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Innovation of the Week: Providing an Agricultural Answer to Nature`s Call

The real scoop on the lifesaving use of 'poop'.

(DAKAR, Senegal) - It’s hard to believe, but an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing world—nearly a third of the global population—still lack access to basic sanitation services.

This presents a significant hygiene risk, especially in densely populated urban areas and slums where contaminated drinking water can spread disease rapidly.

Coca-Cola`s Murderous Record of Anti-Union Activity in Colombia Exposed

It is also important to note that the Coca-Cola Company owns numerous other beverage brands, including the healthy juice brand, Odwalla.

(BOGOTA) - Besides being a very unhealthy beverage, Coca-Cola has another dirty secret for which few people are aware; the Coca-Cola Company has been involved in a series of kidnappings involving union leaders and organizers at its Colombia bottling facilities.

Many of those kidnapped have been severely tortured and even murdered by company thugs.

Protesters Block Monsanto in the Netherlands - Demanding End to GMOs

Banners were posted with the message "Imagine, monopoly of food, poisonous agriculture, The World according to ... Monsanto"

(BERGSCHENHOEK / SALEM) - Protesters in the Netherlands shut down a Monsanto seed plant by forming a blockade.

About 50 members of the action group ‘Roundup Monsanto’ showed up at the at 6 o’clock Monday morning, demanding they stop patenting seeds and other living organisms.

Homegrown Solutions to Alleviating Hunger and Poverty

Women growing vegetable gardens in a slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya, were among the best prepared for the country’s 2007 food crisis, despite being some of the poorest.

(DAKAR, Senegal) - “We’ve got hundreds of local foods, almost 600 that we’ve categorized through our research,” said Kristof Nordin in a January interview with Nourishing the Planet.

“But we are starving because we are only planting one crop: maize, which came originally from America.”

CSA Farmers Lament Lack of Community

“Most CSA farmers would like to see more community connections, but we are appreciative of the connections we do have" - Josh Volk, Slow Hand Farm, a CSA farm in Portland

(McMINNVILLE, Ore.) - In recent years the local food movement has made significant steps forward in improving the supply of fresh, seasonal vegetables to consumers.

But many local farmers want to grow more than food, said Linfield College senior Beth Satterwhite, who surveyed 12 Oregon farmers in the Portland Area CSA Coalition this spring.

Oregon Still Among Minority of States That Tax Poor Families` Wages

OCPP weighs in on Oregon's taxing of the poor.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Oregon remains among a minority of states that tax the income of poor families and its tax is among the highest in the nation, according to a report released today.

"Taxing the work effort of poor families is counterproductive," said Joy Margheim, policy analyst with the Oregon Center for Public Policy, who examined the report.

GM Food... Feeding the Hungry or Population Control?

Around 75% percent of our processed foods contain some form of genetically modified ingredients.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Today Salem-News reports the shocking results of a joint experiment in Russia involving hamsters, that could seriously impact the future of GM foods.

How I Spent My 2010 Spring Vacation: With Salem-News.com!

Note: Odd Man Out spent his 2010 Spring vacation with editors Bonnie and Tim King as his Oregon tour guides. It wasn’t exactly Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey), but it was quite an adventure!

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - I found a few days for a whirlwind weekday tour of Salem and it’s environs recently.

This was a multi-purpose trip, allowing me to meet all of the King family-----not to mention a few members of that band of gypsies known as the S-N.com staff and friends.

US One of Top Five Food Safety Violators

Findings based on contamination levels collected between 2003 and 2008 identified China as the number one food safety threat.

(LONDON / SALEM) - A new global monitoring tool identifies the United States as one of the top five worst food safety offenders in the world. We take rank with China, Turkey, Iran, and Spain.

Food for Thought

Moisture rises from the sea and falls on plains, foothills and mountain peaks which flows back to its common beginning in the same way as human lives return to their beginnings by which life spans are determined.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - “Miracles and Modern Spiritualism,” by Alfred Russell Wallace; 1876 - reflect mid-to-late 19th Century thought that possess a level of consistency and truth I refer to as The Dichotomy of Being.

In his book he says: “Inclinations toward Mystery and passions strongly excited by Catholicism that increases religious fervor may give the appearance of truth occurring in the oddest manner, but they exist as fact only in the minds of the faithful by inference.” The cardinal maxim of Spiritualism is that everyone must find truth for himself.