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  • USA Disses UN Human Food Rights
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    USA Disses UN Human Food Rights
    United Nations, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina)
    The government of President George W. Bush shamed the United States into international isolation after it rejected a UN resolution defending the human right to food.
    After a week of UN debates on humanitarian affairs, US diplomats were the only ones to vote against a resolution supporting the Right to Food.
    The related text was sponsored by an unusual majority of 131 countries, and another 44 UN member states (…)

  • We Can Stop Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis
    9 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq is Having a Humanitarian Crisis! - What We Must Do
    The situation in Iraq is a full blown humanitarian crisis. Water and food supplies are either foul or insufficient. Lack of sanitation has produced an environment that supports disease. The people suffer from cold, heat, lack of light, clean water and food. Their medical system is in desperate need of medical supplies and clean, safe facilities. Since the US invasion, 3 1/2 years ago, they have lived the trauma of a 9/11 (…)

  • FOOD STANDARD AGENCY FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER GM-CONTAMINATED RICE
    19 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth has taken the first step in mounting a legal challenge to the UK Food Standards Agency for its failure to take appropriate action to prevent illegal GM rice from being sold to the public. The challenge coincides with the discovery, by the environmental campaign group, of GM-contaminated rice in two types of own-brand rice sold by British supermarket, Morrisons [1].
    Friends of the Earth sent a number of rice samples for testing after it was (…)

  • Worldwide Annual Anti McDonald’s Day Oct 15
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Worldwide Annual Anti McDonald’s Day Oct 15
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    Chicken’s Head found in fast food order 11/30/2000 WVEC.com This fried chicken’s head was discovered in an order of chicken wings. A customer at a McDonald’s restaurant in Newport News got more than she bargained for when she received her order. Katherine Ortega said she found a fried chicken’s head in the box (…)

  • Obesity identified as global epidemic
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obesity identified as global epidemic
    Sunday 03 September 2006, 7:31 Makka Time, 4:31 GMT
    Exploding numbers of overweight children could make today’s generation the first to die before its parents, say health experts.
    The warning comes as more than 2,500 experts and health officials gathered in Sydney on Sunday for the International Congress on Obesity to discuss what organisers said was one of the most important global health issues.
    Professor Paul Zimmet, a diabetes expert who is (…)

  • Horse-Eating Foreigners Finding Friends In United States Congress
    31 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Horse-Eating Foreigners Finding Friends In United States Congress By John Hanchette August 1, 2006
    Olean - For a while, this newspaper was one of the lonely few covering the fervid national debate over horses and whether they are just livestock and food for foreigners, or something more respected and treasured in American culture. Now, reporters and columnists all over the country are weighing in on the issue, and Congress took up the matter last week.
    As usual, Congress screwed it up (…)

  • Food For Thought
    6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food For Thought US Language Police Want To Make English An “Official” Language-But What Would This Do To Our Restaurant Menus? By Walter Brasch July 5, 2006 Let’s pretend it’s dinner time, and you’ve just developed a sudden craving for Mexican food. Yesterday, it was Chinese. Tomorrow it may be Italian. But today, it’s Mexican.
    And, while we’re pretending, let’s pretend that a four-star Mexican restaurant just opened around the corner.
    You walk in, and the red-haired hostess (…)

  • Food Uniformity Bill Passes in the House
    9 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Food Uniformity Bill Passes in the House Despite Widespread Opposition Members of the House put special interests before public interest Despite opposition from many environmental, health and consumer rights organizations, 39 state Attorneys General, 7 state Governors, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the Association of Food and Drug Officials, the National Conference of State Legislators and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, the United States House of (…)

  • How the USDA Gutted Federal Organic Food Standards
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal Food Policy & Organic Inconsistencies
    by Joshua Frank - February 11, 2006
    Healthy living has become the national obsession these past few decades. Awareness about food’s nutritional content is also on the rise — many health conscious Americans are concerned with the quality and content of the food they are scarfing down every day.
    As these interests have grown, so has the organic food movement. Organics, as the general definition puts it, are products that are not grown (…)

  • Niger: Reasons for a Disaster
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nathalie Funès
    "The world was deaf."
    A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
    The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)