Food Inc.
After Fast Food Nation, Robert Kenner lifts again the veil on American nations food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of governments regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Modern Life, Social Communication, Water, World Health
Where’s the most remote place on earth?
The New Scientist publishes a map of the most remote places on earth. Surprisingly enough, less than 10% of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
“In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city - around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province. ”
Nevertheless, most people still don’t have access to the most basic resources such as water, education and medical care.
Filed Under Environment, Food, Human Rights, Water, World Health
Painting health
Art , depression, mental wellness.
Filed Under Art, Events, History & traditions, World Health
Get it on!
Thanks to Emily Curtin-Phillips
Filed Under Creativity, Social Communication, World Health
Crusades
“Condoms make AIDS crisis worse” - Pope Benedict XVI
Via BuonPorcoGiorno.
Filed Under Human Rights, World Health
Your Toilet is Eating Trees
Americans’ taste for gourmet toilet paper is killing huge areas of virgin forest. Greenpeace has decided to start a campaign against using the soft paper. The Greenpeace Campaign.
Filed Under Environment, Events, Modern Life, World Health
Beware: sharks in danger
by Valeria Gentile
The European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Joe Borg presented today the first ever EU Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks.
Although the text is not very specific about what actions will be taken, it’s an important first step into saving species that, in less than 30 years, went from fearsome predator to canned food or luxurious dinners.
Many species today are in serious risk of disappearing. Think about it next time you listen to scary symphony orchestras…
Filed Under Environment, Food, Politics, World Health