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World Hunger Summit Leaders Dine on Cockroach Ragout and Yakitori of Rat, w
2008-07-09 17:53:00 File this under major irony of 2008, but this past Sunday, the world leaders who represent all the countries concerned with the global food crisis, "sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis."Did any of the diners ponder their own hypocrisy for a nanosecond as their ivory chopsticks ascended to their well-fed jowls? Jowls quivering with such delicacies as milk-fed lamb, sea urchin gonads (known as "uni" in Japan), as well as the usual sturgeon roe and sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France (ho hum)?One wonders what an appropriate dinner menu for such an illustrious gathering might be. Anyone care to add to this list? The rules are that it must be:AbundantInexpensiveEasily attainedNot harmful to the environment to raise/growHere's my suggested menu:Mosquito fritter appetizerGarden snail popcornJellyfish sashimi on kudzu leavesPinto beans puree with a soybean reduction sauceCockroach ragoutYakitor...
By: Tumerica
Hunger Hormone Ghrelin has antidepressant anti-anxiety effect
2008-06-16 12:56:00 The BBC today reported some interesting research from Nature Neuroscience which suggests an important link between Ghrelin (a hormone produced in the stomach to tell the brain to produce feelings of hunger) and depression and anxiety. It is quite hard to tell from the report whether having higher or lower doses of this hormone might help: "Our findings in mice suggest that chronic stress causes Ghrelin levels to go up, and that behaviours associated with depression and anxiety decrease when Ghrelin levels rise," This quote by Dr Zigman would seem to suggest that being hungry makes us calmer. Problem is, a lot of anxious people actually comfort eat and other certainly use foods like chocolate and ice cream to calm themselves down in a crisis. Like the antidepressant Celexa, a side effect of raised Ghrelin levels would be somewhat liable to lead to wight gain, as it induces hunger. Maybe that is something that could be remedied before any potential product came onto the...
By: Anxiety 2 Calm
Hunger in Ethiopia now spreading to adults
2008-06-10 04:38:00 SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia (AP) — Like so many other victims of Ethiopia’s hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin. But Usheto is not the typical face of Ethiopia’s chronic food problems, the scrawny baby or the ailing toddler. At age ...
By: Latest News
Is hunger a punishment ?
2008-06-06 22:35:00 From: Raja Chemayel Gaza is fighting, resisting and liberating on an empty-stomach. Ramallah is smiling , kneeling and cooperating on a fuller-stomach . Iraq is resisting and fighting on an empty-stomach Kurdistan... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
Hunger fears after Mugabe aid ban
2008-06-06 10:52:00 Many Zimbabweans are struggling to surviveAid workers are concerned that Zimbabwe's 'desperate' situation may get even worse after the government banned the distribution of food aid.
By: Get rich
While Millions Hunger, the Bureaucrats Feast
2008-06-04 18:20:00 Your United States tax dollars are helping to support this summit, which gives men like Robert Mugabe a platform to attack the United States and blame others for his actions. And your tax dollars also give him a big meal with Lemon mousse with raspberry sauce for dessert, all while he intentionally starves his own people.
U.N.: Up to $20B needed each year to combat hunger
2008-06-04 16:12:00 ROME (AP) - As much as $20 billion per year will be needed to boost food production to combat hunger worsened by soaring fuel and food prices, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Wednesday.
By: Get rich
US$30 Billion a Year Would Eradicate World Hunger - Environment News Servic
2008-06-04 03:26:00 Emirates Business 24/7US$30 Billion a Year Would Eradicate World HungerEnvironment News Service - 1 hour agoROME, Italy, June 3, 2008 (ENS) - "You all know about the severity and scale of the global food crisis," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders ...Video: Global food prices affecting families in Malaysia - 3 Jun 08 AlJazeeraEnglishUN Leader Warns of Increasing World Food Demands Voice of AmericaWorld leaders tone down menu over fears of Times OnlineXinhua - Radio Netherlandsall 798 news articles
FAO chief: World needs $30 bln yearly to eradicate hunger - Xinhua
2008-06-03 12:58:00 Times OnlineFAO chief: World needs $30 bln yearly to eradicate hungerXinhua, China -- 3 hours agoROME, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Tuesday appealed to world leaders for 30 billion US dollars a year to re-launch ...Video: Global food prices affects families in Malaysia - 3 Jun 08 AlJazeeraEnglishUN Leader Ban Calls for 50% Rise in World Food Output (Update1) BloombergWorld leaders to tackle global food crisis Euronews.netTimes Online - Bloombergall 850 news articles
Food aid saves millions but world hunger lingers - The Associated Press
2008-06-02 09:30:00 Food aid saves millions but world hunger lingersThe Associated Press - 2 hours agoBut while the world rises to the challenge of saving those survivors from starvation, hundreds of millions go hungry from a catastrophe that has stubbornly ...
Jan Bednar: Hunger Strike Over Radar Base in Czech!
2008-05-30 12:00:00 Jan Bednar on the right!Hello,I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & reading an article about the:===========================-===========The hunger strikes in the Czech Republic, that the government is acting undemocratically in refusing to consult the public on the issue, even though the latest opinion polls show that 65 per cent of Czechs are against the radar base.Jan Bednar from the ‘No to the Base’ campaign group has lost 10 kilograms in weight in just over two weeks. His liver is failing and jaundice is setting in, so doctors are urging him to end his hunger strike. But he’s refusing. He may look weak, but his will is strong.========================-===============Seems that there are some issues that America has caused in the Czech Government structure. Wonder how much money the Czech Government was bribed with by the USA to put in a Radar Base?Poland, I think is holding out for much more money than Czech did!I think that this is called buying your friends, so do n...
Hunger Prompting Desperate Acts
2008-05-28 01:34:00 An Afghan father, unable to feed his family, sold his 11-year old daughter for $2,000 to buy food for the rest of his family. read more
By: BuzzVines
Groundwork Act To Reduce Hunger (Audio CD)
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Carbon trading our way out of hunger crisis
2008-05-22 03:10:00 Carbon trading our way out of hunger crisisA seemingly magical chemical combined with a carbon trading network is one company's hope for ending world hunger and reducing global warming. http:-//news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-99-50035-37.html?part=...
BO promises cold and hunger
2008-05-19 17:16:00 BO artfully blends the bad ideas of the last to ‘rat moninees, Al Gore and John Kerry. First BO buys into Gore’s stupid theory of anthropogenic gobal warming, AFP: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times” There is a name for not having enough food to eat. It is called hunger. Yet in this land of plentiful food and highly productive famers, BO proposes national hunger as policy. Further, taking a page from John Kerry, BO suggests that our American lifestyle needs to pass some sort Kerry like global test: “[A]nd then just expect that other countries are going to say Ok. Millionaires who live in mansions should not be telling the American voter that has to turn down his thermostat and have his children go hungry. This nation has plenty of food and oil reserves. Yet for some strange reason, BO does want the American people to have ample access to either. Senator Obama, nat...
By: BitsBlog
SSNN: Kitna predicts Lions will win Super Bowl, end world hunger - MLive.co
2008-05-16 15:42:00 SSNN: Kitna predicts Lions will win Super Bowl, end world hungerMLive.com, MI -- 3 hours agoSeriousSportsNetwork.com, May 15: "I think this team is good enough to end world hunger too, and probably all the wars and stuff," the former Bengal ...
World Bank `Destroyed Basic Grains' in Honduras, Fueling Hunger - Bloom
2008-05-14 11:38:00 World Bank `Destroyed Basic Grains' in Honduras, Fueling HungerBloomberg - 1 hour agoIn return for loans from the World Bank, Honduras became one of dozens of developing nations that abandoned policies designed to protect farmers and ...
SWS Survey on Poverty and Hunger, Filipino Indie Films in Cannes, and Dante
2008-05-13 19:25:00 Take the quick survey below and see how your family compares with other families/households in the Philippines… “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” — Dante Alighieri (May 14/June 13, 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), author of the Divine Comedy May 14th marks the opening of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. You may have heard that Brillante Mendoza’s “Serbis” is one of the 20 finalists vying for the prestigious Palme d’Or. And Raya Martin’s “Now Showing” has been chosen to be part of… “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap” -Psalm 113: 7 Click here and continue reading…
Spain to help fight hunger, climate change in Africa
2008-05-12 22:57:00 Source: AlertNet NIAMEY, May 12 (Reuters) - Spain plans to help five poor African countries fight hunger and climate change under a 60 million euro ($90 million) scheme to help the continent whose people flood to Spain in their tens of thousands each year. Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega announced the ...
Mulkey Engineers & Consultants Marks 15 Years, Supports Hunger Relief
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By: Engineers Voice
Mulkey Engineers & Consultants Marks 15 Years, Supports Hunger Relief -
2008-05-11 06:59:00 RALEIGH, N.C., May 9 /PRNewswire/ — Mulkey Engineers & Consultants announced today the kick-off of a company-wide volunteer effort in the local and global fight against hunger to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Engineers Voice
Stamp Out Hunger
2008-05-09 21:08:00 Don’t forget to leave your bag of food out tomorrow for the mailman (or mailwoman)! Saturday, May 10th 2008 I do this every year. I seem to be the only one in my neighborhood that participates though which is a little sad. Hopefully this year will be different! This year I have loads of Glucerena cereal boxes that ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Stamp Out Hunger", url: "http://mygoodcents.net/archive-s/1112" });
By: My Good Cents
Yemeni Hunger Striker, Hassan Baoum, Seriously Ill
2008-05-03 02:18:00 Southern Yemeni activist Hassan Baoum is seriously ill and has been transferred to a police hospital, his family reports. Baoum is on a hunger strike in protest of his “illegal arrest” on April 1, 2008. He has had a diabetic reaction, and his blood pressure is very high. Baoum has been held incommunicato since his ...
Food scientists say stop biofuels to fight world hunger - The Associated Pr
2008-04-29 23:31:00 Food scientists say stop biofuels to fight world hungerThe Associated Press - 33 minutes agoWhen asked about the conflict with world hunger and the rising cost of food at home, he said the high price of gasoline would "spur more investment in ...
Hunger could be eliminated tomorrow. No joke. So why doesn?t it happen?
2008-04-28 04:44:00 Image via WikipediaAccording to Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, there are four reasons that food prices are rising, causing riots around the world. Ethanol, poor harvests last year, the price of oil, and increased demand for meat. Fertilizers and pesticides are made from ...
World Hunger
2008-04-26 13:45:00 I see clearlytoo many dirty feetstanding on worn out soilno spaces betweensubjects briefly touched so as to not disturb the dinner parties.it is not about hunger, or oil, or war, or money. It is about too many people. It is about a planet and its dominant species which has lost. and I for one am not sure there is enough time left to win.Copyright 2006. All Rights Reserved. Brian Morrison
Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
2008-04-26 10:04:00 Under conditions of growing debt defaults arising from the US subprime crisis, speculators and hedge fund groups have increasingly switched their investments from high-risk "bundled" securities into so-called "stores of value," which include gold and oil at one end of the spectrum and "soft commodities" such as corn, cocoa and cattle at the other. The article in the New Statesman points out that "speculators are even placing bets on water prices" and then concludes: "Just like the boom in house prices, commodity price inflation feeds on itself. The more prices rise, and big profits are made, the more others invest, hoping for big returns. Look at the financial web sites: everyone and their mother is piling into commodities.... The trouble is that if you are one of the 2.8 billion people, almost half the world's population, who live on less than $2 a day, you may pay for these profits with your life." Investment in "soft commodities" is currently highly recommended by lea...
By: Circle of 13
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
2008-04-25 09:05:00 by Stephen Lendman Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness. Wheat shortages in Peru are acute enough to have the military make bread with potato flour (a native crop). In Pakistan, thousands of troops guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. In Thailand, rice farmers take shifts staying awake nights guarding their fields from thieves. The crop's price has about doubled in recent months, it's the staple for half or more of the world's population, but rising prices and fearing scarcit...
Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
2008-04-24 17:44:00 By Stefan Steinberg, from the World Socialist Web Site wsws.org read more
By: BuzzVines
[@grar(b)log] Hunger - und viele Rezepte
2008-04-24 00:00:00 Das Thema #8216;Hunger#8217; steht - mal wieder - ganz oben auf der Tagesordung. Nur - wie lange? Laut #8216;Weltagrarbericht#8216; und aktuellen Presseberichten gibt es verschiedenste Gründe und Misstände, die das Problem nahez...
By: BlogNews
Biofuel: filling your tank with hunger
2008-04-23 23:59:00 The UN is calling for action to avoid the "silent tsunami of rising food prices which threatens to push more than 100 million people worldwide into hunger" (http://www.un.org/). Protests against rising costs of basic foods already started in Haiti, Mexico, the Philippines, Bangladesh, South Africa.... Sub-Saharan Africans continue their decades-old silent protest, dying slowly, quietly, dryly.I recall now the bad feeling I had last year when I read about Bush's visit to ethanol-driven Brazil. Biofuel production is said to be responsible for at least one third of the recent increase in food prices. It was already being called ?deforestation fuel?. Now it?s also ?hunger fuel?.But it?s bio. Quand je dors chez mon copain, on mange tout le temps bio (Sanseverino, Cette conne m'ennuie). Blogging in Luxembourg. In engrish.
By: ubikuo
Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
2008-04-23 20:17:00 Globalresearch.ca Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness. Wheat shortages in Peru are acute enough to have the military make bread with potato flour (a native crop). In Pakistan, thousands of troops guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. In Thailand, rice farmers take shifts staying awake nights guarding their fields from thieves. The crop's price has about doubled in recent months, it's the staple for half or more of the world's population, but rising prices and fearing scarcity ...
World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger - The Associ
2008-04-23 02:50:00 The Associated PressWorld Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hungerThe Associated Press - 2 hours agoThese possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World War II ? which the World Food Program says already threatens 20 million of the poorest ...
Lauren Bush Designs New Feed 1 Bag To Help End World Hunger
2008-04-22 21:40:00 You know it’s a good thing I hide behind your screen everyday because the truth is I’m a pretty crappy dresser. I’m not bad like you can’t take me out, I’m more just a Casual Joe who prefers to live his life in jeans and a t-shirt. Anyway, I always get a nice chuckle when ...
By: Ecorazzi
On April 4, a hunger strike by Nadigar Sangam and against the actress asin
2008-04-22 21:02:00 On April 4, a hunger strike was held by Tamil cinema condemning Karnataka. There was an order for all actors and technicians to participate in it.But actors Karthick, Arya, Asin, Simran, Navya Nair, Gopika, Padmapriya, Nila and directors Balachander, Bharatiraja, Mani Ratnam, Shankar and many more did not take part in it. In a meeting held on April 8, it was discussed about taking action against them. The South India Nadigar Sangam, Tamil Film Producers' Council, Directors Association and other associations took part in it. It was decided that those who did not take part in the hunger strike should explain within15 days, otherwise action would be taken against them. The 15-day notice period ends today.Speaking about it, the General Secretary of Nadigar Sangam, Radha Ravi said:More than 15 actors did not participate in the hunger strike. They have all written letters of explanation. But Asin has not done so.Some actors who are not members of the Association did not participate in th...
By: Actress Gallery
Japan?s hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
2008-04-22 03:51:00 More news on the growing global shortage: Japan’s hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
global food crisis: hunger plagues Haiti and the World
2008-04-22 00:28:00 Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti ...
Side-Line presents: 'Machines against hunger' 2CD
2008-04-21 06:00:00 Released on Sigsaly Productions and available from April 30th, 2008 on is the "Machines Against Hunger" project. The project which consists of 34 electronic music artists from across the globe with...
By: Side-Line Music
The new face of hunger
2008-04-19 16:09:00 Global food shortages have taken everyone by surprise. What is to be done? ?World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable and politically risky period,? says Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. To prove it, food riots have erupted in countries all along the equator. In Haiti, ...
By: 1913 Intel
It?s not a rocket Science : Rocket or Roti?
2008-04-19 11:02:00 Where Pakistan test fires long range surface-to-surface Hataf-6 Shaheen-2 ballistic missile successfully, and India prepares for it’s own retaliatory test fire, people of both countries wonder about as to how to arrange food and medicine for their children today. Put a hand on your chest and tell me, if your kids are hungry for three days ...
North Korea?s food shortage may worsen, agency says
2008-04-17 03:42:00 The World Food Program warns that the country will need massive aid to prevent widespread hunger. The ravages of floods and soured diplomacy have turned North Korea’s chronic food shortages into an imminent humanitarian crisis, the World Food Program warned Wednesday, declaring that the secretive dictatorship will require massive food aid in the coming months if ...
By: 1913 Intel
Cure your Hunger, read this
2008-04-15 05:26:00 You know what really really sucks right now, my belly button!!!!! Last night I reached down and scratched my bellow button and felt something kind of strange there. I thought at first it was a weird piece of lint but I couldn’t seem to get it out with my fingers. I worked at it so ...
By: A Public Diet
world of hunger - The Age
2008-04-14 23:17:00 world of hungerThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoFROM the villages of Bangladesh to the slums of Haiti, millions of the world's poorest people have been cast into even greater penury by sharply rising food ...
Biofuels: A Threat and a Cause of World Hunger
2008-04-13 20:37:00 Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's NotebookIn an op-ed dated April 10th, the The New York Times says that the world is getting hungrier because corn, wheat and soy prices are through the roof.Last year, the food import bill of developing countries rose by 25 percent as food prices rose to levels not seen in a generation.Corn doubled in price over the last two years. Wheat reached its highest price in 28 years....The United States and other developed countries need to step up to the plate. The rise in food prices is partly because of uncontrollable forces ? including rising energy costs and the growth of the middle class in China and India....Now, any country with a growing middle class...well, that's good news, but still yet, the NYT tells us, the problem is that old familiar culprit - the "rich world," which has been arrogant enough to produce biofuels. "...industrial nations are not generous" and "rich countries' energy policies helped create the problem."The unnamed editoriali...
By: Faultline USA
Hunger and Anger in the Time of Food Riots
2008-04-12 12:06:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date.Half the world is starving and many are becoming hungrier and angrier. Millions more are impoverished daily. Many of these are poor...
By: Green Options
Bread for the World seeks to end hunger - Rapid City Journal
2008-04-07 03:34:00 Bread for the World seeks to end hungerRapid City Journal, SD - 54 minutes agoBy Kayla Gahagan, Journal staff The good news, according to Bread for the World, is that hundreds of the world's poorest countries are making great strides ...
Film Stars At Hogenekkal Water Issue Hunger Strike Exclusive Photo Gallery
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Barack Obama: Children Lack a ?Hunger to Learn? and Parents Must ?Turn off
2008-04-04 22:27:00 While talking at a forum in a hall in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Obama told parents that “we’re not instilling the hunger to learn.” He mad the point that “it’s not all about money,” saying that children in China are going to school in dilapidated buildings, with outdated text books but they’re performing well because “they are ...
Earth Hour - Because We Hunger to be Part of Something Bigger than Ourselve
2008-03-28 14:29:00 Cynics love to attack popular campaigns, and that is exactly what is happening with Earth Hour."Won't Earth Hour be a failure if the entire city doesn't go dark?" a friend asked last week of the campaign to have residents and businesses in the Greater Toronto Area and around the world turn out their lights at 8 p.m. this Saturday for an hour to show support for action on climate change."Do you really think turning off your lights for an hour is going to change anything?" my friend added. "Isn't it just a feel-good thing? And why is the Star involved at all in it? Shouldn't a newspaper be a fair and neutral observer?"Such skepticism isn't limited to my cynical friends. A columnist for The Globe and Mail this week labelled Earth Hour "a sham," a "racket," "flimflammery."Any doubt I may have had about the phenomenon that is Earth Hour was erased earlier this month when I walked into an arena in Ajax for my regular Monday night hockey league game. There, in the main entrance, was a...
By: Red Jenny
The Banned Boondocks Episode - The Hunger Strike
2008-03-20 18:37:00 Watch The Banned Boondocks Episode - The Hunger Strike 1 of 2 Online Videos by Veoh.com Hip Hop DX reported the story about the banned Boondocks Hunger strike episode. The...
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