A Tribute to Gandhi
February 11, 2008, 6:53 am
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Filed under: Uncategorized
January 30th 2008 was the 60th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. In this 7 minute video Resurgence editor and ecologist Satish Kumar emphasises the importance and relevance of Gandhi’s message of non-violence in the 21st Century.
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Biggest and best tuna tend to have the most mercury, experts say
February 11, 2008, 6:52 am
Filed under: seafood
Filed under: seafood
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By Elisabeth Rosenthal, International Herald Tribune, January 25.
Higher priced foods usually mean healthier options – but that may not be the case with tuna, new studies suggest. The large wild tuna fish that are favored by high end sushi brokers for their unique taste are probably the most likely to contain high levels of mercury, experts say. In a survey conducted by New Jersey researchers for The New York Times that was published this week, laboratory tests found high concentrations of mercury in a sampling of tuna used in sushi in New York City restaurants, some so high that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could legally remove them from the market because mercury concentrations exceeded 1 part per million.
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Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher
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By Lester R. Brown, Environment News Service, Jan 25.  We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.The world is facing the most severe food price inflation in history as grain and soybean prices climb to all-time highs. Prices are double those of a year or two ago. ……Whereas previous dramatic rises in world grain prices were weather-induced, this one is policy-induced and can be dealt with by policy adjustments. The crop fuels program that currently satisfies scarcely 3 percent of U.S. gasoline needs is simply not worth the human suffering and political chaos it is causing. If the entire U.S. grain harvest were converted into ethanol, it would satisfy scarcely 18 percent of our automotive fuel needs.The irony is that U.S. taxpayers, by subsidizing the conversion of grain into ethanol, are in effect financing a rise in their own food prices. It is time to end the subsidy for converting food into fuel and to do it quickly before the deteriorating world food situation spirals out of control
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