While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new
report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated
by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the
reports with a
grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.
Furthermore, there is no accurate and mandatory
grain - reserve
reporting system maintained
by the USDA.
The
report also noted there are those who are concerned about whole
grain foods produced
by manufacturers who purchase separate
grain components and combine them at the food processing plant (not at the mill).
«If recommendations for increased consumption of whole
grains are to be met, consumers need to be encouraged to consume whole
grain foods produced
by all milling methods,» the
report's authors stated.
The ACCC would not comment, but in its recent bulk wheat port access
report noted: «Given the lack of access to alternate supply chains it is not surprising that there is a high level of concern within industry about the effect of rebates recently announced
by CBH for users of its supply chain, and the impact on
grain trading and competition for port terminal and related bulk export supply chain operations.»
FrieslandCampina, Fonterra, and Arla have all refuted the GHG emission amounts calculated
by GRAIN, claiming that the conversion factor used in the
report is inaccurate.
New work from a team of Carnegie cosmochemists published
by Science Advances
reports analyses of carbon - rich dust
grains extracted from meteorites that show that these
grains formed in the outflows from one or more type II supernovae more than two years after the progenitor stars exploded.
In a paper published online today
by Science, a group
reports the growth of dust
grains into significantly larger particles in the circumstellar dust and gas disks of the Orion Nebula.
A plantation in Ethiopia's Gambela region, owned
by a Saudi Arabian billionaire, diverts water from the Alwero River, according to a June 2012
report from
GRAIN, a non-profit organization that advocates for small farmers.
In their 50 - page
report to MLB, the researchers, led
by U.S. Forest Service engineer Dave Kretschmann, pinned blame squarely on two culprits: the type of wood (maple) and the cut of the
grain.
«If all the
grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly
by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million,»
reports ecologist David Pimentel of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Averaging over some 350 high - galactic - latitude patches of sky similar in size to the region observed
by BICEP2, Puget
reported that polarization from interstellar dust
grains plays a significant role and might account for much of the BICEP2 signal that had been attributed to inflation - generated gravitational waves.
The ancient pollen
grains are large and apparently clumped together readily, a clue that the plant that bore the flowers was pollinated
by creatures and not
by the wind, the researchers
report online today in Biology Letters.
The oxygen - rich supernova dust
grain has a different composition than one
reported earlier this year in Nature
by cosmochemist Larry Nittler of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. «That's exciting,» says Nittler.
Sorkin and Su's calculations give further insights into these systems, indicating that as they point out in their
report, «the intermediate structure experiences disintegration followed
by a remarkable re-building process to form graphene nanoribbons with differently oriented
grains.»
«These findings related to Crohn's disease are similar to previous
reports focused on other autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis confirming that the delicate balance of our immune systems is, to a great extent, dictated
by organisms making up our microbiome,» said Dr. David Perlmutter, expert on brain and gut health, and author of
Grain Brain.
Research
reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer,
by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole
grains, such as rice, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.
Research
reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer,
by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole
grains, such as buckwheat, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.
Research
reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer,
by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole
grains, such as rye, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.
Research
reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer,
by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole
grains, such as millet, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.
That said, the
report does give a fine -
grained set of prescriptions for how the state, the federal government and California's farmers could sustain production --- even in dry periods like the present —
by using water more efficiently.
On the other hand, a result that goes against the
grain of the consensus is,
by definition, a novel result and is more likely to be explicitly
reported.
Simulating the variation of the ice sheet's albedo using a regional climate model — Modèle Atmosphérique Régionale (MAR), which some members of the team helped develop — indicated that increasing temperatures and melting accompanied
by snow
grain growth and greater bare ice exposure account for about half the decline, the scientists
report.
A
report from
Grain also shows that employment generated
by plantations often goes to foreign migrants, not locals, and that most of the jobs are seasonal, poorly paid and dangerous.
Citing concerns about rising global
grain prices, as well as potential land - grabs
by large energy firms, a groups of Indian ministers has quietly shelved the National Mission on Biodiesel, The Economic Times
reports.
In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas — three leading
grain - producing states — the underground water table has dropped
by more than 30 meters (100 feet).
In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
reports that in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas — three leading
grain - producing states — the underground water table has dropped
by more than 30 meters (100 feet).
The survey - based measures of social participation were not as fine -
grained as in some other studies and were
reported by parents.