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Phosphate? How does this fit in?

March 13, 2008

Phosphate is used as fertilizer. And it comes from the ground. As fertilizer prices increase and as the areas that mine phosphate become less productive, this could trigger even larger increases in ethanol prices and in food prices. And with increases in food prices, more people worldwide will not be able to eat well. Related [...]

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The environmental cost of meat II

March 1, 2008

Green and animal rights issues have lately come closer as more and more organizations wake up to the huge damage that factory farming does to the planet (see our previous blog on this. For facts and figures, click here). One example of this trend is that the environmental section of the UK Guardian is inviting [...]

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