Archive for December, 2008

Seventh Generation’s Blog About Cancer and Food Hormones

This is a great link to bloggers writing in about an article posted on Seventh Generation’s website.

http://www.seventhgeneration.com/learn/blog/raising-daughters-razing-cancer?

The consensus seems to be that hormones in meat and dairy products are giving us cancer.

Be careful which organic products you choose. Someone claims Horizon milk is not purely organic.

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Bad Gift List from planet green

Merry Christmas Everybody,

Before you go shopping, maybe you’d better read this article by Josh Peterson at planet green.

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/fifteen-common-bad-gifts.html

If you’re like me, you are going to agree with a lot of these suggestions. I am starting to look around my house and notice all of the CRAP that is not environmentally sound and I think we have to realize that we are causing countries like China and Korea and whomever else we are importing all of the CRAP  from to pollute their own country with the coal and resources that it takes to make all of this useless, good-for-a-moment’s-pleasure-here-for-eternity-type CRAP, and then they turn around and sell the  CRAP to us and we pollute our landfills and our homes with this wasteful, unnecessary plastic and chemical toxic junk that we want to throw away so that we don’t have to call Neecy Nash to come deal with our foolishness, but somehow we feel obligated to keep because someone we love gave it to us for Christmas, or maybe someone who really doesn’t like us, but we aren’t aware of it until we get the CRAPPY gift.

Please choose not to participate in this kind of CRAP spreading.

HoHoHo!

Lovya, Maureen

Peterson, Josh. (December 01, 2008). planet green. Retrieved December 13, 2008 from http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/fifteen-common-bad-gifts.html

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I just joined Oprah.com

Hey foodies,

Gayle King, Oprah’s friend,  just interviewed this young author, Christian Lander, about his book that started as a blog, Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions.

Here are some of the entries:

  • standing still at concerts
  • sushi
  • the Sunday New York Times
  • organic food

  • food festivals
  • going out to breakfast
  • backpacking
  • farmers markets
  • grammar
  • snowboarding
  • co-ed sports
  • microbreweries
  • Toyota Prius
  • public radio
  • gay friends
  • marathons

This is cute, but if Christian is correct, we need to start educating and influencing more people outside the typical sphere. I suppose organic food can seem like an upper middle class, elitist commodity because it costs a bit more to eat healthfully, and people who are worried about making ends meet are not that worried about reading labels. This may or may not be true, but the responsibility lies with the food production authorities–people shouldn’t have to choose between eating safe, non-toxic produce and meat and eating food that is affordable.

I will now get down off of my soap box. Thank you.

Oprah.com. ( 2008). Oprah & Friends. Retrieved December 12, 2008 from http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahandfriends/gking/20080812_oaf_gking

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President-elect Obama and Al Gore

Hey everybody, it’s so cool that Obama, Biden, and Al Gore got together to discuss global warming. Obama said it:  the time for denial is over.

Look at this YouTube video:     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuiUZiUnr0U

Stay Green!  Look at this for a laugh. http://www.oprah.com/community/thread/82539#top

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Check out New Year’s Countdown Clock

Let’s welcome in the New Year right! Here is a calendar to count down to 2009! Let’s make our New Year’s Resolutions to eat healthy, organic, whole foods, and encourage others to do the same. If we demand healthier products from suppliers, our demands will eventually be met. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, and all other celebrations of life.

 New Year Countdown Clock

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