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Factory Farm Map. Site provides in depth information on factory farming. Much of the data is broken out by state.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 6/9/2010. (1 of 5)

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja. Martin Chulov. Guardian. 11/13/2009.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.

The Hidden Health Toll of Race. Ryan Blitstein. Miller-McCune. 7/11/2009.

Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug. Gardiner Harris. NY Times. 9/02/2009.

When someone is raised female and the genes say XY. Seth Borenstein. AP. 9/11/2009.

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.

High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.

Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/30/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

A U.S. Hog Giant Transforms Eastern Europe. Doreen Carvajal and Stephen Castle. NY Times. 5/05/09.

A victory for cheese eaters? US-EU trade spat defused.. James Hagengruber. Christian Science Monitor. 5/07/09.

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty. Anemonia Hartocollis & Christina Davidson. NY Times. 4/16/2009.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

FightingFTAS.org. "Fighting FTAs: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements" is a collaborative document on tree trade acts and resistance to them. Excellent resource page, and an excellent document.

GRAIN Resource Page - GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. David Guiterez. Natural News. 11/10/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Many Would Rather Be Anything but Obese. ABC News. 5/23/2006.

1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 12/02/2008.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets in 2007

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans. Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. Nov. 2008. (research copy)

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Women's Heart Symptoms Often Blamed on Stress. Tara Parker-Pope. NY Times. 10/13/2008,

The Food Crisis and Global Institutions. Emily Schwartz Gtrco. Foreign Policy in Focus. 8/05/2008.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.

Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill. Michelle Chen. In These Times. 7/09/2008.

Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.

Indonesia's answer to rising food prices. Simon Montlake. Christian Science Monitor. 7/14/2008.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest . David Streitfeld & Keith Bradsher, NY Times. 6/10/2008.

U.S. says ending trade barriers key to food crisis. Reuters. 6/13/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Monsanto Seeks Big Increase in Crop Yields. Andrew Pollack, NY Times. 6/05/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Global Food Crisis: On The Margins in Mauritania. Washington Post. 5/07/2008.

Experts see no early end to world's food crisis. Renee Schoof. McClatchy. 5/14/2008.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Anti-U.S. beef protest draws 100,000 S.Koreans. Reuters, 5/31/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

Chemical Weapons Come Home. Stan Cox. Chronogram. 4/25/2008.

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (SAMHSA). Good source for national health data and reports.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

Is in vitro meat the future?. Carol Midgley. Times/UK. 5/09/2008.

Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV. Scott Streater. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/11/2008.

Tornado might sound death knell for Oklahoma town. Kevin Murphy. KC Star. 5/12/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Executive Summary of the Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD). PDF. Report on traditional vs industrial agriculture, original report site

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Food prices stir poverty concern. Al Jazeera. 4/11/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Oregon's healthcare lottery. Rajesh Mirchandani. BBC. 3/30/2008

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Depression drugs don't work, finds data review. David Rose. Times Online. 2/26/2008.

Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs. Brandon Keim. Wired News. 2/29/2008.

Daniel Troy's Poison Pill. Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

ERs fail as the nation's safety net. Mary Engel and Rong-Gong Lin II. LA Times. 2/09/2008.

Obesity Becoming World Crisis. Craig and Marc Kielburger. Toronto Star. 2/04/2008.

Legal or Not, Abortion Rates Compare. Rosenthal, NY Times. 10/11/07. International study of the impacts of laws on abortion and maternal mortality by the WHO.

The Primary Review - 7 and 11 year olds. 10/12/2007. University of Cambridge. A study of the stress levels of 7 and 11 year olds in British school systems.

Medicare Audits Show Problems in Private Plans. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/07/07.

A Heavy Toll From Disease Fuels Suspicion and Anger. Bolton, NYT. 10/07/07.

'Health disaster' in French Caribbean linked to pesticides. 9/19/07 John Lichfield, Independent.

Danger to children from food and drink additives is exposed. Smithers, Guardian. 9/06/07.

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