I have long agitated whenever given the chance, against any type of factory farming–animal or grain or vegetable or fruit. WHY? Because of the statistical probability of failure and disease. Why are so many of us gravitating toward locally produced, organic food? We know that on so many levels it’s better for us. By the [...]
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Women hold up half the sky…
…and produce 60-80% of the world’s food supply in Asia and Africa. Yet these same women–who also bear the children, tend the children, haul the water and wood and cook the food they grow–share few if any of the benefits and incentives their male counterparts receive.
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What’s Superbowl Sunday without snacks?
[UPDATE: Thanks to the 37,693 other people who joined me in our fast on Feb. 1st. Stay tuned for Kumi Naidoo's report on the results of his appeal to African heads of state in Ethiopia.] A protest! From the amazing AVAAZ.org website, comes this invitation to joins tens of thousands of people on Sunday, Feb. [...]
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A toast of a different kind
The blogs will be overflowing today with intensely personal reflections on this historic date of January 20, 2009. And as tickled as I was to watch the former president fly away from Capitol Hill this morning (yes, I’ll admit I was screaming FASTER! FASTER! at the tv) there was something else that was mentioned several [...]
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Can Moringa change the face of AIDS?
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.” Goethe Tree of the Millenium Another World AIDS Day come and gone December 1st. Another opportunity to shine some light on a disease whose origins are as murky as the various strategies for controlling it and ending its legacy of multi-generational suffering. [...]
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Food is a right, not a commodity!
Former President Bill Clinton has it right: “Food is not a commodity like others,” Clinton said addressing a high-level event at the UN marking Oct. 16′s World Food Day. “We should go back to a policy of maximum food self-sufficiency. It is crazy for us to think we can develop countries around the world without [...]
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Humanitarian aid organizations: the “new colonialists?”
A recent article on hunger aid and humanitarian assistance in the Nov/Dec 08 Utne Reader reprinted from Foreign Policy magazine presented a very well-written argument supporting the rationale behind this website: “Humanitarian groups and well-meaning charities keep failing countries afloat. They also create a crippling cycle of dependence.”
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