Archive for February 12th, 2017

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12/02/2017

Every Year 700 Million People Fall Ill from Contaminated Food

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal* 

ROME, Feb 11 2017 (IPS) – It may sound like an endless tale of modern seven plagues: mad cows, avian flu, led-poisoned fish, swine fever, desert locusts being the most dangerous of migratory pests, let alone new, aggressive rust threatening entire wheat crops in three continents, just to mention a few. Now it is about contaminated food that every year causes illness to 1 in 10 people around the world – or around 700 million – killing 420,000 people as a result. 

Farmers inspect rice seeds in Sierra Leone. Photo: FAO

Farmers inspect rice seeds in Sierra Leone. Photo: FAO

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12/02/2017

Argentina’s Never-ending Environmental Disaster

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Gutman*

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 11 2017 (IPS) – Is it possible to spend 5.2 billion dollars to clean up a river which is just 64-km-long and get practically no results? Argentina is showing that it is.
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A view of Buenos Aires from the point where the Riachuelo flows into the Rio de la Plata. To the left can be seen the famous Boca Juniors stadium. Chronicles from 200 years ago were already talking about the pollution in the river. Credit: Courtesy of FARN

A view of Buenos Aires from the point where the Riachuelo flows into the Rio de la Plata. To the left can be seen the famous Boca Juniors stadium. Chronicles from 200 years ago were already talking about the pollution in the river. Credit: Courtesy of FARN

As the government admitted to the Supreme Court of Justice in late 2016, that is the amount of public funds earmarked since July 2008 for the clean-up of the 64-km Matanzas-Riachuelo river, which has been identified as one of the worst cases of industrial pollution in the world.

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