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Marketing Junk Food to Kids Could Soon be Illegal

Photo via SMH It’s a topic that sparks heated debate, and one that we’ve tackled here before: Should corporations be allowed to market unhealthy food to children? When a county in California banned McDonald’s Happy Meals , it caused a veritable uproar. Happy Meals, are one of the most cannily marketed kids’ products — yet many feel that it’s the parents’ role to decide what to let their kids eat, regardless. So I’m curious to see how the nation will take the news that market… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Marketing Junk Food to Kids Could Soon be Illegal

Thousands of Undiscovered Plants Face Extinction

Image credit: Hans Dekker /Flickr Scientists have estimated that between 5 million and 50 million flowering plant species may be threatened with extinction. The shocking thing about this number is that fewer than 2 million have been discovered. That means millions—and possibly tens-of-millions—of species may vanish from the planet before they are known to science. And these numbers, a new study shows, may be conservative…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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