May 2013
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May 19th
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May 15th
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May 15th
10 gross ingredients you didn't know were in your... →
Anna Brones: If you’re still reeling from the horsemeat scandal, hold on to your hats – there may well be arsenic in your beer and rat hair in your chocolate
May 13th
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May 4th
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April 2013
31 posts
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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“La fugitiva sensación”
– a runaway feeling
Apr 25th
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The Flexitarian →
NYTime Columnist Mark Bittman introduces a new series on an increasingly familiar dietary lifestyle: the flexitarian. S/he is not vegan nor vegetarian, but one whose eating habits are changing for the better and the burning question shifting from “What should I be eating?” to “How do I cook it?”. It’s about personal experience Bittman explains, those who significantly...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Margaret Thatcher's funeral: 23 things you could... →
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will cost around £10m, although we won’t know the exact figure - and how much of it is being spent by the state - until afterwards. What else can £10m pay for? Here are some ideas.
Apr 17th
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Boston, Baghdad.
Two people killed and 22 injured at the Boston marathon today. 31 people killed and more than 200 injured in 20 car bombings in Iraq today. 29 people killed and 58 injured in Mogadishu bombings yesterday.  All tragedy, all full of sorrow.  
Apr 15th
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Apr 12th
“eine Hand wäscht die andere”
Apr 11th
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Apr 7th
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Healthful Fast Food →
Firstly, let me just note that a MAJOR part of going vegan moves well beyond cutting out meat and dairy, it carries over to sustainable eating and living, moving toward raw and unprocessed food where possible. That being said, I am still thrilled to read articles such as this one from Mark Bittman of NYTimes about going vegan on holiday or trying to find the veggie alternatives from fast food....
Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 6th
“It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or...”
– David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness”  (via coffeestainedcashmere) Reading this feels like reading my horoscope. I don’t necessarily believe it but it absolutely resonates. 
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Apr 4th
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Jim Yong Kim, new leader of the World Bank, on... →
Apr 4th
March 2013
53 posts
“Flexibility is the ability to stretch without breaking”
– J
Mar 31st
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“two kinds of marriage: the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk...”
– Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on what the Defense of Marriage Act creates.
Mar 28th
“You cannot control the outside world. You can only control what you feel within,...”
– (via bravebuddha) mantra. 
Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time…”
– Jonathan Carroll
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Water Consumption
The amount of water used to produce food products can be measured by liters of water per kilogram of food product (l/kg).  Beef – 15,415 l/kg Pork – 5,988 l/kg Chicken – 4,325 l/kg Cereals – 1,644 l/kg Fruits – 962 l/kg Vegetables – 322 l/kg 1kg of beef requires 48 times more water to produce than vegetables! Read more here.   
Mar 25th
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