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While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year.
  • 40 percent more cheese
  • $12 million marketing campaign.
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  • sales soared by double digits.
  • help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management.
  • one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories.
  • Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture
  • the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting.
  • Americans now eat an average of 33 pounds of cheese a year
  • nearly triple the 1970 rate
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Mother Nature's Melting Pot - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Designating some as native and others as alien denies this ecological and genetic dynamism. It draws an arbitrary historical line based as much on aesthetics, morality and politics as on science, a line that creates a mythic time of purity before places were polluted by interlopers.
  • Today, a species’s immigration status often makes it a target for eradication, no matter its effect on the environment.
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