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Homeland Security 101
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, March 27, 2008.
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Nashua's Daniel Webster College is breaking new ground. It's the first college in New England to offer an undergraduate degree in homeland security. Around the country, more and more schools are beginning to teach counter-terrorism, but critics say they're just capitalizing on a fad...and fear. New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Sheryl Rich-Kern has the story.
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It's fascinating, all be it tragic, that in your program with segments on BAE systems, and one on raw/regular milk, there is a correlation between the two. Who'd have thought there could be a connection between milk and war. Plato did. Tolstoy did. Pythagoras understood. St. Francis knew. Einstein and Schweitzer saw. Plutarch fully accepted it, and modern spiritual and academic leaders like Professor Steven Best, Peter Singer,Dr.Richard Schwartz, Elizabeth Jane Farians(Xavier College),Reverend Will Tuttle, Reverend Gary Yurofsky, and many others today, opine about the connection.
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Feeding people rather than factory-bred animals requires far less irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, mechanization, refrigeration, and processing, all of which consume much energy. The tremendous effects that meat-centered diets have on energy consumption can be seen in this example: if all the petroleum reserves in the world were devoted solely to feeding a typical North American diet to the world's more than 4 billion people, all the world's oil would be used in only 13 years.
Another factor that can lead to future violence or war is growing scarcity of water in many areas of the world. One of the world`s most explosive areas, the Middle East, has suffered from severe water shortages recently.
The standard diet of a person in the United States requires 4,200 gal. of water/day (for animals' drinking water, irrigation of crops, processing, washing, cooking, etc.) A person on a pure vegetarian diet requires as little as 300 gal./day. The production of one pound of steak uses 2,500 gallons of water, while only 25 gallons are required to produce a pound of potatoes. Livestock production consumes over 80% of the water used in the U.S., and this water is becoming increasingly scarce. Studies have indicated that if the entire U.S. population were total vegetarians, no irrigation water at all would be needed to produce our food.