To borrow a quote from DKG: If you look at the soil under a microscope, every single day is Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
And the point this film is trying to make is that modern agriculture takes an awful lot for-granted and engages in several practices that hurt the foundations that all of our food is built upon.
–From the pesticides some GMO seeds need to survive, to abandoned crop-rotation methods…
Gastric Shutdown: You Might Want To Avoid That Imported Seafood For A Little While Longer
Though the end to the government-shutdown is barely past a week old, count on the backlog of food inspections to last abit longer than the original 2+ week duration.
And to that end, you might want to reacquaint yourselves with BuzzFeed’s breakdown+list down at the links for some good reminders on how to stay safe abit longer.
PS: It might also be good to check back in with EWG’s Dirty Dozen, too…
Mostly Inconclusive BPA Study For Children Kinda Faceplants, Furthers Idea of Chemical Obesogens
-Saving at least a little face in the bottom of the 9th.
A recent study on obesity in children showed that the fattest group of was 2x as likely to have BPA in them, but only provided they were white.
The jury is still out, with the more likely candidate being Soda Consumption, as BPA is part of the plastic bottles it comes in…
Read More >Organic Food Is Not Any Better Or Healthier For You? -WTF, Stanford?!!?!
UPDATE!: NYT Finds Counter-Study!
And on a similar note to the EWG List,
What the EFF was Stanford trying to prove with that meta-analysis-study on Organics?
The whole thing was presented to make you feel like Organic is just as bad as regular food and not worth the outlay.
The first thing I’ve always thought about Organic is this: Lower Chemical Load in the Body.
-You get less of less-toxic pesticides, antibiotics, growth-hormones, etc.
-Therefore, there is less of a chance those will STAY in your body and cause problems over time…
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Fruits And Vegetables
Here’s a good small list of fruits and vegetables, published by the Environmental Working Group, that gives you a good look into which have the most & worst persistent Pesticide Residue.
If any of you out there have blanched at the prices on some organic foods, then this list is also for you,
-Especially because the EWC has been nice enough to include another list of the Cleanest foods in the same pesticide-load terms as the dirty ones.
That should help the budget abit…
Read More >Chicken Little Vs. Predator Goes To California. CSPI Happy-Meal Party-Poopers, Meet Evil Big-Business Soft-Drink Lobby; -Can Soda Caramel Color Give You Cancer?
Is this just another instance of The Peoples’ Republic of California and any organization, person, or thing involved with them being hopelessly extremist and thus out-of-touch with Reality?
OR: Is this just another instance of a Malicious, Soulless, Big Industry lobbying group trying to ensure cheap inputs of manufacture and infinite frictionless profits through opposing any and all regulation?…
Read More >Neti-Pot Deaths: Brain Eating Amoebas Kill Two
Absolutely Terrifying, but so far 2 people have died from a fresh-water amoeba via Neti-Pot nasal irrigation in Louisiana.
IIt turns out it’s MUCH easier for bad things to cross into the brain if they get up in the sinus cavity via your nose.
Both victims died of encephalitis.
There is no way to know if the microbe, or something similar, is in your own water or not without specific testing.
Usually most people don’t read the manual, and…
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