This documentary: The World According to Monsanto is a must watch. An Absolute Must Watch. It reveals Monsanto's history, product strategy, crop domination and just quite frankly, control over plants.
My family has direct experience with the poisonous power of Roundup. We have a small garden and wanted to grow corn, a variety of corn that comes from Taiwan 30+ years ago. We planted the seeds in the ground, and there is a neighboring field that has GMO corn on it that uses Roundup. We were excited about our variety of corn, especially to taste this traditional variety that we had saved from so long ago. Our corn stalks grew over the summer, looking strong and tall. At harvest time when all the GMO corn was getting harvested, we had NOTHING TO HARVEST on our corn. It was like our plants grew but none of the stalks produced corn to pick, not one ear.
Now, this is the power of controlling someone's food. Monsanto's seed dominates, kills the reproduction of our seed, and we have nothing to eat. What we grow does not produce. We are left with having to purchase Monsanto's seed, Monsanto's herbicide, Monsanto's fertilizer...and perhaps for so many Americans and people around the world is later, Monsanto's cancer.
Monsanto has developed many GMO crops, as well as rBGH (bovine growth hormone for cows), Agent Orange and many other chemicals used in biotechnology.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Story of How Cosmetics are Made
Personal Care products are becoming an issue for me since I can't seem to find a good eyeliner that says it is natural/organic and follows the rules.
This is a great video, although many have seen it, it's still a great reminder.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Dangerous Baby Shampoo
My parents immigrated to the US many years ago, and from the beginning my mom has been leery of artificial colorings, going to McDonald's, yellow colored Kraft Mac & Cheese, fruit punch made with food dyes. She was even against usual personal care products that most Americans accepted and used on a daily basis (I remember trying to convince her how great Herbal Essences by P&G was). Her shampoo choice was: Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo and she has been using it for decades now. In my mind, I just accepted how safe it was since it is made for babies. I mean, wouldn't you assume that what people sell specifically for babies should be safe?!
One would have thought.
It took me so long until now to look at this shampoo label, because in my mind this product is safe and has been accepted as safe for so long. Now looking at the label, it is the farthest from natural. It is made from chemicals, one after another, except for Water.
One would have thought.
It took me so long until now to look at this shampoo label, because in my mind this product is safe and has been accepted as safe for so long. Now looking at the label, it is the farthest from natural. It is made from chemicals, one after another, except for Water.
NOT NATURAL.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Scary Toothpaste
I have been doing some way overdue cleaning. Feels great to get rid of so much stuff and really start to organize my surroundings, room, space, office in a new and more productive way.
I used to travel quite a bit for work and pleasure many years ago, and not sure if you do this, but when I travel, I like to collect toiletries, shampoos, toothbrush kits for those just in case times. These toothbrush kits are great when you find yourself on a majorly delayed flight, lost luggage or get stranded at an airport.
I found one toothbrush kit that has been sitting around for probably 7 years. And, I found many of these - probably 3-4 kits from various different airlines. Since I am more and more into healthy and natural, I read the ingredient labels of those who had them, and their ingredients were about the same. I couldn't believe what I saw - major white rock-like corrosion around the toothpaste tubes. You can't see it too well in this picture, but literally it looks like a rock formation out of the cap of the tube. It looks like it had an implosion and the toothpaste was foaming out at one point, and now it has hardened into a rock formation.
The ingredients are chemicals as you can see from the label, and the more I think about this - these chemicals from this toothpaste are not stable over long periods of time, they start to react and cause what looks like corrosion.
Is this what we use to put in our mouths and in our bodies to brush our teeth?? I think it's time to re-evaluate what is in the bathroom!
I used to travel quite a bit for work and pleasure many years ago, and not sure if you do this, but when I travel, I like to collect toiletries, shampoos, toothbrush kits for those just in case times. These toothbrush kits are great when you find yourself on a majorly delayed flight, lost luggage or get stranded at an airport.
I found one toothbrush kit that has been sitting around for probably 7 years. And, I found many of these - probably 3-4 kits from various different airlines. Since I am more and more into healthy and natural, I read the ingredient labels of those who had them, and their ingredients were about the same. I couldn't believe what I saw - major white rock-like corrosion around the toothpaste tubes. You can't see it too well in this picture, but literally it looks like a rock formation out of the cap of the tube. It looks like it had an implosion and the toothpaste was foaming out at one point, and now it has hardened into a rock formation.
The ingredients are chemicals as you can see from the label, and the more I think about this - these chemicals from this toothpaste are not stable over long periods of time, they start to react and cause what looks like corrosion.
Is this what we use to put in our mouths and in our bodies to brush our teeth?? I think it's time to re-evaluate what is in the bathroom!
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