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Just when you thought it was safer to go into Peet’s Coffee instead of Starbucks..
The title of this post could very well have been “An open letter to Peet’s Coffee”. In terms of frequenting any one coffee shop, Peet’s has always stood high on my list due to their beginnings in Berkeley, but even with that accolade, they are not the highest on my list because they don’t carry an entire line of organic or fair-trade products(Certainly not in any of their fancy drinks) Today another blow caused Peet’s to fall down another rung on my list. They’ve begun selling “sugar-free” lattes and mochas. The sad part is that their fancy posters don’t mention the fact that they put splenda and arethretol into their syrups (I actually had to ask them what made these new drinks “sugar free”)… In case you’re wondering about the negative health impacts of Splenda, just google it and you’ll get a waterfall of links to keep you researching till the wee hours of the night, but here is a link from a source that I like (www.mercola.com) only because he has good research documents, not necessarily because I think he’s always giving the best advice.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm
Fooled by Organic Labels?
Now with more and more companies of all shapes and sizes delivering organic products, it is important that consumers recognize the “quality” and the “real-ness” of these organically produced products. We can’t forget that processed organic food is still processed food which ultimately ceases to resemble food. That truth goes specially with milk and here’s a new video of Mark McAfee founder of Organic pastures giving a quick lesson about the difference between Raw milk, pasteurized and homogenized. Next time you think OrganicValley milk, Organic Straus Milk, or Organic Clover milk, or any of your favorite organic milk brand is the healthier way to go…think again! Soon I’ll have a section on this blog with links and there I’ll include plenty of information on milk.
Californians free to buy Raw Milk once again!
Free at last, Free at last..I just had to mark this momentous occasion marking the restoration of Californians’ freedom to once again purchase Raw milk in California without having to go through the process of partial ownership of a Cow. This has been a battle that had been waged only in the last couple of months due to the fact that a few CDFA employees cleverly placed a few lines of anti-RawMilk language in AB1735. Organic Pastures in Fresno County has been the lead dairy in helping reverse this decision.
If you are not familiar with the benfits of Raw milk, I encourage you to explore it for yourself. I’ve included a few links that go into further detail the benefits of raw milk.
Also check out this video from Mark McAfee, the CEO and founder of Organic Pastures Dairy explaining why he switched his dairy from pasteurized to all Raw.
Green-poetic irony of oil spilled by Cosco Busan in SF-Bay…
(image courtesy of San Francisco Chronicle)
If you didn’t catch this story, as reported on the San Francisco Chronicle article the fender that protected the bay bridge from the tanker Cosco Busan last November has now been repaired. When this incident first happened, it made me think of society’s true cost in maintaining the petroleum diet. For those of us who don’t keep up with the ins and outs of fuel usages by such vessels, it was our first introduction to the fact that they burn the lowest quality of oil, mainly the byproduct of the refining of crude oil into gasoline. Not only do we now understand the cost to marine life during the spill, but we are also awakened to the air pollution caused by such vessels when they burn this foul fuel… This was a wake up call for us to look at how much unnecessary products we consume, ones manufactured overseas which inevitably have to be shipped over here on these very container ships.
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Bleached Burt’s Bees
Just when you thought you could count on a product line such as Burt’s Bees to stay true to its roots, it too has now been purchased by a multi-national corporation with a spotty record. In the past I would have bereaved the marriage of companies such as these but today I hold hope that the philosophies of the purchased company will somehow rub off onto the corporations, ie. their employees and most importantly, their leaders.
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