Gulf oil spill doesn’t bring lower seafood supplies for home cooks yet
Wetlands and beaches have been scarred, bird and marine life devastated and livelihoods destroyed, but for the average U.S. consumer, the impact of the BP oil disaster has yet to hit home. That could change in the months ahead, of course, but for now th
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St. Augustine.com
Grow your meat & eat it too!
"IVM would help satisfy consumer demand for meat, without the cruelty and environmental degradation associated with factory farming." N G Jayasimha Campaign manager, Humane Society International IN JANUARY 2010, scientists from Netherlands announced th
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MyDigitalFC.com | Financial Chronicle
Nadia Masoudi: One day, animal slavery for meat and milk will end
Nadia Masoudi is the founder of Animal Freedom Day. The slavery of animals is a worldwide blight that seemingly has no end. Animals suffer greatly by the hand of the species thought to be the most “evolved”. Sadly, by consuming our cohabitants, we are
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The Georgia Straight Blog
Huge Banyan Tree Shades Historic Hawaiian Market
Shopping at the International Marketplace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is like shopping under a Pandora hometree from the movie "Avatar." You don't need 3-D glasses. You don't even need sunglasses. This marketplace, across from Waikiki Beach, is shaded by a hu
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Treehugger
Seahorses saved from abyss
After receiving investment, Kealan is now farming the seahorses and produces 1000 of the animals every month. 'Seahorseman' will be shown on RTE One from tonight at 8.30pm....
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Irish Independent
Seventy Stornoway jobs with launch of salmon company
Formerly Lighthouse Caledonia, The Scottish Salmon Company – the country's...
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Stornoway Gazette
City girl fits right in as chef at Unionville cafe
Melissa Hall loves feeding her neighbors in tiny Unionville, a long way from the Annapolis, Md. , of her youth. “I’m a city girl who was thrown into the country,” she said. Today, she embraces rural life as the co-owner of the Unionville Cafe, where t
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Centre Daily Times
Area conditions wrong for canola
There is no plan to preserve farmland as farmland, only a “balance” plan that assigns farmland to non-farming interest. Moreover, the farmland base at 63,000 acres, or even triple that area, is just too small to impact public energy...
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Alexandra Morton: Break Fish Farms’ Secrecy (in Opinion)
Saksida (2006) reports "Farming practices themselves contributed significantly to the spread between farms." While the Ministry of Agriculture, Fish and...
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The Tyee
FDA nears approval of genetically engineered salmon
And the modified fish, all females, would be sterile...
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Miami Herald