Mad Cow Disease RevisitedWritten by Thomas Ogren
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But then think of what this actually meant: they were feeding hens their own manure. Also, in these highly confined cages hens would often die and owners would just pull a dead hen from cage and toss it into manure under cages. Thus, when they "re-processed" all that manure, there were plenty of chicken carcasses in it too. This would mean that they were now feeding chickens to chickens. In mad cow disease we now know that prions are not killed by heat treatment. Feeding manure back to animals may make some sense from a purely monetary point of view, but from a larger, humanistic, holistic way of looking at things, it seems to be nothing but a recipe for disaster. It would seem that there needs to be more control exercised on what can be fed to not just cattle, but to all domestic farm animals. Our own health is at risk here, and in a sense of fair play, this practice seems to be more than a little insulting to animals themselves. Tom Ogren Author of Allergy-free Gardening, and of, Safe Sex in Garden www.allergyfreegardening.com
Thomas Ogren is the author of Allergy-Free Gardening, Ten Speed Press. Tom does consulting work on plants and allergies for the USDA, county asthma coalitions, and the Canadian and American Lung Associations. He has appeared on HGTV and The Discovery Channel. His book, Safe Sex in the Garden, was published in 2003. In 2004 Time Warner Books published his latest book: What the Experts May NOT Tell You About: Growing the Perfect Lawn. His website: www.allergyfree-gardening.com
| | Don’t call it a disease!Written by Darryn Aldridge
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3. Frustration. What happens when we get frustrated with our lives, work, family and going ons’ around us? Again we turn to food as a form of comfort to help us through these times. 4. Fear. We live in an uncertain world. Crime, work pressures, family pressures, all combining to make us look for a source of comfort, and that tends to be food again. So, what must we do to break these habits that we have so easily formed? Well, firstly we need to stop looking at this as a problem someone else needs to find a solution to. Like it or not, this is your problem and you need to take ownership of it. Take a deep breath, look in mirror and accept that this is your issue and accept that only you can truly find reasons why you are overweight. Accept this, and you are truly on your way to finding answer to your weight problem, and then you can start down road to finding a solution that will work for you permanently. Can you now start to see why this issue should not be pigeon-holed into some nice medical term? Giving ownership of issue to someone/something else will only end up keeping you from totally coming to terms with yourself. Imagine how fantastic this will make you feel inside. Once you take ownership of problem, you then have immediate control over it rather than it controlling you, and you can begin to find meaningful ways to address it. As humans, we all have this ability make decisions. Let it be you that makes decisions for you. Don’t allow circumstances or anyone else to have that control. Be one that decides your future, you will love yourself for it.
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