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- The Environmentalist's Paradox: We Do Better While the Earth Does Worse -
More people have more money, better health, more mobility, more food, and more security than ever before in human history. That chart on the right is from the Human Development Index, which tracks life expectancy, literacy, and other indicators of human well-being. The lines are heading up almost everywhere. Humanity doesn't seem to be suffering unduly for its environmental sins. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t.
- Restoring the Gulf the Right Way, With Sustainable Agriculture -
Specifically, the Gulf is an oceanic hostage to a terrestrial threat that dominates the "heartland" of the Lower Forty-eight: modern industrialized agriculture. And if ever there was an ecological wolf in sheep's clothing, this is it: "conventional" farms throughout the vast Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio basin produce nitrogen and phosphorus runoff on a massive scale that creates a Gulf "dead zone" depleted of oxygen and inimical to aquatic life.
- Bon Appetit CEO Criticizes Hyper-Industrialized Agriculture -
Like many of you, I am shocked by the recent recall of over half a billion eggs. However, what is so stunning to me is not the sheer magnitude of the recall. Rather, I'm shocked that this is the first offense perpetrated by the egg industry large enough to trigger America's outrage regarding food safety. Our egg industry is an emblem of industrialized animal agribusiness - a system that jeopardizes the health of American consumers each and every day, institutionally abuses animals, and pollutes our seas and waterways.
- Beef Recall Intensifies Fight for Tighter Rules -
For the first time in this country, public health officials have linked ground beef to illnesses from a rare strain of E. coli, adding fuel to an already fierce debate over expanding federal rules meant to keep the toxic bacteria out of the meat supply.
- How Toxic Finance First Met Toxic Chemical -
Is the tie between industrial poisons and speculative excess a mere accident of timing? History suggests otherwise. Deregulation, financial bubbles, and chemical contamination have a common heritage that goes back all the way to Victorian England. They became linked in 1880, when the great British statesman William Ewart Gladstone restructured the taxation of beer.
- The Food Safety Shell Game -
The relatively new phenomena of nationwide pathogenic outbreaks, be they from salmonella or E. coli variants, are intimately tied to the fecal contamination of our food supply and the intermingling of millions of unhealthy animals. It's one of the best kept secrets in the modern livestock industry.
Syndicated from Reuters
- Warmer temperatures in China to reduce crop yields - HONG KONG (Reuters) - With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop yields in the years ahead.
- BP replaces failed blowout preventer on Gulf well - HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Friday, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said.
- Earl weakens to storm - HYANNIS, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl, which earlier in the week was a storm of major proportions that threatened the U.S. East Coast, weakened to a tropical storm on Friday as it swirled offshore toward Canada.
- U.S. reiterates commitment to 2020 climate goal - GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation.
- Financing said vital for world climate change deal - GENEVA (Reuters) - A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.
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