The Organic Expo is Australia's first major expo, created for both the public and trade, highlighting the excellent certified organic and environmentally friendly products and services (collectively known as eco-ganics) now available. Saturday 30th July 2005 9.00am - 6.00pm Sunday 31st July 2005 9.00am - 4.30pm Bayside Banquet Hall, Sydney Convention ... MORE...
Archive for June, 2005
"The difference between sugar addiction and narcotic addiction is largely one of degree." - William Dufty, Sugar Blues. For years I struggled with the sugar habit from hell, so I empathize with the vast majority of the population struggling with one now. Although most will deny their habit, one only needs to check the number of aisles in the local supermarket stacked with sugared foods - at least half - to know we have a problem. MORE...
"Organic agriculture does not use the poisons and fossil fuels that will kill everything from eagles and butterflies to our fish supply. It retains soil so that fertile sediments are not lost into the sea. It builds healthy, living cells in human and animal bodies which do not contain such high levels of carcinogens, all without destroying the necessities of life, like fresh water, air, soil and oceans...its sustainability is evident in that it produces the multiple dividends that always appear when our method of producing what we need is in harmony with natural systems. It's cheaper; it's easier; it requires less fuel and no expensive chemical inputs, but it does require more human labor, all of which the world seems ready to see once more as desirable...if practiced properly even over the short term, organic farming is fully as productive as industrial methods. Over the long term, it is incomparably more productive. The fact that it continues to grow at such strong rates - over 20% a year - give us great hope MORE...
Made with Rapadura and Arrowroot (an alternative to wheat made from Taro), this recipe is always a winner. MORE...
How are we to fulfill our calling, to bring peace to the earth? The Foundation for the Law of Time sets an intention for world peace. MORE...
In the two and a half years during which I lived among Stone Age Indians in the South American jungle (not all at once, but on five separate expeditions with a lot of time between them for reflection), I came to see that our human nature is not what we have been brought up to believe it is. Babies of the Yequana tribe, far from needing peace and quiet to go to sleep, snoozed blissfully whenever they were tired, while the men, women, or children carrying them danced, ran, walked, shouted, or paddled canoes. Toddlers played together without fighting or arguing, and they obeyed their elders instantly and willingly. MORE...
CAAR - Farmed and Dangerous Farmed salmon have up to 10 times more PCBs and dioxins than wild salmon. A study released August 10 2004 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found much higher levels of some chemical flame retardants in farmed salmon compared to ... MORE...
Since most western countries habitually pasteurise their milk supply, the benefits of vitamins and proteins destroyed by the pasteurisation process, are largely unknown and often ignored by the medical establishment and alternative nutrition researchers alike. Fortnuately, one nutritional factor found in butter, is still available after the destructive process of pasteurisation. MORE...
A lamentable outcome of our modern meat processing techniques and our hurry-up, throwaway lifestyle has been a decline in the use of meat, chicken and fish stocks. In days gone by, when the butcher sold meat on the bone rather than as individual fillets and whole chickens rather than boneless breasts, our thrifty ancestors made use of every part of the animal by preparing stock, broth or bouillon from the bony portions. Meat and fish stocks are used almost universally in traditional cuisines - French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, African, South American and Middle Eastern and Russian; but the use of homemade meat broths to produce nourishing and flavourful soups and sauces has almost completely disappeared from the American culinary tradition. MORE...
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another."-- Immanuel Kant