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HEY EVERYONE,
I may be a longhaired freak but I am ALSO a health freak. Anyone else concerned? If at all, I'd like to invite everyone's attention to this link:
http://centerforfoodsafety.org
As you can see in their navigation field to the left of their opening page, they're concerned with genetically engineered foods, cloned animals, food irradiation, foods that are organic and beyond, the National Organic Coalition, rBGH/hormonal treatment of livestock, aquaculture, (what to do with) sewage sludge, aaand mad cow disease!
I implore all of our longhaired brethren and sistren on our hyperboard to log on to this website as it weighs on ALL of our futures! Thank you! Please view their material (nonpolitical) and post your opinions. Thanks again.
Yours in very, very longhaired camaraderie,
Quenyan (+:-)}
Quenyan..
Hey... I agree 100% Most of what I eat is organic and I think its very important to maintain the integrity of organic foods. Almost everything these days is treated chemically or injected with something.. its horrible. I shop at places like Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage and they usually have some great stuff ... expensive of course; but hey... its our body (temple) ... right?
Thanks for the extra info..
Yours in healthy living ... and Blessings..
Tristan
you must be very rich to afford organic foods.. they cost 3 times as much as normal food.
They are pretty expensive. I try to catch things on sale when I can. I've been eating this way for awhile now; and its amazing how much better I feel.
Yours in healthy living,
Tristan
Keep in mind that not everything that is marked "Organic" may be up to the standards you expect.
The ideal way is to buy directly from the producer so you can ask. I'm lucky that I can do that with some of our food since there are farms all around us - and it's cheaper since I buy direct.
AndrewB
AndrewB;
This is true. When I buy organic; I like to check to see exactly where it came from. Luckily; there are alot of local places that produce organic foods here in Colorado.
Thanks for the insight...
Tristan
My problem is that not only organic food cost 3 times as much as normal food, I have no way of cooking any of them, and I am poor unfortunately... Also even if its organic how do I know they didn't just take the best looking of the bunch and mark it up significantly? Taiwanese people aren't known for being honest...
I don't have time to get on the soap box today, but this website is great. However, it's only the beginning of the exposure of the symptoms that have been brought about by "technology." While technology has brought wonderful things, these other things are the results when limited foresight is employed. It's frightening to read, but frightening as well is looking into the sheer amount of pollutants such as pesticides and such which are dumped into the environment annualy. Just in the US, 600,000 tons of chemicals are used to grow cotton alone per year! While organic foods are a solution, the bigger solution lies in a re-alignment of our consumer culture's values which have so much inertia behind them that the force to change them may only be catastrophe and environmental collapse. So many go around saying "Woe is me!" and wondering why so many people are sick with cancer and allergies and so on, and never make the connection that the very environment which we cannot now escape full with the fruits of our development is the thing bringing on a great portion of the maladies. To be fair, the Earth itself has some natural radioactivity causing some mutation and such, but the wide-spread proliferation of disease is not due to this.
The Earth itself is a living organism in whole, and sadly enough will regulate itself back into stasis eventually at humanity's ruin. I wish this wasn't the case and hope that this never happens, but unless drastic measures are taken, we are going to see some horrid things happening in our lifetimes when crops start failing from climate change and monkeying with genetics and countries start flooding and dinosaur juice starts running really low.
Well, have nice day, Quenyan!
Bragi
Bragi, you're a gentleman and a scholar. Truly. Yes, Lovelock and Margulis had worked hard to popularise that the Earth is, indeed, a living entity, an outlook and praxis now known as the Gaia Hypothesis, after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.
Rupert Sheldrake has some likewise very interesting observations. He coined them "Morphogenetic Resonance", later shortened to "morphic fields". I'm sure you're well apprised of his findings.
If we don't heed the symptoms and signs of an unhappy Mother Earth, there will, indee, be such a natural Armageddon as you warn of. I'm absolutely certain of it.
But, in an artistic context, ever hear of the Australian artist, Patricia Piccinini before? She deals almost exclusively with the aftermath of transgenic so-called "chimeras", now being gene-spliced in laboratories in secret scientific strongholds. Here, her's her website:
http://patriciapiccinini.net
Go. Take a tour. It's truly unnerving what MIGHT be possible. I was left with the unsettling sense of, "There goes the human race!", and I feel that THAT is the point of her artwork.
(Slaps forehead)
Quenyan
The food industry, like any other big business has exactly one objective: turn a profit. The things done to food are in pursuit of that. Government regulation draws a proverbial line which they can approach but not cross as far as chemical and color additives that color, flavor, and preserve- as well as artificially boost nutritional numbers. Some recent pet and human food recalls were a result of a troublesome additive intended to boost protein levels that caused illness and death.
One would be doing him or herself an enormous favor by reading labels and not buying foods that contain substances that do not belong in the natural food chain. Just because Federal regulators willfully stick their head in the sand and pretend the chemicals have no impact on health doesn't mean consumers must follow suit. It's an individuals responsibility to take charge of what ends up on the dinner table. Sound nutrition will result in not only good physical health but also healthy hair growth.
Have you ever heard about permaculture?
It is a cleverly designed way of sustainable agriculture & lifestyle. By this method, foods can be grown without any chemistry and in high amount (probably enough to eliminate world hunger). Also, its VERY similar to Russian idea of "family farmstead", propagated by writer Vladimir Megre, which is a perfect idea as well.
So, its obvious that we don't need any genetically modified plants, they are even dangerous. Genetical modification is putting some gene somewhere into DNA of modified organism and watching changes. The changes may be "good", but usually the plant becomes poisonous for bees or highly vulnerable to diseases, or something like that. Also, when we eat mutated food, our cells will mutate as well. And the worst thing is, that these plants are spreading and pollinating the neighbouring fields.
We've got to reject all such bussiness. There's another problem - genetical changes are patentable! There are attempts to move all reproduction of farming plants and animals into possesion of big corporations, for example by selling non-reproductive seed. Corporations like Monsanto are a real danger for farmers, who usually gets soon dependant on their stuff. This is result of uncontrolled free market together with globalization and lack of humanity. I'd wish to these corp chiefs to spend several days in a place of poor african farmer.
Thanks for your interesting post, Naex!
Yes, GMO's are dangerous and might even be responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder, the term for what appears to be the beginning of the extinction of the honey bees. ALSO, there's an increasing incidence of celiac sprue (an intolerance to any and all gluten-bearing foods, such as wheat, barley, rye, and cross-contaminated oats; sometimes celiac sprue sufferers also develop lactose intolerance, too), which I, too, developed a decade ago. Fortunately, it's manageable through one's diet.
In addition to Vladimir Megre, the Austrin anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner had permaculture (sustainable agriculture) teachings, many of which were quite ancient, actually. They teach them through his Waldorf schools. Keep up the good work, Naex! Longhaired AND smart-brained! I can DIG it!
Yours in back-to-the-land farming AND hair-farming,
Quenyan
And without bees man can only survive 6-7 years on this planet, then we are extinct.
I agree with what everyone is saying. working in a supermarket I see all this junk constantly. There is an endless flood of new fabricated food items.
For everyones entertainment below is a link. It's a laugh enjoy.
http://storewars.org/flash/index.html
Kevin
Tofu-D2, HAHAHA!
Mouse