I love meat. But I don’t eat it any more. My parents still make fun of me for being vegetarian and might still think I should see a shrink. Ha ha. Why would a meat and potatoes guy who liked steak for breakfast quit meat? There were reasons and the most important is that I …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
Malnutrition costs the global economy over 3 years’ GDP growth
The Global Nutrition Report said that globally, malnutrition led to “11% of GDP being squandered as a result of lives lost, less learning, less earning and days lost to illness.” And the numbers are made more appalling by the fact that they cut both ways: not enough food and too much food. Every nation except …
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Only the strongest can kill themselves for peace.
In a Japan, a man set himself on fire to protest a change in policy allowing Japan to fight overseas, which goes against the constitution which bars the country from using force in conflicts except for self-defence. It follows another self-immolation in June, in an apparently similar protest. Suicide is not an easy option. It …
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The power of thought can flip a switch.
The study upon which this report was made is unusual, but the message is clear: thoughts have power. In the study, brainwaves from human participants activated a tiny LED light which had been implanted in mice which then activated light-sensitive genes. This study is the first to combine the thought control technology and the light …
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The benefits of skills training.
Admittedly the title The One Thing Electricians, Chefs, and Entrepreneurs Have in Common attracted me because I’ve played electrician, cook and entrepreneur, so it caught my eye. The article reinforces the knowledge that nurturing head, heart and HANDS is important to become a whole person. The One Thing Electricians, Chefs, and Entrepreneurs Have in Common …
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Data shows global growth now past tipping point. Global collapse occurring. Whole systems change imperative.
Economic research published by the University of Melbourne analysed the predictions made in the ground breaking 1972 book Limits to Growth, and notes that the actual trajectory followed in the four decades since has followed the worst case scenario. The 1970s computer model has proved remarkably accurate in predicting developments in the world economy, population …
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Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States
Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States by N.L. Swanson, 4/24/2013 Read this pdf: GMO-health Extracts: Peddlers of both chemicals and genetically engineered seeds claim that GMO food is “identical to non-GMO products.” They claim that genetic engineering is no different than plant hybridization, which has been practiced for centuries. …
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Big pharma being paid to poison our planet. New GMO and agent-orange/glyphosate mix to hit earth in 2015.
The US EPA is set to approve new GM seeds and toxic sprays made by Dow Chemical in the face of scientific opposition. There are millions of dollars on the table. Dow will take market share and expand the use of mono-culture and toxic sprays. These initiatives are inherently unsustainable, but in the short term …
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Tell nestlé to stop trying to patent the fennel flower.
Keep nature free. They want to charge you for water, although it falls from the sky. They profit from selling the main cause of obesity, sugar, a drug more addictive than cocaine to children. Next I suppose they will pay-off governments to profit from the air we breathe. Tell Nestlé to stop trying to patent …
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Population and wealth – a picture of the sad, obvious inequality.
This graphic from The Economist sums up what we all know but don’t like to face (as @RustyRockets just pointed out). So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth. That doesn’t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian/Islamic/Bhuddist, or … anything to be …
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