Late Night Snack ... Now With Mushrooms!

by Natasha Chart · 2009-04-30 19:50:00 UTC
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Raiding the internet fridge ...

- Above, Paul Stamets talks about 6 ways to save the world with mushrooms. Insect control, soil conditioning and remediation, pathogen reduction, pollution cleanup, these adaptable microbiota can do it all.

- A Chinese student gives up advertising for duck farming.

- Swine flu news feed from the Eat Well Guide.

- Jill Richardson at LaVidaLocavore writes about how Egypt's pig stock was slaughtered by government order, and as has become common in these animal flus, the livestock of subsistence farmers has been killed en masse without compensation for the sins of the agribusiness industry.

- More swine flu reading at The Ethicurean.

- Below, health policy expert Laurie Garrett talks about what we can learn from the 1918 flu:

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