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The first science-based diet that tackles both the poor food eaten by billions of people and averts global environmental catastrophe has been devised. It requires huge cuts in red meat-eating in western countries and radical changes across the world. The “planetary health diet” was created by an international commission seeking to draw up guidelines that provide nutritious food to the world’s fast-growing population. At the same time, the diet addresses the major role of farming – especially livestock – in driving climate change, the destruction of wildlife and the pollution of rivers and oceans. Globally, the diet requires red meat...

A new copyright law from the European Union would lead to the banning of memes on the internet, campaigners are warning. The EU Copyright Directive intends to protect the intellectual property rights of people who upload their material to the internet. However, campaigners are warning the law will require “all content uploaded to the internet to be monitored and potentially deleted if a likeness to existing copyright is protected”. The campaign against a particular provision of the directive, Article 13, warns that online platforms would be economically damaged if they were forced to comply with its expensive obligations. The law...

Twitter allegedly blocked a new online campaign designed to support the Houston pastors who were subpoenaed by the city's lawyers demanding that they turn over their sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or the city's first openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker. The #HoustonWeHaveAProblem campaign and petition were created by Faith Driven Consumer, the same organization that supported and helped to reinstate Phil Robertson to "Duck Dynasty" after he was thrown off the show for his comments about homosexuality surfaced from a GQ interview.

A lifetime ban on public criticism of homosexuality was upheld against a Catholic activist in Canada by his province's superior court.

San Diegans vote to save cross 75% resist ACLU effort to remove historic structure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 27, 2005 12:44 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Mt. Soledad cross and veterans memorial above San Diego (soledadmemorial.com) After 15 years of adverse court rulings, the citizens of San Diego voted to save the city's historic Mt. Soledad cross.

Teen shot by DEA agents in case of mistaken identity ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, February 10, 2003 SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A 14-year-old San Antonio girl was shot by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who were attempting to make an arrest in what was later determined to be a case of mistaken identity, a police spokesman said. The girl was in critical condition Monday at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Tech Sgt. Steve Elliott, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force hospital, told The Associated Press on Monday. A woman who answered the phone at the DEA field office in San Antonio...