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Pope Francis’s Legacy of Love and Peace

Kathy Kelly Eurasia Review
As the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Francis unified people of different generations. He encouraged genuine love for humans—”Todo, todo, todo.” He spoke out against war, militarism, and the ravages of climate change.

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Assessing Seafood’s Potential To Reduce Global Hunger, Improve Health

Harvard T. H. Chan Newsletter Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Aquatic foods have been instrumental in creating healthy and sustainable diets in many regions across the world. They can compensate for diminishing land on which to cultivate food for growing populations.

An Uptick in Elder Poverty: A Blip, or a Sign of Things To Come?

Lydia DePillis The New York Times
In the 1960s, more than a third of seniors lived in poverty. Federal programs like Medicare to help the elderly, the situation improved significantly. But last year, the poverty rate for those 65 or older increased, even as it sank for everyone else.

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Algae: The Food of the Future of the Past

Livia Gershon JSTOR
In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics. But it wasn’t just the unpleasant flavor that killed the algae craze.

Acts of Rebel Sanity

Frances Moore Lappé The Progressive
With the past half-century’s experience, it’s become harder to deny that suffering arises not from nature’s deficit but humanity’s failure—our failure to reverse the tightening concentration of wealth and the decline of democracies around the world.
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