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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Beware, the new PC Blue Menu orange juice Oh Mega
J has FISH in it. It actually shows that it is stated on the front of the carton
and not just hidden in the ingredients, which is good.... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">I'm disappointed at how little of the new
products in the PC Insiders Report are vegan, even the vegetable samosas have
dairy. I remember one year I was excited when they had a bunch of vegan
friendly products.... the soy pudding (which is now more expensive), the
soy yoghurt (which they stopped producing) amoung other
things.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Last week I read a small article in Metro about
the oceans turning acidic... here is some more information:</FONT></DIV>
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href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15654293/">http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15654293/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Carbon turning oceans acidic, experts
warn<BR>Climate conference told of 'major threat to marine
organisms'</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">NAIROBI, Kenya - The world's oceans are becoming
more acidic, which poses a threat to sea life and Earth's fragile food chain,
German researchers told delegates at a U.N. conference on climate
change.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Oceans have already absorbed a third of the
world's emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for
global warming, leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from
forming properly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">"The oceans are rapidly changing," said professor
Stefan Rahmstorf. "Ocean acidification is a major threat to marine
organisms."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Fish stocks and the world's coral reefs could
also be hit while acidification risks "fundamentally altering" the food chain,
he said.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">"Acidity is causing a major threat to coral
reefs, on top of the bleaching effect that comes with warming," he
said.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Reefs get bleached when warm water forces out
tiny algae living in them, giving reefs nutrients and their vivid colors.
Without algae, corals whiten and eventually die.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">In a study titled "The Future Oceans — Warming
Up, Rising High, Turning Sour," Rahmstorf and eight other scientists on Thursday
warned that the world is witnessing, on a global scale, problems similar to the
acid rain phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Rahmstorf, the head of Germany's Potsdam
Institute for Research into Climatic Effects, said more research is urgently
needed to assess the impact of ocean acidification.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Rahmstorf also reiterated warnings of rising sea
levels caused by global warming, saying that in 70 years, temperature increases
could lead to more frequent storms with 200 million people threatened by
floods.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Scientists blame the past century's one-degree
rise in average global temperatures at least in part for the accumulation of
carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere — byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel
burners.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">The 1997 Kyoto accord requires 35 industrialized
countries to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by
2012. The Kyoto countries meeting in Nairobi are continuing talks on what kind
of emissions targets and timetables should follow 2012.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to
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