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  • September 2008

    • Busy Brain May Mean Big Belly

      LiveScience  |  Sep 5, 08 12:50 PM CDT

      Busy Brain May Mean Big Belly

      (Newser) - Does thinking make us fat? Researchers say that intellectual activity just might cause us to pig out, LiveScience reports. Volunteers who performed a series of problem-solving tasks in a study consumed almost 30% more calories afterward than those who just sat around and took it easy. One theory: The body demands food to restore glucose depleted by the stress of thinking. More »

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      health  • science  • brain  • hunger  • health research  • medical studies  • calories

  • August 2008

    • Indian State Recommends Eating Rats

      Reuters  |  Aug 18, 08 12:47 PM CDT

      Indian State Recommends Eating Rats

      (Newser) - Faced with high food prices and ebbing grain reserves, officials in the Indian state of Bihar have endorsed the consumption of rats, Reuters reports. The state government sees the strategy as a way to reduce the pest population as well as curb the demand for grain, and has even proposed that restaurants start offering the rodents. More »

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      India  • food  • food prices  • hunger  • rats  • famine  • grain

    • Anti-'Frankenfood' Activists Should Modify Stance

      Economist  |  Aug 4, 08 5:48 PM CDT

      Anti-'Frankenfood' Activists Should Modify Stance

      (Newser) - The recent destruction of a research crop of genetically modified potatoes in England highlights how attitudes towards altered crops have changed, the Economist writes. A decade ago, Greenpeace activists caught in the act of destroying food crops were acquitted because of popular fear of the consequences of “Frankenfoods.” Today, such crops have been accepted by most as safe. More »

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      food  • crops  • hunger  • academic research  • famine  • experiments  • environmentalists  • genetically modified crops

  • July 2008

    • Haitians Turn to Mud Cakes to Fill Empty Bellies

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 29, 08 6:08 AM CDT

      Haitians Turn to Mud Cakes to Fill Empty Bellies

      (Newser) - Impoverished Haitians have been reduced to living off mud cakes, the Guardian reports. The cakes of clay and water—long eaten by poor pregnant women seeking calcium—are increasingly the only food many families can afford. The global fuel and food crisis has hit Haiti, and half the population is malnourished. More »

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      Haiti  • Caribbean  • hunger  • food shortage  • food supply  • malnutrition

    • African Women Take Brunt of Food Crisis

      Washington Post  |  Jul 20, 08 5:06 AM CDT

      African Women Take Brunt of Food Crisis

      (Newser) - As food and fuel prices continue to climb, impoverished families across Africa are hurting worse than ever—and women are suffering the most. The Washington Post follows one Burkina Faso mother in her daily struggle to feed her family and survive in a culture that puts her last at mealtime. "When there is less food, women are the first to eat less," said one human rights advocate. More »

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      Africa  • poverty  • hunger

    • Biofuel Caused Food Crisis: Secret Report

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 4, 08 3:45 PM CDT

      Biofuel Caused Food Crisis: Secret Report

      (Newser) - Biofuel production has been the driving force behind the growing food crisis, pushing prices up 75%, according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian . The most detailed research ever conducted on the issue emphatically contradicts the US position that biofuels are responsible for a mere 3% price bump. It hasn’t been published, sources say, for fear of embarrassing President Bush. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • food prices  • World Bank  • biofuel  • ethanol  • hunger

  • June 2008

    • 'Mediator' Mbeki Visits Mugabe

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 18, 08 3:05 PM CDT

      'Mediator' Mbeki Visits Mugabe

      (Newser) - South African president Thabo Mbeki visited counterpart Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe today, the Guardian reports, an attempt to play the role of mediator ahead of run-off elections June 27. With the UN warning that 5 million could face starvation in a country plagued by political violence, Mbeki's agenda was unclear—particularly since Zimbabwe's main opposition accuses him of siding with Mugabe. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • election  • Morgan Tsvangirai  • Thabo Mbeki  • hunger  • famine

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Gods Go Hungry in Food Crisis

      Washington Post  |  Apr 30, 08 1:13 PM CDT

      Gods Go Hungry in Food Crisis

      (Newser) - Skyrocketing food prices have a new victim in India: Hindu deities. Supplicants offer milk and other food at temples where they pray, but with the cost of staples soaring, many are unable even to feed themselves, the Washington Post reports. "If poor people don't even have enough for bread, how will they donate milk to the gods?" asks a priest. More »

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      India  • food prices  • hunger  • Hinduism

    • UN Ready to Tackle Hunger

      BBC  |  Apr 29, 08 10:52 AM CDT

      UN Ready to Tackle Hunger

      (Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is putting together a task force to deal with an "unprecedented" world crisis that's left 100 million without enough food, the BBC reports. Ban also called on donors to follow through on pledges for the World Food Program, saying only 62% of the $755 million needed has been promised—and only $18 million delivered. More »

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      United Nations  • Ban Ki-Moon  • hunger  • World Food Programme

    • Rice Is the New Oil

      Newsweek  |  Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT

      Rice Is the New Oil

      (Newser) - Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger." Newsweek investigates the causes, which are both complicated and simple. More »

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      China  • United Nations  • India  • food  • food prices  • poverty  • hunger  • speculation  • rice prices  • hunger riots

    • Food Crisis Is 'Mass Murder': UN Envoy

      Reuters  |  Apr 20, 08 4:02 PM CDT

      Food Crisis Is 'Mass Murder': UN Envoy

      (Newser) - A UN envoy called the world's food crisis "silent mass murder" today and blamed multinationals for "monopolizing the riches of the Earth," Reuters reports. Jean Ziegler, UN food rapporteur, chalked up surging food prices in poorer nations to biofuels, commodities markets, and EU subsidies—meaning the West is responsible for this "horror." More »

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