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April 5th, 2007

Porcine rights on the streets of Vienna

Today I came across an animal rights group’s protest while wandering around Vienna. They were focusing on the mistreatment of pigs in Austria, and the photographs they had on display were quite disturbing. The piggy in the above poster is saying “My flesh belongs to me! If you still want to eat […]

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April 4th, 2007

Theme Day round-up: Issues that affect the entire world

In honor of the upcoming World Health Day on April 7th, the b5 Science and Health Channel bloggers have each chosen an issue that affects the entire world to write about today. Below is a round-up of these posts - go read ‘em!

Grace over at Flu Patrol has written about a drug-resistant TB patient who […]

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March 28th, 2007

How many different species do you eat?

One of the dietary recommendations in Michael Pollan’s recent article Unhappy Meals is to “eat like an omnivore.” While he’s not convincing me to reintroduce meat into my diet, the idea of eating a variety of foods in order to better cover nutritional needs seems to make sense to me. I do take a daily […]

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February 27th, 2007

What can you really afford?

This NPR interview with Whole Foods’ CEO got me thinking. He makes some interesting points, especially about what food we can afford (or tell ourselves we can afford). He quoted statistics illustrating how little of their income Americans spend on groceries versus what people in other countries spend.
I really could afford to eat a lot […]

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