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...Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay. And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi? In Iraq, limitless U.S. resources are deployed while at home poor Americans, thirsty and starving, founder in toxic effluent. All around the globe, people are watching, incredulous, as the Bush Administration displays its unique abilities to turn a natural disaster into an issue of law and order. It can be only a matter of time before criticism of the federal response to Katrina is declared unpatriotic...
...Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay? And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi? In Iraq, limitless U.S. resources are deployed, while at home poor Americans, thirsty and starving, founder in toxic effluent. All around the globe, people are watching, incredulous, as the Bush Administration displays its unique ability to turn a natural disaster into an issue of law and order. It can be only a matter of time before criticism of the federal response to Katrina is declared unpatriotic...
...East." The city's 10 million residents produce 2.4 million cubic meters of wastewater per day but just 500,000 cubic meters are subsequently treated. The rest is simply poured into the klongs. As only 2% of homes in Bangkok are connected to proper sanitation systems, most of the effluent is raw sewage. Tossed into the brew are toxic chemicals, restaurant discharges, paper, cans, dead farm animals?and the occasional human corpse. Bacterial contamination is anywhere from 75 to 400 times above permissible limits, according to a city government study. Fish and plant life disappeared a decade...
...Thailand accounted for 28% of the shrimp imported into the U.S. But this commerce is costly. Long strips of coastline south of Bangkok now look like powdery gray moonscapes. Shrimp farms can raise the salinity of the surrounding soil and water, poisoning the land for agriculture. Some flush their effluent into the sea, killing mangrove trees. Shrimp farming is also practiced in Brazil, India and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Florida, South Carolina and Texas...
...often more strictly regulated than seafood farmers, whose wholesome image has helped them resist government oversight. But after eight years of discussion, shrimp farmers around the world are considering adoption of a universal certification process that would require them to comply with standards on the siting of ponds, effluent treatment, the reduction of chemicals and disease management. In exchange, their products would be labeled eco-friendly. By 2004, labels indicating whether seafood is farmed or wild will become mandatory in the U.S. (though they won't be required on restaurant menus). Jason Clay, 51, a senior fellow at World Wildlife...