(Editor's Note: The following article is from a topnotch Canadian website, "Global Research"; the URL for this article is http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?contact=va&aid=32298 and the general URL is http://globalresearch.ca).

SPIKING GRAIN PRICES RAISE SPECTER OF GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

by Naomi Spencer

Global Research, August 10, 2012
World Socialist Web Site

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Most people have never eaten rutabagas, and probably wouldn't recognize one if it were accidentally plopped into the grocery cart. The rutabaga is related to turnips and the like, and in fact the resemblance is in taste as well as appearance.

EXPOSED PROBLEMS SHOULD SPELL THE END TO SHALE GAS (News from Canada about an issue affecting the Arkansas Ozarks) - by Jim Emberger

While we wait for the government to write its new regulations for shale gas development, much has been happening in the world beyond New Brunswick that’s relevant to the government’s task. Observers of shale gas development have often commented that their most serious concern is the lack of any long-term studies, particularly on health effects. The first studies are now arriving.

NOTE: The following letter was penned by our very own Tom Kruzen, who for various reasons is unable at present to post to this forum. Because the letter is worthy of re-publication, and this is as good a forum as any, here it is:

January 26, 2012

Dear Editor,

From the Arkansas Ozarks..
The days lengthen and begin to warm, though we’ve seen little cold or snow as winter fades. Premonitions of a hot, dry summer haunt these temperate days. After last years record heat, hopes are that this year will not be a repeat.. or worse. But we all know the data and the trends.. floods followed by droughts, getting worse instead of better. Unless.. says the Lorax.

Anyone who has ever seen Oyster Mushrooms will probably recall their unique habit of growing in a cascade along a tree trunk, in a upward or downward direction, depending one one's point of view. One mass of them I observed for several consecutive years grew on a dead or dying sycamore tree.

This is one mushroom, according to experts, that is almost impossible to confuse with any poison variety, however, I still do not recommend anyone gathering or collecting them based on an online mention. Always be certain of what you collect before ingesting it/them.

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, is one of the most common vegetables grown by the home gardener. There is quite a wide variety in beans, and this particular article is about "green beans", which is a rather general term itself. Almost any variety of common bean can be harvested while still small, tender, and green, or can be allowed to dry on the vine for later harvest as dry pods, containing dried bean seeds. If one wants seeds for the following year, then green beans are allowed to mature into dry pods full of dry beans.