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E.
Europe, Asia Mideast risk of mad cow disease
Eastern Europe, Asia
and the Middle East are particularly at
risk from mad cow disease because
they imported large quantities meat-based
animal feed. Source
individual.com
Chemical
spraying of cocoa poisoning villages
Colombian babies and children are falling ill. Peasants, already miserably poor, are
getting hungrier. Indigenous tribes are being torn apart and whole communities
pushed into exile. Source
corpwatch
Amazon
forest could 'vanish fast
The destruction of the Amazon rainforest could be irreversible
within a decade, according to a US scientist.
Source
BBC
In-Depth
Reports
Special
BBC Report: How AIDS Changed Us:
The
worst yet to come' HIV/Aids has had a devastating impact on
millions of lives worldwide over the past 20 years.
Source
BBC
Toxic
Drift: Monsanto & the Drug War in Colombia
A prominent U.S. Senator and other government officials
from both Washington and Bogotá stood on a Colombian mountainside
above fields of lime-green coca -- the plant sacred to Andean
Indians, but also the source of the troublesome drug cocaine. They
were awaiting a demonstration of aerial herbicide spraying, part
of the U.S. drug war in Colombia.
Source
corpwatch.org
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Remembering
Nkosi
He
became a symbol of South Africa's profound Aids crisis
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People,
not technology, are the key to ending hunger by Frances Moore
Lappe - Biotechnology companies and even some scientists argue
that we need genetically modified seeds to feed the world and to
protect the Earth from chemicals. Their arguments feel eerily
familiar.
Source
commondreams.org
The
Future belongs to the butterflies
Ecologists predict that our current levels of population growth,
consumption, resource use, and environmental impact will result in
one big global environmental crisis within the next 50 years or
so. While some people are predicting the worst, or doing their
best to reduce their impact, others are blithely ignoring -- or
covering up -- potential problems.
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simpleliving.net
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X-Facts
Smoggiest
summer ever? Already, 25 states have violated US
clean-air standards at least once. The electrical power crunch adds more
fumes.
Source
commondreams.org
Going
backwards: As Biotech crops multiply, consumers get little
choice
They're hoping there's enough
contamination so that it's a fait accompli. But the liability
will kill them. We're going to see lawsuits across the Farm Belt
as conventional farmers and organic farmers find their product
is contaminated.
Source
commondreams.org
Going
backwards: World losing its languages at a fast clip
Ever hear someone speak Udihe, Eyak or Arikapu? Odds
are you never will. Among the world's 6,800 languages, half to 90 percent
could be extinct by the end of the century.
Source
commondreams.org
Poll
says more Americans see gap between haves and have-nots
Americans increasingly see an economic divide between the
haves and have-nots, according to a new poll that also finds a
majority of people dissatisfied with the country's direction.
Source
commondreams.org
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