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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictured above: London marching Against Monsanto and GM Foods, 25 May 2013. JHIH News: 6 June'13</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">The global march against Monsanto and GM Foods on 25 May’13 was a resounding success - with over 2 million taking part worldwide, it was <strong>peaceful, educational, joyous and ultimately TRIUMPHANT</strong>. However, although it took place in over 250 cities across the globe, not one of the UK mainstream news media felt the health issues raised were important enough to cover. Instead, the media chose to focus our attention on terrorism; instilling more public fear; whilst ignoring the very ‘real global threat’ of<strong>Genetically Modified Foods</strong>. As we have outlined on numerous occasions in the past, this is how the media work hand in glove with Corporations, to prevent the truth reaching <strong>YOU</strong>, (the public). And it didn’t stop there. The week before the march, we asked all UK Political Leaders, Government Ministers & Members (in both Houses of Parliament), to sign our petition and look seriously into the issues surrounding GM Food production. None responded or signed the petition to safeguard your human rights, health choices and the environment. An incredibly poor result, however, we will keep pressing them and keep you updated. Nevertheless, the march showed what can be achieved when we come together and take action. Our Voices saying <strong>“NO!” </strong>ricocheted loud and clear throughout the world, leaving<strong> Corporate giants and Monsanto</strong> in no doubt that we mean business and intend to stop GM production globally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">HEALTH CONCERNS AND GM FOODS</span></strong><strong>: Should you be<br />worried about the foods you are consuming every day?</strong><br /><a href="http://joininghandsinhealth.com/12all/lt.php?c=177&m=49&nl=38&s=2ccdac460a628398988083b20fbca0f3&lid=1920&l=-http--www.youtube.com/watch--Q-v--E-0EdP5xba9kM--A-feature--E-player_embedded" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003366;">Click here to watch 7 minute CNN video, featuring the March Against Monsanto</span> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">To recap: in March 2013, a new Law was passed in America, giving GM producer ‘Monsanto’ absolute immunity against any harm their products could cause you, loved-ones, future generations & the environment. This means that Monsanto (the largest producer), can now legally unleash their <strong>genetically-modified seeds </strong>on to the world’s population. Sadly, the majority of people are unaware that they may have been consuming <strong>Genetically Modified Foods (GM)</strong> for over 20 years, which research has linked to<strong>cancer, infertility, birth defects, organ damage, premature deaths</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>much more</strong>. For full details, please look at our previous news release. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="color: maroon;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THE NEXT STEP:</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';">BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET</span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">The march was just<strong> 'the beginning' </strong>but <strong>'not the end' </strong>of GM production. Therefore, we need to step up the pressure by <strong>not buying them, to ensure GM Foods are driven out of the fields; out of the stores and out of our lives - forever.</strong> To do this effectively, we must demand the labeling of all GM products, so they can be easily identified. <strong>NOT BUYING GM</strong> is the greatest tool we have to end global production and Corporate abuse. So please remain <strong>vigilant; pro-active; shop smart</strong> <strong>and keep up the momentum</strong>. To help get you started, we have listed a few pointers below.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1. THE ‘RIGHT TO KNOW’ -</span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">WHAT WE ARE EATING</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">DID YOU KNOW,</span></strong> </span> over 60 Corporations oppose GM Food labeling, to prevent us knowing what is in their products? These companies include <strong>Monsanto, Basf, DuPont, Bayer, Nestle, Pepsico, Coca Cola, Unilever, Welch's, Godiva Chocolatier, MaCain Foods, Dole, Kraft Foods, Heinz, Campbell Soup Company, Sara Lee, Del Monte, Kellogg's, Wrigley, Mars, McCormick, Morton Salt, Ocean Spray, General Mills, Sunny Delight Beverages Company, Cargill, Goya, Bumble Bee, Faribault, Smuckers, Knouse, Richelieu, Homel, Pinnacle, B&G, TreeTop, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (with over 300 members); and lots more</strong>. </span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="color: #666699;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Coalition Against the Deceptive Food labeling scheme, sponsored by Farmers and Food Producers</strong><strong> </strong><a href="http://joininghandsinhealth.com/12all/lt.php?c=177&m=49&nl=38&s=2ccdac460a628398988083b20fbca0f3&lid=1922&l=-http--cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx--Q-id--E-1344135--A-session--E-2011--A-view--E-late1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: #003366;">http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/<wbr></wbr>Campaign/Committees/Detail.<wbr></wbr>aspx?id=1344135&session=2011&<wbr></wbr>view=late1</span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. THE BEST WAYS </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">TO AVOID 'GM Foods & Products'.</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Eat Organic (from ‘trusted’ brands or sources)</strong></li>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Avoid GM Foods & oils such as soy, canola and corn</span></span></span></span></strong></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>As a general rule; </strong>unless a food or product is clearly marked<strong> <em>‘ORGANIC’, </em></strong>then the <em>main ones to avoid are ;- </em>Tofu, Breakfast Cereals, Margarine, Mayonnaise, Salad Dressings, Baking Powder, Vanilla Extract, Powdered Sugar, Peanut Butter, Tomato Sauce, Tamari, Corn Meal, Corn Syrup, Soy Flour, Soy Protein, Soy Cheese, Soy Sauce, Soy Lecithin, Fructose, Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Lactic Acid, Veggie Burgers, Bread, Biscuits, Cookies, Cereals, Enriched Flour, Enriched Pasta, Protein Powders, Textured Vegetable Protein, Most Meat Substitutes, Instant Infant Formula, Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt, Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns, Citric Acid From Corn, Chocolate, Papaya, rice, Tomato, Rapeseed (Canola), Honey, dairy products, Potatoes, Zucchini and Yellow Squash, Avocado, Bananas, Pineapple, Kiw</span>i.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Beetroot, Broad Beans, Black Radish, Beet, Savoy Cabbage, Corn, Courgettes, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber, Curly Kale, Carrot, Chard, Climbing French Beans, Gherkin, Leek, Lettuce, Melon, Marrow, Onion, Parsley, Radish, Round Pea, Runner Beans, Spinach, Sugar Pea, Turnip, Tomato, White Cabbage, Winkled Pea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">An EU </span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">database of registered plant varieties offers a search tool for all the agricultural and vegetable plant varieties whose seeds can be marketed throughout the European Union. The database below provides rapid and easy access </span></span></div>
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<li style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>GM Plant & Vegetable variety database. </strong><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://joininghandsinhealth.com/12all/lt.php?c=177&m=49&nl=38&s=2ccdac460a628398988083b20fbca0f3&lid=1923&l=-http--ec.europa.eu/food/plant/propagation/catalogues/database/public/index.cfm--Q-event--E-homepage" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://ec.europa.eu/food/<wbr></wbr>plant/propagation/catalogues/<wbr></wbr>database/public/index.cfm?<wbr></wbr>event=homepage</span></span><br /> </span></a></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Food (Greenpeace Shoppers</strong> Guide) <span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://joininghandsinhealth.com/12all/lt.php?c=177&m=49&nl=38&s=2ccdac460a628398988083b20fbca0f3&lid=1924&l=-http--gmoguide.greenpeace.ca/shoppers_guide.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://gmoguide.greenpeace.<wbr></wbr>ca/shoppers_guide.pdf</span></span></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3. </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Look</span></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> for ‘</span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the CODES</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">’. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">GM</span> products </strong> 4 digit code starting with <strong>3 or 4</strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CONVENTIONAL</span> products</strong> <strong>5</strong> digit code starting with <strong>8</strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ORGANIC</span> products:</strong> <strong> 5</strong> digit code starting with <strong>9</strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><strong><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';">RELATED LINKS : <span style="color: black; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">More information on PLU codes </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://joininghandsinhealth.com/12all/lt.php?c=177&m=49&nl=38&s=2ccdac460a628398988083b20fbca0f3&lid=1925&l=-http--plucodes.com/docs/users_guide.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://plucodes.com/<wbr></wbr>docs/users_guide.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do not consume ASPARTAME </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(artificial sweetener).</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Research has confirmed over 92 different side-effects associated with ‘Aspartame' consumption including; cancer, brain damage, birth defects, blindness, migraine, hyperactivity, dizziness, hair loss, severe tremors, depression, anxiety, aggression, palpitations, nausea, abdominal pain, allergies, hives, weight gain, PMS, fluid retention, suicidal tendencies and lots more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><strong>SOFT DRINKS</strong>: Diet Coca Cola, Coca Cola Zero, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Lilt Zero, Sprite Zero, Tango, 7up Free, Lucozade Sport, Schweppes Slimline Drinks, Fanta Zero, Fanta Orange, Dr. Pepper Zero, Diet Irn Bru, Oasis Fruits Extra Light, Oasis Citrus Punch, <strong>CORDIALS:</strong> Ribena Really Light, Robinsons Orange Squash, Robinsons No added sugar range, <strong>YOGHURTS:</strong> Muller Light Cherry, Muller Light Blueberry, Muller Light Raspberry, Muller Light Banana and Custard, Danone Activia Cherry, Weight Watchers Fromage Frais, Weight Weighters Toffee and Vanilla, <strong>CHEWING GUMS:</strong> Wrigleys Airwaves, Wrigleys Orbit, Wrigleys Extra),<strong> COOKING SAUCES:</strong> Uncle Ben's Sweet and Sour Light, <strong>CRISPS</strong>: Walkers Sensations Sweet Thai Chilli, Walkers Sensations Lime and Thai Spices, Walkers Prawn Cocktail: <strong>TABLE-TOP SWEETENERS:</strong> Canderel, Silver Spoon Sweetness and Light, Silver Spoon Light Granulated Sugar;<strong>DRINK POWDERS</strong>: Cadburys Highlights (all varieties): Options Hot Chocolate Drink (all varieties).</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 11px;">Honoured by the Queen with the MBE Medal for outstanding service to the British Food Industry.<br /> </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 11px;">Recipient of 11 National Awards including: 2011 Award for Human Right and 2011 Award for outstanding contribution to Complementary & Natural Medicine</span></li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-19250851579743975142013-06-16T18:00:00.000+01:002013-06-16T17:49:02.765+01:00Alimentação - Os venenos utilizados na agricultura e os graves problemas que causamTem conhecimento dos químicos sintéticos e muito tóxicos que de forma directa ou indirecta são utilizados na agricultura, e que muito prejudicam o ambiente, os animais e a nossa saúde?<br />
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Sabia que existe uma enorme corrupção entre empresas e os decisores políticos para proteger esta indústria mortífera e os lucros da mesma, mesmo implicando na morte de muitas pessoas?<br />
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Veja estes documentários para ter uma ideia da gravidade do problema e como ajudar a minimizar os riscos para a saúde e o ambiente.<br />
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Que solução?: Boicotar e pressionar governos e empresas não-éticas, e comprar apenas produtos vegetais, não OGM e de origem biológica, é a mais importante solução para reduzir de forma dramática este problema. <br />
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<b>O VENENO NOSSO DE CADA DIA:</b><br />
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Grande Reportagem da TVI: A produção agro-alimentar coloca questões sérias de saúde pública. No espaço de 20 anos o numero de cancros em Portugal aumentou 735%. A segurança alimentar é umas das grandes preocupações do nosso tempo. Mandámos analisar dezenas de alimentos e os resultados vão por certo chocá-lo.<br />
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<b>O VENENO ESTÁ NA MESA:</b><br />
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Você sabia que o Brasil é o país que mais pulveriza agrotóxicos nos alimentos? Que é o recordista em consumo desses químicos? Que um brasileiro consome em média 5,2 litros de agrotóxicos anuais?<br />
Que os agrotóxicos provocam uma série de problemas de saúde, desde lapso de memória em crianças até má formação dos fetos? Que apesar do Governo tentar proibir uso de muitos químicos, a justiça concede liminares a favor das grandes corporações químicas?<br />
Que para conseguir crédito junto aos bancos o pequeno trabalhador é obrigado a usar transgênicos e pesticidas? Que as doenças provocadas por esses químicos nos trabalhadores do campo consomem 1,8% do PIB em tratamentos médicos?<br />
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<b>O NOSSO VENENO QUOTIDIANO:</b><br />
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Pensa que o que come é seguro e que as empresas e instituições estatais preocupam-se com a segurança dos alimentos? Depois de ver este documentário irá perceber que a realidade é outra, baseada somente no lucro.<br />
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Um documentário importante e chocante sobre os efeitos muito nefastos da utilização de químicos sintéticos (como pesticidas, herbicidas, aditivos, entre muitos outros) na agricultura e alimentação, demonstrando que existe uma forte corrupção entre as empresas e governos / decisores políticos que protegem a utilização destes tóxicos por motivos económicos, contra o ambiente e a saúde das populações.<br />
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Como são examinados, avaliados e regulamentados os produtos químicos que são introduzidos na nossa cadeia alimentar, desde os campos de cultivo (os pesticidas) até os nossos pratos ( aditivos e plásticos alimentares)?<br />
Existirá alguma relação entre a exposição dessas substâncias químicas com a actual "epidemia de doenças crónicas preveníveis" que a OMS tem constatado (certos tipos de cancros, patologias neurodegenerativas como o Parkinson, disfunção reprodutiva, diabetes, obesidade), sobretudo nos chamados paises "desenvolvidos"?<br />
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Luís
tem 43 anos e saiu de casa com 16. Eram 11 irmãos numa aldeia do
concelho de Alcobaça. Em miúdo, o tempo era passado no campo, a
trabalhar sem ganhar e a comer pouco. "Era uma escravidão. Para arejar,
comprávamos um maço de tabaco e ficávamos fora até fumarmos os cigarros
todos. Em casa levávamos." Chegou a Lisboa e começou a trabalhar nas
obras. Um dia experimentou heroína com um colega e ficou 20 anos
agarrado. O patrão metia-os na carrinha e a caminho do estaleiro parava
para curarem a ressaca. "A minha vida é uma história de terror. Que quer
que lhe conte?"<br />
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Aos 9 anos viu o melhor amigo morrer afogado, viu
a mãe ser espancada e ficar em casa a aguentar - ainda lá está. Nunca
mais falou com o pai, mas ela vai ligando. Deixou-se levar pela droga
enquanto estava incluída no salário. Depois tornou--se difícil continuar
a trabalhar daquela forma e quis parar de consumir. Começou uma
desintoxicação numa comunidade terapêutica e parou antes do fim, a
pensar que estava livre. Meses depois voltou ao mesmo. Há seis anos
tentou uma segunda e ficou limpo. Acredita que é de vez, porque desce as
ruas onde se injectam os velhos amigos e não se se sente tentado. Com
mais baixos que altos, assume a depressão diagnosticada pelo médico.
"Como é que podia ter acabado de outra forma?", remata. Instável, mas
limpo, ainda arranjou trabalho. Pagava um quarto. Depois, outro depois, o
serviço começou a falhar. Há cinco meses ficou na rua.<br />
<br />
As
histórias dos sem-abrigo que as aceitam contar são assim: cruas,
rápidas, desarmantes. Perturbadoras por terem tantas vezes um rastilho
antigo, casas onde faltaram os pais, onde faltou dinheiro. Onde sobejava
álcool e violência. Ou simplesmente um azar. Há um antes e um depois
que acaba na rua, seja a calçada, seja o caixote, a casa abandonada ou o
albergue.<br />
Luís conseguiu vaga no abrigo nocturno da AMI, na
Graça, um dos seis espaços na cidade que faz que metade dos 2
milsem-abrigo sinalizados, números revelados pela vereadora Helena
Roseta, não durmam na rua. Só por estes números, divulgados há duas
semanas, percebe-se que é normal não se saber ao certo quantos
sem-abrigo existem em Portugal, porque as estatísticas estão longe de
espelhar a realidade. No último censo, o Instituto Nacional de
Estatística contou 696 pessoas sem tecto. Só em Lisboa, pelos dados da
autarquia, há o triplo. O INE só contabiliza quem está na rua. Fica de
fora quem dorme em albergues, como o abrigo da AMI, que abre ao fim do
dia e fecha pelas 9h. Fica de fora quem não está à vista.<br />
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<b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Eles contam</span></b><br />
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Não gostam de falar, mas quando o fazem contam-se melhor que qualquer
estatística. Vítor, 58 anos, casou--se com 22 anos. Jogador profissional
de basquetebol, trabalhava na fábrica militar do Braço de Prata, a
fazer munições. Perto dos 30, chegou ao fim a carreira no basquete e
teve o seu depois. Apesar de ter casado jovem, e de ter um filho
pequeno, o tempo livre e as amizades deram- -lhe a conhecer a noite e o
álcool. Um dia, nesse mundo de descobertas tardias, experimentou a
droga. "Eu era tão certinho que só percebi que viciava à primeira
ressacada."<br />
Só pararia 15 anos depois. Quando a fábrica fechou,
propuseram-lhe um esquema parecido com o da mobilidade. Nunca houve
outra colocação e por fim deram--lhe a escolher entre uma indemnização e
um subsídio de desemprego. "Tive o discernimento de não pedir o
dinheiro todo, sabia para onde ele ia", lembra.<br />
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Separou-se e a
mulher levou o filho. Começou a falhar a pensão de alimentos e o
tribunal ordenou que fosse descontada do subsídio. Sem conseguir largar a
droga e sem trabalho, começou a andar na rua. "Um dia quis parar, mas
entendi que podia fazê-lo a frio. Fui a um centro de desabituação e
disseram-me que tinha de fazer a metadona. Disse não: não ia sair de uma
para outra."<br />
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Encontrou apoio na Cais e agora está no abrigo
nocturno da AMI quase há um ano. Fez um curso de cerâmica que dava
rendimento para pagar um quarto, mas depois do estágio no Museu do
Azulejo não conseguiu emprego. Entrou então num projecto destinado a
recuperar a profissão de engraxador e hoje tem o seu posto de trabalho
num café no centro de Lisboa. Todos os dias sai com a esperança de
descolar, de o rendimento ser o suficiente para deixar o abrigo e voltar
a ter um quarto sem que tudo se desmorone de repente, um medo que fica.
"Num momento a pessoa tem a família e depois aparece a droga. Percebi a
rapidez com que caímos. Eu tinha 30 anos, já não era um miúdo. No dia
do funeral da minha mãe estava a ser julgado por roubo. Estava a
ressacar e não podia ir assim para o funeral. Lembrei-me de roubar uma
mala para comprar droga. Nunca o tinha feito. Tinha tanto jeito que me
caíram cinco polícias em cima. A família nunca me perdoou e não o peço.
Estou a pagar pelos meus erros."<br />
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O depois de José Moura, natural
de Cabo Verde, mas com nacionalidade portuguesa desde a juventude, foi o
desemprego. Foi manobrador de gruas durante 20 anos. Depois as
empreitadas começaram a ser cada vez menos. As últimas grandes obras
foram as torres de Sete Rios e um prédio na Lapa. Há um ano o serviço
começou a ser tão precário que deixou de pagar a prestação da casa. O
banco ficou com ela. Sem família que o possa ajudar, ficou primeiro na
rua, depois nos bancos do aeroporto e por fim encontrou vaga no abrigo
da AMI.<br />
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"Há sempre um princípio que nos leva à rua", resume Pedro,
33 anos. É daqueles que já estiveram em associações, já esteve em
albergues nocturnos, já esteve simplesmente na rua. Vende na Feira da
Ladra. Quando tem dinheiro fica numa pensão. Quando não tem, fica no
aeroporto, onde o encontramos a pedir uma ceia à carrinha da Comunidade
Vida e Paz. Não entra em estatística nenhuma. "O meu princípio foi
quando me separei. Mas antes comecei a ir para a rua procurar o que não
tinha em casa." Depois apareceu o álcool e a droga. Os factores
misturam--se, as histórias enrolam-se. "Isto é um mundo clandestino. Nas
associações é-se muitas vezes escravo. Dão-nos cama e comida, mas fazem
de nós motoristas o dia todo e os presidentes aparecem com carrões.
Numa, no Norte, até me proibiam de procurar trabalho. Alguns ficam com
os subsídios e as reformas, ninguém controla nada. Nalguns albergues
somos tratados como animais."<br />
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No aeroporto, melhor que abrigos ou
ficar na rua, diz Pedro, os seguranças têm dias. "Às vezes metem-nos na
rua ou implicam. Estão fartos de me ver e outro dia perguntaram-me se ia
viajar e o que é que tinha na mala. Eram livros para vender, disse-lhe
que se quisesse fazíamos já ali negócio. E viajar, se calhar um dia vou.
Posso ganhar a lotaria."<br />
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<b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Milho aos pombos </span></b><br />
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Dificuldades
económicas, desamores, acidentes, droga, alcoolismo, doenças mentais.
Nas conversas de rua há um fio condutor que torna as palavras de há umas
semanas da vereadora Helena Roseta, na melhor das leituras utópicas e
na pior redutoras. Helena Roseta descreveu as equipas de voluntários que
distribuem refeições na rua como uma resposta a lembrar quem dá "comida
aos pombos", defendendo a distribuição em locais onde quem precisa
possa comer sentado e a criação de um hotel social, uma vez que a câmara
não consegue responder a todos os pedidos de habitação.<br />
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Para quem
conduz as carrinhas que distribuem refeições, as palavras de Roseta
valem o que valem. Só a Comunidade Vida e Paz e o Centro de Apoio ao
Sem-Abrigo (CASA) distribuem mil refeições todas as noites, 520 cada
uma. "Não distribuir comida na rua é um bom princípio se houver
condições para isso. Mas haverá sempre pessoas que não irão aos espaços
da câmara. Se quisermos que comam temos de continuar a ir ter com eles",
diz Jorge Correia, presidente da CASA, que acredita ainda assim que tem
havido um esforço de articulação no terreno, liderado por Roseta, como
nunca existiu nesta área. Pedro Sousa, director do abrigo nocturno da
AMI, também acredita que será difícil resolver a realidade dos
sem-abrigo com medidas como as propostas pela vereadora, mas vê lacunas.
O abrigo da AMI, por exemplo, tem 26 vagas, o que contrasta com outros
com mais de 100 onde os relatos que lhe chegam são de falta de
condições. Ali há uma resposta personalizada, um encaminhamento com
vista à reintegração e não apenas o tecto por uma noite, estruturas que
entende que ainda fazem falta. Depois há o desafio das regras, que
muitos não querem aceitar. "São pessoas livres, adultas, mas qualquer
casa precisa de regras. É uma fronteira difícil."<br />
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A Igreja de
Arroios é um ponto de distribuição de refeições onde se cruzam carrinhas
de diferentes associações, outra realidade que Roseta contesta,
defendendo que não faz sentido um sem-abrigo ser visitado por cinco
equipas numa mesma noite. A partir das 20h há mais de uma centena de
pessoas à espera junto às escadas da igreja. Algumas vão dormir ali,
outras mais acima, na Travessa das Freiras. Mas a maioria dos que vêm
buscar sacos de comida, roupa ou cobertores às carrinhas da CASA e
Comunidade Vida e Paz, que vemos cruzarem-se como diz Roseta, não dorme
na rua. Para quem está no terreno, esta procura por quem tem casa, mais
ou menos precária, é uma das realidades em que se nota maior aumento de
pedidos e justifica o trabalho intenso no terreno.<br />
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Vemos Marina
duas noites seguidas. Com 27 anos, vive com o marido, a irmã, o cunhado e
a mãe numa casa que diz estar a cair, com a casa de banho
inoperacional. Conheceu o marido na rua, grávida de outro namorado.
Chegaram a viver numa casa abandonada. A Segurança Social tirou-lhe a
filha com poucos dias, faz três anos, e continua sem trabalho. Lá em
casa só a irmã trabalha, faz limpezas numas escadas. Comem o que levam
dali, conta. Levam mais de um saco, mas porque guardam para as refeições
do dia seguinte. É jantar, pequeno-almoço e almoço. Tília, 57 anos,
vive num quarto sem janela. Tosse muito enquanto a vemos ir às carrinhas
também duas noites seguidas. "Tenho um quarto, mas fumam dentro de
casa, fico atacada. Quase prefiro estar na rua." Quando recebe a pensão
de invalidez paga a renda. Sobram 50 euros para remédios e comida. Não
chega, por isso agarra o que consegue.<br />
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<b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">O que faz falta</span></b><br />
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Para quem está no terreno, as lacunas são consensuais: falta
alojamento, emprego e respostas nos cuidados de saúde, sobretudo para
doentes mentais. Se há a sensação que a crise fez disparar o número de
pessoas na rua, mais em 2012 do que este ano, parecem dominar as
situações desencadeadas por desemprego de longa duração, de portugueses
mas também de imigrantes sem apoio familiar. Isabel Oliveira, da
Comunidade Vida e Paz, assinala também o aumento de perturbações
psicológicas. "Encontramos pessoas jovens que estavam estruturadas mas
perderam o emprego e deixaram de conseguir pagar a medicação." Na voltas
de distribuição de comida isso é evidente. Numa paragem de autocarro,
um homem recebe o saco sem reagir. Vêem-no ali há alguns meses. "Uma vez
disse-me que tem 12 anos. Não temos para onde sinalizá-lo", conta Ana
Bela, voluntária da volta.<br />
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Desde 2009 existe uma Estratégia
Nacional para a Integração de Pessoas Sem Abrigo, que levou à
formalização de núcleos de resposta na maioria dos concelhos. Ainda
assim, o reconhecimento desta área não tornou os balanços mais
periódicos: o <i>i </i>pediu informação sobre casos sinalizados ao
Instituto de Segurança Social, que diz que só tem dados sobre o ano de
2009, quando foram sinalizados 2133 sem-abrigo em Portugal. O Instituto
sublinha ainda que tem estabelecido acordos de cooperação com
instituições privadas de solidariedade social para centros de alojamento
temporários e que em Maio havia 31 CAT com capacidade para cerca de 950
utentes.<br />
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Só Lisboa, pelos dados avançados pela câmara, esgota estas estatísticas. Mas há mais. Em Setúbal, revelou ao <i>i</i>
a autarquia, foram sinalizados 91 sem-abrigo no levantamento de 2011 e
em 2012 mais 71 casos. Em Faro, o primeiro levantamento sinalizou 68
processos e em 2012 somaram-se mais 38. No Seixal, indicou a associação
local Criar-T, foram sinalizados 65 casos em 2011. Ainda não têm dados
de 2012, mas sentem que há mais casos. Já a AMI sente que o aumento de
sem-abrigo aconteceu sobretudo em 2010 e 2011 e nos últimos meses têm
sinalizados menos casos. Em 2012 apoiaram 1683 pessoas, menos 132 que no
ano anterior. No primeiro trimestre deste ano deram apoio a 825
sem-abrigo.<br />
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Para Fernando Marques, da Criar-T, o problema já não é
de falta de plano, mas de compromisso. "Apesar de ser um documento bem
elaborado, a estratégia nacional ainda não tem legislação aprovada. Até
ao momento não recebeu um cêntimo. O que acontece no terreno tem a ver
com mobilização das instituições, o que se tem mostrado insuficiente
quando o objectivo do programa é que ninguém fique na rua mais de 24
horas."<br />
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Mas e se o objectivo for demasiado ambicioso? "Acho que
devemos aspirar a isso. Há pessoas que dizem que estão na rua porque
querem mas é uma atitude defensiva. Se calhar não encontrámos ainda a
resposta certa para elas", diz Isabel Oliveira. Tem números que a fazem
acreditar. Em 25 anos de história, a Comunidade Vida e Paz ajudou a
reintegrar 1700 sem--abrigo.<br />
Reacção defensiva ou não, parece
impossível pensar no relento zero. Manuel, 61 anos, dorme no Rossio há
duas semanas e, confessa, porque quer. Tem casa em Belas. A história
começa lá atrás: o pai bebia, ele bebe, o filho mais velho também.
Chateou-se com a mulher, porque toma o partido do filho, e saiu de casa
para espairecer sem dinheiro ou comida. Acorda, vai lavar-se às casas de
banho públicas e fica a pensar e a ler. Tira um livrinho do bolso. O
título é "Perdoa-me". À noite espera a comida das carrinhas. Da outra
vez que isto aconteceu o filho foi buscá-lo passado um mês.<br />
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Há
quem esteja fugido da polícia, conta Pedro e quem queira apenas viver à
margem. "Às vezes até dava para ir para a pensão, mas vou gastar
dinheiro para quê? É como ter de pagar impostos, prefiro andar na
feira." José, 68 anos, dorme há mais de um ano numa carrinha estacionada
à porta do mercado de Arroios. Lá dentro, cobertores, sacos, lixo, um
cheiro agoniante que se entranha na roupa. "Já vivi numa casa aqui na
rua, mas prefiro estar aqui", diz. Tem uma reforma que dava para pagar
alojamento. Tem uma filha, netos que vê de vez em quando. Diz que é uma
escolha. O cheque da reforma é enviado para uma tasca ali perto. Gasta-o
em comida e bebida.<br />
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<b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">O abrigo na estação</span></b><br />
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Entre tudo o que há a fazer, e nunca se resolverá de um dia para o
outro, há imagens que se estranham. No acesso ao estacionamento
subterrâneo da Gare do Oriente, num dia da semana, contam-se 40 pessoas
enroladas em mantas e sacos-camas. Enchiam dois abrigos como o da AMI.<br />
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Como
no aeroporto, haver tanta gente a dormir ali não é segredo para
ninguém. Há regras e seguranças para as impor. Quem lá dorme guarda as
coisas em carrinhos de supermercado, que a partir das 21h pode trazer
para baixo. Às 6h têm de sair. Há uma ala de indianos, outra de romenos.
Quem chega fica ao fundo ou onde há lugar. Esperam os sacos de comida
para os esconder, se não de manhã desapareceram.<br />
Gil, 54 anos, é
dos poucos acordados perto da meia-noite e dos mais antigos. Dorme ali
há nove anos. Como todos, tinha a vida dele até àquele depois. Era
encarregado de uma firma de limpezas e fazia uns biscates por fora. Um
dia, a limpar os vidros de um prédio num desses biscates, o cabo partiu e
caiu do terceiro andar. O colega morreu e ele ficou com a perna
atravancada. Como era por fora, não teve indemnização. Depois não voltou
a trabalhar e deixou de conseguir pagar a renda da casa. Acabou na rua.
"Habituamo-nos. Já estive bem e agora não tenho nada. Nunca se pode
confiar muito, mas acabamos por ser uma família. Se aparece algum
artista juntamo- -nos e pomo-lo fora."<br />
<br />
A noite é calma. Gil conta
que só há duas alturas em que o cenário é diferente: o dia em que alguns
recebem o rendimento social de inserção e o dia em que caem as
reformas. "Pagam-se dívidas e alguns gastam em bebida. Começa em festa e
acaba em confusão." É assim, são as voltas que a vida dá, diz. "Espero
que nunca aconteça. Para aquilo que já vivi, se fosse para me matar já o
tinha feito." Com 38 anos de serviço, espera os 55 anos que fará a 12
de Novembro para meter os papéis da reforma e sair da rua.<br />
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Fonte:<br />
<a href="http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/portugal/sem-abrigo-ninguem-conta-vidas-vao-parar-rua-eles">http://www.ionline.pt/artigos/portugal/sem-abrigo-ninguem-conta-vidas-vao-parar-rua-eles</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-53497016015978534002013-06-05T12:46:00.001+01:002013-06-05T12:46:10.490+01:00Reiki cada vez mais usado em doentes com cancro<br />
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<b>A terapia reiki é cada vez mais usada em doentes com cancro em
Portugal para reduzir os sintomas da quimioterapia e ajudar ao
relaxamento destes pacientes, segundo médicos e terapeutas.</b><br />
<b><br />
No Hospital de São João, no Porto, o Conselho de Administração autorizou
já a aplicação de terapia reiki aos doentes oncológicos em ambulatório,
sendo aplicada por enfermeiros com formação naquela terapia alternativa
e em regime de voluntariado.</b><br />
<br />
(Notícia divulgada pela Agência Lusa – 05 Junho, 2013, 09:01)<br />
<br />
O reiki é uma terapia japonesa que consiste em canalizar a energia
colocando as mãos em cima do corpo e pretende promover o equilíbrio
global, segundo a Associação Portuguesa de Reiki.<br />
A médica oncologista Fátima Ferreira explicou à agência Lusa que os
doentes em quimioterapia submetidos ao reiki dizem conseguir aguentar
melhor os efeitos secundários, como náuseas e vómitos, e acabam por
sentir-se mais relaxados, aceitando melhor a sua doença.<br />
<br />
“Tem sido uma ajuda muito positiva para os nossos doentes. Mas isto
não vai substituir qualquer tratamento de quimioterapia ou radioterapia,
nem é esse o objetivo. Funciona como um complemento, como uma ajuda
psicológica”, indicou a médica.<br />
<br />
No Hospital de São João este projeto foi impulsionado pela Associação
de Apoio aos Doentes com Leucemia e Linfoma, com base numa <a href="http://www.associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/reiki-em-portugal/2013/01/24/cancro-o-exito-das-terapias-alternativas/" target="_blank" title="investigação realizada por uma enfermeira">investigação realizada por uma enfermeira</a> naquela unidade que demonstrou os benefícios do reiki para os doentes com cancro.<br />
A terapia é disponibilizada, em regime de voluntariado, por
enfermeiros do hospital com formação em reiki e não é fornecida pelo
Serviço Nacional de Saúde.<br />
<br />
Este projeto, que começou no ano passado, dirige-se sobretudo para os
doentes oncológicos em ambulatório, mas tem sido também aplicado a
pacientes em internamento.<br />
Sónia Gomes, da <a href="http://associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/" target="_blank" title="Associação Portuguesa de Reiki">Associação Portuguesa de Reiki</a>,
diz que existem diversos estudos científicos internacionais que
“comprovam que a terapia reiki ajuda o processo de desintoxicação do
organismo após a quimioterapia”.<br />
<br />
Ainda não há dados sobre quantos doentes oncológicos em Portugal se
submeteram a esta terapia complementar, mas Sónia Gomes dá conta de que
têm sido assinados protocolos de colaboração com várias associações de
doentes.<br />
<br />
Exemplo disso é a <a href="http://www.associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/reiki-em-portugal/2013/05/30/europacolon-portugal-estabele-parceria-com-associacao-portuguesa-de-reiki/" target="_blank" title="Associação de Luta Contra o Cancro do Intestino - Europacolun Portugal">Associação de Luta Contra o Cancro do Intestino – Europacolon Portugal</a>, que passou a fornecer aos seus associados a possibilidade de terem sessões de reiki.<br />
“Estamos ligados a uma doença que é uma tragédia, com 7.000 novos
casos todos os anos e uma mortalidade superior a 11 casos por dia”,
disse à Lusa o presidente da Europacolon, Vítor Neves.<br />
Foi a partir de relatos e experiências de doentes oncológicos que
esta associação chegou à conclusão de que o reiki poderia ajudar a
“melhorar a vida e o conforto” de pacientes em quimioterapia.<br />
<br />
“Decidimos, assim, disponibilizar aos nossos doentes, a custo zero, o
acesso a esta terapia complementar, que pode ser solicitada através da
nossa linha telefónica de apoio 808 200 199″, indicou Vítor Neves.<br />
Segundo Sónia Gomes, da Associação de Reiki, chegam já a ser os
próprios médicos a recomendar a esta terapia aos seus doentes, depois de
terem observado ” bons resultados” noutros pacientes, sobretudo com
benefícios a nível do humor e disposição.<br />
<br />
Os estudos têm demonstrado “bastante sucesso” no bem-estar dos
doentes em qualquer tipo de tumor, segundo indica a terapeuta: “O reiki
acaba por equilibrar o sistema do corpo humano. A pessoa relaxa e isso
provoca diminuição da corrente sanguínea, a oxigenação melhora e isso
produz o tal estado de relaxamento profundo e de bem-estar”.<br />
<br />
Atualmente, a Associação Portuguesa de Reiki tem cerca de uma centena de terapeutas disponíveis para fazer <a href="http://associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/projectos-de-reiki/ser-e-viver-reiki-na-oncologia.html" target="_blank" title="voluntariado a doentes oncológicos">voluntariado a doentes oncológicos</a> que estejam a ser submetidos a quimioterapia.<br />
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Por Lusa<br />
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<a href="http://www.associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/reiki-em-portugal/2013/06/05/reiki-cada-vez-mais-usado-em-doentes-com-cancro-para-reduzir-efeitos-da-quimioterapia/">http://www.associacaoportuguesadereiki.com/reiki/reiki-em-portugal/2013/06/05/reiki-cada-vez-mais-usado-em-doentes-com-cancro-para-reduzir-efeitos-da-quimioterapia/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-73630467851681726032013-06-03T02:41:00.001+01:002013-06-03T02:44:53.163+01:00The Healing Power of Meditation<div class="article_content">
The body is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that
can be flipped on or off with thoughts, beliefs and feelings that
originate in the mind. This is great news, because it means, in essence,
that you can heal yourself. But how?<br />
<br />
<a href="http://mindovermedicinebook.com/">Mind Over Medicine</a> has
a whole section that teaches you the 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. But,
one of the many simple ways you can flip on your body’s self-repair
mechanisms is via meditation.<br />
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<b>What Does It Mean To Meditate?</b><br />
<br />
Meditation is defined as continued or extended thought; reflection;
contemplation. But, I prefer Harvard professor Dr. Herbert Benson’s
definition. He defines it as “Repetition of a word, sound, phrase,
prayer, or muscular activity while passively disregarding everyday
thoughts that inevitably come to mind and returning to your repetition.”<br />
With this definition of meditation, anything can be a meditation “not
just sitting with your eyes closed in the lotus position, but walking,
making art, cooking, shopping, dancing, driving, etc.<br />
<br />
<b>How The Body Heals Itself</b><br />
<br />
In my medical training, we were not taught that the body knows how to
heal itself. It is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that
repair broken proteins, kill cancer cells, fight infections, prevent
aging, and maintain the homeostasis of the body. When the body gets
sick, whether from the common cold or something more serious, like heart
disease or cancer, it’s almost always because the body’s self-repair
mechanisms have broken down, usually because of stress.<br />
<br />
When the nervous system is stressed, as it is during the
“fight-or-flight” stress response that is so commonly triggered in
modern day life, these self-repair mechanisms are disabled and the body
is at risk for disease. Only when the counterbalancing relaxation
response is activated, when the sympathetic nervous system is turned off
and the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, can the body heal
itself.<br />
<br />
<b>Why Meditate?</b><br />
<br />
So how can you turn on that relaxation response so the body can heal
itself? There are many relaxation methods, but one of the simplest and
most effective is meditation. Meditation has been scientifically proven
to activate the relaxation response, and as a result, almost every
health condition improves. In his research at Harvard, Herbert Benson
demonstrated that meditation is effective in treating angina pectoris,
cardiac arrhythmias, allergic skin reactions, anxiety, mild to moderate
depression, bronchial asthma, herpes simplex, cough, constipation,
diabetes mellitus, duodenal ulcers, dizziness, fatigue, hypertension,
infertility, insomnia, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy,
nervousness, postoperative swelling, premenstrual syndrome, rheumatoid
arthritis, side effects of cancer, side effects of AIDS, and all forms
of pain: backaches, headaches, abdominal pain, muscle pain, joint aches,
postoperative pain, neck, arm, and leg pain. (Most likely it helps many
conditions not listed here, but Dr. Benson just hasn’t gotten around to
studying them yet!)<br />
Meditation has been shown to decrease stress-related cortisol, reduce
respiration and heart rate, reduce the metabolic rate, increase blood
flow in the brain, increase activity in the left prefrontal cortex
(which is observed in happier people), strengthen the immune system, and
lead to a state of relaxation.<br />
Meditation also reduces work stress, anxiety, and depression,
promotes cardiovascular health, improves cognitive function, reduces
alcohol abuse, improves longevity, promotes healthy weight, improves
immune function, and heightens quality of life.<br />
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<b>How To Start Meditating</b><br />
<b> </b><b> </b><br />
Deepak Chopra recommends the RPM (Rise, Pee, Meditate) approach to
meditation, suggesting that those who can will be well served to
meditate first thing upon rising. However, if you, like me, have young
children, you may find it easier to meditate when the kids are napping
or away at school. If you work outside the home, you may find it easier
to meditate over your lunch break or just before bed.<br />
Regardless of when you do it, it’s crucial to make the time in your schedule to help your nervous system relax.<br />
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<b>Here are some tips to help you get started with a sitting meditation practice:</b><br />
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<b>1. Create a peaceful environment</b><br />
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If you’ve never tried a sitting meditation before, start by creating a
peaceful environment in which to meditate. I have two altars I’ve
created at home, one in my bedroom and one in my home office, which I
sit in front of to meditate. When I sit down to meditate, I light the
candles, burn some incense, and take a moment to let my altar soothe me.<br />
Some people have rooms exclusively dedicated to meditation. Even a
small closet can be tricked out to become a special space designed to
help your body relax and your soul connect. Meditating outside can also
be lovely. Because I live on the California coast, I often meditate at
the ocean on a rocky beach that is usually deserted or in Muir Woods,
among the peaceful redwoods. If you have access to quiet spots in
nature, try a beach, a riverfront, a meadow or a forest free of
distractions.<br />
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<b> </b><br />
<b>2. Minimize disruptions.</b><br />
<br />
Turn off the TV, silence your phone, and play soothing music if you
like. The point is to create an environment conducive to freeing your
mind from its daily clutter and relaxing your body.<br />
<br />
<b>3. Choose your meditation position.</b><br />
<br />
If you can, sit on the floor and close your eyes. You don’t have to
sit in the lotus position unless you want to, but sitting on the floor
helps you feel grounded, connects you to Mother Earth, and roots you
into your body when you meditate. Feel free to use pillows, cushions,
and other props that help you feel comfortable. Keep your back straight
so you can breathe deeply with ease. If sitting on the floor is too
uncomfortable, sit in a chair and place your feet firmly on the floor to
develop a sense of grounding.<br />
<br />
<b>4. Set a timer.</b><br />
<br />
If you’re new to meditation, start with just five minutes per day and
aim to work up to twenty. Set a timer so you don’t have to interrupt
your meditation to check your watch.<br />
<br />
<b>5. Close your eyes.</b><br />
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Closing your eyes minimizes visual distractions, helps you come back into your body, and starts to settle you.<br />
<br />
<b>6. Focus on your breath as you inhale and exhale.</b><br />
<br />
Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield suggests that if you notice
yourself remembering, planning, or fantasizing, refrain from judging
yourself, but do call it out. “Hello remembering.” “Hello planning.”
“Hello fantasizing.” Then return to the present moment, focusing on
your breath. The minute you notice your thoughts starting to wander,
come back to your breath and try to empty your mind. If your mind
continues to wander and your breath isn’t enough to empty your mind, try
counting your breaths or repeating a one word mantra like “peace” or
“one” to clear your mind.<br />
<br />
<b>7. Release judgment.</b><br />
<br />
Most importantly, don’t judge yourself as you learn to meditate.
Criticizing yourself for meditating “badly” or beating yourself up
because your monkey mind won’t calm down will only stress you out,
defeating the purpose of making attempts to help your body relax so it
can repair itself. Remain compassionate with yourself, and pat yourself
on the back for any progress you make.<br />
Can’t make it more than 10 breaths into your meditation? Give
yourself a hug and try again the next day. Like anything, it just takes
practice. As someone who resisted meditation for most of my life, I can
attest to the fact that it really does get easier with regular practice,
and the benefits are so worth the effort.<br />
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<b>Alternative Meditation Techniques</b><br />
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If you feel like expanding your meditation practice, try adding some of these meditation techniques to those listed above.<br />
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<b>1. Relax your body.</b><br />
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To circumvent distracting images that may appear in your mind, you
may also try scanning your body for any parts that don’t feel relaxed
and visualizing your breath going to those tense spots. Imagine your
breath as golden light flowing to the tense places and filling them with
relaxation. Relax your back, your shoulders, your belly, your facial
muscles. If you have trouble finding your tension, try tensing and
releasing each muscle, starting at your forehead and moving down your
body all the way to your toes.<br />
<br />
<b>2. Ground yourself.</b><br />
<br />
You can also try visualizing a grounding cord, coming out of your
bottom like an electrical cord or tree roots, dropping through the
floor, coursing through the soil and into the bedrock, and landing at
the core of the earth, where you can plug in. Allow anything that no
longer serves you to release down that grounding cord, into the earth’s
center, where it can get recycled. You can also visualize this grounding
energy of the earth’s core coursing up through the grounding cord and
filling you with healing light.<br />
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<b>3. Visualize a relaxing scene.</b><br />
<br />
Allow your mind to conjure up a real or imagined place of peace and
beauty. Allow your mind to experience the relaxing place in a
multi-sensory way. See it, feel it, smell it, taste it, and hear the
sounds. If you’re battling an illness, you might add healing
visualization to your meditation. In your mind’s eye, see the part of
your body affected by the illness returning to wholeness and health in
as much detail as you can muster.<br />
<br />
<b>4. Try guided meditation.</b><br />
<br />
Does silence make you crazy? To start meditating right now, download
the FREE Self-Healing Kit at MindOverMedicineBook.com. In addition to a
free self-healing meditation of my voice guiding you through a
meditation designed to activate your relaxation response,you’ll also get
the 10 Secrets To Healing Yourself ebook, a Diagnosis Journal designed
to help you determine the root causes of your illness, and a
Prescription Pad so you can write The Prescription for yourself. <a href="http://mindovermedicinebook.com/">Just enter your name and email address here</a>.<br />
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<b>Do You Meditate? Or Do You Resist Meditation?</b><br />
<br />
Share your experiences and offer any tips that work for you in the comments below.<br />
Lissa Rankin<br />
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Lissa Rankin, MD is a mind-body medicine physician, founder of the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwholehealthmedicineinstitute.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeEpSmkR3TdkLK-VB7lNaSRqrPgZA" target="_blank">Whole Health Medicine Institute</a> training program for physicians and other health care providers, and the New York Times bestselling author of <i><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmindovermedicinebook.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeWhwm5pkLVdwAJRmJdc9lS03ZJ-w" target="_blank">Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself</a></i>. She is on a grass roots mission to heal health care, while empowering you to heal yourself. Lissa blogs at <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Flissarankin.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeIgCMjEZ6UvY8Wr619opGJKa9WNQ" target="_blank">LissaRankin.com</a> and also created two online communities - <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fhealhealthcarenow.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzcXBujBpJSSxoo2NiZ4sMXgid53qA" target="_blank">HealHealthCareNow.com</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fowningpink.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzchapPrb47U--kKKY4trp8Lx03IXw" target="_blank">OwningPink.com</a>.
She is also the author of two other books, a professional artist, an
amateur ski bum, and an avid hiker. Lissa lives in the San Francisco Bay
area with her husband and daughter.</div>
<br />
<b>Related:</b><br />
I<a href="http://bit.ly/11aX7ub">t’s Official: Meditation Reduces Stress!</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/XDimry">Meditation Myths, Busted</a><br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/11eM5HH">A Meditation for Healing Addiction</a></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-25221847563971715852013-05-08T17:38:00.001+01:002013-05-08T17:38:16.407+01:00Crime against Nature and Society - The E.U. wants to control all seeds<div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government:</b></span><br />
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<i><b>SAY NO - TAKE ACTION:</b></i><br />
<i>- <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_dont_accept_this_Let_us_keep_our_seeds_EU/?pv=18">http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_dont_accept_this_Let_us_keep_our_seeds_EU/?pv=18</a></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><i>- <a href="https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/diversidade-das-sementes-em-risco-no-a-uma-lei-europeia-que-beneficie-a-indstria-das-sementes#googtrans%28de">https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/diversidade-das-sementes-em-risco-no-a-uma-lei-europeia-que-beneficie-a-indstria-das-sementes#googtrans%28de</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It's called the </span><i>Plant Reproductive Material Law</i><span style="background-color: white;">, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The draft text of the law, which has already been amended several times due to a huge backlash from gardeners, is </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/pressroom/docs/proposal_aphp_en.pdf" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">viewable here.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market farmers," said Ben Gabel, vegetable breeder and director of </span><a href="http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">The Real Seed Catalogue</a><span style="background-color: white;">. "Home gardeners have really different needs - for example they grow by hand, not machine, and can't or don't want to use such powerful chemical sprays. There's no way to register the varieties suitable for home use as they don't meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety Agency, which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by industrial farmers."</span><br />
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Virtually all plants, vegetable seeds and gardeners to eventually be registered by government</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;">All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:</span><br />
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<i>Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers<br />The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via direct application procedure to the CVPO.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of their </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/seeds.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">seeds</a><span style="background-color: white;">. From the proposed law text:</span><br />
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<i>The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing of<br />applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits, variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for the duration of<br />the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/registration.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">registration</a>.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">While this law may initially only be targeted at </span><i>commercial</i><span style="background-color: white;"> gardeners, it sets a precedent to sooner or later go after </span><b>home gardeners</b><span style="background-color: white;"> and require them to abide by the same insane regulations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future - not just agricultural </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/plants.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">plants</a><span style="background-color: white;">, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As a hint of the level of </span><b>insane bureaucracy</b><span style="background-color: white;"> that gardeners and vegetable growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from the </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/pressroom/docs/proposal_aphp_en.pdf" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">proposed EU law</a><span style="background-color: white;">:</span><br />
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<i>Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the registration in the national variety<br />registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it uses for variety examination.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Such language is, of course, </span><b>Orwellian bureaucraticspeak</b><span style="background-color: white;"> that means only one thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/government.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">government</a><span style="background-color: white;"> insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the law by reading it:</span><br />
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<i>You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what is going on and why.<br /><br />The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the law.<br /><br />For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables - which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary , and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve Amateur varieties! The Summary is completely bogus. Do not base your views of the law on it!<br /><br />So, be warned. By all means, read it yourself. But you have the ignore the Summary as that is not the Law, and does not reflect what is in the Law. </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As you might suspect, this move is the "final solution" of Monsanto, DuPont and other seed-domination corporations who have long admitted their goal is the complete domination of all seeds and crops grown on the planet. By criminalizing the private growing of vegetables -- thereby turning gardeners into criminals -- EU bureaucrats can finally hand over full control of the food supply to powerful corporations like Monsanto.</span><br />
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Most heirloom seeds to be criminalized</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;">Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. This means the act of saving seeds from one generation to the next -- a cornerstone of sustainable living -- will become </span><b>a criminal act</b><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In addition, as Gabel explains, this law "...effectively kills off development of home-garden seeds in the EU."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is the ultimate wish of all governments, of course: To criminalize any act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the USA and the EU. </span><b>This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector at a time</b><span style="background-color: white;">, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">An </span><a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_dont_accept_this_Let_us_keep_our_seeds_EU" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">online petition</a><span style="background-color: white;"> has already been started on this issue and has garnered nearly 25,000 signatures so far.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">NOAH'S ARK and 240 other organizations from 40 European countries have also initiated an "open letter" appealing to Brussels bureaucrats to stop the insanity. </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fseedpolicy.arche-noah.at%2Fen%2Feu-seed-law%2Ftake-action%2Funterschreiben" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">Click here for a translated version of their petition</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">By the way, I am on the record </span><b>predicting this exact scenario</b><span style="background-color: white;">. Read </span><a href="http://freedom.naturalnews.com/E03_P01.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">Chapter Three of my fiction book, "Freedom Chronicles 2026."</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (Read it FREE, online.) It depicts a seed smuggler living in a time when seeds are criminalized and people earn a living as professional seed smugglers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In my book, a woman uses a specially-crafted breast prosthesis to smuggle seeds to "underground gardeners" in full defiance of laws crafted by Monsanto. A vast underground network of grassroots gardeners and scientists manage to put together a "seed weapon" to destroy GMOs and take back the food supply from evil corporations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Mark my words: </span><b>Seeds are about to become contraband</b><span style="background-color: white;">. Anyone who grows their own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any individual to be able to grow their own food.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is about </span><b>total domination of the food supply</b><span style="background-color: white;"> and the criminalizing of gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government (i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.</span><br />
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<b>Additional sources:</b><br />
<a href="http://open-seeds.org/bad-seed-law/" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://open-seeds.org/bad-seed-law/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-57108596036543743972013-04-29T14:46:00.000+01:002013-04-29T14:46:00.368+01:00Genetically Engineered Trees – The Increasing Threat(A MUST SEE) The Growing Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees – Award winning documentary film explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. The film features David Suzuki, who explores the unknown and possibly disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-38459651380728566492013-04-28T13:41:00.002+01:002013-04-28T13:41:31.042+01:00Why Is the Global Economy Still Relying on Child Labor / Slavery?<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Besides politicians and corporations, consumers are one of the main responsible's for human rights abuses, among other problems. Choose ethical and ecological products and pressure politicians to change / enforce laws and corporations to produce ethical and ecological products and services. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In 2012, approximately 21 million people worked in forced labor worldwide, including in industrialized nations like the United States. </span><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/14856/please_stop_exploiting_people/#13660519195131&action=collapse_widget&id=8918993" style="color: #0c739e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">More than one quarter of these people were children</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. Overall, 215 million children labor worldwide, half of them in dangerous industries, often without adequate employment and workplace protections.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/ocft/tvpra.htm" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">74 countries have been identified as locales where child labor and forced labor are used</a>, and much of it occurs in the context of production of basic commodities highly valued in the West, including coffee, chocolate, gold, cotton, beef and sugarcane. Children are also forced into sex work and domestic labor like cleaning and caring for children.</div>
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While the United States might have officially ended slavery with the Civil War, slavery, forced labor and related exploitative labor practices endure across the world, including in the U.S. In fact, the use of such practices has actually <em>increased </em>worldwide in recent years. What’s going on? Why is the global economy so heavily reliant on forms of labor that should have gone out with the dodo?</div>
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<b>The answer to this troubling question is a complex one that lies in part in the demand for cheap, readily-available goods across the West. Companies rallying to meet this demand are also driven by internal pressures for profit, with demands from their boards and shareholders. Their desire to profit at all costs mean that they cut corners when it comes to sourcing, protecting their workers, monitoring working conditions and ensuring that their products are produced without the use of slave, forced, child and other kinds of exploitative labor.</b></div>
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Groups like the International Labor Organization that are concerned with the use of exploitative labor in the U.S. are attempting to address it with tools like a <a href="http://www.dol.gov/ilab/child-forced-labor/index.htm" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">free program</a> for businesses that want to commit to sourcing their labor more responsibly, but they aren’t making much headway. They’re going up against a complex and interconnected system that pits business against children and workers from marginalized populations like ethnic and cultural minorities.</div>
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Complying with the standards involved in ensuring that a supply chain remains free of exploitative labor and the use of children means careful monitoring and high levels of transparency. It also requires giving up some profits, something many companies are reluctant to do — after all, many relocate specifically to the Global South in order to evade oversight and increase profits thanks to lower labor costs and other operating costs.</div>
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<b>The only way to change the culture of labor is to increase pressure on companies to do the right thing by their workers. Members of the public can push for slave and child labor-free goods, demanding products produced ethically</b>, but this requires a functional and accurate system for identifying and certifying products, to prevent companies from simply claiming that their products meet standards when this is not in fact the case.</div>
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Another, and potentially far more effective, mechanism for getting children out of the workforce and into school where they belong is the application of shareholder activism. In shareholder activism, individuals and groups buy up blocks of shares and coordinate together to vote on key issues when a company brings them to shareholders for the vote. They can force people off the board, elect representatives who will promote their interests and force a company to behave with more integrity and accountability.</div>
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This kind of activism can require deep pockets, especially for multinationals, but it can be a profound way to send a message. As one company begins to establish a more responsible industry standard and customers turn to it, competitors will be forced to do the same, even if it means a drop in profits. That can create a snowball effect of change, and make the world safer for children.</div>
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Not sure about how much this affects you personally? Use the <a href="http://slaveryfootprint.org/" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Slavery Footprint</a> tool to get a grim and personal look at how many slaves work for you. Enter some details about your habits and lifestyle, and it will provide information about the kinds of people involved in the production of the goods and services you use.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-38830196092738888802013-04-26T02:00:00.000+01:002013-04-27T14:05:22.472+01:00A História Secreta da Obsolescência Planeada - Documentário a não perder<b>IMPORTANTE A NÃO PERDER | DIVULGUE</b><br />
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<b>A História Secreta da Obsolescência Planeada - Como as empresas enganam o consumidor e prejudicam o ambiente:</b><br />
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A Obsolescência Programada é uma estratégia económica imoral utilizada pelas empresas a nível mundial, que de forma deliberada, visa fazer com que a vida de um produto tenha a sua durabilidade muito limitada de forma a que o mesmo avarie rapidamente e o consumidor seja obrigado a voltar a comprar o produto de uma forma regular.<br />
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A Obsolescência Programada começou primeiramente com as lâmpadas, que antes duravam décadas trabalhando ininterruptamente (como a lâmpada que está acesa há mais de cem anos num posto dos bombeiros dos EUA) mas, depois de uma reunião com o cartel dos fabricantes, passaram a fazê-las para durar apenas 1.000 horas.<br />
Essa prática generalizada a nível mundial que foi aplicada em quase todo o tipo de produtos, tem graves efeitos sociais e especialmente ambientais, e gerado montanhas de resíduos, transformando algumas cidades de países de terceiro mundo em verdadeiros depósitos tóxicos, sem referir a matéria prima, energia e tempo humano desperdiçados.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">You’re probably careful about avoiding choking hazards and other common safety issues with toys, but did you know there are a wide variety of synthetic chemicals and heavy metals that could be in them? From lead and cadmium in paint, plastics, and jewelry to xylene, toluene, and </span><a href="http://healthychild.org/easy-steps/avoid-phthalates-find-phthalate-free-products-instead%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8/" style="color: #0c739e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">phthalates</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">in</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://healthychild.org/lead-found-in-lipstick-parabens-in-perfume-what-is-your-teen-wearing/" style="color: #0c739e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">play cosmetics</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">–when did toy boxes become a toxic minefield?</span><br />
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<strong>1. Go au natural.</strong> Look for safe toys made of natural materials like solid woods (with no finish or a non-toxic finish) and organic textiles (like cotton, wool, and felt).</div>
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<strong>2. Simplify.</strong> Buying fewer toys is eco-friendly. It’s better for the planet (and your pocketbook!).</div>
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<strong>3. Re-purpose.</strong> Can something you already have be used as a toy? An empty box or set of stainless steel bowls can provide hours of safe and happy play, depending on the age of your child.</div>
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<strong>4. Look for items that will last.</strong> Safe, high quality toys may cost a bit more, but they will last much longer and can be handed down to younger children. Also, if you decide to sell them, you’re more likely to make your money back.</div>
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<strong>5. Read labels.</strong> Before you buy, ask yourself “What’s this toy made of? Where does it come from?” Get to know a toy before you buy it. This is important for pet toys, too.</div>
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<strong>6. Look for local.</strong> Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by buying local as well as healthy. If you’re shopping globally, opt for European, Canadian or Japanese toy imports. Other countries may have lax toy safety regulations.</div>
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<strong>7. Opt for open-ended toys.</strong> Look for items that encourage creativity and are capable of being used for many different types of play. Wooden blocks, colorful scarves, smooth stones, and even cardboard boxes are fun, safe toys that can be the foundation for innumerable creative adventures.</div>
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<em><strong><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/cat-toys-from-reused-household-items.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Make Paper Dolls from Recycled Materials</a></strong></em></div>
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<strong>8. Avoid cheap jewelry and kids’ cosmetics.</strong> Both of these types of dress-up products are high-risk. Cheap jewelry often has high lead levels and kids’ cosmetics can have any number of questionable and unsafe chemicals.</div>
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<strong>9. Purge plastics.</strong> Okay, this is nearly impossible these days, but make your best effort. If you do buy plastic, <a href="http://healthychild.org/easy-steps/know-your-plastics/" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">look for safer plastics</a> like those labeled #2, #4, or #5 in the chasing arrows symbol usually found on the bottom of the product. Not labeled? Call the manufacturer. This is key for buying safe pet toys, too, as they’re obviously chewing on toys–a direct route of ingestion.</div>
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<strong>10. Text for Healthy Toys.</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">HealthyToys.org</span> is a database to help you find safe toys. You can even access it from your mobile phone. Just text keywords and you’ll receive information immediately regarding any testing that’s been done to determine whether or not a particular toy is safe. They even rank pet toys by safety.</div>
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<strong>11. Sign-up for recall alerts. </strong>The Consumer Product Safety Commission posts recalls online, as does the website Recalls.gov. If a toy you own is recalled, take it out of rotation immediately and follow the company’s instructions on how to get a safe replacement.</div>
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<strong>12. Have fun!</strong> Playtime isn’t about what you have, it’s about what you do. Get down and dirty with your kids. Laugh and simply enjoy spending time together.</div>
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<strong>For more on the benefits of safe and healthy playtime with your kids, read more here:</strong></div>
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<a href="http://healthychild.org/healthy-childs-play-time-to-get-serious-about-goofing-off/" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">Healthy Child’s Play: Time to Get Serious about Goofing Off</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/12-tips-for-choosing-greener-safer-toys.html#ixzz2RUKPyA7Z" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/12-tips-for-choosing-greener-safer-toys.html#ixzz2RUKPyA7Z</a></span><br />
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A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY - We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.<br />
This visually dramatic special illustrates the planet's fragile state entirely from a birds-eye view in stunning high definition. With spectacular aerial views from more than 50 countries, viewers will see the extent of human impact on our landscapes. And not a moment too soon: In the past 50 years -a single lifetime - the Earth has been more radically changed than by all previous generations of humanity. <br />
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DOCUMENTÁRIO A NÃO PERDER - <b> </b>Home é um excelente documentário
artístico sobre o ambiente, que contem imagens de uma beleza
impressionante. Foi produzido pelo jornalista, fotógrafo e ambientalista
francês Yann Arthus-Bertrand, e lançado em 2009. O filme é inteiramente
composto de imagens aéreas de vários lugares da Terra. Mostra-nos a
diversidade da vida no planeta e como a humanidade está ameaçando o
equilíbrio ecológico.<br />
Vivemos em tempos excepcionais. Os cientistas nos dizem que temos 10 anos para mudar a maneira como vivemos, evitar o esgotamento dos recursos naturais e a evolução catastrófica do clima da Terra. As apostas são altas para nós e nossos filhos. Todos devem participar no esforço, e HOME foi concebido para levar uma mensagem de mobilização para cada ser humano. Maravilhoso documentário com belíssimas imagens e linda música de Armand Amar. Excelente para ser passado numa sala de aula, certamente irá despertar muitas consciências para os perigos do actual rumo civilizacional. HOME mostra as origens da vida no planeta e o equilíbrio existente entre as espécies. Revela a actuação do homo sapiens, que em apenas 50 anos, dos seus 200 mil anos de existência, está mudando completamente as características da vida no planeta, que existe há 4 bilhões de anos. O filme clama pela atitude do indivíduo e da união de força dos povos para que ainda possamos salvar o que restou dele. Este filme é um alerta e uma declaração de amor ao nosso lar: a Terra.<br />
<span class="hps">Todos devem</span> <span class="hps">participar</span> <span class="hps">no esforço</span>, e Home <span class="hps">foi concebido</span> <span class="hps">para</span> <span class="hps">levar uma mensagem</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">mobilização</span> <span class="hps">para</span> <span class="hps">cada ser humano.</span><br />
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<b>100 Simple ways to help change the world!</b><br />
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1. Open an ethical bank account with Smile/Co-OP www.smile.co.uk or<br />
http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk<br />
2. Invest your other savings ethically www.eiris.org<br />
3. Change your electricity supplier to a renewable one<br />
http://www.npower.com/yourhome/green/juiceandwindpower or<br />
http://www.unit-e.co.uk<br />
4. Buy local http://www.buylocalfood.co.uk<br />
5. Buy less! Save yourself time and money as well as the planet<br />
www.buynothingday.co.uk<br />
6. Buy organic www.soilassociation.org<br />
7. Eat seasonal food www.foodlinks.info/buying/VegSeasons.php<br />
8. Volunteer www.csv.org.uk<br />
9. Give to charity www.charitychoice.co.uk<br />
10. Buy fair trade www.fairtrade.org.uk or www.maketradefair.com<br />
11. Get on your bike – get fit, get around and see the world at an entirely<br />
different pace www.sustrans.org.uk<br />
12. Compost your garden and kitchen waste in a heap or a wormery.<br />
Reduce the waste you send to landfill sites and get lovely compost for<br />
your plants into the bargain! - www.compost.org.uk or<br />
www.wigglywigglers.co.uk<br />
13.Get a rain butt and use the water to give your garden a drink not the<br />
hose<br />
14. Grow stuff, indoors and out, to eat, clean the air in your house or to<br />
give to friends instead of cut flowers www.permaculture.co.uk or<br />
www.ecocities.net/Gardening.htm<br />
15. Install a nesting box/bird table or feeder to attract feathered friends<br />
www.rspb.org/gardens/whatyoucando/nestboxsmallbird/index.asp<br />
16. Carbon neutralise your holiday. For further details visit<br />
futureforests.com, chooseclimate.org, carbonneutral.com.<br />
17.When on holiday: ask for your towels to be washed every other day, or<br />
less, instead of every day (only 17% of people do this when on<br />
holiday)<br />
18.Switch off your air conditioning when you are out for the day (only<br />
18% of holiday-makers do this). If just 50% of people did, it is<br />
estimated that across the world 5m tonnes of CO2 emissions would be<br />
prevented each year.<br />
19.Use water sparingly when abroad. The average tourist uses as much<br />
water in 24 hours as a villager in the developing world uses in 100<br />
days.<br />
20. Follow Tourism Concern's traveller tips; put money into local hands by<br />
drinking local beer and fruit juice rather than imported brands; stay in<br />
locally owned accommodation; stick to footpaths, don't stand on coral,<br />
and don't buy products made from endangered animals or plants; wear<br />
respectful clothing; and always ask people if you can take their<br />
photograph www.tourismconcern.org.uk<br />
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21. When cleaning the house: Avoid all the expensive and dubious<br />
chemicals such as the ‘Mr Muscles’ of this world as they often contain<br />
anti-bacterial agents more dangerous than the bacteria they are<br />
designed to eliminate! Instead why not make effective cleaning<br />
products yourself from cheap, easily available household products.-Make a window cleaner by mixing vinegar with water; or neat,<br />
with a few drops of tea tree oil, it can be used as a disinfectant.<br />
Try baking soda as an all-purpose cleaner or scourer, salt as an<br />
abrasive for cleaning pots and pans, and lemon juice as an<br />
alternative to bleach. Just re-label your old spray bottles to<br />
dispense them<br />
Use bicarbonate of soda to deodorise carpets or with white<br />
vinegar to scrub stainless steel, clear drains, remove tea stains<br />
from mugs and remove permanent marker pen from skin.<br />
Vinegar is a good replacement for limescale remover. Unscrew<br />
your showerhead and leave it in vinegar overnight; the next<br />
morning it will be free of limescale.<br />
22. If you must buy cleaning products then use biodegradable or<br />
environmentally friendlier products such as Ecover Squirteco, an allpurpose<br />
cleaner that relies on plant- and mineral-based surfactants to<br />
provide its cleaning oomph, and Ecover washing-up liquid<br />
www.ecover.com<br />
23. Get your family and workplace to perform a waste audit to determine<br />
how much they throw away. Hopefully, this will shock them into action.<br />
www.globalactionplan.org<br />
24. For recycling to work, recycled goods have to be a profitable industry.<br />
Do your bit by buying recycled goods whenever possible.<br />
www.recycledproducts.org.uk<br />
25.If practical, build or set aside an area dedicated to sorting recyclable<br />
waste.<br />
26. About 80% of what we throw away is recyclable. Find your nearest<br />
recycling point at www.wastepoint.co.uk<br />
27.Crush the rubbish you send to the landfill as small as possible. This<br />
way, it will take up less space.<br />
28.Try to avoid drink cartons that are made of a paper/polyethylene mix,<br />
which are notoriously hard to recycle.<br />
29. Rid yourself of junk mail, sign-up with the Mailing Preference Service<br />
(www.mpsonline.org.uk tel: 0845 703 4599).<br />
30. Get inspiration from others. See how New Zealand is putting the rest of<br />
the western world to shame with its Zero Waste policy<br />
(www.zerowaste.co.nz).<br />
31.Be careful to note the subtle difference between various "mobius<br />
loops" - the circle of arrows seen on packaging. Only arrows with a<br />
dark background mean that the item is made with recycled materials.<br />
Arrows on a light background mean the item can be recycled - a big<br />
difference.<br />
32.When buying plastics look out for the following recyclable types: PET<br />
(polyethylene terephalate), HDPE (high-density polyethylene) and<br />
LDPE (low-density polyethylene).<br />
33.Follow the lead of Friends of the Earth and the Women's Environmental<br />
Network which urge you to post excessive packaging to the guilty<br />
firm's HQ.<br />
34.Avoid buying anything that boasts on its packaging that it is disposable<br />
- gloves, paper towels, cleaning cloths, bin liners, nappies, plastic cups.<br />
35.Buy products with less packaging<br />
36.Buy in bulk<br />
37.If you use the dry cleaner, ask them to put several items in one plastic<br />
covering.<br />
38. If you can't think of a use for something you don't want, take it to a<br />
charity shop.<br />
39. Re-use good packaging such as paper, boxes, bags and bubble wrap or<br />
wrap gifts in fabric and tie with ribbon; both are reusable and prettier<br />
than paper and sticky-tape.<br />
40.The best way to re-use is to repair rather than throw away.<br />
41. Get children interested in our waste problem. Start by getting them to<br />
visit www.recyclezone.org.uk<br />
42. Buy your own bee hive: without bees the planet would last for only 60<br />
years (and honey is good for your health) www.bbka.org.uk<br />
43. Use a nappy washing service: they use 32% less energy and 41% less<br />
water than home washing. UK Nappy Helpline: 01983 401959<br />
44.Slow down. Driving at 50mph uses 25% less fuel than 70mph.<br />
45.Wash your clothes with your flatmates' instead of wasting water on<br />
half-empty loads.<br />
46.Turn down your central heating and put on a jumper.<br />
47.Install a new condensing boiler, they are up to 30% more energy<br />
efficient than traditional systems<br />
48.Take a brisk shower, not a leisurely bath, to save water.<br />
49. Hold a Tupperware party. Airtight food containers can be reused;<br />
sandwich bags and plastic wrap cannot. www.tupperware.com<br />
50.Choose energy-efficient appliances when you replace old ones.<br />
51. Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs. They last eight times as long and<br />
use a fraction of the energy. www.saveenergy.co.uk<br />
52.Join a library instead of buying books.<br />
53.Get to know your neighbours; they are more likely to keep your home<br />
safe than energy-guzzling security lamps. You might even like them!<br />
54.Recycle your car oil at a recycling depot or petrol station rather than in<br />
your driveway; it contains lead, nickel and cadmium and oil in the<br />
drainage system covers water in a thin layer suffocating life<br />
underneath.<br />
55. Let them carry you off in a biodegradable cardboard coffin, saving<br />
trees, instead of burning your body at the crematorium.<br />
www.naturaldeath.org.uk<br />
56. Raise your glass to organic beer; conventionally grown hops are<br />
sprayed up to a dozen times a year. www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk<br />
57.Take the plunge and move in with your partner so you light and heat<br />
one home rather than two.<br />
58. Give a colleague a lift to work; if no one is going your way, join a<br />
carshare scheme to find a passenger. Www.liftshare.com<br />
www.carclubs.org.uk<br />
59.Cook for friends. Large quantities of food use less packaging than the<br />
same quantity in individual portions (and take less energy to cook).<br />
60. Copy Government Ministers by holidaying in Britain (but unlike them,<br />
skip the follow-up trip to Tuscany) there are thousands of amazing<br />
places to visit right here on our own little rock (no promises on the<br />
weather!). www.visitbritain.com<br />
61.Refuse plastic carrier bags, or at least reuse them. Cloth bags are<br />
better.<br />
62. Donate your leftover paint to a community project; Britons fail to use<br />
6.2m litres of the paint they buy each year.<br />
www.reuze.co.uk/paint.shtml<br />
63.Drink tap or filtered water, not bottled. It is no accident that ‘Evian’ is<br />
naïve spelt backwards!<br />
64.Invest in a washing line; tumble dryers devour electricity.<br />
65. Put a ‘hippo’ or plastic coke bottle full of water in your toilet cistern to<br />
reduce the flush volume and save water www.hippo-thewatersaver.<br />
co.uk<br />
66.Turn off TVs and stereos instead of switching them to standby.<br />
67.Lighten up: paint your walls a pale colour, so you need less artificial<br />
light.<br />
68.Only flush toilets if really needed; follow the Australian maxim: "If it's<br />
yellow that's mellow, if it's brown flush it down."<br />
69.Improve the ambience and dine by candlelight, saving electricity.<br />
70.Insulate your home. Cavity wall insulation can cut heat loss through<br />
the wall by up to 60%.<br />
71. Buy from companies with eco-friendly policies; boycott those without<br />
www.ethicalconsumer.org<br />
72. Soak up the sun; even in Britain, solar panels can produce a surprising<br />
amount of energy. www.solarcentury.co.uk<br />
73.Clean the back of your fridge. Dusty coils can increase energy<br />
consumption by 30%.<br />
74.Avoid air travel; it produces three times more carbon dioxide per<br />
passenger than rail.<br />
75.Choose a car with a 3-way catalytic converter, to reduce nitrogen<br />
oxides and hydrocarbons emissions by 90%.<br />
76.Ban blinds. Heavy curtains keep in more heat in winter.<br />
77.Change materials as well as rooms; MDF and chipboard release<br />
formaldehyde, a carcinogen. Buy sustainably produced wood instead.<br />
78.Cut up the plastic rings from packs of beer; they are invisible in water<br />
so wildlife can choke on them or trap themselves.<br />
79.Bring a mug to the office instead of using polystyrene cups.<br />
80.Snap up a 36-exposure film instead of 24, reducing waste from<br />
packaging and processing. Better still get a digital camera!<br />
81.Cancel that expensive gym membership and walk to work instead.<br />
82.Drink more water, most of us are dehydrated most of the time<br />
83. Reflect! Take time out from your day and spend 15 minutes thinking<br />
about yourself, your friends, family and the rest of the world, a great<br />
way to reduce stress (hopefully) and be more positive<br />
www.stressbusting.co.uk and www.calmcentre.com<br />
84. Improve yourself! Do a course of study or activity at your local<br />
education centre…learn a language, how to dance the fandango or knit<br />
sweaters from the fur of obscure south american mammals<br />
www.learndirect.co.uk<br />
85. Get out of debt if you can, we all get into difficult financial situations<br />
but there’s always a way out. www.nationaldebtline.co.uk or<br />
www.cccs.co.uk<br />
86. Be independent. Set up your own business, be your own boss and do<br />
something you really believe in www.businesslink.gov.uk<br />
87. Work flexibly, get a work:life balance www.w-lb.org.uk<br />
88. Buy wood only from sustainable sources www.fscoax.org<br />
89. Vote! Get out there and make your voice and opinions count! –<br />
www.electoralcommission.gov.u k<br />
90.Smile<br />
91.Buy chocolates from proper chocolate stores, so they are not<br />
individually wrapped<br />
92.Pretend Christmas has come early; turkey is more likely than chicken<br />
to be produced in the UK, while British-grown brussel sprouts require<br />
less transport than Kenyan mangetout.<br />
93.Tell your friends and family about this list of simple things to do<br />
94. Switch off your television and go out and do something less boring<br />
instead in a ‘Why don’t you’ style www.whitedot.org<br />
95.Laughter is the best medicine – see the funny side of life<br />
96. Do something amazing, donate blood www.blood.co.uk<br />
97. Carry a donor card and enable someone to www.uktransplant.org.uk<br />
98. Buy only Marine Stewardship Council accredited fish products<br />
www.msc.org<br />
99.Don’t fill the kettle to the brim every time you make a cuppa – save<br />
energy by only boiling as much as you need<br />
100.Instead of buying yourself an expensive new outfit swap your clothes<br />
with your friends to reinvigorate your wardrobe<br />
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This list compiled by FUTERRA with the help of Friends of the Earth<br />
and Leo Hickman’s Guardian column on ethical living<br />
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<a href="http://www.futerra.org/">www.futerra.org</a><br />
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1. Avoid disposable in favor of reusable<br />
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2. Avoid drying rags in a clothes dryer.<br />
3. Avoid power appliances when handpower works.<br />
4. Avoid highly processed foods.<br />
5. Avoid using styrofoam—it can't be recycled.<br />
6. Avoid watering driveways and sidewalks.<br />
7. Be responsible and creative with leftover foods.<br />
8. Buy in bulk goods to reduce wasted packaging.<br />
9. Buy energy efficient electric appliances.<br />
10. Buy foods without additives.<br />
11. Buy foods without preservatives.<br />
12. Buy food and goods from sources you trust<br />
13. Buy large quantities to reduce shopping trips.<br />
14. Buy living Christmas trees.<br />
15. Buy locally grown food and produce.<br />
16. Buy organic, pesticide-free foods.<br />
17. Compost your food scraps.<br />
18. Discover and protect watersheds in your area,<br />
19. Don't burn trash or other smoky materials.<br />
20. Drain cooking grease onto paper bags, not paper towels.<br />
21. Drive a fuel-efficient car.<br />
22. Drive less: walk, bicycle, carpooland use public transportation.<br />
23. Eat foods low on the food chain; avoid meat.<br />
24. Eat more natural, nutritious foods.<br />
25. Educate elected representatives on ecology.<br />
26. Exercise regularly.<br />
27. Explore and learn about your bioregion.<br />
28. Grow your own food, even a small amount.<br />
29. Hang dry some or all of your clothes.<br />
30. Heat your home less and wear warmer clothes.<br />
31. Heat your home more with renewable energies.<br />
32. Hold a potluck dinner to discuss local ecology.<br />
33. If you use a dishwasher, turn off the drying cycle.<br />
34. Install a water-conserving device in your toilets.<br />
35. Install a water-conserving showerhead.<br />
36. Insulate your home to maximum efficiency.<br />
37. Invest for social responsibility as well as profit.<br />
38. Invest in solar power, where practical.<br />
39. Invest in well-made, long-lived clothing.<br />
40. Keep hazardous chemicals in safe containers.<br />
41. Keep appliance motors well adjusted for efficiency.<br />
42. Mend and repair rather than discard and replace.<br />
43. Oppose meddling in ecological balance.<br />
44. Oppose private development of special areas.<br />
45. Oppose roadside use of defoliants.<br />
46. Organize or join a neighborhood toy exchange.<br />
47. Pick up litter along streets and highways.<br />
48. Plant native trees and shrubs around your home.<br />
49. Plant trees throughout your community.<br />
50. Plant your living Christmas tree.<br />
51. Practice preventive health care.<br />
52. Practice responsible family planning.<br />
53. Prepare only as much food as will be eaten.<br />
54. Protect your favorite distinctive natural areas.<br />
55. Purchase goods in reusable/recyclable containers.<br />
56. Put a catalytic converter on your wood stove.<br />
57. Put toxic substances out of reach of children.<br />
58. Recycle aluminum.<br />
59. Recycle glass.<br />
60. Recycle newspaper.<br />
61. Recycle old clothes.<br />
62. Recycle plastic.<br />
63. Recycle used motor oil.<br />
64. Recycle your unneeded items.<br />
65. Re-use paper bags.<br />
66. Re-use plastic bags for storage and waste.<br />
67. Save up for full loads in clothes washers.<br />
68. Save up for full loads in dishwasher.<br />
69. Shop by phone, then go pick up your purchases.<br />
70. Speak out about your values in community groups.<br />
71. Support efficient energy sources in your bioregion.<br />
72. Support elected representatives on ecological issues.<br />
73. Support energy conservation in your bioregion.<br />
74. Support global ecological improvement efforts.<br />
75. Support local credit unions.<br />
76. Support local merchants before large chains.<br />
77. Support neighborhood food cooperatives.<br />
78. Support proper waste water and sewage treatment.<br />
79. Support the cultural diversity in your bioregion.<br />
80. Support the plants and animals in your community.<br />
81. Take shorter showers.<br />
82. Teach your children ecological wisdom.<br />
83. Turn down the thermostat on your water heater.<br />
84. Turn off the lights when not needed.<br />
85. Turn off the water while you brush your teeth.<br />
86. Use biodegradable soaps and detergents.<br />
87. Use cloth diapers.<br />
88. Use cloth table napkins.<br />
89. Use less tapwater whenever possible.<br />
90. Use non-toxic pest control.<br />
91. Use only medications you trust/understand.<br />
92. Use rags or towels instead of paper.<br />
93. Use rechargeable batteries.<br />
94. Use the second side of paper for scratch paper.<br />
95. Use water from cooking vegetables to make soup.<br />
96. Volunteer for work in a community garden.<br />
97. Volunteer to maintain local parks and wilderness.<br />
98. Wash clothes in cold water.<br />
99. Wash dishes in still, not running water.<br />
100. Weather-seal your home.<br />
101. Work to unlearn poor ecological habits.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Eu sei, eu sei: ninguém quer um desastre no relacionamento. Todo mundo procura alguém que o ame, o proteja, o acaricie, seja bem-humorado, acolhedor, protector</span><span style="font-size: small;"> E é aí que começa o desastre: tal pessoa não existe. Não para quem procura tal pessoa. Os relacionamentos que estão mais estáveis, não apareceram assim na frente, como por encanto – eles foram sendo construídos, geralmente à custa de muita mudança interior, muita auto-reflexão, muita sabedoria para parar de exigir a perfeição do outro e aceitar as próprias fraquezas. Sim, fraquezas que todo ser humano possui. Porque se é humano, possui fraquezas. E defeitos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Não estou querendo tirar sarro de quem teve ou tem problemas de relacionamento. No fundo, o que escrevo é uma auto-análise de quem também sempre procurou alguém perfeito para se sentar ao meu lado. Exatamente como escrevi acima. E como não encontrava, porque isso não existe, todo mundo que parava ao meu lado era alvo das minhas opiniões, meus argumentos, minhas críticas, que buscavam mudá-la para a perfeição que eu tinha na minha própria cabeça. Ah, sim, é claro: inconsciente ou conscientemente, eu estava buscando a perfeição que eu julgava conhecer. Algo arrogantemente dentro de mim dizia que eu sabia o que era perfeição. E que o outro não sabia. Logo, tinha que entender o que eu queria dizer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Talvez ao seu lado exista alguém assim: que olha para tudo e sabe qual é o problema. Entende como mudar o comportamento das pessoas. Analisa o sujeito ao lado e vê como ele está conduzindo erradamente a vida dele. E o pior: não está percebendo! Talvez você seja assim. Você está vendo como ele está errado, e ele tem que ouvir você! Afinal, você sabe o que é melhor pra ele!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">É, mas felizmente não é possível saber o que é melhor para o outro. Eu nunca soube nem o que era o melhor para mim, até porque, ao ficar importunando a vida dos outros com minhas opiniões e sugestões, não podia olhar para mim mesmo e minhas necessidades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Um ser humano necessita se reconhecer, antes de querer reconhecer e mudar o outro. Temos dentro de nós, todos nós, um lado infantil, um lado criança, que carrega em si muitas emoções e impulsos. Estas emoções determinam muito a forma que reagiremos nas nossas relações. Se olharmos para dentro de nós e reconhecemos uma criança magoada, automaticamente iremos querer que quem está ao nosso lado supra esta mágoa. Porém, com certeza, ao nosso lado também haverá outra criança magoada, já que atraímos os semelhantes. Engraçado é que geralmente esta criança magoada fala como se fosse um adulto, com os seus conceitos de certo e errado, e determina o que o outro deveria ser ou fazer. Vamos imaginar uma criança, dando conselhos para nós, adultos. Como é isso? Funciona? A criança tem a noção do que está por detrás dos nossos problemas?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">O lado bom da nossa criança é que também ela possui alegria, desprendimento, liberdade, criatividade. Todos nós possuímos os dois lados. Quando não permitimos manifestar a criança alegre e espontânea, ao mesmo tempo que aceitamos e acolhemos as feridas da criança magoada, não conseguimos reagir de forma adulta com quem desejamos estabelecer um relacionamento adulto. Obviamente, vira um relacionamento infantil, como esses que existem na escola, baseado em cobranças, aparências exteriores, atitudes infantis e irresponsáveis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ninguém pode acolher a nossa criança magoada, a não ser nós mesmos. Dizer que a mágoa é culpa do pai, da mãe, do abandono, da violência, do abuso sexual, de nada adiantará para que consigamos nos equilibrar emocionalmente, e assumir uma atitude adulta. Dar culpas aos nossos problemas não resolve a situação. Deve chegar o momento em que, corajosamente, acolhemos todas as dores, mágoas, rancores, ódio, raiva, desprezo, abraçamos esses sentimentos, sem negá-los, e dizemos a nós mesmos: foi assim...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">E a partir disso, deveremos assumir um contrato conosco mesmos, de viver o melhor possível, e mudar somente aquilo que podemos mudar, que geralmente é nós mesmos. Viver observando a própria criança interior, para que as emoções reprimidas não tomem controle da própria vida. A partir disso, conseguimos estabelecer relacionamentos mais maduros e construtivos. Uma pessoa atenta às próprias emoções, que se aceita como é, com suas raivas e temores, vícios e virtudes, e que sabe dosá-los no dia-a-dia, encontrará outra pessoa semelhante.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Um relacionamento perfeito não existe, assim como pessoas perfeitas não existem. A capacidade de observarmos as próprias dores e emoções e mantê-las sob controle é cíclica, varia, tem altos e baixos. Por isso, as relações possuem altos e baixos. Um relacionamento eterno nunca existirá... Mesmo aquele casal que vive até o final da vida juntos, chegará o momento em que um deles morrerá primeiro, deixando ao outro a possibilidade de encontrar um novo relacionamento. Observando a natureza, vemos que tudo é cíclico. Existe vida e morte. União e separação. A idéia de um relacionamento interminável é bem infantil e presa ao sentimento de apego, que é contrário ao amor. Amor é liberdade, e a primeira demonstração de amor que podemos ter é conosco mesmo, nos libertando dos sentimentos e emoções reprimidas da nossa criança interior, permitindo assim uma vida mais leve e divertida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Trabalho com isso diariamente. Tive uma infância onde não demonstrei a espontaneidade de criança, senti-me muito reprimido e vigiado. Carrego um peso de ser culpado de algo que nem sei o que é, e a culpa funciona como aquelas enormes bolas de ferro que se prendiam aos pés dos prisioneiros. Porém, descobri que essas bolas são imaginárias. Descobri que minha criança pode e deve se divertir agora, para que as mágoas do passado se dissolvam na brincadeira. Deixei de culpar meus pais, tutores, parceiros, governo e seja lá mais quem for pelos meus problemas. Somente assim consigo tomar posse do meu adulto, e criar meus planos e metas para um futuro equilibrado e realizador. Antes, todos os meus planos eram criados pela minha criança magoada, e isso não era nada confortável. Uma criança magoada bate o pé e diz: eu quero isso, eu quero aquilo! E quando recebe, não dá nenhum valor e já parte para outro querer, porque ela está magoada... Talvez seja por isso que a Lei da Atração não funcione para tantos. Não é o adulto consciente do seu poder e alegria que pede ao universo... Mas como tudo na vida, é possível reverter o estado de espírito imaturo, com um única decisão: a decisão de assumir a própria mudança, aceitando-se plenamente como é, e abrindo-se para novas experiências.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-57495561372173013562013-04-14T18:08:00.000+01:002013-04-14T18:08:00.118+01:00"Alface" - Documentário português sobre os benefícios das hortasO que gosta mais aqui na sua horta? Esta foi uma pergunta que iniciou várias conversas na Aldeia das Amoreiras, uma pequena aldeia no interior do concelho de Odemira.<br />
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Enquanto se cavam as batatas ou se colhem alfaces, a aldeia vai se mostrando, quintais adentro, entre a hortaliça, nos frutos das suas árvores, no fluxo das suas águas, nos seus animais. Revelam-se técnicas usadas na horta e o jeito especial de quem as faz, ao ritmo do seu dia-a-dia. "O prazer de cuidar e estar na horta, o conhecimento dos habitantes de uma aldeia.<br />
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É comum que entre hortelões surjam conversas entusiasmadas sobre as suas hortas, as técnicas que usam e o que conseguem delas tirar. Foi este entusiasmo que quisemos registar. E foi também o olhar para o vídeo como um processo em que se valorizam conhecimentos, produzindo uma reflexão e gerando empatias a partir do exercício de ver e ser visto. A Aldeia das Amoreiras tem vivido desde 2010 um processo de participação com o objectivo de criar uma Aldeia das Amoreiras de Sonho ou uma Aldeia das Amoreiras Sustentável. Neste contexto, surge o vídeo como uma forma de valorizar os seus habitantes e o seu conhecimento numa época de transição de uma sociedade desintegrada do seu ambiente natural para uma época em que este conhecimento volta a ser importante.<br />
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No intuito de aprofundar a relação com os vizinhos da aldeia, fomos perguntar-lhes como eles vêem as suas hortas, entrando nos seus quintais fomos indagando como a aldeia se vê por dentro.<br />
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Realizado pelo Centro de Convergência – GAIA Alentejo na Aldeia das Amoreiras.<br />
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Fonte: <a href="http://centrodeconvergencia.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/o-que-gosta-mais-aqui-na-sua-horta-filme-alface-esta-on-line/">http://centrodeconvergencia.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/o-que-gosta-mais-aqui-na-sua-horta-filme-alface-esta-on-line/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. In study after study, research from independent organizations consistently shows <b>organic food is higher in nutrients</b> than traditional foods. Research shows that organic produce is higher in vitamin C, <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-cancer-fighting-foods.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">antioxidants</a>, and the minerals calcium, iron, chromium, and magnesium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. <b>They’re free of neurotoxins</b>–toxins that are damaging to brain and nerve cells. A commonly-used class of pesticides called organophosphates was originally developed as a toxic nerve agent during World War I. When there was no longer a need for them in warfare, industry adapted them to kill pests on foods. Many pesticides are still considered neurotoxins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. <b>They’re supportive of growing children’s brains and bodies</b>. Children’s growing brains and bodies are far more susceptible to <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/do-toxins-cause-autism.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">toxins</a> than adults. Choosing organic helps feed their bodies without the exposure to pesticides and genetically-modified organisms, both of which have a relatively short history of use (and therefore safety).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. <b>They are real food, not pesticide factories</b>. Eighteen percent of all genetically-modified seeds (and therefore foods that grow from them) are engineered to produce their own pesticides. Research shows that these seeds may continue producing pesticides inside your body once you’ve eaten the food grown from them! Foods that are actually pesticide factories…no thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that pesticides pollute the primary drinking source for half the American population. Organic farming is the best solution to the problem. <b>Buying organic helps reduce pollution in our drinking water</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. <b>Organic food is earth-supportive </b>(when big business keeps their hands out of it). Organic food production has been around for thousands of years and is the <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/join-a-csa-to-go-sustainable-this-spring.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sustainable</a> choice for the future. Compare that to modern agricultural practices that are destructive of the environment through widespread use of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers and have resulted in drastic environmental damage in many parts of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">7. Organic food choices grown on <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/resolve-to-support-a-healthier-food-system-in-2010.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">small-scale organic farms</a> <b>help ensure independent family farmers can create a livelihood</b>. Consider it the domestic version of fair trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">8. Most <b>organic food simply tastes better </b>than the pesticide-grown counterparts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">9. <b>Organic food is not exposed to gas-ripening </b>like some non-organic fruits and vegetables (like bananas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">10. <b>Organic farms are safer for farm workers</b>. Research at the Harvard School of Public Health found a 70 percent increase in Parkinson’s disease among people exposed to pesticides. Choosing organic foods means that more people will be able to work on farms without incurring the higher potential health risk of <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/pesticides-linked-to-parkinsons-disease.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Parkinson’s</a> or other illnesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">11. <b>Organic food supports wildlife habitats</b>. Even with commonly used amounts of pesticides, wildlife is being harmed by exposure to pesticides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">12. <b>Eating organic may reduce your cancer risk</b>. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides, and 30 percent of insecticides potentially cancer-causing. It is reasonable to think that the rapidly increasing rates of cancer are at least partly linked to the use of these carcinogenic pesticides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">13. Choosing <b><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/why-buy-organic-dairy-meat.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">organic meat</a> lessens your exposure to antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and drugs</b> that find their way into the animals and ultimately into you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">14. <b>Organic food is tried and tested</b>. By some estimates genetically-modified food makes up 80% of the average person’s food consumption. Genetic modification of food is still experimental. Avoid being part of this wide scale and uncontrolled experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">15. <b>Organic food supports greater biodiversity</b>. Diversity is fundamental to life on this planet. <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/are-you-eating-genetically-modified-foods.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Genetically-modified</a> and non-organic food is focused on high yield monoculture and is destroying biodiversity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Source: <a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/15-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz2QGfagZMT" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/15-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz2QGfagZMT</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000; line-height: 19px;"><b>17 Essential Reasons to Eat Organic Food:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">Organic food was the only option for thousands of years. Now, with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and genetically-modified foods, organic is still the best option. Here are 17 reasons to eat organic food:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. Genetically-modified foods were unleashed on the environment and the public by corporations like Monsanto without prior testing to determine their safety. In other words, eating genetically-modified foods (which most people in in large amounts) is participating in a long-term, uncontrolled experiment. Choose organic to avoid participating in this experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2. More and more research is coming in about the health threat of genetically-modified food. The results range from intestinal damage, allergies, liver or pancreatic problems, testicular cellular changes, tumors, and even death in the experimental animals. For more information, read the excellent books by Jeffrey M. Smith <i><a href="http://amzn.to/14FnyOC" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">Seeds of Deception</a></i> and<i><a href="http://amzn.to/XOQ6lT" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">Genetic Roulette</a></i>. I’ll discuss more of the problems linked with GMOs in upcoming blogs. Eating third-party certified organic foods or those that are guaranteed to be grown from organic seed helps protect you from the health consequences of GMOs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/health-risks-of-eating-gmo-foods.html" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">4 Potential Health Risks of Eating GMO Foods</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Fruits and vegetables are real food, not pesticide factories. <b>Eighteen percent of all genetically-modified seeds (and therefore foods that grow from them) are engineered to produce their own pesticides. Research shows that these seeds continue producing pesticides inside your body once you’ve eaten the food grown from them! </b>Foods that are actually pesticide factories…no thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. They’re free of neurotoxins—toxins that are damaging to brain and nerve cells. A commonly-used class of pesticides called organophosphates was originally developed as a toxic nerve agent during World War I. When there was no longer a need for them in warfare, industry adapted them to kill pests on foods. Many pesticides are still considered neurotoxins. Learn more about pesticides in <i><a href="http://amzn.to/12cZlyc" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan</a></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. They’re supportive of growing children’s brains and bodies. Children’s growing brains and bodies are far more susceptible to toxins than adults. Choosing organic helps feed their bodies without the exposure to pesticides and genetically-modified organisms, both of which have a relatively short history of use (and therefore safety).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6. In study after study, research from independent organizations consistently shows organic food is higher in nutrients than traditional foods. Research shows that organic produce is higher in vitamin C, antioxidants, and the minerals calcium, iron, chromium, and magnesium. (For more information, check out <i><a href="http://amzn.to/W84hOi" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">The Life Force Diet</a></i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that pesticides pollute the primary drinking source for half the American population. Organic farming is the best solution to the problem. Buying organic helps reduce pollution in our drinking water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8. Organic food is earth-supportive (when big business keeps their hands out of it). Organic food production has been around for thousands of years and is the sustainable choice for the future. Compare that to modern agricultural practices that are destructive of the environment through widespread use of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers and have resulted in drastic environmental damage in many parts of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9. Organic food choices grown on small-scale organic farms help ensure independent family farmers can create a livelihood. Consider it the domestic version of fair trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10. Most organic food simply tastes better than the pesticide-grown counterparts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">11. Organic food is not exposed to gas-ripening like some non-organic fruits and vegetables (like bananas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">12. Organic farms are safer for farm workers. Research at the Harvard School of Public Health found a 70% increase in Parkinson’s disease among people exposed to pesticides. Choosing organic foods means that more people will be able to work on farms without incurring the higher potential health risk of Parkinson’s or other illnesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">13. Organic food supports wildlife habitats. Even with commonly used amounts of pesticides, wildlife is being harmed by exposure to pesticides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">14. Eating organic may reduce your cancer risk. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides, and 30% of insecticides potentially cancer-causing. It is reasonable to think that the rapidly increasing rates of cancer are at least partly linked to the use of these carcinogenic pesticides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">15. Choosing organic meat lessens your exposure to antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and drugs that find their way into the animals and ultimately into you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">16. Organic food is tried and tested. By some estimates genetically-modified food makes up 80% of the average person’s food consumption. Genetic modification of food is still experimental. Avoid being part of this wide scale and uncontrolled experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">17. Organic food supports greater biodiversity. Diversity is fundamental to life on this planet. Genetically-modified and non-organic food is focused on high yield monoculture and is destroying biodiversity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Adapted from <i><a href="http://amzn.to/W84hOi" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;">The Life Force Diet by Michelle Schoffro Cook, PhD.</a></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;">Source:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/17-essential-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz2QGcfZDzu" style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/17-essential-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz2QGcfZDzu</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Short list of vegetable foods created using chemical agriculture and that can contain more chemicals - Choose organic foods:</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-dirty-dozen-is-now-the-dirty-14.html">http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-dirty-dozen-is-now-the-dirty-14.html</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-36046895527037537022013-04-11T07:24:00.003+01:002013-04-11T07:30:01.115+01:00Permaculture - Building a New Hope and Restoring the EarthA MUST SEE - (Earth Focus: Episode 53) Using Permaculture it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to improve the lives of people trapped in poverty and to sequester carbon naturally. John Liu presents "Hope in a Changing Climate" which showcases approaches that have worked on the Loess Plateau in China, Ethiopia and Rwanda. <br />
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<b>LEARN MORE ABOUT PERMACULTURE AND HOW IT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD:</b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-21750808058349667172013-03-07T18:14:00.002+00:002013-03-30T21:19:56.955+00:00QUEM SE IMPORTA? - Ajudar a criar a mudança por um mundo melhor<br />
"Quem se Importa?" é um documentário longa metragem sobre empreendedores sociais no Brasil e ao redor do mundo. Pessoas brilhantes, que criaram, cada qual, uma organização inovadora capaz de não só mudar a sociedade ao seu redor, mas também causar impacto social suficiente para que estas ideias possam virar políticas públicas aplicadas em várias partes do mundo. Um filme que, através de cada um de seus personagens, vasculha o mundo atrás de pessoas magníficas que oferecem simples soluções para as mais graves questões que nos afetam profundamente.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-55621317038552655352013-03-02T23:16:00.000+00:002013-03-02T23:16:14.925+00:00Deepak Chopra - The seven spiritual laws of success.The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra and
Olivia Newton-John discuss how to apply the principles of The Seven
Spiritual Laws of Success into your daily life, so you can transform your life in a very positive way by helping you find true peace and happiness. These Seven Laws are the
basis for all of the teachings at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-79489096607654450062013-02-23T22:04:00.004+00:002013-02-23T22:08:17.149+00:00 17 Examples of Admitted Vaccine Failure<br />
As parents, we’re inundated with mixed messages about vaccines. On one hand, doctors and mainstream media tell you how effective and
safe vaccines are. On the other hand, you have parents like me who claim
vaccines injured their children, or, in this case, that vaccines really
“don’t work” as advertised.<br />
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What is often quickly forgotten is how often (and badly) vaccines
fail. Ask yourself, “Why don’t these vaccine failures regularly make the
news?”<br />
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If you can imagine in your mind’s eye, for a moment, the cash
register “cha-chinging” while Big Pharma is pulling out a wad of cash, I
think you may be getting close to the real answer. There’s big money in
making sure the vaccine program is perceived as a success by you.<br />
But this isn’t why you’re here.<br />
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Before I give you the 17 examples of how vaccines have failed, please investigate the United States <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://vactruth.com/vaccine-schedule"><span style="color: blue;">vaccine schedule</span></a></span></b>. Children are injected with 36 vaccines by the time they are 6 years of age.<br />
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The United States has the most aggressive vaccine schedule in the world.</div>
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You’ll notice a common theme that when vaccines fail, the proposed
solution is often more vaccines, even when the child has already
received multiple doses to “protect” them.<br />
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As promised, here are examples of the children being injected with
toxic and ineffective vaccines, which their parents trusted would
protect their children from getting the disease.<br />
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<h3>
Vaccine Failure #1 – Mumps Outbreak in Orthodox Jewish Communities in the United States (2010)</h3>
A large mumps outbreak occurred among highly vaccinated U.S. Orthodox
Jewish communities during 2009 and 2010. Of the teenagers vaccinated,<br />
<ul>
<li>89% had previously received two doses of a mumps-containing vaccine</li>
<li>8% had received one dose</li>
</ul>
Those infected who received a vaccine: 97%. [1]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #2 – Mumps Epidemic in Iowa (2006)</h3>
In March, 2006, a total of 219 mumps cases had been reported in Iowa –
the largest epidemic of mumps in the United States since 1988.<br />
Of the 219 cases reported in Iowa, the average age of infection was 21. Of the 133 patients investigated with a vaccine history,<br />
<ul>
<li>87 (65%) had received 2 doses</li>
<li>19 (14%) had received 1 dose</li>
<li>8 (6%) had no doses</li>
<li>19 (14%) vaccine status could not be documented</li>
</ul>
Those infected who received a vaccine: 79% (at least). [2]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #3 – Mumps Outbreak at a Summer Camp in New York (2005)</h3>
On July 26, 2005, the New York State Department of Health identified
31 cases of mumps, possibly introduced by an unvaccinated camp counselor
from the United Kingdom (UK). The vaccine coverage for the entire camp
was 96%. Of the infected 31,<br />
<ul>
<li>16 (52%) had received 2 doses</li>
<li>4 (13%) had received 1 dose</li>
<li>9 (29%) had no doses</li>
<li>2 (6%) vaccine status could not be documented</li>
</ul>
20 of the 31 people infected (65%) of the people infected were vaccinated.<br />
Vaccine coverage for the camp: 96%. [3]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #4 – Mumps Outbreak in a Highly Vaccinated Population (1989)</h3>
From October 1988 to April 1989, an outbreak involving 269 cases of
mumps occurred in Douglas County, Kansas. Of the 269 cases, 208 (77.3%)
occurred among primary and secondary school students, of whom 203
(97.6%) had received a mumps vaccination. [4]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #5 – Two Fully Vaccinated Doctors Get Measles (2009)</h3>
A measles outbreak in 2009 exposed and infected two physicians, both
of whom had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the MMR vaccine.
These physicians were suspected of having been infected by treating
patients diagnosed with measles.<br />
Scoreboard: Measles <b>2</b> – Vaccinated Doctors <b>0</b>. [5]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #6 – Major Measles Epidemic in Quebec Despite 99% Vaccine Coverage (1989)</h3>
The 1989 measles outbreak infecting 1,363 people in the province of
Quebec was attempted to be explained away as occurring because of
“incomplete vaccination coverage.”<br />
However, upon further investigation, it was discovered the
vaccination coverage among cases was at least 84.5%. Vaccination
coverage for the total population was 99.0%.<br />
Vaccine coverage for population: 99% [6]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #7–Outbreak of Measles Despite Appropriate Control Measures (1985)</h3>
In 1985, of 118 cases of measles which occurred on a Blackfeet
reservation in Montana, 82% were vaccinated. Twenty-three of those cases
occurred in the schools in Browning, Montana, where 98.7% of students
were vaccinated. [7]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #8 – Measles Outbreak in a Fully Immunized Secondary-School Population (1985)</h3>
In 1985, an outbreak of measles occurred in a secondary school
located in Corpus Christi, Texas. More than 99% had records of
vaccination with live measles vaccine. The investigators concluded “<i>that
outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more
than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95
percent are immune.</i>”<br />
Vaccine coverage for school: 99%. [8]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #9 – Measles in an Immunized School-Aged Population in New Mexico (1984)</h3>
The story keeps repeating.<br />
In 1984, 76 cases of measles were reported in Hobbs, New Mexico.
Forty-seven cases (62%) occurred among students. The school reported
that 98% of students were vaccinated against measles before the outbreak
began.<br />
Vaccine coverage for school: 98% [9]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #10 – Measles Outbreak Among Vaccinated High School Students in Illinois (1984)</h3>
In 1984, 21 cases of measles occurred in Sangamon County, Illinois.<br />
<ul>
<li>16 (76%) were vaccinated</li>
<li>4 (19%) were unvaccinated preschool children</li>
<li>1 (5%) vaccinated college student</li>
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All 411 students of the local high school were documented as having
received the vaccination on or after their first birthday. Investigators
remarked, “<i>This outbreak demonstrates that transmission of measles
can occur within a school population with a documented immunization
level of 100%.</i>”<br />
Vaccine coverage in school children contracting measles: 100% [10]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #11 – Analysis of Measles Epidemic; Possible Role of Vaccine Failures (1975)</h3>
In 1975, a measles epidemic occurred in schools in Greensville, Ontario. Out of the 47 cases of measles,<br />
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<li>26 (55.3%) had been vaccinated</li>
<li>18 (18.3%) had not been vaccinated</li>
<li>3 (6.4%) vaccine status unknown</li>
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Researchers concluded one vaccine isn’t enough to protect children.
They recommended children be injected with an additional measles
vaccine.<br />
Cases of measles in vaccinated children: 55.3%. [11]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #12 – Unexpectedly Limited Durability of Immunity
Following Acellular Pertussis Vaccination in Pre-Adolescents in a North
American Outbreak (2012)</h3>
In 2012, doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center identified 171
cases of pertussis – 132 in children. They noticed increased cases in
children between the ages 8-12. They claim vaccine effectiveness was as
follows:<br />
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<li>For ages 2-7: 41% effective (?!?)</li>
<li>For ages 8-12: 24% effective (?!?)</li>
<li>For ages 13-18: 79% effective</li>
</ul>
Outside of using colorful adjectives such as garbage, worthless, or
junk, the doctors hypothesized children need more vaccines to become
“adequately protected.”<br />
Vaccine effectiveness for ages 8-12: 24%. [12]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #13 – Clinical Presentation of Pertussis in Fully Immunized Children in Lithuania (2001)</h3>
In 2001, Lithuania’s vaccine coverage was 94.6% as a country. From
May to December of that year, 53 children showed a serological
confirmation of pertussis. Of the 53 children,<br />
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<li>32 (60.4%) were fully vaccinated</li>
<li>21 (39.6%) were partially vaccinated or unvaccinated</li>
</ul>
Researchers conveniently grouped both partially vaccinated and
unvaccinated children together. Twenty-eight of 32 fully vaccinated
children (87.5%) had also received antibiotics.<br />
Vaccinated children (who received at least three DTP vaccine doses) represented 43.2% of all pertussis cases diagnosed in 2001.<br />
Vaccine coverage for Lithuania: 94.6%. [13]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #14 – Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day Care Centers (2000)</h3>
Many health professionals are adamant that vaccines protect against
infection. Evidence from a field investigation in Israel challenges this
belief.<br />
In 2000, a child died suspected of having pertussis. The baby
received the first dose of DTP at two months of age – all family members
were completely vaccinated with four doses of DTP.<br />
The day care centers that two siblings had attended during the
child’s illness were investigated. All the children in the day care had
been vaccinated in infancy with four doses of diphtheria-tetanus toxoid
pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and a booster dose at 12 months of age.<br />
Five fully vaccinated children were found to be colonized with Bordetella pertussis.<br />
At the conclusion of the investigation, researchers stressed the following information:<br />
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“<i><b>Vaccinated adolescents and
adults may serve as reservoirs for silent infection and become potential
transmitters to unprotected infants.</b> The whole-cell vaccine
for pertussis is protective only against clinical disease, not against
infection. Therefore, even young, <b>recently vaccinated children may serve as reservoirs and potential transmitters of infection.</b></i>”</div>
They re-emphasized again, “<i>Our results indicate that children ages 5-6 years and possibly younger, ages 2-3 years, play a role as <b>silent reservoirs in the transmission of pertussis</b> in the community.</i>”<br />
Vaccine coverage in daycare: 100% [14]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #15 – Pertussis Outbreak in Vermont (1996)</h3>
In 1996, over 280 cases of pertussis cases were identified in
Vermont. Here is the breakdown of the age groups of those infected:<br />
<ul>
<li>12 (4%) were aged less than 1 year</li>
<li>32 (11%) were 1-4 years</li>
<li>42 (15%) were 5-9 years</li>
<li>129 (46%) were 10-19 years</li>
<li>65 (23%) were greater than or equal to 20 years</li>
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How many of these 215 children were vaccinated? According to the report, of the children who had a known vaccine status,<br />
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<li>5 children aged 7-47 months were partially vaccinated</li>
<li>14 children aged 7-47 months were vaccinated with 3 doses</li>
<li>49 children aged 7-18 years were partially vaccinated</li>
<li>106 children aged 7-18 years were fully vaccinated</li>
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Disturbingly, 174 children were vaccinated and over half (61%) of the
school children were considered “fully vaccinated!” It’s also important
to keep in mind that in 1996, 97% of children aged 19-35 months in
Vermont had received three or more doses of DT or DTP vaccine.<br />
Complete failure in vaccinated children: at least 80.9% [15]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #16 – Outbreak of Varicella at a Day Care Center Despite Vaccination (2012)</h3>
Sometimes instead of saying a vaccine is a complete failure, a term
such as “breakthrough varicella” is used to describe how children get
the disease for which they were vaccinated.<br />
In December of 2012, an outbreak occurred in a private day care
center in a small community near Concord, New Hampshire. There were a
total of 25 cases of varicella reported in children.<br />
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<li>17 (68%) were vaccinated</li>
<li>8 (32%) were unvaccinated – two of these children were vaccinated in late December and classified as “unvaccinated”</li>
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The investigators lamented that the vaccine was 44% effective, saying, “<i>The
reasons for the poor performance of the vaccine are not apparent…the
findings in this investigation raise concern that the current
vaccination strategy may not protect all children adequately.</i>”<br />
Vaccine coverage: 73.1% [16]<br />
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Vaccine Failure #17 – An Outbreak of Chickenpox in Elementary School Children with Two-Dose Varicella Vaccine Recipients (2006)</h3>
When it is apparent one vaccine isn’t working, the answer is almost always more vaccines… ever notice?<br />
In June 2006, a second dose of the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine was
recommended for school entry. Shortly after school had begun, the
Arkansas Department of Health was notified of a varicella outbreak in
students.<br />
Vaccination information was available for 871 (99%) of the 880
children. Ninety-seven percent of the children had been vaccinated for
varicella! In this outbreak, 84 cases were reported.<br />
Vaccine coverage: 97%. [17]<br />
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Conclusion</h3>
As you can see from the above examples, vaccines fail and do so
often. Trust me, there are many more examples I didn’t cover here.<br />
Here’s a tip for you if you want to look for more information. Open
your browser right now. Go to Google.com and do a search for the terms
“previously immunized for (x)” or “breakthrough (x) in school.” X, of
course, represents a “vaccine preventable” disease such as pertussis,
measles, varicella, etc., – you get the point.<br />
As a parent, you trust doctors to provide you with accurate
information. When doctors say vaccines work and they are effective, from
whom are they getting their information?<br />
Maybe even more importantly, why aren’t the vaccine failures covered
by mainstream media to inform you? The likely answer is the
organizations who really need protection from the truth are the members
of Big Pharma – and I don’t think there is a vaccine for that (although
they may try to create one).<br />
If you find other examples, please post them below (with the link to PubMed) for other parents to read.<br />
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<b>References</b></h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1202865" target="_blank">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1202865</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm55d330a1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm55d330a1.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5507a2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5507a2.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1861205" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1861205</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S559.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S559.full.pdf+html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1884314" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1884314</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=3618578" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=3618578</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198703263161303" target="_blank">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198703263161303</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000476.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000476.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1956577/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1956577/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/13/cid.cis287" target="_blank">http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/13/cid.cis287</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15918913" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15918913</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/5/00-0512_article.htm" target="_blank">http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/5/00-0512_article.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049244.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049244.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021662" target="_blank">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021662</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19593254" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19593254</a></li>
</ol>
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SOURCE:<br />
<a href="http://vactruth.com/2013/02/23/17-examples-of-vaccine-failure/?utm_source=The+Vaccine+Truth+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1ca905ea61-02_23_2013_failure&utm_medium=email">http://vactruth.com/2013/02/23/17-examples-of-vaccine-failure/?utm_source=The+Vaccine+Truth+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1ca905ea61-02_23_2013_failure&utm_medium=email</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-36579882824840213102013-02-22T19:11:00.000+00:002013-02-22T19:11:00.296+00:00There is No Tomorrow | Não há um amanhã<object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aUF9XnZjmBk?version=3&hl=pt_PT"></param>
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<b>PORTUGUÊS:</b> "Não Há Amanhã" é um documentário animado de 30 minutos sobre o esgotamento de recursos, energia e crescimento. Inspirado nos desenhos animados pró-capitalistas dos anos 40, o filme faz uma sintese dos dilemas energéticos que o mundo enfrenta hoje."<br />
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<b>ENGLISH:</b> There’s No Tomorrow is a half-hour animated documentary about resource depletion, energy and the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet.<br />
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Inspired by the pro-capitalist cartoons of the 1940s, the film is an introduction to the energy dilemmas facing the world today.<br />
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“The average American today has available the energy equivalent of 150 slaves, working 24 hours a day. Materials that store this energy for work are called fuels. Some fuels contain more energy than others. This is called energy density.”<br />
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“Economic expansion has resulted in increases in atmospheric nitrous oxide and methane, ozone depletion, increases in great floods, damage to ocean ecosystems, including nitrogen runoff, loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species extinctions.”<br />
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“The global food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels. Before WW1, all agriculture was Organic. Following the invention of fossil fuel derived fertilisers and pesticides there were massive improvements in food production, allowing for increases in human population.The use of artificial fertilisers has fed far more people than would have been possible with organic agriculture alone.”<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481922537780645557.post-50547408942795365392013-02-18T22:45:00.001+00:002013-02-18T22:48:34.616+00:00A compilation of Vegan videos and articles<div class="post text">
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<i>This is a compilation of pro-veg videos
and articles. We will be updating the list from time to time with new
interesting things we find online.<br /><br />Original link: <a href="http://uaeveggies.com/post/43393208466/a-compilation-of-pro-vegan-documentaries-videos-and">http://uaeveggies.com/post/43393208466/a-compilation-of-pro-vegan-documentaries-videos-and</a></i> </div>
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<b>Inspiration</b></div>
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<b><i>Earthlings (Warning: Graphic)</i></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4DJh-L7Ys" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Gary Yourofsky’s “The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear”</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4" target="_blank">Watch Here</a></div>
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<i><b>The Ghosts In Our Machine Trailer</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/59741668" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Pig Vision: The Journey of Two Brothers</b></i></div>
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A short documentary about two
brothers - one of whom had to make his way through the merciless
existence that farmed pigs are forced to endure, and the other who was
freed from this fate and is still alive today.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2O_y5vnzC4" target="_blank">Watch Here</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pig-vision.com/en/" target="_blank">Go To Official Website</a><br />
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<i><b>Dave Navarro: Stop Testing Cosmetics on Animals</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Kq__DdJUfg" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Animals Australia: Make it Possible Campaign (Singing Piglet)</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6V6lq_p0o" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Cage-Free Chickens and Free-Range Eggs: Behind the Myth</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD3osbvluw&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Vegucated</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.getvegucated.com/" target="_blank">Go To Official Website</a><br />
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<i><b>Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism by Dr. Melanie Joy</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCojVjwJP7o" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Facing Animals Trailer</b></i></div>
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Why do we look away from millions of animals in industrial farms while pampering and humanizing others?
In the film, Facing Animals, we get see the world from the perspective
of the animals: chicks are thrown onto a conveyor belt, a lady is
cuddling a cow in a meadow, piglets are screaming while their tails are
cut off, and dogs are blessed in a church. It becomes clear how complex
and often bizarre the relationship between man and animal is.</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/janvanijken/facing-animals" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>A Delicate Balance</b></i> - A documentary that predominantly explores the effects of animal protein on the human body and the environment.</div>
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<a href="http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Humane Myth</b></i> – There’s no such thing as “humane slaughter”… just like there is no “humane murder” or “humane rape”.</div>
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<a href="http://www.humanemyth.org/" target="_blank">Read More Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Alicia Silverstone Helps Uncover the Cruelty of Down</b></i> (the feathers of ducks, geese, and other birds that are commonly used to stuff our pillows, cushions, and quilts)</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpla_nA0Caw&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Watch Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Forks Over Knives</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/" target="_blank">Go To Official Website</a><br />
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<i><b>Fur Kills</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.furkills.org/furfarming.shtml" target="_blank">Read More Here</a><br />
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<i><b>Woody Harrelson for HSUS - Plush Fox’s Final Fate</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iD6jzWZkPs&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Watch Here</a></div>
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<b>Nutrition</b></div>
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<i><b>The Protein Myth</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.pcrm.org/search/?cid=132" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></div>
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<i><b>“But where do you get your protein?”</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.fresh-network.com/acatalog/but-where-do-you-get-your-protein.html" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></div>
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<i><b>How to get enough B12</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/b12.aspx" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></div>
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<i><b>Vegetarian Society and Vegan Society Registered Vitamin D3 Supplement</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.vitashine-d3.com/" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></div>
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<i><b>Tips on Transitioning to a Vegan Diet</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/how-to-go-vegan/?smid=tw-nytimeswell&seid=auto" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></div>
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<i><b>Are YOU a Cheese-etarian? Why cheese is unhealthy…</b></i></div>
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<a href="http://veganrabbit.com/2011/06/22/are-you-a-cheese-etarian/" target="_blank">Read More Here</a><br />
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