Category Archives: Unsafe Things
Corn and Agent Orange?
Why do we even have to think about stuff like this?! What happened to just letting nature be. I just don’t understand why we need GMO’d anything. Oh yeah, that evil little thing called money. I like reading Natural News, but I also know that things are often blown out of proportion over there. But, in the end, Agent Orange … Continue reading
Lead in Reusable Bags
I’m sure you’ve at least seen the headlines regarding lead in reusable bags. I sat down today to blog about that, but I’ve sort of changed my mind. What I want to share first is the history of CCF, the Center for Consumer Freedom, the group that released these test results. According to Wikipedia: CCF was set up in 1995 … Continue reading
McDonald’s Happy Meal hamburgers won’t Decompose
You keep seeing the stories and videos everywhere these days, why won’t the McDonald’s meal go moldy? There’s more to it than just chemicals and McDonald’s. I’m seeing a possible science experiment here LOL So why don’t fast food burgers and fries decompose in the first place? The knee-jerk answer is often thought to be, “Well they must be made … Continue reading
Corn Sugar IS HFCS!
Seems a trend nowadays to rename a product. Look at Comcast, er, Xfinity. Things aren’t going well, change your name and rebrand. Same poor great service (yeah right), new name. Nothing has changed. And so goes HFCS. With all the bad news and the movements to eliminate High Fructose Corn Syrup, the Corn Refiners Association had to do something. Enter … Continue reading
Male Fish are becoming Female
Chemical runoff has now hit our fish. The non-profit Potomac Conservancy has found that more than 80 percent of the male bass in the Potomac River are producing eggs. The U.S. Geological Survey has tested and found the same in one third of the 111 sites it has tested, including the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. At least 16 … Continue reading
Sugar is better than HFCS
Two new studies out have compared regular table sugar to high fructose corn syrup. The findings suggest that table sugar is far better for you than high fructose corn syrup. Not just a lesser of two evils, but way better for you. As in, avoid HFCS! Read about it over at Natural News. Table sugar is 50/50 fructose and glucose. … Continue reading
Beware the Flu Vaccine
It’s coming. Flu season. Along with it comes that dreaded flu vaccine. Last year we heard all about how horrible the flu season was, how limited the vaccine supply was, but did you know that only 90 million of the available 162 million H1N1 doses were given out? Does sound like a limited vaccine to me. Did you know that … Continue reading
No receipt, thanks.
Really. As if getting it out of our water bottles and toys wasn’t bad enough, now we need to worry about receipts?! Something we all encounter daily and it’s pretty much beyond our control. Environmental Working Group did a study on paper receipts from various places and found BPA on 40 percent of them. Sometimes in amounts over 1000 times … Continue reading
The Danger of Soccer Goals
We spent Saturday afternoon doing something I really enjoy, a soccer tournament. I love watching my son play and get so emotional in the game. After the medals were distributed, I witnessed something that made me think “oh no” and reminded me of a blog post I had done in the past. A coach from a lower age group was … Continue reading
Male frogs become Females thanks to Herbicides
I ran across this article on CNN today. Maybe you saw it too. After reading it, I did a little searching on atrazine and was not all that pleased with what I read. Yeah, so what else is new?! Are pesticides affecting humans? Are pesticides to blame for infertility and other issues? I read so many articles linking pesticides and … Continue reading