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On Our Radar: smoothies, hobbit homes, and canning
Some of FYF’s top stories from across the internet over the last few weeks: Get your body back on track with these Seven Detox Smoothy Recipes Though maybe a bit irrelevant, this sculpture carved out of the world’s largest pumpkin is just too awesome not ...
FYF Suggests: Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. is a brilliant contemporary documentary focusing on the evils of big American agribusiness. The film offers an insight into every angle of food production- from E. coli, patented seeds, and ammonia-cleansed meat (yum.) to illegal immigration, corrupt politicians, and high-fructose corn syrup. Directed ...
On Our Radar: graffiti, showering, and shopping
Here we will give a snapshot of the places that we’ve been, and still are, on the world wide web. You can use this to stay abreast of developing issues that FlexYourFood thinks are important, see what interests us, and also digest tidbits that you ...
Childhood Obesity
Widespread obesity has become a continually increasing problem over the last two decades for many countries, especially the United States and United Kingdom. It is very apparent that if massive changes aren’t made, the nations will face “a public health problem of epic proportions” due ...
Deforestation Due to Global Meat Demand
“In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York.” According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 25 to 30 percent– or 1.6 billion tonnes– of ...
On Our Radar: Al Gore, tastier meat, and fashion
On Our Radar will be a new series of posts where we share links reflecting our travels throughout the internet. Here we will give a snapshot of the places that we’ve been, and still are, on the world wide web. You can use this to ...
Info on #FYFchat
Hi everyone. Our twitter chat is now going to be held once a month, on the third Wednesday of each month. Next chat: 16th November. Topic: TBA (please do tweet us in advance if you have any good ideas for chat topics) Twitter! Everyone knows ...