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As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World’s Farms

The world is faced with a global fertilizer shortage, experts say, placing even more strain on food prices. [...more]

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Pigs: Intelligent Animals Suffering in Factory Farms and Slaughterhouses

Pigs “have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly [more so than] three-year-olds,” says Dr. Donald Broom, a Cambridge University professor and a former scientific advisor to the Council of Europe. Pigs can play video games, and when given the choice, they have indicated temperature preferences. [...more]

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The Frightening Diet of American Cows: Potato Chips, Chocolate and Chicken Manure

In The Physiology of Taste, written in 1825, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." This is the origin of the popular phrase, "You are what you eat." It’s no secret that America is facing an unprecedented obesity epidemic. So, just what are Americans eating? [...more]

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Oprah checks out the vegan diet: Will America follow?

One of the best things to ever happen to public health happened this month when Oprah Winfrey announced she was starting a 21-day vegan makeover. If anyone can inspire positive change in America, it's someone as influential as Oprah. The healthy vegan diet, which is free of meat, chicken, eggs, dairy and other animal products - but rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans - is finally coming into its own. [...more]

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Vegetarian Diets

Vegetarian diets can meet all the recommendations for nutrients. The key is to consume a variety of foods and the right amount of foods to meet your calorie needs. Follow the food group recommendations for your age, sex, and activity level to get the right amount of food and the variety of foods needed for nutrient adequacy. Nutrients that vegetarians may need to focus on include protein, iron, calcium, zinc, and vitamin B12. [...more]

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Vegetarian Diets: Healthy and Humane

A vegetarian diet is as good for humans’ health as it is for animals’. There is no nutritional need for humans to eat any animal product; all our dietary needs, even as infants and children, are best supplied by a meatless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that a vegetarian diet reduces the risk of many chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. [...more]

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World health leaders tout merits of vegetarian diet

A vegetarian diet not only protects personal health, but may also help conserve the environment, world health leaders concluded at a conference on vegetarianism hosted by Seventh-day Adventist-owned Loma Linda University in California. [...more]

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The Industrialized Distortion of Our Life Cycles

NaturalNews) With the flu season upon us, I would like to offer some parallels between what we ingest and the consistent transformation of the flu virus. With the latest dietary guidelines calling for three servings of low-fat or nonfat dairy a day, the average family with two kids now consumes more than 85 gallons of [...] [...more]

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Cloned or conventional, meat is unsafe

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently declared that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats and their offspring are "as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals." That´s like saying that brand A cigarettes are as safe to smoke as brand B. The question isn´t whether meat and milk from cloned animals pose additional health risks—it´s why would anyone want to consume meat and milk at all? [...more]

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