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Angriculture and the Environment, It's Our Choice
Common Dreams - 4/30/2009.
by Jim Goodman. Farmers claim to be stewards of the environment, some would say it's best friend; others, its worst enemy. The truth is we can be both. Humans have never left a small footprint, we have always tried to shape the environment to suit our needs. Initially farming had one purpose, food; farming provided a more stable diet than the hunter-gatherer existence.
‘New Scientist’: Swine flu stems from virus that evolved in U.S.
Grist - 4/30/2009.
by Tom Philpott. In a pair of articles in New Scientist, Debora MacKenzie links the swine flu virus now spreading across the globe to large-scale pork-raising operations in the United States.
Imagine a World Without Seafood for Supper -- It's Nearer Than You Think
Alternet - 4/29/2009.
by Andrew Purvis, The Observer U.K. The majority of fish populations have been reduced by 70-95% -- and global demand keeps rising.
First commercial perfluorochemicals found in human blood
Environmental Science & Technology - 4/29/2009.
by Rebecca Renner. For the first time, a group of perfluorochemicals used on food wrappers has been identified in human blood at low part-per-billion concentrations. The chemicals, known as polyfluoroalkyl phosphoric acid diesters (diPAPs), also were found at concentrations about 100 times higher in sewage sludge. These findings, published in ES&T (DOI 10.1021/es900100d) by chemistry graduate student Jessica D’eon at the University of Toronto and colleagues, provide new clues about people’s exposure to perfluorochemicals but further complicate investigations into the fate and transport of these compounds, say academic scientists.
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