<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Food Prices &amp; Poverty : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>58426</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58426/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Food Prices &amp; Poverty]]></title><description><![CDATA[The surge in food prices could push 100 million people into deeper poverty, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>195</score><crdate>4/16/2008 12:07:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-16T00:07:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17090</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17090/1/</url><title><![CDATA[FDA Says Pet Food Contamination Was Intentional]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not sure if this has already been posted on Plime. I searched and didn't see it, so I thought it should go up ASAP for all of you out there still wondering what is going on with the pet food epidemic.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>5</score><crdate>4/19/2007 11:17:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-19T23:17:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22160</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22160/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dog Food Companies Running Scared]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dog food company was found harassing dog owners whose dogs had died from contaminated dog food.  The only safe alternative to commercial dog food is to make homemade dog food.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>9</score><crdate>5/30/2007 8:33:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-30T20:33:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27513</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/27513/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Angel Food Ministries - Low cost food for anyone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Angel Food Ministries has distributed low cost food to people for the last 11 years.  There is no income requirements, or actually ANY requirements at all!  If you eat, you can participate.  Distribution in 32 states makes it easy to get to as well for a lot of people.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>112</score><crdate>7/15/2007 5:03:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-15T17:03:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45051</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45051/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Food Bank Shelves Going Bare At Holidays]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reports from across the country are dismaying: Food pantries are running short and cannot meet the needs of all those seeking help.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>175</score><crdate>12/22/2007 8:30:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-22T20:30:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6307</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6307/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Wal*Mart slashes food prices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two days before Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart (WMT) slashed prices on hundreds of grocery items, a welcome break for consumers. Rollbacks will continue throughout the season.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>3</score><crdate>11/22/2006 12:23:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-22T12:23:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53400</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/53400/1/</url><title><![CDATA[UN Warns On Food Price Inflation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The head of the UN World Food Programme has warned that the rise in basic food costs could continue until 2010. It blamed soaring energy and grain prices, the effects of climate change and demand for biofuels.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>134</score><crdate>3/6/2008 3:14:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-06T15:14:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68001</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68001/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Putting aside food crisis, G8 leaders savor world delicacies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Food crisis - what food crisis!!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>126</score><crdate>7/8/2008 4:01:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-08T04:01:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20258</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20258/1/</url><title><![CDATA[UK Restaurant Guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Find your favourite food online with 123-yum.co.uk]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-8</score><crdate>5/14/2007 7:00:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T07:00:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5907</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5907/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Some Americans lack food, but USDA won't call them &quot;hungry&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the UDSA, poverty-stricken millions merely have &quot;very low food security&quot;.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>41</score><crdate>11/16/2006 12:47:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-16T00:47:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17383</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17383/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fast Food Pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[They buy food from a fast food restaurant and photograph it. Then they compare that photograph with the photograph from the ad. Pretty intresting stuff.]]></description><comments>16</comments><score>192</score><crdate>4/21/2007 9:03:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-21T21:03:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25940</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/25940/1/</url><title><![CDATA[World Statistics Updated in Real Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Includes: World Population; Govt. &amp; Economics; Education; Environment; Food; Water; Energy and Health]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>73</score><crdate>7/2/2007 5:09:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-02T17:09:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27246</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27246/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ 126 people ill after Chicago food fest]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 120 people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least nine of them with salmonella poisoning and 10 who were hospitalized.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>81</score><crdate>7/13/2007 3:36:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-13T03:36:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20239</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20239/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Unitus: Fighting Global Poverty by Empowering Women In Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are nearly 3 billion people living in extreme poverty around the world; 70% of the world's poorest are women and children. Limited schooling and lack of appropriate health education are just some of the chronic issues that are strongly correlated with high poverty rates in women. Help raise awareness by adding a Unitus banner to your website. Spread the word. Changing the world - one woman at a time.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>7</score><crdate>5/14/2007 1:45:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T01:45:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7562</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7562/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fast Food Nation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A movie that examines the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>40</score><crdate>12/13/2006 1:34:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-13T13:34:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61806</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61806/1/</url><title><![CDATA[29 Food Side Effects You May Not Know]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you know that the food we eat may cause side effects? And we are not talking about spoiled or low quality food. Freshly harvested or just cooked food may also cause side effects, some are serious, some are just disturbing, and some may put you into embarrassing situation. Here is a list of 29 common side effects caused by the food we eat.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>223</score><crdate>5/14/2008 10:24:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-14T10:24:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37799</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37799/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Food inflation ]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. going through the worst bout of soaring grocery prices since 1990. The forces behind the rise in food prices -- China's economic boom, a growing biofuels industry and a weak U.S. dollar.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>108</score><crdate>10/9/2007 12:04:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-09T12:04:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48795</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48795/1/</url><title><![CDATA[In hungry Haiti, dirt is food]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. 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Alinea is one of the cutting edge restaurants in the U.S. creating wonderful dishes, letting us experience food in many new ways.<br/><br/>Check out Molecular Gastronomy Food Porn Part 2:<br/><div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/40612/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/40612/1/</a></div>]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>128</score><crdate>11/2/2007 11:56:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-02T23:56:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28476</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/28476/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Child Poverty In Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[The past two years have seen a dramatic increase in poverty and its effects. 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