S. Korea curbs U.S. beef sales after confirmation of mad cow disease – CNN.com
Maybe it’s a sign from above that we should all just stop eating beef. For what it’s worth, eating beef is also associated with higher rates of several cancers including pancreatic and breast cancer, and many other of the reproductive cancers. Eating hamburger also may involve eating pink slime. So all in all, I’d say [...]
Rhode Island Schools Removing ‘Pink Slime’ from the Menu
You may remember the video we posted a few weeks back about Pink Slime. I’m happy to report that we were part of the national momentum of disgust that has prompted the right response from our state: School removing ‘pink slime’ from the menu | Turn to 10.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth: “It’s Alcohol without the Buzz”
via Sugar: The Bitter Truth – YouTube. Just watched this. It’s long and quite technical in terms of biochemistry, but it makes the case strongly that fructose is a chronic toxin, as in soda is basically “alcohol without the buzz.”
The Truth Behind Hamburger: PINK SLIME!
If you haven’t eaten your last hamburger yet, this video should do it. I know I’m done.
Anti Cancer Shopping Tips: What’s going in your Tomato Sauce?
Reblogged from Eat and Beat Cancer: Today you’re making tomato sauce. Good choice. Tomatoes are prized for their lycopene, the pigment that turns them red and is associated with anti-cancer activity. Read more… 466 more words Some good guidelines for anti-cancer cooking with tomatoes.
Forks over Knives and Portlandia
No, they’re not really related, but both are great viewing material. Forks over Knives is sobering and reminds us all to eat our vegetables. Portlandia is just plain hysterical — skits riffing on all the outrageous people in Portland and beyond. BTW, the Mayor of Portland portrayed in the skits has an uncanny likeness to [...]
One of the 8,000 Chemicals You Should Definitely Avoid
There is a growing awareness, particularly in our younger generation, that we need to do something about the 8,000 chemicals in our environment that are floating around unregulated. I am hoping for a generation of young warriors who will bring some level of safety standards to our environment and make sure chemical companies pay their [...]
Free Range
So now we are expecting flocks of East Side chickens. They’ll strut around picking at organic wheatgrass, clucking about the young chicks and their ways, laying artisanal eggs and performing on youtube. I guess we have to live with it– a sign of the times. I saw a contraband chicken in a coop in a [...]
Laboring for Health
Since it’s Labor Day, it seems only fitting to share a news item relevant to those who truly know what it is like to endure labor, mothers. The article, which is a couple of weeks old (making it ancient in the Information Age), concerns a potential link between prenatal exposure to pesticides and the future [...]
Fear of Eggs
Megafarming is showing its scary side in the recall of eggs that may be tainted with salmonella. The number of eggs recalled may reach half a billion. Gods, where will they put them all? Factory farming makes it inevitable that animal diseases will spread and affect the food supply. This egg disaster goes hand-in-hand with [...]
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