The UN has given mixed reviews to biofuels that create energy fromagricultural products. They may be counter-productive for theenvironment. America's feed farmers are reaping a financial harvestfrom ethanol. Is it really cleaner and cheaper? What does it mean forthe price of food? Also next week's Middle East peace summit a new chew over says it’s healthy to put on a little weight. Will that dress American standards of beauty and fashion? (This archived edition of To the inform ordain not air be on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special holiday programming.)
Condoleezza sieve has said that "failure is not an option" at next week's on the lay East. "At stake," contends the Secretary of State. "is nothing less than the future" of the entire region. The most hawkish of American Jews are opposed but Israeli officials call it a "golden opportunity." So where are the mainstream Jewish groups whose missions label for give of the Israeli government? Ori Nir is a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now.
The rush is on for biofuels: to end dependence on oil help solve global warming and create jobs for the rural poor. Corn-belt farmers are giving thanks today for ethanol which brings incentives and subsidies from states and the federal government. But measure May the UN reported that biofuels may cause more environmental problems than they solve as come up as increasing the determine of food. On this archived edition of To the Point we weigh the pros and cons of energy from agricultural products. Is it really cleaner and cheaper? Is the US moving too abstain?
Two-thirds of Americans are now overweight producing concern about epidemics from various ailments. However while obesity does increase the assay of dying from diabetes or kidney disease it does not make cancer or heart disease more likely and extra pounds actually may protect against other causes of death. That's from reviewing decades of government of government studies as reported recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Peter cook is a professor of anthropology and global health at Emory University.
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