Twitter Updates for 2009-02-26
@bittman I had that prob a few years back...seemed to escalate as I kept taking them. Finally just quit and decided to tuff it out...worked. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Author: Gary Boyd
So Let Me Get This Straight…
Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day, and nearly all of us reach for the pill bottle on occasion. It's perfectly safe, though, because the Food and Drug Administration regulates the ingredients that go into those medicinal…
Musing My Morning Out…
Life throws you that spitball. Your plans don't count because your plans were based on being allowed to work out your career and end it when you planned.
February Wanes…Summer Seems Near.
Looking on the weather wunderground, I see that Fred is still feeding the woodstove and wearing the multiple layers of clothes he was lamenting in his essay. While I am enjoying the open door and the porch rocker, Fred is still dreaming his summer weather dreams.
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-23
Is it darker at night where you are? Am I seeing another byproduct of the economic crisis in that people are turning off the outside lights? # Powered by Twitter Tools.
The Ethicurean: All steriled up: Produce safety guidelines throw sustainability out, keep toxic bathwater
Good article on the food safety issue from The Ethicurean Blog. Down on the farm Here’s a quick backgrounder: After the E. coli/spinach episode in 2006, big leafy greens producers in California (where the toxic spinach was grown) got together and drafted guidelines to reduce the risk of contamination on…
Spring…Already?
This past week the signs of the season's change have sprung up all around...The oaks that were stripped of their leaves by Ike in September, now are leafing out with all of that bright, spring green color that changes the very light. Around the edge of this little house the…
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-19
@scalzi The whole reason I prefer driving...Enjoy the trip. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-18
On awakening our lady weather presented early summer. Light rain falls from a gray sky. Neither rising nor falling, the temperature 'tis 70. Twitter Tools Powered by Twitter Tools.
“Dangerous Food”
While most successful food producers are far more diligent — big name-brand peanut butter is considered safe, for example — American consumers have faced far too many food-supply emergencies in the last few years. Congress and the Obama administration must finally make food safety a serious priority.The new agriculture secretary,…
Is it really “Victory Garden” Time?
My reading on the web keeps coming across a common thread...It's that over and over in blog posts and comments people are talking about buying seeds and starting to raise vegetables again. It looks like I'm not the only one making the connection. Here is what Verlyn Klinkenborg had to…
Nature’s Cathedral
Reading Leon Hale's column is an institution in Houston and the surrounding counties as well as my house. Mr. Hale has been published in a Houston Paper for most (if not all) of my life, and his was the only column I remember reading in my dad's paper as a…
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-14
Winter thunderstorms...all thunder, no rain. The day really looks wintery, 'tho the temperature belies the look...Shorts and flipflops rule. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Peanuts…Get Your Peanuts Right Here!
It seems the story of the Peanut Corporation of America just keeps getting better and better as it shows just how poor America's food safety system really is... Even amid a national salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, state health officials allowed a Texas peanut plant last month to continue shipping…
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-13
Another above 60 winter morn...The sun rides above low clouds full of misty rain. I find myself asking...What happened to winter this year? # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-12
First morning all week that's not already in the 60's. Pink clouds in a blue western sky with an almost full setting moon...Low morning fog. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Potatoes…Not As Bad As You Might Believe
I grew up reading Jeff Cox in Organic Gardening & Farming (or vice versa depending on the year). I was happy to find him at the OrganicToBe.org blog. His article on potatoes not only fills in the history of the tuber but also gives recipes. He sure makes me feel…
Peanut Company Shuts It’s Texas Plant
It just seems to me that when you have production of goods going into so many food products you would have controls in place to insure the safety of the public...Doesn't it? Passing the responsibility off to others for the testing of the product is not an option. Both the…
Agriculture in America…Looking better?
When I was born in 1952, there were 203,000 farms in Iowa, only 11,000 fewer than when my dad was born in 1926. By 2002, the number had dropped to about 90,000, with roughly the same acreage in production in a state with a population that had remained roughly the…
Monday Morning Muse…What’s with this weather?
Currently (on Mon 6:02AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport) Light Rain Temp: 66° Dewpoint: 64° Wind: SE 9 MPH The weather here this winter has seemed to be more spring (or fall) like than any I can recall seeing. Checking the almanac for the past two months is eye opening. Since…
Road Trip Thoughts
Through this all, I couldn't bring myself to document the damage with my camera...It was enough just to see what was what...So on I drove. All the way around the island...through the Strand...Along Broadway...And finally over the new Causeway...And here was where the totality of the destruction hit me...
A Muse From My Past…
I find myself musing about what was and what may have been as I hit the big double nickle. Simon and Garfunkel were two of my favorites. From the release of the Graduate on, I couldn't get enough of their harmonies. And now I find Paul Simon still says it…
Many New Species Discovered In Hidden Mozambique Oasis With Help Of Google Earth
Space may be the final frontier, but scientists who recently discovered a hidden forest in Mozambique show the uncharted can still be under our noses. BirdLife were part of a team of scientists who used Google Earth to identify a remote patch of pristine forest. An expedition to the site…
Free Breakfast? Not So Much…
Image via Wikipedia It seems this story was inevitable... ROSENBERG, TX — A trip out for a free breakfast at Denny's took a big bite out of the wallets of several people in Rosenberg on Tuesday. Some of those who went to the local Denny's Corp. restaurant for a free…
Letters – Wall St. Bonuses – Enough Is Enough – NYTimes.com
High compensation doesn’t attract the very best. It attracts the greediest. via Letters - Wall St. Bonuses - Enough Is Enough - NYTimes.com. Why is this the first time I've ever seen anyone say this? A more true statement has never been said. This sentence should be the banner headline…
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-01
Thunderstorms and hail, oh my..The first of February and the temperature is flirting with the 70's. My apple trees still have their leaves.. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Twitter Updates for 2009-01-31
Sunny days, cold clear nights...Down around freezing and up into the 60's .Winter is beginning to mess with my head...And not in a good way. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Food Safety
In times of economic crisis, where do we draw the line on funding cuts? Food safety? Drug Safety? Highway Safety? If we can cut funding when the economy is good, what are we going to do when the economy is faltering? The news on our latest food "crisis" is not…
Every Peanut Product From Ga. Plant Recalled
And the "good" news just keeps coming in. At what point do we stop putting so much trust in corporations to do the "right" thing...Not just the profitable thing? In one of the largest food recalls in history, the Food and Drug Administration asked retailers, manufacturers and consumers yesterday to…
Twitter Updates for 2009-01-28
Days of summer followed by a day of winter followed by another round. The pollen count is crazy too. It will stuff up your nose. Sniff-sniff # Wispy, smoke-like streamers of pink streak the evening sky...The sun is down. A tiny sliver of moon divides the evening star and the…
