#whole systems

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Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests | World news | The Guardian Major Oops!

Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests | World news | The Guardian Major Oops!

The chlorine washing of food, the controversial “cleaning” technique used by many US poultry producers who want access to the British market post-Brexit, does not remove contaminants, a new study has found. The investigation, by a team of microbiologists from Southampton University and published in the US journal mBio, found that bacilli such as listeria and salmonella remain completely active…

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Cover to José Argüelles’ Earth Ascending: An Illustrated Treatise on the Law Governing Whole Systems (unknown artist/designer, 1984).

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Nature Never Hesitates

Unlike us, Nature never hesitates. You can't argue with a raindrop...

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No pesticides and 95% less water – the indoor farming revolution Indoor farming is not really that new, the most prevalent example being that of greenhouses. A New York based company is taking the concept to another level. Bowery, which launched just last year, has started up their concept of vertical indoor farming by acquiring warehouses in urban areas and turning them.....

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NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search - 20042357 - Lifting the lid on toilet plume aerosol: a literature review with suggestions for future research.

NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search – 20042357 – Lifting the lid on toilet plume aerosol: a literature review with suggestions for future research.

The potential risks associated with “toilet plume” aerosols produced by flush toilets is a subject of continuing study. This review examines the evidence regarding toilet plume bioaerosol generation and infectious disease transmission. Source: NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search – 20042357 – Lifting the lid on toilet plume aerosol: a literature review with suggestions for future research.

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Op-Ed Contributors: We’re Not Ready for a Flu Pandemic

Only about 10 years too late of a warning. The global industrial poultry and hog market has exploded and so grows the potential for a new global pandemic our of greed and profit. A universal vaccine is desperately needed.

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World’s Top Banana Could Go Extinct This illustrates the chief problem of industrialized agriculture - it can be trashed by fungus, virus or bacteria developed by nature to rebalance the natural system in reaction to over-population of a single species.

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Cousin of the Ebola virus, Marburg has the potential to cause devastation.