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1. New Jersey’s Carl Lewis using Olympic fame to fight hunger
(Sports/Professional)

... chronic hunger, Lewis joined other celebrities and FAO employees at the agency's headquarters in Rome, Italy. They leaned out the windows and blew bright yellow whistles as a crowd cheered below. Lewis ...

2. fish
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

big deal who cares it was a sandwich and a person woohoo lets alert the president the worlds gonna end. lmfao get a life ...

3. Saving the environment one tree at a time
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... (FAO) reported at the end of March that the deforestation rate over the past decade has been at the low end of the scale, averaging 13 million hectares per year. "Nothing else has stopped deforestation ...

4. FAO: Meat eating contributes more to greenhouse gas emissions than cars
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... gas emissions. The livestock sector generates around 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than we burn by zooming up and ...

5. N.J. anti-fur demonstrators confront N.Y. shoppers on Black Friday
(U.S./Nation)

...  A multi-messaging young New Yorker was costumed in white as a baby seal – another slaughtered-for-fur class – and carried under his arm a plush fox bought at FAO Schwartz, caught in a steel leg-hold ...

6. World Food Day observed at United Nations: New Jerseyans Dionne Warwick, Carl Lewis make impassioned pleas
(World/International)

... of the United Nations (FAO). The event, sponsored by the FAO, highlighted the ongoing crisis of world hunger. "At a time when the global economic crisis dominated the news, the world needs to be ...

7. Estimate for world hunger tops one billion people for first time
(World/International)

... 12.8 percent increase. Even developed countries are not immune, showing a nearly 15 and a half percent hike in the number of hungry people. The FAO leader says the world's food system is "fragile and ...

8. Report: Food prices predicted to be higher for next decade
(Money/Economy)

... prices are higher, because biofuel remains high, this is going to keep real prices for agriculture [higher] than in the early part of the decade," said FAO economist Merrit Cluff. The report also ...