Big business has been accused of misleading children by distributing educational materials to schools about pupils' diets which experts say are wrong and likely to encourage poor eating habits.

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National campaign group Animal Aid calls on government to crack down on drug industry practices that put profits before all else. In a major new report, entitled Making a Killing: How drug company greed harms people and animals - the group exposes a catalogue of unethical practices - beginning with misleading animal tests, that are designed to drive up drug sales, which already cost the NHS £11 billion per year. The public's health also suffers: in 2006, 1 million people were hospitalised in Britain due to adverse drug reactions.

After winning the first Olympic medal ever for the USA in women's judo, Ronda Rousey, 21, says she plans to take a year off from her combat sport to catch up on some things.

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Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.

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An appeal to the United Nations and its agencies to channel available food resources to needy people and not to farm animals.

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Once cranky, now mainstream, vegan and vegetarian-approved wines are increasingly being sought by drinkers, including Times readers.

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Sainsbury's magazine has celebrated its redesign with an exclusive interview with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney.

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Sir Paul McCartney has criticised Gordon Ramsay - calling the TV chef "stupid". Ramsay, 41, has angered the ex-Beatle, 66, with his outspoken comments against vegetarians.

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When I cast my seer's eyes forward into the mists of time, I sometimes wonder whether the end is nigh for the carnivore. Not the wild animal type, like this tiger in Berlin zoo who fancied a spot of duck, but the meat-fanciers among us lot.

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