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Are Food Makers’ Health Claims Valid?
Just how valid are food makers’ health claims on their packaging? We as consumers tend to believe what we read on a food package, unless of course there is a far overreaching claim that a even a 5 year old knows is a bunch of bull. Something like Redco Food’s. . .
Eating Locally Vs Sourcing Globally
There seems to be a brewing battle between locavores and conventional food producers. Locavores are individuals that buy their seasonal produce, beef, and fish from local producers. Locavores like to purchase locally grown foodstuffs to within a 300 miles radius of where they live. Conventional producers source their food from. . .
NOAA Reopens Another 4,281 SQ Miles To Fishing
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reopened another 4,281 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial fishing yesterday. The reopening according to NOAA came after consultation with the FDA and Gulf states. The NOAA moved to reopen the previously closed waters after sensory analyses (smelling the fish, and checking. . .
BP’s Oil Still Keeps Surfacing
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency focused on the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. It also has become the latest federal agency to stretch the truth regarding the amount of oil that is now allegedly gone from the BP Gulf oil spill. NOAA. . .
Diet Can Save Your Skin From UV Rays
Showing up a little late in this soon to be over summer tanning season, is a report highlighting that a certain diet can save your skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays. That protective diet is the Greek one according to researchers at the University of Tel Aviv. Dr. Niva. . .
Droughts Reducing Plants CO2 Absorption
According to a new report rising temperatures in the past decade have reduced the ability of plants to soak up carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Large-scale droughts have wiped out plants that would have otherwise absorbed an amount of carbon equivalent to Britain’s annual man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists. . .
New Coal Plants Adding To CO2 Woes
Recent records from the U.S. Department of Energy provided by utilities show that more than 30 coal plants have been built since 2008. The new construction of coal plants stretches from Arizona, Illinois, South Carolina, and Washington. This is the largest expansion of coal plants in the U.S. in over. . .
Global CO2 Emissions Fall 1.3 Percent
For the first time in over a decade worldwide carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1.3 percent. Total global carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2009 to 31.3 billion tons. The Internationals Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien, IWR, (a German based Renewable Energy Industry Institute), issued their annual report highlighting the drop in. . .
Report Challenges Big Ag Interests
The National Research Council, an independent influential scientific body, issued a report criticizing the current state of industrialized farming. The NRC has been around since 1916, and its mission is to provide elected leaders, policy makers, and the public with expert scientific advice. Their report, “Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in. . .
Brown Cloud Could Threaten Arctic Ice
Fires that are currently raging in Russia have created a large brown cloud that is impacting cities and eco systems throughout Asia. Beijing and New Delhi are experiencing dimmer sunlight because of the fires smoke, and there is growing concern that this brown cloud will hasten the thaw of Arctic. . .
Gulf Blue Crab Larvae Now Found To Be Tainted
Since the BP oil spill hit the Gulf, researchers from Loyola University in New Orleans, Tulane University, and the University of Southern Mississippi have been gathering shellfish to study the effects the oil may have on them. Shellfish are watched closely because they are such a large staple of the. . .
NOAA Report On Spill – Take It With A Grain Of Salt
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey issued a new report as to the status of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The upbeat report was delivered at a White House press conference. According to the report, relatively little oil remains on the surface. . .
Feds To Gulf Fisherman – Smell The Fish
Yesterday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reopened a third of the banned fishing areas in the Gulf of Mexico. Some 26,388 square miles of the Gulf were reopened to fishing by NOAA. NOAA along with the FDA and surrounding States, indicated that the fish they have been testing. . .
Gulf Fishing Reopens
Good news for Gulf fishermen as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reopens one third of the BP oil spill area that was closed to fishing.According to NOAA 26,388 square miles will be reopened to Gulf fisherman. The NOAA, Gulf States, and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) all. . .
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