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...Slow Food and its critics agree on is that something is wrong with the global food system. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 2007 50 million more people were hungry than in 2006. At the same time, unhealthy, heavily processed, American-style fast food has spread beyond our borders, eroding traditional ways of eating. The solution, say Slow Food devotees, is to shift to cuisine that is "good, clean and fair," grown mostly organically by local farmers...
...issues, as the actual substance—the platform and speeches –were weak on details," Padilla added. Zafran said he was pleased with the choice of Denver as a city, but noted that there were some drawbacks to the selection. "Unfortunately, [Denver] is a bit spread out and doesn't have enough hotel rooms downtown to accommodate all of the participants," Zafran said, "so 'less important' state [delegations] like my home state of New Jersey were staying in a hotel pretty far away from the downtown." But this small issue wasn't enough to diminish the importance...
...hazards of underarm deodorant or of the risks of having your kidneys stolen right out of your body by organ harvesters at foreign hotels. Over 30% of the traffic to Snopes.com originates from Web-based e-mail domains, since e-mail is the main way these urban myths get spread...
...been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years. "It is concentrated in a capsule form in one particular area," he says. Other monsoons may have killed or displaced more people, but the destruction was spread out over a larger territory...
...most significant and widespread inundation of Florida since five hurricanes smacked the state in 2004-05. Aside from knocking fruits off trees, the combination of wind and rain exacerbated citrus canker, a disease that infects leaves and causes fruit to drop prematurely. Fay is likely to have increased the spread of the disease. Canker has destroyed more than 16 million trees in Florida. Despite $600 million in federal and state money spent to eradicate it from 1996-2006, the United States Department of Agriculture deemed eradication impossible after Hurricane Wilma blew through in October...