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China Food Scandal: Rat Meat Sold as Lamb Meat
World  (tags: warning, risks, food, health, nutrition, illness, humans, disease, family, children, society, world )

Evelyn
- 12 days ago - naturalnews.com
Beyond the obvious gross factor of the discovery, the rat meat used in the scam was obviously never safety tested or inspected. It may have been, like many other foods in China, heavily contaminated with heavy metals and toxic chemicals. Rats, after all..
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Air Pollution Scourge Underestimated, Green Energy Can Help: U.N.
World  (tags: illness, health, ethics, protection, prevention, society, safety, risks, science, study, treatment, warning, investigation, world, UnitedNations, unitednations, usa, government )

JL
- 35 days ago - reuters.com
Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
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350,000 People Walking for World Water Day! ACTION
World  (tags: world water day, sanitation, clean water, humanrights, health, family, prevention, world )

Nancy
- 56 days ago - worldwalksforwater.org
This week, hundreds of thousands of people in over 50 countries around the world have been taking part in the World Walks for Water and Sanitation running from 16 to 24 March.
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Five Women Shot Dead in Pakistan for Fighting Polio
World  (tags: health, science, prevention, society, politics, politics, world, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', children, society, news, ethics, death, crime )

Cal
- 150 days ago - csmonitor.com
Five female health workers involved in Pakistan's polio eradication efforts were gunned down Tuesday in two of the country's main cities amid militant resistance to immunization campaigns.
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UN Vote Backs Precautionary Approach to Depleted Uranium Weapons
World  (tags: depleted uranium weapons, weapons, humanrights, world, war, health, research, risks, disease )

Nancy
- 191 days ago - bandepleteduranium.org
The resolution was tabled by the Non-Aligned Movement and, as with previous years, the text was actively opposed by the US, UK and France. First Committee resolutions are voted on for a second time early in December by the full UN General Assembly.
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Defend Indigenous People and the Amazon ACTION
World  (tags: Sarayaku, chevron, Amazon, Ecuador, big oil, law, Texaco, drilling waste, indigenous, humanrights, world, crime, illness, health )

Nancy
- 204 days ago - amazonwatch.org
The government of Ecuador plans to auction off oil development rights within nearly ten million acres of primary forest and indigenous land that has been inhabited for centuries, including all of Sarayaku territory.
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The White House: STOP Monsanto From Taking Charge of the Food Supply in Africa. ACTION
World  (tags: monsanto, health, toxins, round-up, pesticide, birth defects, family, Africa, food, prevention, DC )

Nancy
- 207 days ago - change.org
Farmers in Africa now practice sustainable agriculture and organic methods to produce their food. If Monsanto takes charge they'll flood the continent with Genetically Modified Seeds, which encourage the use of pesticides that will begin the decline of...
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Join My Village ACTION
World  (tags: world, Malawi, India, girls, children, free donations, "like", empowerment, life, schooling, health, humanrights )

Nancy
- 232 days ago - joinmyvillage.com
1)Every time you Like, Share or click on our pages, a donation is made. 2)Funds are donated to CARE in Malawi & India by General Mills & Merck. 3)Girls' lives are transformed through education, health & economic empowerment projects.
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Second Chance For An African Green Revolution
World  (tags: africa, world, politics, hunger, agriculture, food, health, news )

Cal
- 238 days ago - ipsnews.net
As the world searches desperately for ways to boost food production by at least 70 percent by 2050 to feed an increasingly hungry planet, many are looking to Africa as the place where a large part of this potential can be realised, mainly for its huge po
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TAKE ACTION: Tell World Leaders to Put Nutrition on the Agenda and Save 25 Million Children From Chronic Malnutrition By 2016.
World  (tags: freedoms, HumanRights, children, health )

Beverly
- 245 days ago - act.one.org
ONE is calling on world leaders to put sweet potatoes on the menu and nutrition on the global agenda. We can save children's lives, help them live up to their full potential, and build a healthier, more productive future for the world's poorest nations.
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Boy With Massive Tumour Growing From His Neck Sent for Treatment in U.S. After Being Rescued in Daring Raid on Gang-Infested Mex
World  (tags: children, corruption, mexico, society, violence, medical treatment, health, GoodNews, freedoms )

Carrie
- 299 days ago - digg.com
A nine-year-old boy with a massive tumor was whisked from a dangerous neighborhood in Mexico in an armored vehicle by U.S. federal agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico, his family said.
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Pakistan Militants' War With CIA May Raise Children's Polio Risk
World  (tags: world, politics, children, violence, health, news, Pakistan, asia, government, society, conflict, usa )

Cal
- 322 days ago - latimes.com
A phony CIA vaccination program used to help track down Osama bin Laden leads militant leaders to ban a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan's Waziristan regions.
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11 Percent of Infants Born Preterm Worldwide
World  (tags: women, children, news, health, humans, research, family, world, humans )

Evelyn
- 341 days ago - foxnews.com
One in nine babies around the world is born before the full term of pregnancy, and although these preterm births occur primarily in the developing world, the number of preterm births in the United States ranks among the 10 highest in the world, a new..
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Fukushima Reactor 4 Requires Urgent Intervention; Coalition Calls for Emergency UN Action to Halt Catastrophic Release of Radiat
World  (tags: NUCLEAR, MELTDOWN, COVER UP, HEALTH, GOVERNMENT LIES )

Barbara
- 372 days ago - naturalnews.com
Japan -- On 30 April, seventy-two Japanese NGO organizations lead by Shut Tomari & Green Action send an urgent request to the UN and Japanese government urging immediate action to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4 spent nuclear
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Recognize Israel's Accomplishments Slideshow
World  (tags: Israel, accomplishments, slideshow, Honest repoting, science, medicine, technology, health, disaster assistance, Middle-east, inventions, desalination )

Beatrice
- 386 days ago - slideshare.net
In honor of Israel's 64th birthday, we thought it would be nice to show some of the things that the media should be reporting about her accomplishments. It's a very different image than usually portrayed. Enjoy and share with those who care about Isra
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