Tag: pollutants
Taking Control
A friend of mine passed this along – it’s a documentary called Controlling Our Food that apparently aired in France in 2008 (many of you may have already heard of it) but it certainly is not one that will be aired anytime soon here in the U.S. Why? It doesn’t have too nice things to say [...]
Do You Know Soy?
Soy seems to the beloved of vegetarians, health nuts and people just wanting to eat better. Click on this article by the Guardian Weekly, which has been circulated in the blogosphere, but am reposting because more people should read it. For those who assume soy is the healthy option (look at the use of soy [...]
Pass (on) the Popcorn
There’s nothing like the smell of the buttery box of freshly-popped popcorn that you swear you won’t buy but then you do and proceed to eat half of it before the previews are over at the movie theatre. Every afternoon, someone in my office pops a bag of Orville Redenbacher’s and boy, it smells good. [...]
Genetic Blackjack
Remember how talk of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms was all the rage a few years ago? These days, they hardly warrant a blip in the news. Have we all somehow determined that the need for perfectly round tomatoes is more important than questioning the unintended consequences of perfectly round tomatoes? While science has enabled some [...]
Deadly Dioxins?
Why I am talking about dioxins today. I’m no scientist, so I’ll be honest. I don’t even really know what a dioxin is. (Shh). It just sounds mean. Bad. Evil. Like the bad robots who fought Optimus Prime in the Transformers. Depending on who you read or believe first may skew your perspective on issues [...]
The Pile-Up on the MisInformation Highway
According to Ed Ayred, “most of today’s TV and print media seem to abandon themselves to a kind of junk-information binge” (Ayres, E., Note to Readers, World Watch, May/June 1994). If this is the case, then how does the average person figure out what is real and what isn’t? Studies seem to come out daily, [...]
