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Feb - Mar 2008
Saving the World with Biodynamic Farming by PETER PROCTOR by KITTY BROEDER by MARLYNA LOS Regular Columns: Horoscopes for February & March by Laura with Judy LeBeau Croft's Healthy Living Column by Croft Woodruff Inspirations - Magic Doorways by Devrah Laval Marketing for Healing Professionals by Juliet Austin, MA, Marketing Coach Advertorials:
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Croft's Healthy Living Columnby Croft Woodruff
Many articles come my way daily and I’m happy to share some of these here with you. You can receive these by email from time to time - let me know at: croft.woodruff@gmail.com from Thierry Roge at Reuters Science advisers told the European official Stavros Dimas that Bt corn was “unlikely” to pose a risk. He suggested banning it. He had based his decision squarely on scientific studies suggesting that long-term uncertainties and risks remain in planting the so-called Bt corn. But when the full European Commission takes up the matter in the next couple of months, commissioners will have to decide what mix of science, politics and trade to apply. And they will face the ambiguous limits of science when it is applied to public policy. ... But Europe has been under increasing pressure from the World Trade Organization and the United States, which contend that there is plenty of research to show such products do not harm the environment. Therefore, they insist, normal trade rules must apply. ... “Science is being utterly abused by all sides for nonscientific purposes,” said Benedikt Haerlin, head of Save Our Seeds, an environmental group in Berlin and a former member of the European Parliament. “The illusion that science will answer this overburdens it completely.” He added, “It would be helpful if all sides could be frank about their social, political and economic agendas.” ... Within the European scientific community, there are passionate divisions about how to apply the growing body of research concerning genetically modified crops and in particular Bt corn. That strain is based on the naturally occurring soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and mimics its production of a toxin to kill pests. The vast majority of research into such crops is conducted by, or financed by, the companies that make seeds for genetically modified organisms. “Where everything gets polarized is the interpretation of results and how they might translate into different scenarios for the future,” said Angelika Hilbeck, an ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. ... Ms. Hilbeck says that company-financed studies do not devote adequate attention to broad ripple effects that modified plants might cause, like changes to bird species or the effect of all farmers planting a single biotechnology crop. She said producers of modified organisms, like Syngenta and Monsanto, have rejected repeated requests to release seeds to researchers like herself to conduct independent studies on their effect on the environment. About 40 percent of corn in the United States is now the Bt variety. |
from Rob Beschizza: Toshiba’s Home Nuclear Reactor Twenty foot long by six foot wide, the reactors produce 200kW of energy and run themselves: the entire thing is manufactured with the fuel within, and when it runs out, they can just send a truck to pick it up. “Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.”
from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, December 2007 by ABC NEWS: Currently, manufacturers are allowed to substitute cocoa butter in their products, but they are not allowed to call it chocolate. The maker of M&M’s, Dove chocolate and Snickers will continue to use 100 percent cocoa butter in its U.S. chocolate products.
Contact Croft Woodruff at: croft.woodruff@gmail.com and 604-777-5664
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Croft Woodruff, PhD – writer, lecturer and broadcaster is a nutrition and health researcher with over forty years experience in the natural health industry. Croft also has numerous awards, including an honorary Master Herbalist’s Certificate and an honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the COLLÈGE DES NATUROPATHES DU QUÉBEC.