Articles in the Food for Thought Category
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This morning the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai begged the citizens of Afghanistan to come out and vote because, said he, “the Afghan people will, through their vote, make Afghanistan more secure and more peaceful.” …
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For years we believed that the ancient Greeks didn’t go to pubs or brothels – that somehow they were programmed differently and that their way of life didn’t make provision for something so base. They …
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Alexander the Great was a Macedonian hero and a great soldier but it seems that his travels were largely to blame for the decline of the Greeks so it was really just a temporary thing, …
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Organic food is terribly expensive but for good reason – the soil has to be certified organic before the farmer can even start – and that takes considerable time and effort, then there are very …
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The G8 talks in L’Aquila earlier this month was followed with great interest by many people around the world – despite the fact that the G8 face a plethora of massive problems, they didn’t do too …
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“According to the World Health Organization, approximately two billion people suffer from iron deficiency. They tire easily, experience problems in metabolizing harmful substances in their bodies and eventually suffer from anaemia. Women and children are …
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When we were young and constantly dieting our mothers would always tell us to eat healthily, cut out cake and sweets and have a spoon or two of vinegar. Naturally we thought they were old …
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Websters provides the simplest definition of the word cloning when it explains it as: “the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the …
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“World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The most recent increase …
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“Canadian broadcaster CityTV is putting ex-cons with no culinary skills to work in a classy Toronto restaurant for Conviction Kitchen, a new reality series set to premiere in the fall………the Canadian series has a film …
