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• Against the Grain: Food Shortages in the U.S.?

  Published: April 24, 2008, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Food Chain Crisis, Globalization, Politics Global, Corn, Ethanol, Food Chain, Grain, Oil

  perfect storm brewing in the food supply chain, and it centers on grain products. A portion of the issue (skyrocketing corn prices and lack of availability) is being blamed on 1) corn being diverted into the more lucrative ethanol production market rather than into the food consumption chain, and 2) Democrats: The senior Republican on the House

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• Annual NALC Food Drive - 5/10/08

  Published: April 29, 2008, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Food Chain Crisis, U S And World Economy, Food Drive

  Just put a few cans of food by your mailbox. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is sponsoring their 16th annual nationwide food drive. You put the food out, your postal carrier will take it away, and it ends up - most importantly - back in your own community at a local foodbank, pantry, or shelter. Want to save the mailman's

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• Bad Day To Be A Climate Change Denying Christian Creationist?

  Published: May 22, 2008, 10:44 pm

  Tags: Food Chain Crisis, Global Warming, Politics U S, Radical Religious Right, Bible, Climate Change, Creationism, Evolution, Fossil, Frogmander, God, Intelligent Design, Rapture, Religion, Transitional

  Try as they might to undermine science, those who reject evolution and downplay the impact of man-made climate change will have to work overtime to deny newly revealed evidence of both. Time and again, creationist’s contend that the fossil record lacks the transitional forms of life to support the theory of evolution. Unfortunately, time

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• Jumping: Oil Prices and Unemployment

  Published: June 6, 2008, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, Food Chain Crisis, General, U S And World Economy

  prices are invoking a major crisis in the airline industry, and honestly, just about any industry that relies on tourism or transportation is going to be suffering dramatically in the coming months. By fall, the U.S. airline industry could literally be shut down to most all travel except business. Flying on an airplane, or getting anywhere

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