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UN FAO: Alpaca, Donkey, Moose Milk Alternatives to Cow Milk Prices
from rawstory.com: Milk from a variety of animals including camels, llamas and moose should be more widely used to counteract high cow milk prices due to growing demand for dairy in the developing world, the UN food agency said on Tuesday. “There is huge scope for developing other dairy species,” Anthony Bennett, livestock industry officer…
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Experts: Fukushima Radiation Fears for Oregon Coast Fish Unwarranted
from oregonlive.com: Andy Norris keeps putting it off. But he plans to stop eating his twice-a-week tuna sandwich. He’s worried about the traces of radioactive particles from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster detected in local albacore… Along the Oregon coast, while reservations like Norris’ aren’t unheard of, they aren’t common, either. A pocket of doubt…
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Japan Dismantles Rice Subsidies
from theland.com.au: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has approved a plan to end a four-decade long policy that has helped to sustain the nation’s 1.2 million rice farms. The gentan system, which has paid landowners to reduce crops since 1970, will be dismantled by the end of the fiscal year through March 31, 2019,…
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LG Says: You Caught Us! Our Smart TV’s Really DO Spy On You
from theregister.co.uk: South Korean electronics giant LG has confirmed that some of its smart TVs have been logging their owners’ viewing habits without their permission and has promised a patch. Hull, UK–based developer Jason Huntley, aka “DoctorBeet,” was first to notice the spying behavior when he analyzed network traffic coming from his LG TV and…
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Koi Fusion PDX Drops Planned Promotion Of McMuffin Exchange
from blazersedge.com: The popular food cart Koi Fusion has decided to stop promoting a planned exchange that would have allowed Portland Trail Blazers fans to trade their McDonald’s Sausage Egg McMuffin coupon for a free taco.
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Rare, Tiny Neutrinos May Have Huge Implications for Astronomy
from latimes.com: The 28 subatomic particles from deep space detected within an Antarctic glacier are mysterious and extremely powerful, suggesting a new way of looking at the universe, scientists say. Together, they contain a tiny fraction of the mass of a single electron. But the 28 neutrinos from deep space detected by an icy observatory…
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Volcanic Eruption Builds New Japan Island in Pacific Ocean
from csmonitor.com: Ash and lava fragments blasting out of the ocean announced the birth of a new volcanic island about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The black cone is the newest member of the Bonin Islands, a chain of tropical and subtropical islands created by volcanic eruptions that includes…
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Report Says Food Stamps Spending Declining
from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com: The money spent on food stamps and the number of people who receive them are declining as the economy has improved, according to a report released Wednesday, even as the program remains a source of contention in congressional negotiations to complete a five-year farm bill. The report, by the Center on Budget and…
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Pittsburgh Diocese Wins Delay Against Obamacare Birth Control
from pittsburgh.cbslocal.com: A federal judge in western Pennsylvania says Catholic groups don’t immediately have to comply with mandates in the federal health care overhaul law. The Diocese is challenging its participation in the health care program because it would be required to provide its employees with contraceptives… Churches are exempt from the mandate, but charitable…
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Eating Nuts Tied to Fewer Cancer, Heart Disease Deaths
from zeenews.india.com: People who eat a diet rich in nuts, including peanuts, are less likely to die from heart disease or cancer, new research suggests. The more nuts consumed, the greater the apparent benefit, according to the report. It included data from nurses and other health professionals who have been tracked since the 1980s. Heart…
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10 Foods Sold in the U.S. That Are Banned Elsewhere
from oracletalk.com: Americans are slowly realizing that food sold in the US doesn’t just taste different than foods sold in other countries, it’s created differently. Sadly, many U.S. foods are BANNED in Europe — and for good reason. Take a look at the plummeting health of Americans; what role might toxic foods play in our…
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Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help from Bill Gates
from naturalsociety.com: Even if you aren’t opposed to genetically modified crops (with all this information, how couldn’t you be) and even if you like Bill Gates and his ventures (but with all this information, how could you), this latest should be enough to get you perturbed. And if you are anti-GMO and knowledgeable of the…
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What A Bitcoin Political Debut Could Mean For Transparency
from npr.org: Bitcoin, the virtual currency that exists as alphanumeric strings online, is on the verge of getting into politics. The Federal Election Commission is expected to vote Thursday on a proposal to allow bitcoin contributions to political action committees — even as skeptics say that bitcoins could undermine the disclosure standards of federal law.…
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‘Psychic’ Sylvia Browne Dies in San Jose at 77
from mercurynews.com: Sylvia Celeste Browne, a well-known psychic and author, died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose at the age of 77, according to an announcement on her Website. Browne often assisted in missing persons cases, regularly appeared on television and was a frequent guest on “The Montel Williams Show.” She and her…