Posts Tagged ‘Health’

Your Food Supply #28

23/01/2011

On the Road in New Zealand
Is Monsanto in the Neighborhood?

Pioneer Seed Sign: Belgium 2009

We just arrived on the South Island, having driven through from NZ’s biggest city, Auckland, down Route 1. We saw some disturbing looking corn fields with little red signs on the side, saying Pioneer. It eerily reminded us of scenes in the U.S.’s midwest fields, but not on the grand scale of course.  Please see our earlier posts on how corn has crowded out the countryside in America.

How do you tell strange corn? It grows closer together than normal corn. It looks uncomfortably close together. And there’s lots of it, and of course the telltail signs at the edge of the field.

With a quick check on Wikipedia we discovered a connection with Dupont Chemical. Ykes. The mulit-national corp is everywhere. Of course, you knew that already. The saving grace, we think Kiwis have a bit more sense, and something to go on, seeing the disaster that has befallen the U.S. food supply with GMO, high fructose corn syrup, ad infinitum.

Your Food Supply #14: Agri-Business vs Local

16/08/2010

We Are What We Eat

30/06/2010


What’s for Dinner?

Excerpt from the excellent Sept’09 Issue of  Orion Magazine.
By Jennifer Sahn

Midwife/Middle School Teacher, TX

Bartender, goes to sleep @ 8AM

What’s For Dinner? Mark Menjivar wants to know. His curiosity about the eating habits of his fellow humans fueled a photography project that speaks volumes the twenty-first century hunter-gatherer. In home after home, he performed that age-old ritual of opening wide the refrigerator door , hoping to find something good, something that beckons. Be he wasn’t looking for something to eat; he wanted to document this semi-private domestic space to capture  in time the contents of the refrigerator as a testament to how we live and what we live on. It was, as one of his subjects suggested, like asking someone to pose nude.

“Each fridge is photographed “as is,” says Menjivar, No funny business is at play here, and it’s all on display….
To read the full article: check online with Orion Magazine to purchase the September’09 back issue.

To see more of Mark’s study of Americans on display via the fridge, see more fridge images on his website.
Thanks for Mark Menjivar for letting us reproduce his two images here on MSI’s blog.

Inbox: Ho’Oponopono Works

08/04/2010

Hopono'ono (Sp!)

Ho’O What?
Old Hawaiian system of communication and engaging with the universe that actually works to make a better world.

I’ve been meaning to write about  this book for a while, and a recent email prompted me to follow through. On one hand, while the cover, and some of the book’s precepts are a bit hokey, such as getting the woman and car you want, I doubt I’d be married to the wonderful woman that’s my wife, had I not actively engaged the universe and actually asked for what I want. I was using this technique during the summer just before we met. I was leading a mountaineering course in Alaska at the time, and while in the mountains, practiced the technique about 30 times per day. This book illustrates a technique that has quite a track record and impressive story behind it. Below is an email from a good friend to whom I recommended the book and technique.  As Tolle says, “Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess?” This technique helps you do your part to clean up the mess.

Hi Randy,
I really enjoyed our conversation today.
Shortly after our conversation, I Googled some reviews of “Zero Limits” as well as several pages of the book itself in the form of a preview. In it are perhaps the most potentially life changing ideas I have ever encountered. I thank you very much for introducing it to me. I am going to order copies for several friends and myself.
Thanks
J.M.

Dear J,
Yes, this technique of simply saying “I love you, I’m sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you”, is still working wonders in my life. It’s time to raise the bar for all of us, isn’t it.
Thanks for the link to Meninger. I’ll check it out.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Warmest regards,
Randy

Cell phone tower taken down in Piura for causing health problems

22/11/2008

by Jobana Soto, Living In Peru.com
Piura, Peru

Citizens of Piura, Peru discuss a Cell Towerc creating health issues.

Citizens of Piura, Peru discuss a Cell Tower creating health issues.

After one year of protests and complaints, Telefónica Móviles began the dismantling yesterday of one of its antenna towers located illegally in the small town of AA.HH., a poor region in Piura.

The order of the dismantling came after countless complaints by locals citing health problems like migraines, believed to be caused by the metallic structure.

In September, locals met with Telefónica Móviles and the company’s contractor, Ametra, to assure the community that November 18 will begin the removal of the tower.

But November 18 came and went, with no signs of the tower being taken down, prompting a massive protest in the AA.HH. region. Mayor of the municipal of Piura, César Palacios Castro, assured locals on Tuesday that the tower will be “put to its knees.”

Locals expect the tower to be out of their town by the end of this month.
Article by Jobana Soto: http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7893