Aporkalypse Chow

by Natasha Chart · 2009-05-05 17:56:00 UTC
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Raiding the internet fridge for your intellectual delectation ...

- Peace activist Lucinda Marshall reminds us that 31.5 million people die every year of preventable illnesses, while this swine flu outbreak has killed seven.

- Weighing in, however, on the side of giving a damn about the flu anyway, the Institute for Southern Studies reminds people that this flu is originally from a North Carolina factory farm and that health experts have been warning about the inherent dangers of factory livestock farming for years now.

- Young people in the Boston area are increasingly eager to participate in community farming apprenticeships, it's apparently the new hotness.

- Economist Nicholas Stern warns that global warming could break Southeast Asia, in part because of the damage it will do to the region's rice growing productivity.

- Cracking down harshly on immigrant workers in the US, many of whom work in the food industry, is doomed to fail.

- A German court has rejected Monsanto's request to have their government's GMO crop ban suspended by emergency ruling. Monsanto can, and probably will, file another action, but the language in this first ruling seems very favorable to the government position.

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