vegetarian Archive

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    The training wheels are off – it’s our tenth B’day! - by frog



    Happy birthday to us!  Today we marked a decade of being represented in Parliament as the Green Party.  Interestingly our win in 1999 spelled the end of at least six parliamentary careers.  When Jeanette won the Coromandel after special votes had been counted National’s Murray McLean and Arthur Anae, Labour’s John Blincoe and Eru George, [...] read more
    December 7, 2009 12:06 pm - 11 Comments
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    A meaty dilemma - by frog



    Paul Roberts, author of The End of Food, has a compelling article in Seed magazine, Carnivores like us, which begins looking at the impact of China’s new-found meat eating revolution: Thanks in part to the meatier diet, the number of people suffering physical stunting has fallen from three in 10 in 1980 to half as [...] read more
    May 27, 2008 11:05 am - 14 Comments
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    Monbiot on meat - by frog



    George Monbiot has just taken a look at the global food crisis: Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession which is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by [...] read more
    April 16, 2008 10:01 am - 88 Comments