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Posts Tagged ‘GMO’
Green living, Aug 25th, 2010,
I’d choose paper bags for my groceries, but since plastic bags are offered for free in shops and said to be not that bad for the environment, it’s hard to resist them. What is more eco-friendly: plastic or paper shopping bags? A: Neither. We have been conditioned to believe that paper bags are eco-friendly. Paper is made from trees, which are logged by clear-cutting methods. When the collected trees are dry, they are cooked into a pulp for many hours in a chemical mixture. The pulp is then washed and bleached; both stages require thousands of gallons of clean water….
Tags: biodegradable, bioplastics, chemicals, clear-cutting, eco-friendly, fertilizers, fossil fuel, GMO, paper bags, pesticides, petroleum, plastic bags, Pollution, re-usable, Recycling, shopping bags, TOXIC, transport
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 5th, 2009,
“Industrial farms are super-incubators for viruses,” -Bob Martin, former executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Farm Production (from wired.com May 1, 2009) The modern, industrialized American pig lives for about six months from birth to slaughter, during which it spends its entire life eating in a cramped steel and concrete enclosure, paradoxically sterile and yet separated by a steel floor of steel grating, only a few centimeters above a cesspool of the pigs’ own excrement. The scent is so bad that some residents who live downwind from pig farms have tried to get laws passed to protect…
Tags: farming, GMO, pigs, pork, pork industry, swine flu
Green living, Health, Science & Technology, Aug 30th, 2009,
Our relationship with food is somewhat strange, when you think about it. We expect food to make us stronger, faster, and healthier – while we sit in front of the television eating. Our food also keeps promising us all that and more – fish sticks may be bad for you, but not the kind that comes with Omega 3 fatty acid, which is good for you! It’s a real miracle that these adverts actually increase sales, considering many kids these days don’t know that milk comes from cows. Whoever coined the phrase “ignorance is bliss” surely didn’t think that it…
Tags: frankenfood, GMO
