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After months of debate that thrust the small city of Jurupa Valley, Calif., into the national spotlight, the city council approved a plan on Thursday night to build a development next to the Jurupa Oak, an ancient tree that has survived since the last ice age. The vote was 3-2."
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A 2004 study evaluated Department of Agriculture data for 43 garden crops from 1950 to 1999. The researchers found statistically reliable declines for six nutrients — protein, calcium, potassium, iron and vitamins B2 and C.
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Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Piano: Maurizio Pollini
Orchestre National de France
Conductor: Paul Kletzki
Live Performance in 1960/1968
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Been kind of quiet on the blogging front but I still found things to recap this week. And of course, as always, a list of blog posts rolling off the Postroll this week.
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ARTE: TV-Ausstrahlung am Sonntag, 8. September um 17:20
Blomstedt dirigiert Bruckners Symphonie Nr. 9
Bamberger Symphoniker
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kevincox
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Here is the problem with crop quality:
So there is basically no business pressure to have crops be nutritious.
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in reply to linkhidalgogato • • •But it does boil down to business pressures. The business prefers more and bigger produce to more nutritional produce.
Is that a bad thing? Maybe not. Maybe you can just eat more to get your nutrition since higher yield should reduce cost.
But the point still stands that there is very little business pressure to make a nutritious product.
Jayjader
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in reply to Jayjader • • •Even then how you you know? I don't think anyone can reliably look at a vegetable and tell you how nutritious it is. I don't think it is reasonable to have the general population being experts in evaluating vegetables.
I think what could work here is mandated labeling. This is required for most foods but generally not produce. I think there are some reasonable reasons for this, but for farms producing huge volumes it seems that occasional testing that gets reported at the store would make sense.
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in reply to deadbeef79000 • • •And, playing the devil's advocate, if you die in your early 60s due to long-term sustained malnutrition that is better for the economy than if you live until you are 80.
They got to do everything they can to prevent them from having to pay back those social security loans they took out and never paid back.
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bizarroland
in reply to AlecSadler • • •Many vegetables today are either sweeter than their predecessors or less flavorful or both.
Corn, for instance, grows so fast under modern fertilizers that the internal cells split during the growth process.
Their stalks are weaker but their yield has more than doubled since the 80s.
If you want to learn more about that, I can highly recommend the book The omnivore's dilemma. It's fascinating how modern agriculture is so completely divorced from what most people think it is.
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