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People Want to Eat Meat Raised Without Excessive Antibiotics. Wouldn\’t You? | Wired Science | Wired.com

People Want to Eat Meat Raised Without Excessive Antibiotics. Wouldn\’t You? | Wired Science | Wired.com. The magazine Consumer Reports is publishing a report and poll on US consumers’ attitudes toward the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. From everyone’s reactions when I write about this, I thought people cared about this issue, but the numbers are a little surprising even to me: 86 percent of shoppers in a nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults said they wanted meat raised without antibiotics to be available in their local supermarkets. Some other key numbers:

  • 72 percent of shoppers were concerned about overuse of agricultural antibiotics creating superbugs
  • 67 percent worried about routine antibiotic dosing in livestock feed
  • 65 percent thought there might be antibiotic

700 farmers to grow vegetables solely for Europe

700 farmers to grow vegetables solely for Europe. Well and good for them and grape exporters but… According to government figures, around 43 per cent of children under the age of five years are malnourished and more than half of all pregnancy women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from anaemia.

What does this program do to help these children get enough to eat?

France deport Saudi women for refusing to remove niqab – Bikya Masr

France deport Saudi women for refusing to remove niqab – Bikya Masr.

French know how to be dumb and un-stylish at same time… Saudi female activists have lashed out at the decision by the customs officials, saying it is more “French racism” toward Arab culture.

“What we are witnessing in France is an attempt to push Arabs from the country and to make them feel unwanted, which we are … we are not wanted,” said Salma Abdallah.

Abdallah, a Berlin-based university student told Bikyamasr.com that among her Arab friends, “we boycott France over its rulings and racism toward our culture and our beliefs.

“I don’t wear the veil and neither do my friends, but it is a right of a woman to do as she wants and wear what she wants,” she added.

The War for India’s Internet – By Rebecca MacKinnon | Foreign Policy

The War for India’s Internet – By Rebecca MacKinnon | Foreign Policy.

A lively national Internet freedom movement has grown rapidly across India since the beginning of this year. The most colorful highlight so far was a seven-day Gandhian hunger strike, otherwise known as a “freedom fast,” held in early May on a New Delhi sidewalk by political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and activist-journalist Alok Dixit. Trivedi’s website was shut down this year in response to a police complaint by a Mumbai-based advocate who alleged that some of Trivedi’s works “ridicule the Indian Parliament, the national emblem, and the national flag.”

Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown on religious freedom and vagina

Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown on religious freedom and vagina.

Banned for using proper scientific terms!?! Rep. Brown said “vagina.” And then she was banned from speaking on the House floor in future debates. Seriously. State Rep. Barb Byrum was also apparently banned from speaking for saying “vasectomy.” Banning life-saving medical procedures: totally OK. Using medically accurate language: silenced forever. (Update: The speaker’s office now says they just can’t speak today. Which I guess makes being silenced for saying “vagina” and “vasectomy” totally OK…)