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Coupon scam hits Haiti food aid
ALJAZEERA Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:37:39 GMT
Distribution in Port-au-Prince suburb suspended after counterfeit vocuhers found.
Illegal fast food staff deported
BBC Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:13:33 GMT
Three illegal workers found by officials at Hertfordshire branches of McDonald's are deported.
UN: 4.3 million in need of food in south Sudan
PRESSTV Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:26:11 GMT
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) says almost half of the population in Sudan's southern region is facing food shortages.
Factory resumes food production
BBC Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:08:26 GMT
A frozen food factory on North Tyneside which was forced to close with the loss of 420 jobs after a fire, resumes production.
Vitamin should be 'added to food'
BBC Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:34:25 GMT
The government should add Vitamin D to milk and other foods to half a rise in conditions like rickets, say health experts.
What aid is being sent to Haiti?
BBC Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:10:39 GMT
Aid efforts in Haiti are continuing, with food, water and shelter being distributed by international teams.
In Haiti, frustrated survivors await promised aid
PRESSTV Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:09:31 GMT
Hospitals on the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti have been "overwhelmed" with earthquake victims as food, aid and fuel supplies trickle in too slowly.
Anguished quake-hit Haitians awaiting aid
PRESSTV Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:51:56 GMT
Millions of desperate Haitians are still awaiting food and water supplies after a disastrous quake brought death and misery to the impoverished nation.
Snow plea for delivery vehicles
BBC Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:12:24 GMT
Owners of 4x4 vehicles are sought to help transport food and medicine to vulnerable people in Brighton during the icy conditions.
Snow hinders foodbank donations
BBC Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:16:14 GMT
A food shelter in Wiltshire says supplies are running low as the snow makes it difficult to collect donations.
Council's rubbish Christmas song
BBC Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:21:25 GMT
An Oxfordshire council writes a song based on the Twelve Days of Christmas to encourage people to use its food waste collections.
U.K. government urges businesses: Label products from settlements
HAARETZ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:55 GMT+02:00
The British government has issued an official recommendation urging business owners to mark Israeli products produced in West Bank settlements so that consumers who want to boycott such items will find it easy to identify them. ...
UK issues new guidance on labelling of food from illegal Israeli settlements
GUARDIAN Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:39:43 GMT
British government calls on supermarkets to tell customers when they are buying food from Israeli settlements in West Bank The British government has for the first time called on all supermarkets to inform customers clearly when they are buying food produced by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new guidance on food labelling significantly increases UK pressure on Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, and increases the prospect of consumer boycotts. Israeli officials and settler leaders were tonight highly critical of the decision.
Man injured in chemical accident
BBC Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:43:39 GMT
A man is treated for breathing problems after a chemical accident at a food processing plant in south-east London.
Family cats 'die from poisoning'
BBC Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:58:49 GMT
Police and the RSPCA are investigating claims that two pets died after eating food which was laced with vehicle anti-freeze.
'Futile' FAO summit ends in Rome
PRESSTV Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:22:42 GMT
World leaders have concluded a three-day summit on global food security without reaching an agreement on a $44 billion aid package to help the world's poorest farmers.
How Palestinian olive oil broke down a barrier - Heather Masoud tells Anna Simpson about the world's first fair trade oil.
FORUMFORTHEFUTURE 17 Nov 2009
Occupied territories aren't the best backdrop for business...or are they? Heather Masoud tells Anna Simpson about the world's first fair trade oil.
FAO director goes on hunger strike
PRESSTV Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:34:01 GMT
United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director, Jacques Diouf, holds a hunger strike to highlight the plight of the hungry ahead of a global food summit.
Firm fined over crushed fingers
BBC Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:11 GMT
A food manufacturing company is ordered to pay £94,523 after a factory worker had three fingers crushed in a machine.
In US, food stamps will feed half the kids
PRESSTV Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:59:44 GMT
A new study has shown that nearly half of all US children and 90 percent of black kids will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty.
Folic acid linked to childhood asthma: Australian study. "30 percent more likely to have a child with asthma if overused"
XINHUANET Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:15:04 GMT
Pregnant women, who take folic acid supplements to boost their baby's health, are increasing their risk of having a child with asthma, a groundbreaking Australian study revealed on Wednesday.

The study, which could explain rising rates of the chronic lung condition, found pregnant women who overuse the supplement were 30 percent more likely to have a child with asthma.

Childhood asthma rates have been increasing across developed countries and Davies said his research showed how changing diet, and particularly the overuse of a supplement, could play a role.
Shot after photographing the Gaza sea - The buffer zone renders off-limits approximately 30 percent of Gaza's most fertile agricultural land
ELECTRONICINTIFADA 30 Oct 2009
On 4 October, Ashraf Abu Suleiman, a 16-year-old from Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, went to the northwest coast town of Sudaniya to visit an ill school friend. The teen then went to the sea, where he rolled up the legs of his pants, waded into the water and enjoyed the late summer morning. He took some photos of the sea and of the area around him, intending to play with the photos later on Photoshop, a hobby he and his father share.

Minutes later, Ashraf was running in blind terror as Israeli soldiers in a gunboat off the coast began shooting at Palestinian fishermen. He was hit by an Israeli soldier's bullet which bore through his neck and grazed his vertebrae, fracturing C-4 and C-5, leaving him bleeding on the ground and unable to stand up. At least eight Palestinians have been killed and at least 33 injured in the Israeli-imposed "buffer zone" along Gaza's border since the 18 January ceasefire. Three of the killed and 12 of the injured were minors, including many children.

The "buffer zone" was imposed by Israeli authorities about a decade ago, initially at 150 meters and now while Israeli authorities say the no-go zone runs 300 metres from the boundary between Gaza and Israel, it ranges up to two kilometers in some areas. The buffer zone renders off-limits approximately 30 percent of Gaza's most fertile agricultural land, as well as the land adjacent to it. Israeli authorities warn that anyone entering that area is subject to being shot by the Israeli army.
Paris restaurant of a million ducks selling 18,000 bottles
FEEDSPORTAL Wed, 28 Oct 2009
Paris' famed 16th century eatery, the Tour d'Argent famed for dishing up more than a million ducks, is putting 18,000 bottles up for auction in December.
Bumper harvest turns sour for Bulgaria's grape growers
FEEDSPORTAL Sun, 25 Oct 2009
This year's grape harvest in Bulgaria proved to be a bumper one but independent grape growers around the country say they will be in no mood to celebrate.
Food shortages face flood-hit India
ALJAZEERA Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:52:33 GMT
Sharp decline in agricultural production predicted after devastating floods.
Shellfish poisoning: what are the odds? - Eating raw shellfish such as oysters always involves the possible risk of food poisoning.
GUARDIAN Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:54:30 GMT
After the norovirus case at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant, John Wright, of the River Cottage, considers the chances for shellfish lovers
Sewage caused food poisoning at Fat Duck
GUARDIAN Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:54:30 GMT
Official report shows that illness that hit 500 diners at Heston Blumenthal's restaurant was probably caused by norovirus from shellfish
Oysters blamed for Fat Duck illnesses
FEEDSPORTAL Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:42:52 GMT
It was the oysters. Health officials today blamed sewage-infected shellfish for striking down hundreds of diners at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, earlier this year.
Organic food report from the FSA ignores contamination / A cancerous conspiracy to poison your faith in organic food
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 31 July 2009
Despite its obvious benefits for our health and for the environment, organic food continues to be denigrated by the political and corporate establishment in Britain.

The food industry, in alliance with pharmaceutical and big biotechnology companies, has waged a long, often cynical campaign to convince the public that mass-produced, chemically-assisted and intensively-farmed products are just as good as organic foods, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Dairy for children 'extends life'
BBC Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:00:35 GMT
Children who eat plenty of dairy foods like milk and cheese can expect to live longer, research suggests.
BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda
RYS2SENSE 24 Jun 2009
The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.

An image used by the L.A. Times on the front page of its website Tuesday showed Iranian President Ahmadinejad waving to a crowd of supporters at a public event.

In a story covering the election protests yesterday, the BBC News website used a closer shot of the same scene, but with Ahmadinejad cut out of the frame. The caption under the photograph read, ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’.

The BBC photograph is clearly a similar shot of the same pro-Ahmadinejad rally featured in the L.A. Times image, yet the caption erroneously claims it represents anti-Ahmadinejad protesters.
A few extra pounds can add years to your life: study
REUTERS 24 Jun 2009
Carrying a little extra weight may actually be good for you, according to a Canadian study that showed a few pounds appear to protect people from an early death.
Beefing up business to beat the recession
BBC Sun, 21 Jun 09 14:43:58 BST
One farm shows how some entrepreneurs are aiming to branch out businesses to survive the recession.
Crisis deepens for dairy farmers
BBC Tue, 16 Jun 09 14:26:11 BST
Britain's dairy farmers are going bankrupt as they fail to find buyers for their milk.
How tuna conquered the world
FEEDSPORTAL Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:00:01 GMT
Celebrity chefs keep returning to a four-letter in their glossy recipe books: tuna. Gordon Ramsay offers sesame-encrusted tuna with watercress salad; Nigella Lawson knocks ups a time-saving tuna, crab and avocado wrap. Rick Stein? That'll be chargrilled tuna with salsa verde.
Tomato pill 'beats heart disease' -- "Could be much more effective than statin drugs"
BBC Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:58:18 GMT
Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes can stave off heart disease and strokes.

The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet - lycopene - that blocks "bad" LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.

Ateronon, made by a biotechnology spin-out company of Cambridge University, is being launched as a dietary supplement and will be sold on the high street.
Women in Ethical Business Awards - Vote for your winner. Vote for who you think should win The Times Readers' Award
TIMESONLINE Wed, 27 May 2009
Photo : Heather Gardener-Masoud, Zaytoun

The global economic meltdown is focusing customers' minds on the need for ethical business - businesses which benefit people and the environment while delivering a profit. And, in many cases, it is women who are leading the ethical business movement which is why The Times is supporting the Triodos Women in Ethical Business Awards.

Triodos Bank launched the awards in 2006 to celebrate the achievements of the UK's most inspiring ethical business women. The first round of judging for this years awards have taken place and below are the nine women who are shortlisted for the various award categories.

This year you can vote for who - from the shortlist - you think should win The Times Readers' Award. Click here to place your vote. The deadline is Friday June 19 at 5pm.


Too much cola zaps the power in your muscles
BBC Tue, 19 May 2009 09:50:29 GMT
Excessive cola consumption can lead to dangerously low levels of potassium in the body and ultimately paralysis, experts warn.
Broccoli sprouts cut gastric cancer risk
PRESSTV Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:46:42 GMT
Broccoli sprouts protect the stomach against a bacterial infection which causes conditions such as gastritis, ulcers and stomach cancer.
I may be a crab but I feel pain too
BBC Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:18:54 GMT
New research by Queen University in Belfast shows crabs not only suffer pain but also retain a memory of it.
Drinking hot tea increases cancer risk
PRESSTV Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:21:12 GMT
Iranian scientists have found that drinking hot tea increases the risk of esophageal cancer, the British Medical Journal reported.
Eating to much red meat boosts death risk
XINHUANET Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:06:46 GMT
BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhuanet) -- People who eat too ...
Death link to too much red meat
BBC Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:07:30 GMT
Scientists have produced new evidence suggesting eating lots of red and processed meat damages health.
GMO and Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status
NATURALNEWS 3 March 2009
It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie. People report the sensation of creatures crawling under their skin, mysterious moving fibers appear, and finally bugs and worms pop out. Unfortunately, these terrifying symptoms are all too true. The people having them are experiencing Morgellons, the latest and scariest in the series of bizarre diseases appearing in the last few years, seemingly from nowhere. Morgellons is now reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and abroad.
Vegetarians 'get fewer cancers'
BBC Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:27:09 GMT
Vegetarians have a lower incidence of cancer but surprisingly a higher rate of colorectal cancer, a large UK study suggests.
California in drought emergency
BBC Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:17:39 GMT
California's governor declares a state of emergency because of a severe drought and warns of possible water rationing.
California declares state of emergency
PRESSTV Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:13:49 GMT
After three exceptionally dry years, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency amid a prolonged drought.
Expert predicts century of 'resource' wars
GUARDIAN Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:01:00 GMT
The Iraq war was just the first of this century's "resource wars", in which powerful countries use force to secure valuable commodities, according to the UK government's former chief scientific adviser. Sir David King predicts that with population growth, natural resources dwindling, and seas rising due to climate change, the squeeze on the planet will lead to more conflict.

"Future historians might look back on our particular recent past and see the Iraq war as the first of the conflicts of this kind - the first of the resource wars," he told an audience of 400 in London as he delivered the British Humanist Association's Darwin Day lecture. Implicitly rejecting the US and British governments' claim they went to war to remove Saddam Hussein and search for weapons of mass destruction, he said the US had in reality been very concerned about energy security and supply, because of its reliance on foreign oil from unstable states. "Casting its eye around the world - there was Iraq," he said.
This strategy could also be used to find and keep supplies of other essentials, such as minerals, water and fertile land, he added. "Unless we get to grips with this problem globally, we potentially are going to lead ourselves into a situation where large, powerful nations will secure resources for their own people at the expense of others."
Chemicals 'may reduce fertility'
BBC Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:02:58 GMT
Chemicals commonly found in food packaging, upholstery and carpets may be damaging women's fertility, US scientists say.
Genetically Modified Crops Implicated in Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder
WARONYOU 16 Jan 2009
As the disappearance of honeybees continues, researchers are trying desperately to discover the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). General concensus at this point is that there is more than once cause and the latest culprit may be genetically modified crops. This is one area of research being neglected as mainstream scientists insist GM crops are safe.
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The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein
YOUTUBE Sat, 08 Sep 2007
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Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6
YOUTUBE Sat, 08 Sep 2007
Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice...
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 2 of 6
YOUTUBE Sat, 08 Sep 2007
Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice...
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 3 of 6
YOUTUBE Sat, 08 Sep 2007
Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice...
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 4 of 6
YOUTUBE Sat, 08 Sep 2007
Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice...
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 5 of 6
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Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 6 of 6
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Talk by Naomi Wolf - "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot"
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