Crossposted at Dailykos.com Always a tool for big business, the administration is in court today arguing that the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef company’s practice of screening all of its beef carcasses for BSE (Mad Cow Disease) should be prohibited. Here is a link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/09/mad.cow.testing.ap/index.html Since the link is available, I’ll just briefly summarize the story. [...]
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Today we reached the point of absurdity. The issues of food, prisons, public health, obesity, and education (utter lack thereof) all collide in this one story. I’m sure most of you saw this news item today, about an obese inmate in an Arkansas jail, suing the prison system because he has lost 100 lbs. while [...]
The sharp increase in food prices over the last couple of years has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries, about runaway inflation, and in some countries, growing civil unrest, as food riots break out across the globe. Much has been written in these boards about the [...]
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Well, HOWDY!!! I’m Monkeyfister, and this is my first post here. (Hi Monkeyfister) If you are not familiar with me, I can be a bit acerbic, but, oh, so friendly, once you get past my style of writing, and language (I am an old Sailor and Stagehand– my language is a bit salty), and get [...]
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If there’s a time when one could proverbially kill two birds with one stone, it is now. You have seen the headlines: China was struggling last night to bring Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, under control after the fiercest anti-government protests for 20 years led to rioting and gunfire on the streets yesterday. You have heard of [...]