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August 28th, 2009 by leslie · 2 Comments

Shake your stinger Yale senior Max Lanman and his four brothers have put out an adorable rap video in support of honey bees, appropriately named “Do the Honey Bee.”  Here’s hoping they spark a new dance craze.

Food Firms Fret Over Potential Impact of Climate Bill Multinational food companies like Cargill, General Mills and Tyson are up in arms over the Climate Bill legislation, claiming that there aren’t enough incentives for them to lower their carbon emissions, and threatening that food prices will skyrocket if they are forced to bear the costs of cleaning up their operations.

Pets that we eat? Bill and Nicolette Niman make a case for enforceable animal welfare legislation that protect all animals, not just the ones we keep for pets, using as an example the  fact that Smithfield Foods recently announced they would not make good on their promise to phase out gestation crates.

Visualizing world eats Time magazine has a fantastic two-part slide show that compares the weekly diets (and food costs) of families around the world. (Part 1 and Part 2)

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 John // Aug 31, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Hey the link to the bee video didn’t work!

  • 2 leslie // Sep 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Oh no! Thanks for catching, John, fixing right now.

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