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10 things grocery stores don't want you to know

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:35:07 GMT

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Clip Source: health.msn.com

1. The shopping carts have cooties.

2. Dates are open to interpretation.

3. Kid-friendly food is purposely placed within their reach.

4. They cut up food so they can charge more.

5. Good-for-you foods require bending and reaching.

6. End-of-aisle displays are there to distract you from your mission.

7. Bargains aren’t always a bargain.

8. You’ll walk the store the way they want you to.

9. The salad bar can make you sick.

10. They don’t always clean as often as they should.

10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn't Want You to Know

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green Frenzy blames COWS

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:17:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ok- take care of the earth- don't mess it up when you can preserve it- but lets not go NUTS.

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The New York Times Magazine on Sunday devoted the entire issue to a "low-carbon catalog" of ideas for the environmentally inclined. However, as Folio magazine notes, it was printed on new, wasteful paper, not recycled pulp.

The villain of the piece? Cows. According to Dr. Solomon, Americans' animal-based foods generate "a third as much as their car produces" in greenhouse gases. Cows come in for even more blame than pigs and other critters, because cows emit copious amounts of methane and nitrous oxide, Solomon said. This means that the bacon in your bacon cheeseburger pales as an environmental menace compared to the cheese and the beef.

National Public Radio kicked off its Earth Week on Monday with "a series of conversations about food's footprint."

In the first installment on Monday, Alex Chadwick talked to Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, "about how the food we eat contributes to greenhouse gases."

Tags: green, environment, bush, politics, food, cows, gas, globa

here comes one world religion

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:25:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: anyone think about Revelation lately?

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The leader of the Italian Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, today proposed the creation of an 'Organization of Religions Nations' Rome-based, and said that the idea' liked 'by both the secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, as Pope Benedict XVI.

Veltroni explained that his idea is the creation of a 'palace of religions' in Rome, like the United Nations in New York, where representatives of all faiths of the world can' meet and talk among themselves.

Veltroni announced today that proposal during an appearance before reporters in Rome as a farewell, after it yesterday submit his resignation as mayor of the city to begin his campaign as a candidate for president of the Government in the upcoming April elections.

n the city of Rome have their headquarters three of the United Nations agencies that deal with food: the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) and the Global Agenda Food (WFP)