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Archive for January 31, 2008

Free Press is Essential to Development

January 31, 2008 by and tagged , , , , ,

In a January article on Niger, IRIN reports that “Press freedom groups agree that an increase in arrests, intimidation and harassment of journalists in Niger is impeding development in one of the poorest countries in the world.” The current crackdown on journalists seem to be related to government’s dealing with a rebellion in the Northern [...]

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Why Vegetarianism Makes Sense Socially, Economically and Environmentally

January 31, 2008 by and tagged , , , ,

I don’t eat meat (except when I go back to France) mostly for the reasons mentioned by Mark Bittman in the New York Times: “Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts [...]

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