Sorry for the link farm, but these are all well worth the read.
This is well worth the full read. One of my friends posted it to Punky Moms, and I just agree with it 100% While I haven’t brought myself to jump on the lard train, everything else I can get behind. Remember, food is grown on a plant, not made in a plant. Obviously you can’t apply that to meat and fish, well, not entirely, but you get the gist.
http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990303194521
OILING OF AMERICA What we have had in the last 80 years is the oiling of America. We have had a big decline in the use of animal fats. People don’t use lard any more. We have had a huge increase in the use of vegetable oils, either shortening, margarine or the liquid vegetable oils. Butter consumption has fallen dramatically, but the increase in heart disease and cancer is continuing to rise. It doesn’t take a statistician to realize that butter consumption is not the cause of heart disease and cancer. You may have heard of the French paradox. They have one quarter the heart disease that we have, one of the lowest coronary heart disease rates of all western countries, yet they consume a lot more dairy fat than we do, and more animal fats, but their consumption of vegetable oil and hydrogenated fats is much lower.
I will be volunteering at Swap A Rama Rama on Sunday June 27 – come see me, or come volunteer!
Volunteers needed for Swap A Rama Rama!
* DID YOU KNOW…that despite many donation locations for used clothing, it is estimated that over 1 million tons of textiles are disposed of each year!Florida’s first ever SWAP A RAMA RAMA will be hosted by Dirty Peaches Clothing and Trash to Treasure Creative Reuse Center on :
- Sat. JUNE 26 : 12 noon to 5 pm
- Sun. JUNE 27: 12 noon to 6 pm
- At Trash to Treasure Creative Reuse and Planet Thrift Store
This is the Eco-Fashion event of the year, a celebration of individual creativity and community fun. This event promotes sustainability and art through creative reuse and re-purposing of clothing and accessories; this is a time for experimentation and play…bring your kids, parents, siblings, cousins, friends…get them all involved in re-thinking reuse and using their imagination!
Check out this awesome idea! My knitting hands are down right now, but I bet yours aren’t! I might pickup a hand loom and have the kids help me throw some together. I have to see what money looks like on pay day (isn’t that always the case??)
http://crafthope.com/2010/06/project-8-gulf-coast-oil-spill/
If you can sew, knit, or crochet this project is for you. We are asking that you create sets of hand towels and/or wash rags to send. Preferably in sets of 10 or 20. These do need to be handmade since we are ‘Craft Hope.’ If you are crocheting or knitting, please send whatever you can. You don’t have to send a set unless it is something you are up for.
So here is what we are going to do… They need hand towels and wash rags to clean all of the nooks and crannies of the dolphins and sea turtles. They only need small hand towels and wash rags, no large towels please.
You know I live in South Florida, and this oil spill is headed my way. Why don’t we help clean up where it already is and try and prevent it from spreading further devastation? It’s ruing not only our world, but animals, their habitats, people, their habitats, their jobs, our food supply, it just keeps reaching farther and farther every time I read about it. It’s heart breaking. It’s destroying an area that already has had more than it’s fair share of destruction.
