Category Archives: chemical

More bad news for orcas

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This is a disturbing report on our stupidity and carelessness and its impacting ecology, and specifically the orcas.

Here’s a Puget Sound indigenous group trying to help the orcas.

Of course, thinking of the west coast, my mind wandered towards the impact of Fukushima.  A member of the mercury support group has stated that she felt much worse after moving to the west coast.  She left after a year.

From the article:

Barrett-Lennard says the southern resident orca pod, which is found in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, has lost seven matriarchs over the past two years, and he’s noticed a lack of vocalizations from the normally chatty mammals.

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More here.  This is even more sobering in detail.  There is an animated video of the radiation trail towards the United States and Canada.  Be sure to click on the Laura James video –a picture says a thousand words.  It made me nauseous looking at all the dead and dying sea stars.

They also make note that it is happening in Maine and New Jersey, so they question the Fukushima connection…but perhaps the radiation didn’t stop at the West Coast, but has traveled inland, as they say?

They also make note that the moose population is dying off–so much so that Wisconsin called off its moose hunt this past year.  The deer population, as I’ve blogged about, is suffering and dying, too.  And nobody questions GMO’s and their possible impact on these animals.

 

Agent Orange Corn

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Dow and Monsanto seem to be in a race to see who can be the most sociopathic.  Because only a sociopath can bioengineer corn so that they can poison the earth more, no matter at the cost to the ecology, humans, and animals.

The Center for Food Safety has a petition up to somehow get the spineless FDA to stop this depraved idea.  Please sign it–you never know, they just might feel the pressure for once.

Dealing with Celiac haters

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They have a good discussion going on at celiac.com on the “haters” who treat people with Celiac as whiners who should just eat whatever is put in front of them….never mind that it is poison to their bodies.

The comments are spot on–not exaggerating in the least about how hateful people are towards Celiacs–as if we asked to get this disease…

…note the comment that a doctor, a doctor, scoffed at gluten free diet as a hoax.  And a nurse did it, too.  No wonder I never got diagnosed by a *cough* medical professional.

On those rare occasions when I get to go out to eat, it is the rare restaurant (in my area) that has a gluten free menu or will make accommodations (gluten free bread, for instance).

I have been met with hostility from servers who couldn’t be bothered to find out if a menu item had gluten in it.  Not even when I asked each time she returned to the table.  I finally just had to pick off the ala carte menu and order mash potatoes (even though potatoes were not supposed to be part of my diet until I healed my gut with GAPS).

It happened the other night when I was in a diner and when I asked the owner about gluten free, she actually told me that another customer had asked about it, and requested the ingredient list for hamburger buns.  The customer actually fed the hamburger buns to her child!!  So…the restaurant owner, who obviously doesn’t know and doesn’t care about poisoning her customers, took it that the buns were safe for Celiacs.  She asked me what gluten was, and I had to explain it was wheat, rye, barley, and oats.  She suggested an entree of chicken.  There were two reasons I would not order it:  1.  Since she didn’t know and didn’t really want to be bothered with finding out about gluten, I wasn’t about to order anything more complicated than a burger without the bun.  2.  I eat chicken nearly every day….going out to eat is supposed to be something special–so yeah, I’m not going to eat more chicken.  Blech.

Another comment on the site spoke about:

As for the hostility of others, I sometimes wonder if it is because they know they need to change their diet but don’t want to, so they become resentful of those of us who do.

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I’ve wondered this, myself.  Once I started the GAPS diet, it still took me awhile to get it in my head that I was indeed a Celiac.  You might recall that I cheated for awhile with a snack that had wheat in it–a powerful draw to continue with something destructive.  And it’s still hard at times–favorite foods with gluten in them still make my mouth water.  But after a few times of cheating and becoming ill from it…yeah, you’re pretty much cured of cheating.  Nothing tastes so good that throwing it all up later  (or worse) makes it worth it.    Sticking to my diet is tough, so it is puzzling why others would be resentful…

Label the FDA

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Occupy Monsanto has this up on the ongoing efforts to get GMO food labeled.  A shareholder has proposed labeling, but the board has rejected that.  (no surprise there)

They are having an event this week to bring attention to the FDA ignoring the public’s wishes for labeling.

DIY Solar Power **edited

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I have the bah humbugs for the New Year…can’t get too worked up over the new year–too many times hopes have been dashed…

So…I thought I’d go looking for something to lift my mood...here’s a neat thing–do it yourself solar panels.  I think even if someone only wanted to do one panel, it would still help reduce their electric bill, and that would reduce the country’s needs for energy produced by oil or other environmentally toxic stuff, like fracking.  Note that the author recommends a professional installation, or having a professional inspect your work if you do it yourself.

Eartheasy also has a page on energy efficient lighting, with LED lights.  I was happy they did not have the dreaded mercury-filled lightbulbs.

Enjoy.

**edited to add:  As I read the comments, the author mentions they have a small generator when the sun is not available.  It flashed in my head that with the stupid chemtrails creating a solid mass of “clouds” it could also interfere with available sunlight for the solar panels.

Highway collapses along U.S. – Mexico border

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Global News has this up on highway collapse thought to be caused by several local earthquakes.

So…yeah, I’m looking at fracking in the area.  Here’s a report on fracking near the area:

(not linking to it for obvious reasons)

thehydroexcavationblog.com/south-texas-hydro-excavation-link-love-shale-fracking-growth/

From the article:

U.S. oil production has reversed a 30-plus year decline and, by some estimates, the country will become the world’s largest oil producer by as early as 2017 and will achieve full energy self-sufficiency by 2030.

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::…meanwhile, citizens are dropping dead of *mysterious* illnesses at  a rate parallel to the amount of fracking being done…..:: /not really snarky, but a little too close to the truth

I found a protest blog by Mexican nationals.   Again, you’ll have to use google translate.

I also found this on the detrimental decision to release control of Mexico’s oil resources to outside investors.  Combine that with this previous story on the huge reserves just ripe for fracking…and well, you can draw the picture.

Egyptians are also protesting fracking.  Can you imagine poisoning the Nile?  Good Grief.

 

Probiotics and brain function

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The more I learn about the gut and neurological health, the more amazed I am at the intricate workings of our miracle bodies…and how spot on Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is with the GAPS diet…

I’ve been all over the ‘net this morning, reading blog after blog on probiotics.  One linked to this post on the gut-brain-skin axis.

Some of this is over my head, but it appears that probiotics help reduce inflammation after a heart attack.

Here’s a good paper on the connection between probiotics and the brain.  It is so interesting that fermented food, like sauerkraut, can contain acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter.  Blows me away.

This blog has a recipe for GAPS yogurt.  Since I was very sensitive at first, I gave up on yogurt.  I tried making my own according to another member’s method of putting it in an electric skillet on low heat, but didn’t have satisfactory results.  It could have been that I didn’t use yogurt starter, but rather, used store-bought kefir.  I found out later that this brand, an expensive organic brand, was putting the live cultures back in after processing it.

Yeah, that’s not going to work.

I like her idea of using raw milk.  But since obtaining raw milk is a crime…I’ll have to go through the Mafia to get some.  /super snarky

She talks about using her food dehydrator for growing the culture, but I thought it might be easier to use a yogurt maker.  I looked at several brands, and they had automatic shutoffs at 6-10 hours, which is waaaay too short a time to allow the cultures to develop…but there was this one that follows GAPS, too.  Not having tried it, I’m not able to give any kind of review on its ease of use or reliability.