Short Takes: News From All Over: November 13, 2003

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The Meatrix: Revelations
By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com
Sure, The Matrix sequel may not live up to the original, but the parody kicks ass! Enter The Meatrix to escape the family farm facade. Your perceptions will be forever altered as Moopheus the cow reveals the frightening truth behind factory farming.
http://www.themeatrix.com/

U.S. Kids Show Early Signs of Heart Disease
By Staff, New Scientist
A recent study warns that children in Western populations are trending toward early heart disease and type 2 diabetes. 'About one in seven U.S. schoolchildren has three or more risk factors of 'metabolic syndrome' -- a precursor to heart disease and diabetes, the study says.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994364

Truthapalooza 2003
By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com
Music legends and storytellers unite to tell our government that we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore! This November the Tell Us the Truth Tour is rousing activists and working families in 13 cities to demand information, not propaganda, from the media, to have a voice in regulating Corporate America and to renew our democracy. http://www.tellusthetruth.org/index_home.html

'We Are Plenty Good Enough'
By Bill McKibben, Sierra
McKibben suggests in his new book, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, that we are on the cusp of changing -- perhaps irrevocably -- what it means to be human. Our genetic future is falling into corporate hands, he says, where soon we may be kneaded into a product, not a child.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/interview.asp

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