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CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTby Leonard PeltierAmendment VIII—Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.The Eighth Amendment is supposed to be about dignity, humanity and decency. It is intended to prohibit “deliberate indifference to serious infliction of unnecessary or wanton pain or physical torture or lingering death

Builders work to complete 5 homes for Habitat project (PHOTOS)

1218521710153679413584836691759950389074Five Greensboro families on Friday will have a place to call home.

More than a dozen homebuilders from across the Triad came together this week — and even some over the weekend — to tackle the Raising Roofs 2015 challenge: five homes, five days.

With rain forecasted for the beginning of the week, work began early last Friday and continued into the weekend to complete framing, insulation and roofing, said Jeanne Johnston, chief development officer for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro.

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Obamacare expansion: Chinese Hospital, health plan add hundreds of new doctors to network

brenda-yee*100xx542-542-0-38.jpgChinese Community Health Plan, a fast-growing subsidiary of Chinatown’s Chinese Hospital, is contracting with hundreds of doctors affiliated with Hill Physicians Medical Group to augment its Covered California network in San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.

The move comes as Chinese Hospital scrambles to settle a legal dispute with its own longtime physician group partner, and plans to open its rebuilt $160 million acute-care facility next spring.

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Garth Brooks And Trisha Yearwood Join Jimmy Carter To Build Homes In Memphis

Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood raised walls on a Habitat for Humanity home this week in Memphis, Tennessee, alongside former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter.

Trisha Yearwood helped build a home in Memphis, TennesseeTrisha Yearwood helped build a home in Memphis, Tennessee

They will return next year to build and repair more homes during Habitat’s 33rd Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, scheduled to take place Aug. 21-27, 2016.

Garth Brooks helped build a home in Memphis, TennesseeGarth Brooks helped build a home in Memphis, Tennessee
Credit/Copyright: Ezra Millstein/Habitat for Humanity

Each year, President and Mrs. Carter join Habitat for Humanity volunteers in a different location to build homes and improve communities, and raise awareness of the critical need for decent and affordable housing in the U.S. and around the world.

President and Mrs. Carter helped build a home with Habitat for Humanity in Memphis, TennesseePresident and Mrs. Carter helped build a home with Habitat for Humanity in Memphis, Tennessee

“Rosalynn and I are thrilled to play a role in helping Habitat continue the great work underway in the Uptown neighborhood of Memphis,” said President Carter. “We look forward to returning in August next year and by then, I know a wonderful family will have made this house we are starting today a home – where they can find the strength and stability they need for a brighter future.”

Since 1983, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has been dedicated to eliminating substandard housing throughout the city, where more than 29 percent of the population lives below poverty level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Habitat for Humanity has served more than 445 Memphis families through new home construction and an additional 80 families through critical home repair projects in the Uptown neighborhood. With support from volunteers and donors, Habitat will help improve living conditions for Memphis families during the Carter Project, as well as continue to improve communities in the city and surrounding areas.

Habitat’s Carter Project volunteers will conduct multiple projects during the build week, including new home construction, beautification projects such as minor repairs, painting and landscaping, and Aging in Place projects, including critical home repairs, weatherization, and modifications to enhance accessibility and mobility for low-income seniors.

“We are excited to work alongside President and Mrs. Carter, our volunteers and the partner families in Memphis next year,” said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. “The efforts in Uptown are great examples of what can happen when members of the public, private and social sectors invest in a neighborhood. Tremendous opportunities lie ahead for families who will have a mortgage they can afford and the stable foundation they need to build strength and self-reliance.”

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s involvement in the 2016 Carter Project will make it the country music stars’ eighth time to volunteer with President and Mrs. Carter. Brooks and Yearwood have been supporting Habitat since 2007, including building homes after Hurricane Katrina and in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

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Less meat, better for everyone

The recent announcement from the World Health Organisation (WHO) which classified processed meat as a carcinogenic and red meat as “possibly carcinogenic” (similar to Glyphosate in Roundup) shows that the amount and the frequency that we eat meat today should raise alarm.  

There is a solution; Naturally, indeed it is nature: to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables (seasonal and local) and to reduce the weekly consumption of meat at least to half (as a start).

But even if there were no health reasons, or ethical reasons (terrible conditions for raising animals, infringement of animal rights, industrial factory farms etc.), the reduction of the consumption of meat is severely needed for environmental reasons: wasting of natural resources, water and soil pollution, worsening of climate change, etc.

Do you know that:  

To satisfy the current demand for meat worldwide, there are 1 billion pigs, 19 billion chickens and 1.4 billion cattle bred.

The massive cattle farming is responsible for 80% of deforested areas in the Amazon.

A cattle farm at Estancia Bahia, Amazon. 8 Aug, 2008 © Greenpeace / Daniel Beltrá

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector.

80% of global soy production (predominantly genetically engineered) is grown to feed animals that are then used for human consumption as meat or dairy products; only 20% of soy production is for direct human consumption. The production of soy uses vast amounts of water and chemical products (pesticides and herbicides).

The amount of water (403.000 liters) that is needed for the production of one year’s worth of meat and dairy for one person is equivalent to someone taking 17 showers per day for a year or 6,190 showers.

The amountof water used to produce the amount of meat/dairy 1 person consumes in 1 year is 403,000 litres. © Greenpeace

In 2011, there were 8,481 tons of antibiotics sold for use on livestock in the EU, equivalent to the weight of 706 double-decker buses.

In 2011, 8481 tonnes of antibiotics were sold in 25 EU countires. © Greenpeace

What you can do:

Accept the challenge to reduce your weekly consumption of meat in half and invite your friends to do the same.

Elena Danali is a Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner with Greenpeace Greece.