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	<title>Empty Plates Tomorrow ?</title>
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	<description>Why we face a food shortage and what we can do about it...</description>
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		<title>Why We Need A Campaign To Change Planning Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British countryside is in danger of becoming split between two extremes: industrial agriculure and protected &#8216;parkland&#8217;. Planning laws perpetuate the division, by rigorous zoning of  &#8216;permitted development&#8217; away from rural areas and the small villages within them, unless of course development is undertaken by very large businesses that can sway the views of  local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/03/07/why-we-need-a-campaign-to-change-planning-law/</link>
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		<title>Farming: business or way of life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resistance to the corporate takeover of farming is a glimmer of hope for a more sustainable future, but the odds remain stacked against the families for whom farming is a way of life.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/02/28/farming-business-or-way-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Why Globalisation Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The redundant steel worker wore a black armband. He was 58, he said, and would never find another job.... Globalisation, the World Trade Organisation, and the millions who suffer as a result: time for democracy to be revitalised?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/02/21/why-globalisation-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<title>Dangerous Monopolies over Seed Supplies</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Control the oil and you control nations. Control the food and you control the people", said Henry Kissinger. A neat way to control food is to patent the genes within it, and this is happening at an alarming rate. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/02/14/dangerous-monopolies-over-seed-supplies/</link>
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		<title>Chocolate Money and Loss of Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Bank of Scotland's loans to Kraft Foods of the USA, to finance the purchase of the British chocolate company Cadbury,  raises all sorts of issues about national identity and the role of the nation state. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/02/12/chocolate-money-and-loss-of-control/</link>
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		<title>British Plumbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burst pipes and food supplies: nothing in common, at first sight, between plumbing and &#8216;Empty Plates Tomorrow&#8217;, but I reckon that unpreparedness is the link.
Since temperatures colder than minus 10 degrees C arrived in December, I have had cause to rue the poor quality of much British plumbing, which is just about good enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/02/07/british-plumbing/</link>
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		<title>A Bit Rich: Tony Blair, the haves and have nots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investment bankers rake in £ millions yet do social damage. Childcare workers are paid a pittance but are valuable to society. 'A Bit Rich', a revealing report from the New Economics Foundation, demolishes the myth that financial rewards for work are linked to its social value. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/01/30/a-bit-rich-tony-blair-the-haves-and-have-nots/</link>
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		<title>Scarcity and Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An independent judiciary is indispensible to a civilised society.....]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/01/24/scarcity-and-violence/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking care for the elderly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do we allow the care of vulnerable elderly men and women to be a profit opportunity? Adding to the critique of 'care homes' in the UK.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/01/17/rethinking-care-for-the-elderly/</link>
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		<title>Bankers&#8217; &#8216;talent&#8217; is a burden for taxpayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bankers&#8217; &#8216;talent&#8217; is a burden for taxpayers
Taxpayers control Royal Bank of Scotland.
The liabilities heaped upon British taxpayers, just for the bank bailouts of 2008, are in £ billions, while the expenses of Members of Parliament, which have caused so much anger, are just in £ millions. £1 billion is one thousand times more than £1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2009/06/28/bankers-talent-is-a-burden-for-taxpayers/</link>
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