Prompted by a reader, I’ve realised that I’ve not yet posted this fantastic video by the good people at Free Range Studios. It’s an oldie, but for a die-hard Star Wars junkie, this short gets closer to the spirit of the movie series than The Phantom Menace ever could.
This piece is doing the rounds at the moment, and it helpfully pulls the climate change debate into one tight whole. Although I enjoyed the prose of Richard Manning’s piece more, this one packs in more of the science of climate change.
The New York Times carried an article by Eric Schlosser that complements yesterday’s post on Hunger in America.
This just in from Alternet. It’s bleak reading for the festive season.
One in Ten Americans Went Hungry Last Year
By Abid Aslam, IPS News. Posted November 28, 2007.
The good people at the Food Ethics Council have run a piece I did on the politics of vegetarianism. It appears in December’s issue of Food Ethics magazine.
A reader writes from the UK with the following observation about Stuffed and Starved.
There is one issue which is scarcely mentioned in the book or on this web-site, and that is human over-population. This seems to me to be the Achilles heel of the political left.
Here’s an interesting document from Via Campesina, provocatively titled Small Scale Farmers are Cooling Down the Earth. To see how they do it, scroll down to the lists…. Keep Reading »
Fatima Shabodien, from the Women on Farms Project in South Africa put out this important article in the Cape Times earlier this week. Reposted below, in case you’ve difficulty accessing it through the link above….
It’s Thanksgiving today in the US, a day that has its roots in the tradition of harvest festivals. But, as the BBC reports today, in New York the number of people who can’t share that harvest are as high as one in six. Blame it on the sub-prime mortgage collapse or the worries about the economy? Sure, these things matter, and will only exacerbate the situation but, as Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger observes: Keep Reading »
So what are we to make of the interweb phenomenon of the FreeRice word game? It’s run by the same outfit that brought us The Hunger Site, ‘where your clicks give bowls of food to the hungry’, using much the same business model – sell ads and use the revenue to buy food.
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