Delivering KFC by Tunnel, Not Too Fast but Satisfying
GAZA CITY — The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt.
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#Gaza #KFC #livraison_par_tunnel #(not_so)_fast-food #Egypte #frontière #Palestine
cc @reka
c’est le genre de news que critiquait il y a quelques jours ►http://africasacountry.com/2013/05/18/the-cartography-of-bullshit
Life on a deadly border, photos from Texas and Mexico
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/05/15/photos-from-the-deadly-texas-mexico-border/6132
Photographer Eric Thayer traveled to Brooks County, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico to investigate the rising rates of immigrant deaths along the border there, spending time at a migrant’s hostel in Mexico and with U.S. Border Patrol in Brooks County.
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The unidentified graves of people whose remains were found in the desert are seen in Falfurrias, Texas April 1, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff’s deputies found 129 bodies there, six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants spend a few days in a “stash house”, such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Picture taken April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks past a rescue beacon near Falfurrias, Texas March 29, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff’s deputies found 129 bodies there, six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants spend a few days in a “stash house”, such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Picture taken March 29, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
#photographie #frontières
Mauvaises nouvelles
« L’abus d’information nuit gravement à la santé », avertit le quotidien britannique The Guardian, sans craindre de scier la branche sur laquelle il est assis. Il en critique plus précisément la consommation compulsive, comparée à une nourriture trop riche en sucre.
Les médias nous procurent de petites bouchées d’histoires triviales, des ragots qui ne concernent pas nos vies et ne sollicitent pas la pensée. Nous pouvons avaler des quantités illimitées de flashs d’information, qui, contrairement aux livres ou aux longs articles de magazine, sont pour l’esprit comme des bonbons vivement colorés. Aujourd’hui, nous avons atteint le même point dans notre relation à l’information qu’il y a vingt ans dans notre relation à la nourriture : nous sommes en train de comprendre à quel point elle peut être toxique. (…)
Les gens trouvent très difficile d’identifier ce qui est pertinent. Il est beaucoup plus facile d’identifier ce qui est nouveau. Le pertinent contre le nouveau : voilà la bataille fondamentale de la période actuelle. Les médias veulent nous faire croire que l’information nous offre une sorte d’avantage compétitif, et beaucoup tombent dans le panneau. Nous devenons anxieux quand nous sommes coupés de l’afflux d’information. En réalité, la consommation de nouvelles est un handicap : plus elle est faible, plus gros est votre avantage.
Rolf Dobelli, « News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier », The Guardian, 12 avril 2013.
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
Coupures de #presse : mauvaises nouvelles, téléphones portables, héritage, grève inédite à Hongkong (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2013) ►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/05/A/49070
Attention, ceci est le sujet le plus controversé sur moment : 5 of the world’s best kebab joints
http://travel.cnn.com/where-find-worlds-5-best-kebabs-078311
Beirut is a cosmopolitan city where food standards are high.
When it comes to kebabs, Barbar is a Beirut institution. It’s a snack bar with branches throughout the city, but its flagship store is in trendy Hamra, where it takes up a whole block and overflows with customers night and day.
You can eat almost anything at Barbar and be happy, but the chicken shawarma is the tastiest pint-sized snack.
Tomgram : David Vine, Baseworld Profiteering | TomDispatch
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175699/tomgram:_david_vine,_baseworld_profiteering
...after an extensive examination of government spending data and contracts, I estimate that the Pentagon has dispersed around $385 billion to private companies for work done outside the U.S. since late 2001, mainly in that baseworld. That’s nearly double the entire State Department budget over the same period, and because Pentagon and government accounting practices are so poor, the true total may be significantly higher.
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... an analysis of Pentagon spending reveals a troubling pattern: the majority of benefits have gone to a relatively small group of private contractors. In total, almost a third of the $385 billion has flowed into the coffers of just 10 top contractors, including scandal-prone companies like KBR, the former subsidiary of Halliburton, and oil giant BP.
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The use of contractors accelerated following the Cold War’s end, part of a larger trend toward the privatization of formerly public services.
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Contractors are hardly alone in raking in the dollars from the Pentagon’s baseworld. Pentagon officials, military personnel, members of Congress, and lobbyists, among others, have all benefited — financially, politically, and professionally — from the giant overseas presence. In particular, contractors have spread the love by making millions in campaign contributions to members of Congress. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, military contractors and their employees gave more than $27 million in election donations in 2012 alone, and have donated almost $200 million since 1990.
Most of these have gone to members of the armed services and appropriations committees in the Senate and House of Representatives. These, of course, have primary authority over awarding military dollars. For the 2012 elections, for example, DynCorp International’s political action committee donated $10,000 to both the chair and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, and made additional donations to 33 other members of the House and Senate armed services committees and 16 members of the two appropriations committees.
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Don’t eat industrially processed #meat unless you wish to increase your bowel #cancer risk: http://www.wcrf-uk.org/cancer_prevention/health_tools/ask_the_cancer_expert.php#q3 #food
Increase of drug users post Egyptian revolution
The number of drug users in Egypt has rapidly increased since the revolution, says the head of a drug addiction organization.
#Food industry practices banned in #Europe but still fine in the #USA : http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/7-dodgy-foodag-practices-banned-europe-just-fine-here
I’m glad I live under the Old World’s regulatory jackboot, where the authorities deny the cow’s freedom to eat poultry litter and the people’s freedom to quaff atrazine-laced drinking water.
Aid? When will the UN bring Human Rights to Palestine? | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/summer-camps-when-will-the-un-bring-human-rights-to-pal
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This is what Palestine is waiting for:
UDHR Art 3: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
UDHR Art 5:”No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
UDHR Art 9: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile”
UDHR Art 13:1:”Everyone has the right 2 freedom of movement & residence within the borders of each state”
UDHR Art 13:2: “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country”
UDHR 15:1: Everyone has the right to a nationality.
UDHR 16(3): “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.”
UDHR 17:(2): “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”
UDHR 20(1): Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
UDHR 20(2): “No one may be compelled to belong to an association.”
Which? poll says many ’borrowing money for food’- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22417334
One in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, a Which? survey says.
It suggests the equivalent of five million households used credit cards, overdrafts or savings to buy food.
The consumer group runs a monthly insight tracker survey focused on spending and behaviour - 2,000 people took part in its poll.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd described the findings as “simply shocking”.
The figures come despite official statistics last week showing that personal insolvencies have dropped to their lowest levels in five years.
IPS – Hunger Rises in Great Britain | Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/hunger-rises-in-great-britain
The social consequences of austerity economics have been most visible in Europe’s southern periphery. In the UK, the coalition government has brought in sharp cutbacks in welfare state provision in the name of dealing with the financial crisis. Their impact is becoming increasingly visible.
A survey by the Netmums website found that one in five mothers in the UK regularly goes without meals to feed their children. Thousands now rely on charities and emergency food banks to feed themselves and their families.
In the last 12 months the Trussell Trust, the largest operator of food banks in the UK, says it has fed 350,000 people – 100,000 more than anticipated and an increase of 170 percent over the previous year.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the Trussell Trust’s work, but food banks are a direct consequence of government policies that are designed to force people off benefits, regardless of consequences. Labour MP Peter Hain recently accused the government of “terrorising” the unemployed in his constituency by forcing them to choose between starvation and low-paid work.
The 19th century Poor Law system once had a similarly punitive and deterrent attitude towards the industrial poor. Today, hunger is a consequence of manufactured poverty in the seventh largest economy in the world, and the poor are once again being victimised and punished.
In these circumstances, food banks may become a convenient substitute for statutory assistance, enabling the political heirs of the late Margaret Thatcher to strip still further at the welfare safety net, in the knowledge that people may be hungry, but at least they won’t be starving.
90% des produits à base de dinde contaminés,
dont une bonne partie par des matières fécales,
et presque tous par des bactéries résistantes
Nearly 90% Of U.S. Turkey Products Contaminated
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260006.php
The study included a total of 257 different kinds of turkey products, they were each tested for bacteria that cause food borne illnesses.
An astonishing 90 percent of the meat products tested had at least one of the five potentially dangerous bacteria.
(…)
In addition, the researchers found that almost all of the infected samples were resistant to antibiotics.
5 percent of the samples were contaminated with Salmonella, a bacteria that causes serious illness.
Virologists and bacteriologists are becoming increasingly concerned with mass-production livestock facilities, because they increase the prevalence of drug-resistant superbugs. These organisms can cause life-threatening infections in vulnerable patients, whose doctors have fewer and fewer available treatment options.
Many of the turkey products were contaminated with bugs associated with fecal contamination:
60 percent of the samples contained enteroccus
60 percent were contaminated with Escherichia coli (E. coli)
80 percent were tainted with Enterococcus bacteria
More than half of the E. coli were resistant to various different commonly used antibiotics
The researchers identified three samples that were contaminated with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can be fatal.
Even though organic turkey was found to harbor just as much bacteria as the other turkey products, they were much less likely to have drug-resistant bacteria in them.
L’article se termine par le recommandation de consommer de la dinde bio. Non qu’elle soit moins contaminée, mais les bactéries ont moins de chances d’être résistantes…
Annals of #marketing: Wrigley’s caffeinated gum comes to market
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/04/annals-of-marketing-wrigleys-caffeinated-gum-comes-to-market
While the FDA is busy investigating deaths linked (although not conclusively) to caffeinated energy drinks, CSPI has alerted the agency to the increasingly widespread addition of caffeine to foods.
The gum contains 40 milligrams of caffeine per piece, with 8 pieces per box.
Forty milligrams isn’t much but look what else is caffeinated these days: Frito Lay’s Cracker Jack’d snack, Kraft’s MiO Energy water enhancer, and jelly beans, waffles, maple syrup, popcorn, and beef jerky. These are in addition to the usual sources of caffeine: coffee, tea, and cola drinks.
McDonald’s Closes All Their Restaurants in Bolivia | World Truth.TV
http://worldtruth.tv/mcdonalds-closes-all-their-restaurants-in-bolivia
The failure of #McDonald’s in Bolivia had such a deep impact that a documentary titled “Por que quebro McDonald’s en Bolivia” or “Why did McDonald’s Bolivia go Bankrupt,” trying to explain why did Bolivians never crossed-over from their empanadas to Big Macs.
The documentary includes interviews with cooks, sociologists, nutritionists and educators who all seem to agree, Bolivians are not against hamburgers per sé, just against ‘fast food,’ a concept widely unaccepted in the Bolivian community.
Fast-food represents the complete opposite of what Bolivians consider a meal should be. To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.
La France, paradis du fast-food américain- ►http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/03/18/la-france-paradis-du-fast-food-americain_1849813_3234.html
Heavy use of herbicide Roundup linked to health dangers-U.S. study | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/25/roundup-health-study-idUSL2N0DC22F20130425
Heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new study.
The peer-reviewed report, published last week in the scientific journal Entropy, said evidence indicates that residues of “glyphosate,” the chief ingredient in Roundup weed killer, which is sprayed over millions of acres of crops, has been found in food.
Those residues enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease, according to the report, authored by Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc. Samsel is a former private environmental government contractor as well as a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
“Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body,” the study says.
We “have hit upon something very important that needs to be taken seriously and further investigated,” Seneff said.
Environmentalists, consumer groups and plant scientists from several countries have warned that heavy use of glyphosate is causing problems for plants, people and animals.
The EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] is conducting a standard registration review of glyphosate and has set a deadline of 2015 for determining if glyphosate use should be limited.
Sinon une autre étude (mais non publiée semble-t-il*) corroborerait la présence de glyphosate :
Une nouvelle étude américaine juge le maïs OGM toxique - Enviro2B | Enviro2B
http://www.enviro2b.com/2013/04/18/une-nouvelle-etude-americaine-juge-le-mais-ogm-toxique
Une nouvelle étude menée par la société américaine Profit Pro, pourrait relancer le débat autour du maïs génétiquement modifié. Dans un rapport, « 2012 Corn Comparison », dont les conclusions ont été reprises sur le site russe Rt.com, les auteurs ont en effet constaté que ce type de maïs contiendraient des éléments, absents de la plante au naturel, et potentiellement toxiques pour l’homme.
The study “2012 Nutritional Analysis – Comparison of GMO Corn versus Non-GMO Corn” was an analysis of corn itself and not the soil. The analysis was conducted by an independent, outsourced, major food company at the request of one of our growers, and the results were then provided to that grower, who, in turn, made available a copy of the analysis to ProfitPro. The food company purchased the corn from the grower at a substantial premium over market because of the quality of his non-GMO corn.
This information was intended for our customers only.
ProfitPro did not give permission for any other web site to use or publish the study.
Additional side-by-side studies will be conducted this coming year.
#Monsanto #Roundup #OGM #glyphosate
Traduit par 7sur7.be
Le Roundup accusé de causer cancers et Parkinson http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/2765/Environnement/article/detail/1622576/2013/04/26/Le-Roundup-accuse-de-causer-cancers-et-Parkinson.dhtml
Monsanto a déjà été condamné pour avoir vanté l’inocuité du roundup, cela confirmait déjà la toxicité du glyphosate, la substance active (et connue) du produit. http://www.combat-monsanto.org/spip.php?article25
La preuve de l’existence du glyphosate avait été apportée par le CRIIGEN dans sa requête, suite aux études du Chemical Research in Toxicology. Il serait temps d’interdire cette #saloperie de Roundup http://www.mediaterre.org/france/actu,20120312100755.html
Non à l’#obsolescence_programmée, McDo en pointe : le plus vieux hamburger au monde fête ses 14 ans ! #wtf
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14 years after it was made the ’World’s oldest hamburger’ looks like it hasn’t aged a day... - Americas - World - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/14-years-after-it-was-made-the-worlds-oldest-hamburger-looks-like-it-
It took just minutes to make but 14 years later the burger dubbed the ’World’s Oldest’ still looks exactly like it did in 1999.
After forgetting about the burger that he had originally planned to keep for just for two months David Whipple, from Utah, was shocked to discover that it showed virtually no signs of its age - aside from the pickle disintegrating.
Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/25/sril-a25.html
Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty
By Saman Gunadasa
25 April 2013
Profit results published by Sri Lanka’s corporate sector for the financial year that ended in March 2013 demonstrate that a handful of big businesses are pocketing the country’s wealth while the working people are being forced to bear stringent austerity measures.
Role of World Food Programme in Egypt
Gian Pietro Bordignon, the director of WFP in Egypt, spoke to Daily News Egypt about the organisation’s objectives and activities in the country.
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/16/role-of-world-food-programme-in-egypt
La population au Caire et ses conséquences sur la santé et l’environnement préoccupent
The average Cairene inhales more than 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution every day, according to the World Health Organization. That means that every Cairo resident’s daily air pollution intake is akin to smoking a pack of cigarettes.
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“Raising awareness is our only way to salvation,” says Ibrahim. “It was scientifically proven that air pollution isn’t regional, but a global phenomenon that can spread over extended perimeters and harm thousands of people. Thus, burning large amounts of garbage in one city can not only affect surrounding cities, but also surrounding countries as well.”
He believes environmental issues must be included in schools’ educational curricula to raise children’s awareness about, and dedication to, the environment. Imposing laws isn’t the appropriate solution, he says, because there are many air pollution regulations that simply aren’t implemented.
A 2002 World Bank report estimated that environmental damage caused by pollution costs Egypt US$2.42 billion each year. The country’s gross domestic product was worth just under $230 billion in 2011.
Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everything Else
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/217-hunger/52367-water-crisis-hitting-food-energy--and-everything-else.html
How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning.
We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practically everything we use and make needs water.
“There is no way to generate energy without water,” said Zafar Adeel, co-chair of the UN-Water Task Force on Water Security and director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada.
Even solar panels need regular washing to perform well. Wind energy might be an exception, Adeel told IPS from a water conference in Beijing being held during World Water Week.
There is growing recognition that peak oil is nowhere near as important as peak water because there is no substitute for water. The growing shortage of water — 1.2 to 1.7 billion people face scarcity — has alarmed many. Water has been identified as an “urgent security issue”, by a group that last year included both former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the InterAction Council, an association of 37 former heads of state and government.
#eau
EU urged to secure Palestinian prisoner’s release from Israeli jail | World news | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/17/palestinian-prisoner-israeli-jail?CMP=twt_gu
The European Union must take “immediate and concrete steps” to secure the release of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail who has been refusing food for almost nine months and is in a critical condition, a senior Palestinian official has demanded.
In a letter to Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, Saeb Erekat said the life of Samer Issawi “hangs in the balance” and warned his death could result in serious violence and damage efforts to revive the peace process.
Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession - Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/15/orphan-fever-the-evangelical.html#more-224367
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They didn’t attend school, either; home schooling mostly consisted of Serene reading to the younger children. When the older kids watched a school bus drive past on a country road and asked why they couldn’t go, they were met with various excuses. So Isaiah and Alfred worked with Sam in his house-painting business or labored in Nancy Campbell’s immense vegetable garden while CeCe, Kula, and Cherish cleaned, cooked, and tended to a growing brood of young ones. It was also the job of the “African kids,” as they called themselves, to keep a reservoir filled with water from the creek. CeCe hadn’t yet learned to read when Serene gave her a book on midwifery so she could learn to deliver their future babies. “They treated us pretty much like slaves,” she said. It’s a provocative accusation, but one that Kula and Isaiah—as well as two neighbors and a children’s welfare worker—all repeated.
Discipline included being hit with rubber hosing or something resembling a riding crop if the children disrespected Serene, rejected her meals, or failed to fill the reservoir. For other infractions, they were made to sleep on the porch without blankets. Engedi, the toddler, was disciplined for her attachment to CeCe. To encourage her bond with Serene, the Allisons would place the child on the floor between them and CeCe and call her. If Engedi went to CeCe instead, the children recalled, the Allisons would spank her until she wet herself
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/christian-evangelical-adoption-liberia
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
I don’t know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs. If you want to come up with old solutions, read news. If you are looking for new solutions, don’t.
Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don’t have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.
Brazil’s economy beset by inflation, lagging production - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/11/braz-a11.html
Brazil’s economy beset by inflation, lagging production
By Bill Van Auken
11 April 2013
Brazil’s statistics agency, IBGE, announced Wednesday that the country’s inflation rate has broken through the government’s target ceiling last month, hitting 6.59 percent over the previous 12 months. It marked the first time since November 2011 that the rate has exceeded the upper limit of the government’s targeting band.
Congrès européen de géographie à Rome, avec des sessions qui s’annoncent passionnantes
http://www.eugeo2013.com/call-for-papers
The fourth EUGEO Congress will take place in Rome, 5-7 September 2013.
Researchers and experts from all over the world are invited to submit proposals for the presentation of their research within one of the following sessions.
If you are interested in participating, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by filling in this form and send it to the session organizers using the corresponding email only before April 30 th 2013.
Sessions:
S01. Alternative food networks: the biopolitics of quality and embeddedness
Corresponding email: s01@eugeo2013.com
S02. Beyond “Fortress Europe”? Bordering and crossbordering processes along the European Union external frontiers
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S03. Breaking down boundaries: geographers for a new geography of Europe
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S04. Cartography, geography, geographic information. Representation, visualization, analysis
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S05. Changes in landscape studies: considering landscape as a “mediator”
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S06. Common Agriculture Policy role and value in a changing world. Food-agriculture-environment as key factors in order to get through the current global economic crisis
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S07. Comparative urban geography of post-socialist cities
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S08. Convergence, regional disparities and social cohesion: how did the financial crises change European geography
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S09. Crisis and new geographies of finance in European regions between social inclusion and resilience
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S10. Economic recession: interpretations, performances, and reifications in the tourism domain
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S11. ESPON evidence in a changing Europe
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S12. Ethics and geographical knowledge: which research for which legitimacies?
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S13. Ethno-cultural diversity and the question of the national
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S14. Geographies of TransformAction: spaces, processes, practices and tactics of reappropriation in contemporary activism
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S15. Geography and literature: from world’s review to territories development
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S16. Geography education’s challenges in changing geographies
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S17. Interdependencies between policies, energy consumption, and global environmental change: a geographic perspective
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S18. Is landscape a common? Geographical diversity of landscape’s perceptions and changes through time
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S19. Just in time geographies. The challenge of big data and citizen science in spatial analysis and geographical thinking
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S20. Multiple geographical perspectives on hazards and disasters
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S21. New geo-graphies of exile. Displacements, re-placements and literary reconstructions of belonging
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S22. New spatialities: Europe and its neighbouring regions
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S23. “Old” and “new” economic geography: perspectives for city growth and development
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S24. Planning ’outer’ relations: strategical partnership, neighbourhood policy and their local impact
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S25. Postmodern cartographies: epistemological and methodological issues in mapping power and social change
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S26. Recent development in global changes and human mobilities
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S27. Rural development and local identities in the European Union
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S28. Social capital in Europe: a geographical perspective. The social and economic networks of trust for territorial development
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S29. Spatialities: topography and/versus topology in contemporary spatial thinking
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S30. Sustainable land management: smart governance for changing geographies of land use
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S31. The Air, the Water, the Earthquake: perceived “threats” from the environment and the shaping of landscape
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S32. The European city: is there still a distinctive European model of urban governance?
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S33. Trends in historical geography. Applied research and methods for spatial and landscape planning
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S34. Which future(s) for agriculture in urbanising areas? Geography of innovation and innovations in geography
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S35. Repenser les migrations méditerranéens face à la crise économique
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Netherlands recalls 50,000 tonnes of meat | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/10/netherlands-recalls-meat
Fifty thousand tonnes of meat destined for human consumption has been recalled by Dutch authorities in a move that could draw in several British businesses, according to officials at the UK’s Food Standards Agency.
Investigators in the Netherlands said the origin of the meat at Wiljo Import and Export and Vleesgroothandel Willy Selten was unclear. Dutch officials said 130 companies in the Netherlands and 370 more across Europe were affected by the recall, and there is no health risk at this point.
On Tuesday Asda recalled tens of thousands of cans of corned beef after finding traces of the veterinary painkiller phenylbutazone, commonly known as bute. It is illegal for bute to enter the food chain.
The FSA has also revealed that 22 horses slaughtered for food at UK abattoirs since the end of January – one in 50 of the total – tested positive for bute.