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...became important for me to make a film about how the whole supermarket has become industrialized like the fast-food system. On one level, we're spending less on food than at any time in history, but it's coming to us at a very high, unseen cost. And I think we're just beginning to understand that. Ultimately, the most shocking things in this film were when Barb Kowalcyk told me that meat producers knew where the meat that killed her 2-year-old son came from and it sat on the shelves two weeks after he died...
...bound to have some kinks. Like most other weight-loss programs, Wellspring is not covered by any health insurance plan. Many families find themselves taking out loans to pay the $6,250-per-month tuition. "A lot of parents use their kids' college money," says Craig. Its prohibitively high cost makes the place inaccessible to many Americans who could benefit, especially since the highest obesity rates are found in low-income areas. But Wellspring kids are far from wealthy. Fedorchalk's mother and father, who work at a nursing home and Walmart, respectively, struggle to pay the bill. Freddy Fahl...
...There are big questions to answer for a country that, while proudly trumpeting seven-to-eight percent growth rates each year, also ranked 134th in the Human Development Index in 2009 report. A breathless—and often mindless—form of development at the cost of the voiceless and marginalized is equivalent to practicing a form of internal colonialism. The state must stop conducting a war against its own people. Let crimson not taint green in Indian forestlands...
...Haiti cash-for-work program, which is expected to last through the spring, has employed more than 35,000 locals since it began early this month, at a cost of about $175,000 a day. (Workers earn about $4.50 a day, slightly more than Haiti's minimum wage, UNDP officials say, but not enough to siphon workers from the country's other vital economic sectors.) But the goal is 100,000 workers - a number that will require more than the $25.5 million the UNDP has so far garnered in donations and pledges for the project, which is why the agency...
...that they are poorly equipped to perform the complicated procedures and that few have received specialized training, according to the survey. And some even say they are ostracized by their colleagues if they perform such surgeries. For these reasons, many transsexuals choose to undergo the procedure - at their own cost - across the border in Belgium, home to some of the best sex-change specialists in the world...