This past May I undertook what many people considered an unusual project: I starved myself for seven days. Inspired by the actions of Kenda Swartz Pepper, I did a World Hunger Souljourn of my own; mimicking the diet of the world’s 1.02 billion chronically hungry people while researching and exploring the causes of, and the [...]
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Harvest of Shame: A Review of Food, Inc.
America, land of good and plenty, was once a moveable feast. But take one bite out of Food, Inc.—now on DVD—and you’re likely to lose your lunch. Plop plop, fizz fizz. That’s the sound of your stomach on junk.
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Reflections on My Week of Hunger II – Fanning the Flames
It has now been more than a week since I completed my 7 day world hunger journey and physically, I am fully recovered. I’ve been eating and resting well, and relishing every meal I am lucky enough to eat. During my 7 day exploration of world hunger I had existed on one meal of 1,000 [...]
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Hunger and Poverty in India and Pakistan: Day 18
On this, Day 18 of 21 days for world hunger, I maintain my attention on Asia and tomorrow I take a look at hunger in the U.S. But today, I will address my critics, the people who blame Third World hunger because of too much breeding. Since for the last 18 days I have been [...]
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part VI – Banning together
This post focuses on counties and countries that are banning GMOs and their non-banning counterparts. It also outlines the benefits of organic crops over and above GM crops.
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part V – Some kernels that may be of interest
This is Part V of a seven-part post that reviews genetically modified foods, the Agrochemical companies that produce GMOs, and the impact they have on your health and the earth.
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part IV – Farmers who save seeds are soon sued
This post is a continuation from Part III that outlines some of the numerous problems and concerns with GMOs including bovine growth hormone.
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part III – What you don’t know about your GMO won’t hurt you
This post will begin to identify some of the numerous issues and concerns with genetically modified foods.
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part II – Those who grow a GMO
Who grows GMOs? The U.S. accounts for about two-thirds of all the GM crops planted throughout the universe, which as far as I know is just the earth but may include other planets given the surreptitiousness of this industry. Since the mid 1990’s the U.S. has increasingly planted more GM crops than any other planet [...]
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Get Your Gen Mo Out of My Food Yo: Part I – The spoof’s in the genetically modified pudding
This seven-part post reviews genetically modified foods and the impact they have on your health and the earth.
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Supreme Court Helps Make Elections Better
We the corporations of the United States of America, in order to create a more favorable investment climate, evade regulation, and increase quarterly earnings, do declare these truths to be self evident… Thank you, Supreme Court, for staying true to the glorious principles upon which this country was founded. Primarily among them: the untrammeled right [...]
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Rethinking Grain
Our current production of corn, wheat, and other grains is a mess. Farming these crops is very petroleum and energy intensive and leads to incredible levels of fertilizer, sediment, pesticides, and other pollutants entering our environment. Things have gotten so out of hand that many farmers aren’t legally allowed to replant seeds gathered from their [...]
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