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  1. Urban Farming project rocks! Growing food, growing communities, they produce 140 tons of food on unused land! http://bit.ly/1aq3Ic
  2. No nutritional value but ea yr 15 BILLION+ gallons of soda (about 800 8oz svgs per person) are consumed in the US, amtg to $72b in sales.
  3. One of the great, often unspoken, forms of oppression low & moderate income communities suffer through is lack of access to healthy food.
  4. Kefir has loads of vitamins, minerals & good bacteria, and when blended with fresh fruit/juice makes a yummy rich, super healthy smoothie.
  5. It's all about the nitrates. Consuming beetroot juice may boost stamina & allow people to exercise for up to 16% longer. http://bit.ly/sAKV8
  6. Good-GM' battery charged plug-in hybrid "Volt" projected to get 230mpg! Not so good-The price tag will be $40,000. http://bit.ly/ukQrr
  7. What sort of cntry is that where the hucklebrry fields are private property?I see a blight on the land.Nature is under a veil there.Thoreau
  8. US farmers planted 1M more acres of non-GM soybeans in 09 than 08, the 1st drop in GM soybean plantings since 2000. http://bit.ly/1vs5lh
  9. We don't necessarily NEED more meat, milk, etc but we're consuming more. Blame in on the "Livestock Revolution." http://bit.ly/3zvlt
  10. Room to share.While an American eats an average of 260lbs of meat a year, a Bangladeshi only consumes about 6.5lbs.http://tiny.cc/Jqy9Q
  11. Always lots of news on meeting increase food demand w/GM crops. How about cutting back on consumption? http://bit.ly/14dKCX
  12. Why? Hispanic immigrants who relocate to the US face much higher cancer rates than those in the country they left. http://bit.ly/3w3S2j
  13. USDA says a middle-income fam w/a child born in 2008 can expect to spend about $221,190 for food/shelter to raise that child for 17 yrs.
  14. Global warming, climate change. It may be hard to swallow but the meat of the problem is meat. http://bit.ly/EnVEK
  15. The American triple whammy: Poor, fat & sick. New study finds links btwn being in debt & an increased risk of being fat. http://bit.ly/rdiYl
  16. 825,769 pounds of ground beef recalled due to Salmonella Newport, a strain resistant to many commonly prescribed drugs. http://bit.ly/bhdgm
  17. Deforestation consumes 32 million acres/year, mostly in the tropics, to make way for cattle grazing, soybean farming & oil palm plantations.
  18. Nature does not know the concept of waste; the only species capable of making something no one desires is the human species. manyone.net
  19. Good read: "The Self Health Revolution" by J. Michael Zenn
  20. Russian soccer fans urged to drink whiskey to ward off swine flu virus. Za zdorovie! http://bit.ly/WTF83