will be showering in the street today behind a curtain that reads, "1kg of meat = 1 year of showers. Clean your conscience: go vegan". That's because between watering the crops that farmed animals eat, providing drinking water for billions of animals each year and cleaning away the filth on factory farms and in trucks and slaughterhouses, the farmed-animal industry places a serious strain on our water supply. A totally vegetarian diet can be produced with only 1,100 litres of water per day, while producing a diet that includes meat requires more than 15,000 litres of water per day.

Then there's the energy required to operate factory farms, feedlots, slaughterhouses and trucks that transport animals. The respected environmental magazine E noted in 2002 that more than one-third of all fossil fuels produced in the US are used to raise animals for food.

That's not all. Our meat-based diet is partly to blame for world hunger, because land, water and other resources that could be used to grow food for human beings are used to grow crops for farmed animals instead. It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just one pound of meat.

It's time to face what some may consider an inconvenient truth: our meat, egg and dairy habits are destroying the planet. Let's not forget about being environmentalists the moment we sit down to eat.

If we are to halt climate change and environmental destruction while stopping animal suffering and improving our health, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Approximately 1 billion people will... more

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Corporate globalization leaving developing nations hungry

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World hunger

Today in Rome started the FAO summit, the UN organization which has its international... more

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Launch introduction - The COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE - WORLD HUNGER STRIKE

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In the time it took me to type this 3 more people have died of hunger.

Climate change will result in the deaths of many of the world children over the coming... more

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A VIABLE SOLUTION TO WORLD HUNGER?

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Sarah Silverman’s Plan To End World Hunger: Sell The Vatican

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Dear Big Ag: World Hunger Is Not for Sale

What a beautiful article:

"The objectives of this week's Global Harvest Initiative symposium, which focused on coordinated efforts to address world hunger, were compelling. World hunger already affects 1 billion people and the numbers are projected to climb. Unfortunately, thanks to big agribusiness sponsors ADM, DuPont, John Deere and Monsanto, the event ultimately amounted to nothing more than glitzy green packaging for the same old unnecessary gift of chemical dependence for the world's farmers."

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"By framing global food security in terms of "not enough food," the Global Harvest Initiative seems stuck on doing the same old thing harder and faster, citing technology and high-input dependent systems as the solution to world hunger.

What was Einstein's definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The GHI seems to be ignoring this wisdom--more food alone won't help starving people until the global agricultural system radically shifts its focus to address the barriers of poverty (the inability to buy food) and distribution (getting food to where people are)."

More excerpts:
"As demonstrated by 30 years of research in our Farming Systems Trial, organic and near-organic techniques offer robust, biodiverse, productive and regenerative systems that can out-produce chemical approaches in drier and wetter seasons.

Organic restoration is true conservation -- a focus of yesterday's symposium -- that does not require us to choose between areas that will be protected and areas that must be sacrificed to our agricultural destruction. Well-managed organic systems actually increase biodiversity throughout farmed land at every level of the food chain.

And while the GHI mission calls for more money, attention, research, trade and policy support for chemically dependent farming systems, it ignores the findings of many of the world food study groups, who maintain that organic and ecological production systems are the best hope for transforming the "feeding the world" challenge."

The last passage is what I loved the most, I dream... :
"In the midst of all this big-ag hype, the true agenda of the GHI symposium is clear: more money for chemical agriculture systems. But no amount of money can offset the true cost of these systems -- to our environment, and to our health. I want hungry people to be fed, farmers to prosper, ecosystems to thrive while farming improves, wildlife to flourish, and whole bio-regions to develop sustainable economies. That's why I demand organic agriculture be front and center on the global food agenda."

Join Organic:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/What a beautiful article: "The objectives of this week's Global Harvest... more

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Letter of Support to Legalize Cannabis Sativa

Dear Neighbor, August 20, 2009

I really think that now is an important time to stand up the global lifting of the prohibition of cannabis sativa [or marijuana, abbreviated CS in this letter]. Friend, this plant is a potential tool in addressing several key issues we are all facing today.

 The War on Drugs: Used by corrupt governments for economic manipulation & demonization of cultural & religious practices around the world. Statistical disproportionate numbers of arrests & killing of minority cultural peoples, ethnic peoples & poor humans [economically challenged]. Time & time again, a constant theater of human rights violations.
 The American Prison Complex: With a prison system that has over 2 million of its own citizens predominately for non-violent drug offences, is it any wonder that it is also the same country in the international spotlight for human rights violations and war crimes, allegations primarily centered on U.S. torture in its detention centers around the world.
 Dangerous Levels of Carbon in Air: The fibers of CS, which were used for 1,000s years previous to the last the century, are high density cellulose which require large amounts of carbon for development. Thus CS, has developed C4 photosynthesis, characterized by accelerated extraction of carbon particles from the air. In short, CS can function as a natural, totally renewable, air filter.
 Petrol-Plastics: Produced from combinations of: carcinogenic binders; toxic dyes and +1,000 year shelf life in some cases. These components, along side widespread improper disposal practices, have lead to contamination of our waters, food, wildlife creature, air and even our bodies. CS fibers provide viable alternatives, bio-plastics, that are already being manufactured in small quantities by mainly small, private businesses. A global collaboration to significantly reduce the production of petrol-plastics, while increasing the production of bio-plastic, primarily of CS, will ensure large scale cultivation.
 Medications/Treatments: Not only is CS already being utilized for medical treatments addressing conditions from: coping with the adverse effects of chemotherapy; to helping children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD concentrate and improve their school performance, while providing a 100% safe alternative to popular medications, such as Ritalin [.0017% of children who take Ritalin are at risk for death- Anthony Kane, MD/ADD ADHA Advances]; CS in all applications (including recreational) has been proven safe with no record of anyone, ever, losing their life as a result of ingestion/inhalation and other side effects [respiratory disorders; loss of brain cells; inhibited motor skills; antisocial behavior] have never been linked to any serious reported medical cases, unlike pharmaceutical medications which account for over 100,000 deaths each year [http://current.com/1ddgu4c] according to the FDA.
 Global Hunger & Malnutrition: CS seed protein provides a rich supply of amino acids, both essential & nonessential, boasting the plant world’s most efficient protein for the human body. CS seeds also contain the highest levels of essential fatty acids, far exceeding that of flax seed & evening primrose. Essential fatty acids contribute to: balanced cholestrol levels; joint mobilty; a healthy circulatory system; proper brain function (including emotional stability, concentration/focus & cognitive functions).

CS’s ease of cultivation make it a realistic resource thats easily accesible to peoples of all economic climates.
Friend, please consider advocating repealing the prohibition of CS and the establishing of a global CS cultivation movement?

Sincerely,

x ____________________________Dear Neighbor, August 20, 2009 I really think that now is an important time to... more

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Pelosi says Jackson resolution unnecessary

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael... more

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Saying no to soy: the Campesino struggle for sustainable agriculture in Paraguay

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