Fowl Play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu

This timely report from GRAIN presents a fresh perspective on the bird flu story that challenges current assumptions and puts the focus back where it should be: on the transnational poultry...
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Six Months After Katrina: Who Was Left Behind Then and Who is Being Left Behind Now?

The Katrina evacuation was totally self-help. If you had the resources, a car, money and a place to go, you left. Over one million people evacuated - 80% to 90% of the population. No provisions...
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World Food Summit

At the UN World Food Summit in November 1996 one hundred eighty-six nations adopted a Rome Declaration and Plan of Action that committed them to seven sets of actions designed to reduce food...
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Food and Agriculture Trade

Agriculture remained the most neuralgic question throughout the history of the GATT and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, which finally produced agreement on the WTO. Indeed, it was only the...
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World Summit for Sustainable Development

Food Security

Service, Part 5: Accepting Responsibility for Each Other

This is the fifth resource in the "Service and Justice" series on how to weave service and Catholic Social Teaching more closely together. Part 5 focuses on humanity's responsibility for...
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Prayer Service

Remembering the Still-Homeless in Pakistan and Kashmir: Actions for Solidarity

Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless in the region of Kashmir and Pakistan that experienced a terrible earthquake in October. They must endure two more months of cold winter and more...
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The U.S. Bishops on Moral Responsibility in Iraq

The U.S. Catholic Bishops recently published their recommendations about the moral obligations of U.S. leadership regarding the war in Iraq. This resource includes excerpts and questions that can be...
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Lenten Reflection Series on Food Justice 2006

Lenten Reflection Series on Food Justice: Part 4

During Lent, this series on food justice offers people of faith the opportunity to reflect on our responsibility to ensure that the food and agriculture system is based on moral and ethical...
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February 16, 2006 - What Does CST Have to Say about the 2007 U.S. Budget?