Archives for "February, 2008"

Posted by Hooman on 26th February 2008

True Cost of Beef – Part 2

I’m not sure if this is a blogger’s faux pas, but I felt compelled to write an addendum to the first True Cost of Beef post. Initially I kept out the following details with the hope of keeping the original post short but alas I’m having to expand on it after all. I hope this [...]

Posted by Hooman on 18th February 2008

True Cost of Beef

This week Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. of Chino, Calif. recalled 143 million pounds of beef, only a half a months shipment, enough to feed 2 burgers to every single man, women and child in the United states. They got busted when the humane society shot videos(link to videos) of how their cows were being mistreated. [...]

Posted by Hooman on 14th February 2008

This valentine’s day, lets intend to go beyond chocolate

Our intentions, positive or negative, can play a major role in all that we do and create in this world so it is fitting now to see a product such as chocolate being infused with positive intentions and its efficacy put to scientific rigor. These chocolates which have been mediated on have been scientifically shown(With [...]

Posted by Hooman on 12th February 2008

Dolphins … teachers, healers or food?

I came across this amazing video about dolphins a while back and have been meaning to share it with you. To me it represented what is whole and sacred in our world, those which we all have so much to learn from and who we still know very little about. Yesterday I came across the [...]

Posted by Hooman on 5th February 2008

Embedded Social Ventures… Honest-Tea inside Coca Cola?

You’ve heard it here first, the term “Embedded Social Venture” that is. Today, Coca Cola announced that they are taking a 40% stake in Honest Tea. The founder of Honest tea was quoted as saying “You partner with the whole organization, but we’re marketing the part that’s the solution. This isn’t us selling out – [...]