Michael Pollan: Cooking for yourself is the real independence
New Seattle law: No food in trash
(Seattle Pi) Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle, when a new ban takes effect to increase recycling and composting in the city.
Currently, Seattle residents are allowed to throw food and food waste – pizza boxes, dirty napkins, soiled paper towels – in the garbage. Residents are required to have a food and yard waste collection service, but they don't have to use it for food. (Backyard composters are exempt from that requirement.)
Similarly, multi-family building owners are required to provide a compost collection service for residents, but residents don't have to use it.
But on Jan. 1, Seattle will ban food and food waste in trash.
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Nanocolloidal Detox Factors may help remove heavy metals from the body
The secret to successful detoxification
According to the Simon Clinic in the U.K., NDF removes heavy metals through a process called Mucopolysaccharide Ion Exchange Resin (MIER). The nanonized chlorella in NDF bonds with toxic metals without stripping the body of essential minerals, like zinc and magnesium. NDF also crosses the blood brain barrier (unlike traditional drug chelators such as DMPS, DMSA and EDTA), which effectively detoxes heavy metals from the central nervous system. Nanocolloidal Detox Factors can be used daily, and safely eliminates up to 920 percent more metals per month than conventional chelators. Another unique feature of NDF is that it removes 95 percent of metals through the urine, instead of through the bowel, thereby protecting against reabsorption in the colon.
GMOs encourage weight gain and obesity, researchers discover
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Kick influenza and colds to the curb with garlic
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Meet the new deal, same as the old deal
By Billy McMahon
(The Observer) In August of this year, I traveled deep into rebel territory in Chiapas, Mexico, to the jungle compound of “La Realidad” — a major base of operations for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. I was welcomed by the masked revolutionaries and invited to stay as long as I liked. They called me “compaƱero” and asked me to write of their global struggle against neoliberal capitalism, which they call the War Against Oblivion. Their 20 years of rebellion began on January 1, 1994 — the day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. From union halls in Chicago to rebel villages in Chiapas, the new era of global “free trade” has been denounced as an affront to workers’ rights and human dignity.
GMOs: respected analyst says they could destroy life on the planet
(Alliance for Natural Health) Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a scholar, statistician, Wall Street analyst and advisor, professor at New York University, and the bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. He predicted the 2008 financial crisis by pointing out that commonly used risk models were wrong. (He was correct, and he became quite wealthy from the strategic financial decisions he made at that time.)
Now his analysis of our use of genetically modified organisms shows that GMOs could cause “an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet.” Taleb and his two co-authors argue that calling the GMO approach “scientific” betrays “a very poor—indeed warped—understanding of probabilistic payoffs and risk management.”
Taleb believes GMOs fall squarely under the rule that we should always err on the side of caution if something is really dangerous. This is not just because of potential harm to the consumer, but because of systemic risk to the system, which in this case is the ecosystem that supports all life on the planet:
Now his analysis of our use of genetically modified organisms shows that GMOs could cause “an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet.” Taleb and his two co-authors argue that calling the GMO approach “scientific” betrays “a very poor—indeed warped—understanding of probabilistic payoffs and risk management.”
Taleb believes GMOs fall squarely under the rule that we should always err on the side of caution if something is really dangerous. This is not just because of potential harm to the consumer, but because of systemic risk to the system, which in this case is the ecosystem that supports all life on the planet:
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