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New WalMart Supercenter Clearbook Va

The Hunting Hills Plaza Wal-Mart store located in Roanoke, VA on US 220 closes it's door on Jans 25th, 2011. The employees are transferred to the new store located at the new Clearbrook, VA Wal-Mart Super-center located in Clearbrook on US 220,about a mile away. The new Wal-Mart opens it's door on Jan 26th, 2011. The 200000 square foot Wal-Mart Super-center resembles a small village like setting with a store front facade shaped like individual houses with windows and shutters. The new Wal-Mart Supercenter will employ 350 workers. It has 25 check out lanes. It does NOT have self check out lanes.

Brain disease a slow goodbye – Utah hunter age 30 first victim of mad deer

"Terminally ill Utah hunter, age 30, could be the first victim of US 'mad deer' disease," read the headline of a press release issued last week from the Center for Food Safety in Washington, DC www.purefood.org Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) is showing up in the USA. It is caused by Prions, a type of protein that live in livestock and infect humans that eat food products of infected livestock. Prions also seem to cause Mad Cow disease. All blood from infected people is contaminated and spreads the disease if used in transfusions. There is no blood test to determine infection so blood banks can't screen for it. Offspring of infected livestock are born infected. Both parents and offspring can be slaughtered long before symptoms appear. i478.photobucket.com Your Brain on Prions, Note the Congestion of Blood Vessels "Human incubation is 20 to 40 years, but no one survives more than two years after Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) goes active. Unlike AIDS, CJD can kill almost all known species of vertebrates. Unlike bacteria or virus, Prions are not killed by several minutes of boiling, baking, chlorine, alcohol or by any known antibiotic or antiviral agent." "More Serious than AIDS: Creutzfeldt-Jakob" Now its turning up in W. VA Hunters turn up CWD in W.Va. deer herd by Farm and Dairy Staff CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Preliminary test results indicate the chronic wasting disease (CWD) agent was present in five hunter-harvested deer collected in Hampshire County, W.Va., during the 2008 deer ...

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Whenever the US government issues a food recall, some farmers could suffer financial losses unfairly. The good news is, Virginia spinach was never included in last fall's recall and is going to market right now. For more, go to www.vafb.com

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on public land in the US is grown in California. "Last year alone, close to 2.8 million outdoor marijuana plants were eradicated in California, including 1.7 million plants from federal and state land, with an estimated street value of $6.7 billion," he said. The marijuana plantations also have lead to a litany of problems for outdoor enthusiasts, law-enforcement personnel and the environment, he said. An increasing number of campers, fishermen, hikers, hunters and forest and park officials ...