Maynard S. Clark

What Will Be in Your Organic Produce and Fortified Grains if Codex Gets Its Way?

Despite all the protest campaigns, all the alarming scientific reports and all the worthy editorials in respected journals, no one, least of all government, seems willing to restrain the relentless growth of the factory farm model, which has been adopted around the world. With global meat consumption projected to increase 73 per cent by 2050, any effort to curtail the negative consequences of meat production seems ultimately hopeless.

500 traditional American comfort food recipes become vegan

As the data show, China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world — combined. And despite impressive support from Beijing for renewable energy and a dawning understanding about the dangers of air pollution, coal use in China is poised to continue rising, if slower than it has in recent years. That’s deadly for the Chinese people — see the truly horrific air pollution in Beijing this past month — and it’s dangerous for the rest of the world. Coal already accounts for 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, making it one of the biggest causes of man-made climate change. Combine that with the direct damage that air pollution from coal combustion does to human health, and there’s a reason why some have called coal the enemy of the human race.

Read more: http://science.time.com/2013/01/29/the-scariest-environmental-fact-in-the-world/#ixzz2JtvWRbYm

A grassroots movement has recently emerged in which a number of scientists, philosophers, ethicists and legal experts have rallied together in support of the idea that some nonhuman animals are persons and thus deserving of human-like legal protections.

Get outside and get some sunshine.  It’s the best way!

Vitamin D and PAD (Peripheral Arterial Disease)

Great synopsis

Very lovely article