10 month ago
nelson : King Corn - Great documentary film about corn production in the US
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23 month ago
philgyford : WWOOF Independents - home page - World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms for people who want to volunteer for a "holiday".
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23 month ago
philgyford : WWOOF (UK) - World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in the UK.
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24 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: Zombie chickens rise from mass graves - Totally makes me want to eat tofu: "Apparently though, "zombie birds" that managed to survive have been spotted emerging from mass graves at Northern California farms."
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24 month ago
deusx : MercuryNews.com | 12/03/2006 | `Zombie chickens' hatch debate over older chickens' fate - Again with the tofu hunger: "To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust."
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35 month ago
deusx : 'Doomsday vault' to house world's seeds - "Norway is to build a "doomsday vault" in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels, New Scientist says."
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42 month ago
Andy Baio : 1UP's feature on MMORPG sweatshop farms - dirt-cheap overseas workers hired to earn in-game credits
philgyford : Wage Slaves from 1UP.COM - I'm always amazed by this kind of stuff: people paid peanuts in Asia to earn money in computer games (via Yoz).
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deusx : Yahoo! News - Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies - "Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents from munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat." Aww, poor bunnies. guess I won't share my tabasco with our bunnies.
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