Breast vs bottle: the new battleground
Independent - Just as the Department of Health is trying to promote breastfeeding, food giant Nestlé, makers of powdered baby milk, is forging links with the Government.
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Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
Spiegel - Bees in the German state of Baden-Württemburg are dying by the hundreds of thousands. In some places more than half of hives have perished. Government officials say the causes are unclear — but beekeepers are blaming new pesticides.
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Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
Independent - Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and 1.3m yoghurts.
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God, climate change and EU
Daily Telegraph - Does the European Union have God on its side? Yes. When it comes to fighting climate change, the EU’s next big thing, Brussels has the blessing of all the Faiths.
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You Name It, and Exercise Helps It
NY Times -People with chronic health problems can improve their health and quality of life by learning how to exercise safely. Regular moderate exercise increases your ability to battle the effects of disease.
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Undercover investigation into Britain’s battery farming
Independent - Undercover investigators have filmed the ugly reality of egg production at a battery chicken farm supplying the biggest egg producer in the UK.
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‘Sustainable’ bio-plastic can damage the environment
Guardian - The worldwide effort by supermarkets and industry to replace conventional oil-based plastic with eco-friendly “bioplastics” made from plants is causing environmental problems and consumer confusion, according to a Guardian study.
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Could you drink, bathe and clean using just 20 litres a day?
Independent - The phrase “water footprint” was coined to describe the embedded or “virtual” water in a food or industrial product – the real volume of water used to create that product. It is difficult to avoid using products which have not been involved in a water-intensive process somewhere along the line, and the figures are staggering: it takes 1,760 litres to get one pint of milk out of a cow and into your fridge; a kilogram of cheddar swallows up 5,000 litres.
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