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  Food Inc.

  I caught this documentary at the T/F Film Festival in Columbia, Mo last weekend and it gives me hope that more people will mobilize and demand better food safety standards and give the FDA some teeth. It was truly an eye-opening film and I am happy to say that I will no longer be eating any meat that does not come from a local organic farm. The most disgusting part of the film was that much of the food that comes from these giant processors with very poor oversight ends up in the national school lunch program. Food Inc. is definitely worth a look.

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  On Who put the food companies in charge of food safety? We did. posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 6 Responses

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  Environment Minister on the Emerald Isle

  I realize the ubiquity of dud appointments, but really, whose idea was it to appoint this guy? Some serious housecleaning needs to be done in the Democratic Unionist Party if he is any indication of the caliber of civil servant this party offers. Somewhere in Ireland someone in PR just lost their job.On Northern Ireland environment minister bans climate change ads posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 3 Responses

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  Climate change missing from most news analysis

  This is one of the best quotes I've come across while reading about this story:

  "'I would compare this current bushfire event to one of the ghosts in Dickens' Christmas Carol that visits Scrooge and showed him what his future would be like if he didn't change his ways,' said professor Barry Brook, director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide."

  Newsy.com compared the coverage from a broad range of video and print reports, but their coverage doesn't mention global warming or climate change either.
  http://www.newsy.com/videos/australia_s_darkest_day/

  Is this really a case of corporate bias or just poor parachute journalism combined with poor science and environmental journalism across the board?

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  On CNN, ABC, WashPost, and AP blow Australian wildfire, drought, heat-wave story posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 14 Responses

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  Organize on the Obama model

  I agree with the comment about organizing at the grassroots level and demanding change. I went door-to-door with Obama canvassers and I made phone calls from my house for the campaign, and I would be willing to do the same thing for a movement to bring climate change and responsible energy policy to the top of the agenda. If Obama doesn't come through with the change we would like to see, then we need to put the pressure on him to make it happen.

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  On As meaningful as his presidency is, Obama will not act fast enough on the climate crisis posted 10 months ago 11 Responses

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  Food Safety Idea

  This article strikes me as being a very convincing article for eating locally. That is not to say that there is not food contamination on a local level, but if you know where your food comes from and you have a relationship with the people who produce it then you are less likely to be ingesting something questionable because you can make better choices with the additional knowledge that comes with having a relationship with the people and places where your food comes from.

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  On Recent food safety struggles suggest the limits of regulation posted 10 months ago 2 Responses