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Wed, 21 May 2008 Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices This is so patently ridiculous that it has to go into humor - although I daresay the authors wouldn't appreciate it's placement. Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. (link) [Slashdot]Wed, 21 May 2008 20:01 /Humor | 0 writebacks | permanent link Brace yourself for barbecue shock Our chickens are indeed coming home to roost ... Food inflation is the highest in almost two decades, driven by record prices for oil, gas and mounting global demand for staples such as wheat and corn, and for proteins such as chicken. And that's reaching into Americans' backyards. (link) [CNN.com]Wed, 21 May 2008 19:57 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link Jury: Ex-cop lied about 92-year-old's shooting Ever see Training Day? Still think it was fiction? A jury on Tuesday convicted an Atlanta police officer of lying to cover up the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid. (link) [CNN.com]Wed, 21 May 2008 06:09 /Politics | 0 writebacks | permanent link |
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