Posts by srj0385

I participated. I liked it a few years back when I got together with my parents and brother and we did this, mostly because my nephew, who at the time was very afraid of the dark. At first he was not too happy about it, but then we got...

I remember reading something similar to that in my anthropology class a few years back. It was regarding the much lower nutrition value in our white rice than in their native rices. And when you have an entire population of people who...

Somehow I'm not surprised. It is really sad. I think another problem is one of connection. I didn't know that chicken fingers were made of chickens until I was about 8 years old. I honestly thought it was another one of those funny word...

I ran into this last year. I had a bad reaction to some antibiotics and contacted the pharmacy to see if they had a program to recollect. They told me to flush them or throw them away. When I told her that we have enough problems with...

On the deodorant issue, I ran into this last year and finally settled for Crystal body deodorant roll-on and Jason deodorant stick (Tea Tree scent).The Crystal says it is for men or women, but I have discovered that it doesn't work...

Good point Jennifer.I also forgot to mention the issue of reducing biodiversity. It will be a scary day when we only have one type of crop growing in the US because of all these patent issues and then that plant falls victim...I so wish...

By the way, interesting article...I like the part where the author states that people aren't educated enough to understand risk, and then by the end of the article it pretty much says, you are going to eat toxins, trust the EPA, that's...

I do think we get caught up in a narrow focus. 10 years ago that narrow focus on bacteria led to the need to use anti-bacterial soap constantly to wash everything and everyone. Not such a great idea... Too many people follow the trends...

This documentary caught my ear because they did focus on Monsanto, and the fact that they started out in herbicide, then they bought up several seed companies, plus suddenly it was legal to patent life, and they went into the seed...

Hulu currently has "The Future of Food" playing. It is a free site, I think everyone should watch!It is a bit more one sided than some of the other documentaries I've seen on GM foods, but there are some very good points:Gene...