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To rich for my wallet...
I can barely afford Non-Organic food; Hot House Tomatos cost 2.99/ lb. That is for about 2-3 tomatos, Bell Peppers $1.99 each. Organic food cost 3 times that of non organic. Same issue with organic meat (beef, pork, chicken...about $2.00-$3.00 more per pound than the stuff pumped full of crap.
As for buying local...It is always best. However we need to strive to kill the trendiness, which in effect keeps prices high. Here where I live (SW FL.) they have several Farmers Markets that are open early on Saturday mornings and a couple of times a week for a few hours. Unfortunatly instead of it being a means for affordable locally grown organic produce it's awash in a sea of smelly Prius drivin' Hippies with their $10.00 hemp grocery bags.
Occassionally I come across a small road side stand selling fresh inexpensive fruit and vegitables...But they are few and far between.
As for those plastic bottles of water...They don't help in reducing our smelly foot print.
...something tells me though that you are being facetious.
As for modern fracking techneques and the adverse side affects...Just another enviromental issue that no one is truely wanting to accept accountability for. Sounds simmilar to the BIG OIL BARRONS.
"A new heart for a Heartless war criminal who was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians for oil. There is no just(ice) in this World we live in."
So true!
Warning! The following remark is graphic in nature and if you are squeamish and/or easily offended then I suggest you don't read any further.
I partially cut of the head of a rattle snake just a couple of months ago. I then picked it up and carried it some distance all the while feeling the snake's body wiggling all around in my hand. It was a pretty big one about 3" in diameter. Ordinarily, I would not have wanted to kill it but as I was visiting a relative who had children that played in that area...I had to get rid of it.
I suspect that if we cut the head off of our most meddlesome and dangerous snake...that it would writhe around for some time but at least we will be safe from being bitten by it.
But, until they find something better than the drug resistant super bugs it is all just a matter of time. The world has gone through periods of disasters caused by the super bugs of their time...the plague, polio, etc. We were lucky to have found cures...but millions died before that....and all the literature I've read ..even from the CDC.. isn't very reassuring that we will find a cure this time.
First of all they already agreed to go around the aquifers. We already have a pipeline to the west coast and are going to build a second one to ship oil to India and China since you guys don't want it. The fact is most of the oil companies up here are American owned. I live in a city of a million people and there is $80,000 Americans here working for oil companies. The fact is oil companies are public companies, teachers unions, fire and police etc own them. I don't understand why you hate them they bring you many things in life you enjoy.
"Deadly Superbugs Invade U.S. Healthcare Facilities"
"Deadly Bacteria That Defy Drugs Of Last Resort"
4 days ago
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/29/bacteria-deadly-hos...
If giant hurricanes don't get us...if nuclear wars don't annihilate us..if a giant asteroid doesn't smash into the earth..the little bacteria and viruses and errant proteins like what causes Mad Cow Disease will get us in the end.
Can you imagine the scenario....millions of people who can't afford health care insurance or the exorbitant medical costs who will all stay home (or go shopping--well... hanging out at the malls anyway) and avoid going for a doctor's visit? What a fantastic setup for a world-wide disaster that could wipe out mankind. All because some selfish rich people insist on rigging the game so that they win and everyone else loses. But even they will lose in the end.
The entire new energy independence meme due to the fracking method is just another tool being used by the Banking Cartel to gain total control of our ground water. Find a problem, make it worse then offer a solution that would be rejected before the new problem of polluted water. We will see the price of drinking water approach that of oil in the future. When will Americans reject having their country destroyed by the bankers, and send them where they belong? Which is unmentionable! To kill a snake, cut off its head!
How about a link to the report? I'd like to see the details. I'm sure we are all aware of how hear-say details take on a life of their own. Even so, looks like there'll be some positive advertising with Matt Damon's new movie.
- Mike
Maybe they should just build a refinery in Canada or Alaska port areas...the shipping routes to the end customers in the Far and Middle East would be much shorter. And how much more would it cost than a pipeline all the way across North America? From my understanding the aquifers in the central US are running very low levels to begin with...if there was an accidental pipeline burst it could be very damaging..or even calamitous.
Another problem that we are now seeing is an aging infrastructure in the US like gas pipelines bursting and causing horrendous, massive fires that wipes out a whole neighborhood like the one in San Bruno, Ca. Our whole infrastructure...gas, water, sewage, roads, bridges are all deteriorating and we may expect to see lots of occurrences like the I-35w bridge collapse in Minneapolis in 2007 during rush hour that killed 13 and injured 145. I even drove across that bridge, myself, just before that happened. I climbed Mt. Etna in Sicily just a month before it blew it's top (can't blame PG&E for that one though) in March of 1968 (there were scientists camped out at the top taking measurements). I rode on the Singapore Cable Car connecting Singapore to the island of Sentosa in December of 1982..just before the January 1983 accident of a drilling rig vessel snagging the cables killing 7 people. The name is Blond....James Blond! ;-} Now I just stay at home and travel the world with Google Earth...so much safer that way....unless my gas line ruptures. But now I'm told not to drink the water and an earthquake could happen any moment.
When I was a kid I used to wear a button that read, "Whatever it is I'm against it," not even sure why! Now in my mid fifties I think a similar button reading, "Whenever it is Big Oil I'm against it," would at least make some sense, and include fracking in sentiment.
I cannot begin to imagine why this country is almost always the first to try something new... and the last to admit that it's proved to be harmful to every living creature!
Oh, certainly - we can build bridges, interstate highways, tunnels, etc. and thankfully, most of them last a long time before something goes wrong, because no one wants to appropriate the funds needed to put people back to work to maintain them, so we're just wasting away from the inside-out. We can build earthquake-resistent structures that keep us safer.
But what we cannot build is a natural creature or human.
Yes... I've heard that artificial life has been created in the lab. Now I'm wondering how long it will be before we learn that this new life-form - when it escapes - will attempt to kill all the others who resemble it. Whups! There goes another bead in the food chain!
We already know that fracking is dangerous. It upsets the balance of nature all around where it's done. And in our tremendous lack of wisdom to frack better, faster, and longer, we seem to have total disregard for all that is sacred - not necessarily by church standards - but simply by the standards of decency and humanity.
Do all the people who want to make a good living and those who want to get rich, NOT care about what they're doing to all of us? Do the elite have some special elixer they ingest every morning that makes them believe that they and their loved ones will be the ones who inherit the earth after the rest of us and our children are all dead? If they think so, I feel sorry for their ignorance. No one gets out of this life alive and in tact. I don't know if these purveyors of poison will ever have to answer to any kind of judgement, but they are not the meek... and we all lose if we don't get smarter a whole lot quicker, and stop them for the sakes of all the rest of us.
You know, If there were public service announcements about food and health on the teevee and radio like in the 70's about polluting("Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute", The crying indian) we wouldn't have to make laws about it. Those ads WORKED! Why do I still remember them? What has become of health classes in school? If people knew that it's the processed foods that are making them fat and unhealthy they would be more likely to change their habits. No one wants to be unhealthy, it's just that this society makes it easy to be unhealthy.
I heard that Steven Colbert got his job telling jokes as a toll booth operator...finally snagged someone with his wit and may be our next President...who knows? But I think I'll vote for Alfred E. Neuman the next time around..although Obama isn't doing so bad now. He appears to be holding out from the hot air and threats from the Rethuglicans. We'll see.
He did not get a pig heart. Although that would be appropriate for a pig to get a pig heart. No this war criminal received a heart transplant that should have gone to someone much younger than a dying man in his 80's. And your right the American tax payer footed the bill for this guy. There was a big stink and investigation about him getting this donor heart, but from what I read he was on a waiting list and so they had to give it to him. A new heart for a Heartless war criminal who was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians for oil. There is not just in this World we live in.
Kend - Perhaps the idea of a broken oil line that would pollute the aquifers in America’s grain belt bothered him. Or perhaps the fact that it was America taking all the risks for pumping Canadian oil to Texas that would be EXPORTED out of the country via a Texas port and the only people that would profit would be a handful of oil men and a Canadian oil company. Perhaps for once he put the interests of the American People above that of oil billionaires and Canadians. Sure it would produce some jobs for a short period of time and them what? We have seen how British Petroleum was such a good Stuart of the land and waters in the Gulf and profit wasn't there main issue. You in the land of frozen lakes would win with more jobs and we could wind up with your mess. Why not just make a pipeline through Canada to the west coast of your nation and you take the risks of polluting your environment, after all it is your oil. Canada is a foreign nation, even though you are on our border, you are not America and President Obama has started to think of what is best for us not foreigners.
Cheney got a pig's heart?....oh...how appropriate! Talk about big spending on pork programs.....he probably had all expenses paid by the US taxpayers.
Do I sense a bit of sarcasm from you about fracking? Ha! Go for it!
So why did President Obama say no to the Keystone Pipeline? The oil in northern Alberta, Canada doesn't require any fracking. It is in sand on the surface or slightly below suface. All the land is reclaimed and put back in the same condition it was. Moving it in a pipeline is the safest why to transport it. It would replace the 900 million barrels that comes Venezuela in tankers through your Gulf to Texas. Canadian oil is safe and depenable, just ask the people in the mid west who have received ethical, safe, cheap oil from Canada for decades.
I don't know who is doing the fracking down there, we have been doing up it here for 50 years with no problems. Don't get me wrong as a Canadian the less energy you explore the more money we make. So you go Thom. Its not like Americans are going to give up there cars, plastic, paved roads, etc etc any time soon.
dowdotica, well done.
Time to drink only bottled water and become a vegetarian that buys from the local organic market.
When they dropped a stick of dynamite down a new water well, did they also pour in thousands of gallons of chemicals as well? If they had to comply with regulations concerning polluting the ground, water and air they probably would give up fracking for oil all together because the regulations to protect us would be too costly! As far as the people go we have seen their priority is to fill that SUV as cheaply as possible. Americans have an attention span of about 30 seconds when it concerns the planet, unless it involves their next outing or ski trip. You give the people too much credit for giving a damn about this planet we call home...As we have seen, Mr. Obama isn't much different than Mr. Romney because it might impede the accumulation of political donations from the major oil companies.
Ok, look: we have to separate two issues here:
1. Fracking is a filthy process that poisons countless square miles of land and countless water supplies wherever it is done.
2. BUT- and this is a hugely important butt- the end product, which is natural gas, is so clean that if you burn it in your car instead of gasoline, there are almost no pollutants coming out of your car's tailpipe.
So here is my suggestion: let's just bypass or entirely ignore the first issue above, because after all, no one is fracking in my backyard, and why would I care if they do fracking in millions of other peoples' backyards? I mean, it's not like I like any of those people. I don't even know them! So why would I care what Halliburton and other fracking companies do to those people?
Besides, I chose to use natural gas to heat my house because the gas company told me that natural gas is much cleaner than oil heat. And there is no way the gas company would ever lie to me, because companies do not lie to people. I mean, if you say that companies lie to people, it just opens a whole can of worms because what if at some point in the future I decide to start a company and in order to make myself wealthy I need to lie to people about what my company is doing? This is America, for crying into my beer: It is the absolute right of every company to lie to the public.
Ok, sure, yes, Halliburton got billions of dollars worth of illegal no-bid contracts to "service" our military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they cheated and defrauded the government out of uncounted millions- or billions, who's counting?- and gave our military sub-standard or even faulty equipment and other goods that endangered our troops. But that doesn't mean that Halliburton is doing anything bad by using fracking chemicals to kill animals and harm people. I mean, let's have a little ipso facto here if you don't mind.
And yes, Dick Cheney was the most dangerously lawbreaking vice president we have ever had, and not exactly the smartest one either, because he actually wrote a book to brag about all the crimes he committed while in office. But good lord, let's put that into perspective, shall we? I mean, it's not like Cheney shot me or anyone I know in the face. And it's not like he insulted the pig kingdom by having his long-abused human heart replaced with a pig's heart. Ok, so he tried but the pigs refused, but let's take that with a little squid pro quack, shall we?
And that proves that fracking is good for America and good for Americans. (If any republicans are reading this, would you please put in a word for me, because I would like a job writing articles to protect the interests of republicans at the expense of humanity.)
Halfonts: Fracking is not new but the way it's done today is NEW. Over 200 harmful/deadly/protected chemicals, diesel fuel is one, are used in the slurry. Add to that the 3 to 6 MILLION gallons of water per WELL that is rendered unuseable or left in the ground. The waste water is stored in shallow OPEN "holding ponds" that overflow when there is heavy rainfall--that water runs into streams and rivers and lakes. A PA case I read about and the resulting livestock deaths occurred after heavy rain had overflowed a holding pond. Well water does become unuseable and has been documented.
Fracking is very bad for the environment, does NOT move us forward in sustainable, clean energy, and renders useless our most valuable resource: WATER. Humans CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT WATER. Natural gas is a limited resource. Industry claims 100 years. Others, far more expert than me, say there are many less and that industry estimates are bloated in order to lure investors. Utica and Marcellus shale gas is being sold to Norway, Saudi Arabia, and Africa. The highest bidder will win. I say that stores will be used up in 50 years at the most.
Gas carpetbaggers are here in rural Ohio planning to lay pipeline all over, using contracts that are a joke (we refused the pipeline easement), to give "cheap" gas to rural homeowners and farmers for grain dryers. I say it's a ruse and the latest boondoggle to lure in the farmer. All those people jumped over the cliff for 70 cent gas (which in a co-op is only as low as the number of members are high and is NOT a promise), and in three to five years when the price is higher because sources are dwindling or demand is high and they all bought gas furnaces and gas water heaters and gas clothes dryers and gas stoves, they will be sorry, just like when they all bought wood burners for "free" heat and had to spend money on chain saws, trucks and trailers to haul the wood, wood spliters to split the wood, a building to store the wood, and spend ALL spring, summer, and fall pimping for wood. And when the farmers jump ship because of the high price--all those local homeowners will suffer even higher prices.
I have been following and researching fracking for 5 years--everything I've seen looks really bad for the planet and we who live here.
Yep, it is a good thing I have just enough money to keep cold beer in the fridge cause it is going to be hard to live in the same country with you hard headed progressives.
I'm against any technique, well-development or otherwise, that destroys mountains and pollutes the waterways. If ya can't fix it, don't break it.
A good lecture on high fructose corn syrup is on YouTube, titled "Sugar: The Bitter Truth". It explains how HFCS is SO addictive.
ALSO, one NEEDS to be vigilant at READING food (ingredient) labels!
It is being increasingly put in so many processed foods, many that most people would never expect to have sugar, such as certain brands of mayonnaise, ketchup, salad dressings, soy sauce, and even BREAD!
HFCS does NOT promote satiety (satisfies hunger), and is more likely to even induce hunger shortly after a person consumes it!
This is good for the "food industry" profits, but bad for you, your energy level(s) AND overall long-term health. One shouldn't be surprised to learn that food producers DON'T want a single-payer, government run, tax-payer funded national health-care system.
Because if such a system was put into effect, you can bet the government would have to impose regulations to minimize the negative effects to the country's overall health, and subsequent costs to its health care, due to such "transgressions" committed by those "for-profit" industries.
So, watch the lecture, and start READING ingredient labels, before buying your food!
And, BE WELL!
Oh GLOBAL! Go soak your head. - Aliceinwonderland