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No Trans Fat in Manitoba Schools: Minister

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 9/09/2009 Students returning to classes across Manitoba today should not be able to buy any packaged foods or other food products containing artificial trans fat...

Elimination of Food Waste Could Lift 1 Billion Out of Hunger, say Campaigners

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Adam Vaughan - guardian.co.uk Se 8 '09 Excessive consumption in rich countries 'takes food out of mouths of poor' by inflating food prices on global market... sustainablog.org/

Climate Change Worsens Global Poverty and Inequity

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by Dr. Atiq Rahman, Exec.-Dir. of BCAS, Dhaka and Winner of the UN's "Champion of the Earth" award - 2008 An Indonesian farmer ploughs through hardened soil on a rain-dependent rice field. Courtesy of flickr Global climate change has emerged as the greatest threat facing humankind today...

Monsanto in Iraq and Afghanistan

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By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Organic Consumers Association, Se'09 From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer...

H1N1 Arrives in Manitoba Hogs

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Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 9/3/2009 Sarah Kearney - Wpeg. F.P. The pandemic flu strain H1N1 has crossed over to hogs in various areas of Manitoba... Please also read - "Green Party of Manitoba Believes Now is the Time to Put an End to CAFOs" and "The CAFO Syndrome."

Rot-Gut Liquor

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Posted on 7 Apr 2009 - by Tom Philpott - Grist Greg Southam, Canwest News Service Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem...

Cdn. Taxpayers Back SK. Ethanol Plant

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Staff- MB Co-Operator - 9/1/2009 A Manitoba ethanol plant. l.p. photo A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on its contribution agreement to support a Saskatchewan plant producing wheat- and corn-based ethanol. ======== Ed's. Note: The hemorrhage of millions of our taxpayer dollars continues to flow into this failed technology which only makes world hunger worse. l.p. Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble" here.