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Impact of Meat Production

Guest Blog by Kenny Torrella It’s vital that the youth take action to make the world a better place, which is why I find Our Task’s work invaluable. After reading the most recent Earth Plan there was one key point I found missing: the impact of meat production. In 2004 the Food and Agriculture Organization [...]

Thomas Friedman asks the Vital Question

In his New York Times OpEd of Sunday 7 March, THOMAS FRIEDMAN writes: Let’s … ask a radical but vital question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply [...]

EPA Carbofuran Ban

Last Friday, the Washington Post reported a surprising ban — the Environmental Protection Agency had decided to no longer allow Carbofuran pesticides to be used in domestic agriculture or in food imported into the US (click on the title for a link to the article). Oddly enough, this issue has been getting very little press. [...]