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weareyour4 · 6 years ago

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What You Eat Affects How We Live: Climate Change and Animal Farming by Valentina H

My name is Valentina and I am a university student and an activist looking for ways to inspire positive social change through various media - one of them being this blog post extracted from my Bachelor’s dissertation which I’d written with a focus on the link between climate change, animal agriculture and human behaviour. I will introduce the main facts and figures on climate change and relevant philosophies related to human and non-human animals.

Introduction

With the current state of world affairs and apparent global issues, it is hardly news that a number of changes need to occur to help the planet and the people. The environmental issues are well known yet little is done to stop them. Eight million tonnes of plastic – bottles, packaging and other waste – are dumped into the ocean every year, killing marine life and entering the human food chain (Reuters, 2017). As our diets become more meat- and dairy-rich, the hidden climate cost of our food mounts up (Dave Reay for France-Presse, 2017). PETA believes that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or used for our entertainment or abuse in any other way, yet many people have never even considered the impact that their clothes, food, cosmetics or entertainment may have on the lives of animals (2018). Vegans advocate that rearing animals for food is bad for the environment and inefficient; they suggest that world food shortages could be solved by farming crops rather than animals (politics.co.uk, 2018). To sum up the main concern of this article swiftly:

“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” (Taalas for McGrath, 2018)

Climate change & Agriculture

We find ourselves in a time where climate change is finally understood for what it is, even with big name politicians (ahem) fooling us into believing it’s a myth. Every fraction of a degree of global warming makes a difference to human health, access to food and fresh water, extinction of animals and plants, survival of coral reefs and marine life, difference to economic productivity, food security, and to the resilience of our infrastructure and cities; it makes a difference to the speed of glacier melt and water supplies, and the future of low-lying islands and coastal communities (Elena Manaenkova for McGrath, 2018). Global warming is also linked with extreme weather events, disease outbreaks, population displacement and armed conflict as well as inevitable shifts in agriculture (Geggel, 2018).

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has stated that fundamental agriculture reforms are needed for the UK to reach carbon neutrality (George, 2018) This means the number of cattle and sheep in the UK should be reduced by between a fifth and a half to help combat climate change, because beef and lamb produce most farm greenhouse gases (Harrabin, 2018). To free up land from agriculture, we need to decrease our demand for meat and dairy products. The recent NHS Eatwell guide proposes a reduction in consumption of 89% for beef and 63% for lamb, and a 20% decline in dairy products (Harrabin, 2018).

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation; methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than CO2, is produced from human activity in almost equal measure from gas leaks during the production and transport of coal, oil and natural gas; and from the flatulence of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, as well as the decay of organic waste, notably in landfills (France-Presse, 2017).

“Cows belching less methane may not be as eye-catching as wind turbines and solar panels, but they are just as vital for addressing climate change” says prof. Dave Reay for France-Presse (2017).

Joseph Poore at the University of Oxford says that avoiding the consumption of animal products altogether delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy (Carrington, 2018).

Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is a philosophy which regards human beings as the central or most significant entities in the world, separate from and superior to nature which is a resource that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind (Boslaugh, 2018). Many ethicists find its roots in the Creation story told in the book of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Bible, in which humans are created in the image of God and are instructed to ‘subdue’ Earth and to ‘have dominion’ over all other living creatures, condoning an instrumental view of nature, where the natural world has value only as it benefits humankind (Boslaugh, 2018).

Burchett (2014) says that ‘our species’ most extensive ecological degradations since the industrial revolution have been inordinately influenced by consumers in societies whose intellectual founders took humans to be the measure of all things, many environmentalists have taken it for granted that ecological degradation is an inevitable side effect of anthropocentrism.

The anthropocentrism that I stand against is that of human-centeredness which fails to value humanity as such and that fails to acknowledge humanity’s dependence and influence upon nature. Burchett (2014) also notes that humanity’s ecological predicament is not the result of overvaluing humanity, but of “permitting institutionalized forms of ethical egoism to underlie policies that narrowly focus on the short-term, frivolous interests of current individuals at the expense of the vital interests of future generations.” But why would we ever permit policies and legislations that are foreseeably detrimental to the long-term satisfaction of basic and vital human interests and contrastingly oppose sustainable development?

Speciesism

Broglio (2011) outlines our relationship to non-human animals by stating we traditionally view them as having limited faculties and we differentiate ourselves from them by measuring them against our considered superiority, and this flattening of animals’ worlds has legitimated any number of cruel acts against animals. The problem of Speciesism involves assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of the species to which they belong. The concept claims that animals should not be treated as an object or property in the light of their sentient qualities. And yet we assign different values to different animal species – dogs and cats are wrong to hurt and kill but not the same applies to chickens, pigs or cows. This moral hypocrisy is obvious when most of us would protest to the dog-meat trade found in various countries, because we culturally consider it wrong to hurt and eat dogs, but most wouldn’t consider the same attitude towards the so-called ‘meat-bearing animals’. Adams (2014) outlines our desire to separate meat eating and the animals in that we append the word ‘meat’ only when that form is not consumed in our culture [dog-meat, horse-meat] and rename the animal flesh either by dropping the reference to meat (chicken, not chicken-meat), or in the instance of cows by the location from which the portion of flesh comes from.

An influential vegan activist Ed Winters (2018) says that if you put an idea into society long enough, it becomes a societal norm, and if you keep fuelling it, over time it forms part of the society’s culture, then passed from generation to generation it becomes tradition, but “we need only look across the world right now to see that culture and tradition are not good benchmarks of morality.”

Conclusion

Through this post I wanted to build a contextual background of theory to inspire others towards positive social change. I have focused on the pressing issue of climate change and through my research into human-caused environmental issues, a strong link emerged between consumer habits and the damaging effects of animal agriculture on climate change.

Because I am also an activist for animal rights, I have decided to focus on both the ethical issue of animal farming and the scientific findings which suggest rapid change needs to be made in decreasing consumer demand for animal products. I also briefly introduced the topics of anthropocentrism and speciesism.

This project was an eye-opening journey for me, towards sustainability through rejection of conventional consumerism, which includes and prioritizes a vegan diet, or a diet with a minimal presence of animal produce. This finding comes as a result of numerous official sources commenting on the need for decreased global consumption of especially meat, milk, and dairy products in order to effectively combat climate change. This research shifted my lifestyle as well as my outlook on life, the society and my future career prospects as I aim to continue my activist escapades. To conclude, without any further ado, now is the most appropriate time to focus everyone’s attention on reducing our impact on climate change.

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newstfionline · 6 years ago

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Drink Up! Most of Us Could Benefit From More Water

By Jane E. Brody, NY Times, July 9, 2018

In reading about the risks and consequences of dehydration, especially for the elderly and anyone who exercises vigorously in hot weather, it’s nothing short of a miracle that more of us hadn’t succumbed years ago to the damaging physical, cognitive and health effects of inadequate hydration.

Even with the current ubiquity of portable water containers, far too many people still fail to consume enough liquid to compensate for losses suffered especially, though not exclusively, during the dehydrating months of summer.

For those of you who know or suspect that you don’t drink enough to compensate for daily water losses, the good news is you don’t have to rely entirely on your liquid intake to remain well-hydrated.

Studies in societies with limited supplies of drinking water suggest you can help to counter dehydration and, at the same time, enhance the healthfulness of your diet by consuming nutritious foods that are laden with a hidden water source. Plant foods like fruits, vegetables and seeds are a source of so-called gel water--pure, safe, hydrating water that is slowly absorbed into the body when the foods are consumed.

That’s the message in a newly published book, “Quench,” by Dr. Dana Cohen, an integrative medicine specialist in New York, and Gina Bria, an anthropologist whose studies of the water challenges faced by desert dwellers led to the establishment of the Hydration Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes understanding and consumption of nonliquid sources of water.

More about these foods later. First, I must convince more of you that remaining well hydrated is crucial to your health. However solid your body, the majority of it is water, ranging from 75 percent of the body weight of infants to 55 percent of the elderly. Every bodily process, every living cell, depends on water to function properly. Water transports nutrients, regulates body temperature, lubricates joints and internal organs, supports the structure of cells and tissues and preserves cardiovascular function. People can survive for only three or four days--a week at most--without water.

But more to the point is the quality of survival. Inadequate hydration can cause fatigue, poor appetite, heat intolerance, dizziness, constipation, kidney stones and a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Brain effects include mood shifts, muddled thinking, inattentiveness and poor memory. A loss of only 1 to 2 percent of body water can impair cognitive performance, according to studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Your body’s water balance is determined by how much you consume, your age and activity level and environmental conditions. The body loses water through the skin, lungs, kidneys and digestive tract; in other words, by sweating, breathing and elimination of waste, both liquid and solid.

“Water needs can vary from person to person--and no one person will need the same amount of fluid from one day to the next,” the Virginia scientists wrote in the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health and Fitness Journal.

The typical American consumes about one liter--a little over four cups--of drinking water a day. But people like me who engage in quasi-vigorous physical activity daily need more, and those who exercise strenuously for more than an hour a day need even more than that. Keep in mind that skimping on your liquid intake or relying on sugary drinks can take a toll on your physical performance.

If you’re planning to engage in strenuous exercise or do physical work outdoors on a hot day, it’s best to start hydrating the day before. Check the color of your urine; the paler it is, the better. Also continue to drink water or other fluids throughout your activity and for hours afterward.

A critical factor in remaining well hydrated is not to rely on thirst to remind you to drink but rather to be proactive by consuming enough liquid before, during and after meals and physical activity. The longstanding advice to drink eight glasses of water a day was something I (among many others) was never able to achieve. I’m happy to say that experts have since modified that rule. Current thinking calls for getting about 70 percent of daily water needs from liquids (including coffee and tea, by the way, though not alcohol) and the rest from solid foods.

The authors of “Quench” suggest two dozen fruits and vegetables that are especially hydrating, ranging from cucumbers with 96.7 percent water to grapes with 81.5 percent water. Surely you can find many you would enjoy in a list that includes lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, spinach, broccoli, carrots, peppers, watermelon, strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, apples and pears.

Even chia seeds, an ancient so-called superfood said to sustain the ultrarunning prowess of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, can be a force against dehydration; they absorb 30 times their weight in water and can provide the body with slow-release hydration, especially during long bouts of physical activity in high heat and humidity.

Naturally packaged plant water hydrates more efficiently than plain drinking water, the “Quench” authors maintain, because it’s already purified, is packed with soluble nutrients and gradually supplies the body with water.

That said, while there is considerable anecdotal evidence for the effectiveness of plant water, especially among enthusiasts of green smoothies, well designed clinical studies are still lacking. Yet I feel comfortable in recommending an increased reliance on these hydrating foods because, at the very least, they can result in a more nutritious diet and foster better weight control.

Getting more of your water from plant foods can also help to cut down on pollution. The earth is being overrun with disposable plastic water bottles that can be found littering streets and parks and floating in rivers, oceans and lakes everywhere. Unless you are visiting a region of the world where it is unsafe to drink the water, try to avoid buying water. If you are in doubt about the safety of your municipal water supply, if you rely on well water that has not been tested, or if you dislike the taste or your local water, consider installing a faucet filter or using a portable filter container like Brita.

Now, join me as I take a big drink to your health.

#water and health #hydration #drinking water #Quench

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gardenassist · 3 years ago

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In this article, we will explain How to Planning, Planting, and Tending Your Garden?. In a previous article, we reviewed in detail What is Glorious Soil? Gardening For Beginners

Now that you have a lovely spot for your garden with healthy soil and plenty of sunlight, you’re probably anxious to dig in and start planting. There are so many possibilities for delicious fruits, nutritious vegetables, and aromatic herbs to raise for your table that you might feel a bit overwhelmed by the choices.

With a bit of thought and planning, you can eliminate the crops that won’t do well in your growing conditions and focus on planting the best foods for your space that also suit your tastes.

Once you’ve decided on what to grow, you’ll need to know how to read a seed packet, successfully sow your seeds, and decide whether to start or buy your seedlings. Maintaining your garden includes controlling weeds, irrigating crops, and knowing when to harvest the bounty.

Tidying up your garden is also an important step to reduce disease and prepare the soil for another crop. Let’s find out more!

DECIDING WHAT TO GROW

As you look through seed catalogs, you might get confused by the many crops, varieties, and descriptions listed. To keep things simple, consider planting the crops best suited to your climate, growing conditions, and space, as well as those that are most expensive to purchase or are the most productive and nutritious for your investment.

Above all, be sure to choose the foods you enjoy eating most! Make a list of all the veggies, herbs, and fruits you enjoy, then narrow your list down as you read this section.

Match Plants to Your Climate

Choose the best crops for your area to reduce disease and pests caused by stress. Check the USDA Plant Hardiness Map to find your growing region and the Old Farmer’s Alamanac website in the Resources section to find the average date of your last frost in spring and first frost in fall; these dates will guide the process.

When choosing plants, it’s also important to know if they are annuals, biennials, or perennials:

Annuals

produce a harvest and seeds in their first year. Biennials produce vegetative growth the first season, then flower and produce seed the second year. In general, these crops are harvested in the first year (e.g., beets and carrots).

Perennials

take several years to produce, but they continue to grow and fruit for many years.

Here are some handy tips for choosing your crops and planting times:

Choose perennials the USDA Plant Hardiness Map indicates are hardy in your area.

Cool season crops grow best between 40°F and 75°F and bolt (go to seed) in higher temperatures.

Warm season crops do not tolerate frost and grow best at 75°F or warmer.

Start seeds indoors or in a cold frame (unheated enclosure with a transparent lid that protects from cold while allowing sunlight) to extend your growing season.

Make sure crops are planted early enough so they can mature before your first frost.

Match Plants to Your Site

Keep sunlight requirements in mind when planning your garden. Some plants like full, hot sun all day whereas others need shade to prevent bolting or wilting in hot weather.

A plant that needs full sun should have bright, direct light for 6+ hours per day.

A plant that needs part shade will do best with bright, direct light in the morning and evening with shade during the hot part of the day.

Additionally, some plants like a moist, rich soil, whereas others need a loose, sandy bed. Allow enough space for each crop to reach their mature size when planting or thinning.

Consider the Return on Your Planting Investment

When time or space is at a premium it is especially important to choose the most productive crops for your investment.

Of course, you’ll want to plant the foods you enjoy eating, but also consider how much you can expect to harvest and which store-bought crops come with the most packaging or pesticide residue.

For example, if you love fresh salads, you’ve probably noticed how much plastic is used to package lettuce and spinach. You can grow a lot of healthy greens in a small space, saving money and reducing household waste.

Avoid Monocultures

To reduce pests and disease, plant a diversity of crops rather than large blocks of all one species or plant family.

Some members of the same plant family are susceptible to the same insects or fungal infections, which is why keeping these crops separated helps slow the spread. Interplanting vegetables, herbs, and fruits with a variety of flowers and other plants that attract beneficial insects and birds is key to managing an organic garden naturally.

Think Through to Harvest

As you’re planning, think about the foods you enjoy eating fresh and those you purchase frozen, canned, dried, or pickled. Will you have the time and know-how to put up some of your harvest for later? The easiest way to preserve your harvests is by freezing or dehydrating, but you can also make fresh-pack pickles without much fuss. Canning is a bit more involved, but this method creates shelf-stable food and is well worth the effort.

Getting Started

Check your list of plants to determine which should be started indoors , sown directly into your garden, and purchased as seedlings.

There are pros and cons to each method. The benefits of starting your own seedlings include:

The cost of a seed packet is often the same as one started plant.

There are more varieties to choose from, including heirlooms.

You control the pesticides and fertilizers applied to seedlings.

You can increase sustainability with recycled pots and homemade potting mix.

You may start only as many plants as you need.

The benefits of purchasing seedlings include:

Your purchase may support a local greenhouse.

You won’t need to buy special lights for starting seeds.

The process takes less time.

No special care is needed until you purchase your plants.

Starting Seeds Indoors

Raising your own seedlings can be as simple as sowing a few seeds in trays in a window or as complex as setting up a seed-starting system.

For the least expensive option, start seeds on a sunny windowsill just a few weeks before moving the seedlings outdoors.

For the strongest transplants, set up a full-spectrum LED grow light above your seedlings. A shelving unit fitted with light fixtures can house many seed trays. Seedling heat mats provide gentle bottom heat for speeding up germination, but you can set seeds anywhere with a temperature of 65°F to 80°F.

Cover trays with a sheet of clear plastic or another transparent lid to hold in moisture until the seeds germinate. Spritz the seedlings with a spray bottle of water only when the surface of the potting mix dries out, and use a small fan to mimic wind, encourage strong stems, and reduce “damping off,” a fungal disease.

Purchase seed-starting trays made from recycled plastic, reuse plastic yogurt containers or make newspaper pots to increase sustainability.

You’ll need a soilless seed-starting mix, or you can make your own from compost. When outdoor temperatures are warm enough for your seedlings, you’ll need to harden them off, meaning move them outdoors for a bit more time each day until they have acclimated to their new surroundings.

Start by placing them out of direct light for a few minutes and increasing exposure to sun and wind each day. Pay close attention to prevent sunburn, drying out, or freezing, and don’t plant them in the garden until the nighttime temperatures are warm enough for each crop.

Direct Sowing

Some crops grow best when sown directly into their garden bed. Read the directions on your seed packets for the best time to sow, how deep to plant seeds, how far apart to space them, and how much space to leave between seedlings after thinning (removing extra seedlings to provide the proper space between mature plants).

Some cool-season crops may be planted as early as the soil can be worked in the spring until several weeks before the last frost, whereas heat-loving crops should be sown once all danger of frost has passed. Check the average date of the last frost in your area to determine when to plant each crop.

Keep seedbeds moist by watering them gently each day. Even moisture is critical during germination and drying out could ruin your entire planting. Some seeds take two or three weeks to germinate, so be prepared to water them twice a day.

My Organic Garden Worksheet

WHAT METHODS DO I WANT TO TRY? Consider the pros and cons of each gardening methods you wish to try, thinking about where each could fit into the space you have available.

Sketch your garden, raised beds, or containers and their measurements to gain an understanding of your available space. Note the amount of sun each area receives to help choose the best crops for each spot.

HOW MUCH TIME DO I HAVE? Be realistic about your time commitment and don’t plant more than you can care for. It’s better to start with humble expectations and add to your garden later than to overestimate what you can maintain. Try blocking out time for your garden on a calendar to help you plan.

WHAT CROPS WILL I GROW? List the vegetables, herbs, fruits, and beneficial plants you wish to raise.

CROP CLOSE-UP

For each vegetable, herb, or fruit you wish to grow, list the best time of year to plant and whether you will start seeds indoors, direct sow, or purchase seedlings from a garden center. Consider how much you can use fresh or if you’ll have time to preserve the extras.

How to Read a Seed Packet

Most seed companies include a wealth of information on their seed packets, including whether the seeds were raised organically (these seeds aren’t treated with fungicides); if the variety of seed is an heirloom, hybrid, or an All-American Selection (or AAS, which are chosen for superior performance); and if the variety is resistant to any diseases.

There is some confusion about seeds that are hybrids versus GMOs (genetically modified organisms, with genetic material inserted in a lab setting into the plant’s DNA).

Hybrid seeds are not the same as a GMO and are created by cross-pollinating two or more varieties of the same species. An F1 hybrid is created by crossing two open-pollinated varieties (which breed true to type), and an F2 hybrid is created by crossing an F1 hybrid with an open-pollinated variety. Other important information to look for on your seed packet is the best time to plant, time to maturity (or days to harvest), time to germination (how long it takes seeds to sprout), how much sun the plant needs, how far apart to plant the seeds, and how far apart the plants should be after thinning. For the best results, follow these instructions closely.

Getting Enough Water

Keeping your garden properly irrigated is especially important when plants don’t have an extensive root system, such as when they are seedlings. You’ll need to check the soil moisture regularly in hot, dry weather and provide irrigation when needed.

On the other hand, if your soil is high in clay and the drainage is poor, make sure plants aren’t overwatered. Too much water is just as unhealthy as too little and can cause roots to rot and lose their ability to absorb moisture and nutrients.

The symptom of root rot is wilted leaves, the same as too little water. Always check the soil and water only when needed.

Contouring

This watering method has been used in rice paddies for centuries to hold water or direct its flow to a planting bed. Permaculture proponents use this technique in much the same way to reduce irrigation needs.

To put contouring to work in your own garden, you’ll need to study the lay of your land to see how water runs off and where it tends to collect. Situate beds or rows of plants to slow water runoff and reduce soil erosion.

For example, rows are planted across, rather than up and down, a slope that slows the flow of water and increases the absorption of moisture into the soil.

Irrigation Methods

Most gardeners need to water crops during periods of low rainfall, so it’s a good idea to plan ahead for irrigation. Watering a garden with a sprinkler wastes a lot of water and can cause fungal diseases. If you must use a sprinkler, do so in the morning so leaves dry off before nightfall.

Some better irrigation options are outlined here:

Use soaker hoses to water at the root zone and reduce evaporation.

Direct water to individual plants with drip irrigation.

Fill milk jugs with water, replace the cap, and poke a tiny hole in the bottom to water individual plants.

Hand-water with a hose or watering can to allow close inspection of plants as you work.

Save even more water by installing rain barrels on your downspouts, if rainwater harvesting is allowed in your area. Mulching and planting in slightly sunken beds reduces evaporation, and amending soil with compost helps the soil retain water.

If your area is prone to dry spells, choose plants that are drought tolerant when possible. Try using a blend of water-saving techniques to reduce irrigation needs.

Getting Down in The weeds

Gardeners spend a great deal of time waging war against weeds, which is understandable considering they grow like crazy and compete with our vegetables for water and nutrients.

However, there are ways to keep these unwanted plants under control without spending your entire summer weeding, cultivating, and spraying with toxic chemicals. Keep weeds to a minimum by removing them before they spread seeds in your garden beds.

You can also plant your crops densely to reduce competition and use mulch to prevent weed seeds from germinating. With this combination, you’ll find it much easier to keep your garden relatively free from unwanted plants.

Mulching

Significantly reduce your weeding duties and reduce moisture loss with layers of mulch between rows and plants. Create your own compost to mulch small plants and consider using a chipper or shredder to create mulch from your own yard waste.

Keep weeds down between beds or rows by covering these bare areas with clean straw, free cardboard, or wood chips. Make sure any bales of straw brought into your garden are free of thistle seed and that the straw wasn’t sprayed with persistent herbicides.

Wood chips may be available for free from landscaping companies, offering an affordable and sustainable option. Keep in mind that as wood chips break down, they tie up nitrogen in the soil, so you may need to use more fertilizer.

Reduce weeds in planting beds by mulching with compost, straw, shredded leaves, or another mulch with a fine texture. To prevent fungal problems, don’t pile mulch over seedlings or newly seeded beds or against the stems of plants. It’s better to add an inch or two of mulch at a time around plants instead of adding thick layers all at once.

Density Plantings

Spacing your plants closely helps them by shading sprouting weeds that rob them of moisture and nutrients. Be careful not to plant your crops too closely, which reduces air circulation and encourages the spread of disease.

Another option is to plant shorter crops that like a shady spot where they can keep weeds at bay without interfering with taller crops. Interplanting two or more vegetables or herbs together can be helpful to both crops. Some good combinations are tomatoes surrounded by spinach.

Spinach is a low-growing crop that may be seeded densely, shading out weeds without competing with the tomatoes. As your tomato plants fill in, they will shade the ground around the time your spinach crop is harvested.

Pinching, Pruning, or Staking

Many plants are more productive when their growth is directed by selectively pinching, pruning, or staking. For example, tomatoes produce side shoots that take energy away from flowering and fruiting on the main stem. By pinching off these suckers, you’ll increase the number of ripe tomatoes harvested.

Pruning the inner branches of fruit trees allows more sunlight to reach the fruit, increasing sugar content. Staking vines keeps fruit off the ground and prevents rot.

Pinch flower buds and side shoots easily when growth is tender to increase the vigor of the plant.

For example, basil will produce more leaves when flower buds are removed. Pruning mature growth also keeps plants from taking over an area and directs energy to the best branches; however, this technique requires pruners or a pruning saw. Grape vines, fruit trees, and other woody plants require annual pruning.

PINCHING

Try growing microgreens or sprouts in your garden or indoors over winter. These nutritious greens are clipped for salads or stir-fries. Once they are clipped, they usually won’t regrow, so plant frequently for a continual harvest.

Staking plants may be as simple as using a tomato cage or bamboo stakes. Wire fencing will support a row of peas or pole beans, but grapes need a heavy-duty trellis or fence to support their vines.

Harvest

A well-planned bed may produce vegetables, fruits, and herbs throughout the season. Be sure to harvest these goodies as they ripen, because some plants will shut down future production if you don’t keep them picked. Plus, you don’t want your veggies to end up tough or overripe.

Check plants daily for any vegetables or fruits that are ready to use. The best time of day to harvest is after the dew dries in the morning (to prevent spreading fungal spores on wet leaves) and before the heat of the day (when some veggies may wilt).

Harvest tomatoes and melons before watering to prevent cracking. Pick string beans every two or three days. Use a knife to cut squash and eggplants from the plant.

Here are a few tools and supplies that make harvest easier:

Basket or bowl to hold the harvest

Gloves to protect your hands from thorny plants

Kitchen shears or a knife for cutting tough stems

Jar of water for keeping herbs or flowers fresh

Garden Cleanup

Removing spent plants from your garden helps reduce pests and disease. At the end of the season after a fall frost, a cleanup is required. A cleanup is also required when a crop is finished.

Compost all organic matter (unless it’s diseased), and prepare the bed for your next planting. With a bit of care and planning, you may be able to plant several successive crops in one row or bed.

Sow seeds every week or two for an extended harvest, or follow up a cool-season crop with warm-season vegetables. Remove spent plants, add compost, and plant another crop to make good use of your space.

If you’ll be replacing one crop with a related planting (plants from the same family, such as legumes), cleaning up the first crop is especially important. Better yet, follow up with an unrelated crop.

In this scenario, each growing season you could potentially plant three successive crops in one space. One of my favorite succession plantings is a crop of early beets, followed by string beans, with a final sowing of kale in the fall.

For gardeners in frost-free zones or areas with only a light freeze, be sure to do a thorough cleanup and practice plant rotation to prevent the buildup of pathogens in the soil.

THE NEXT TIME AROUND: CROP ROTATION

Rotating crops might sound complicated, but it’s easy if you keep track of your garden layout each year.

To reduce problems with disease, pests, and nutrient deficiencies, raise different crops (from different plant families) in each garden bed following this schedule:

Year 1: legumes to build soil fertility (alfalfa, beans, peas)

Year 2: heavy feeders (greens, pumpkins, sweet corn)

Year 3: medium feeders (flowers, peppers, tomatoes)

Year 4: root crops (beets, carrots, potatoes)

Although this plan is ideal, many gardeners plant only one type of vegetable or they have a small space, making it difficult to rotate their crops. Fortunately, there are some ways to overcome these issues.

To “rotate” a container garden, you may either switch the crop grown in each pot or sanitize the pot and refill it with fresh potting mix each year.

Sanitizing and putting in fresh soil may also be used in small raised beds; however, the cost of refilling beds with fresh soil can be considerable. Try marking off the bed using the square-foot method and keep meticulous track of which crops are grown in each space to help plan your rotation schedule.

Another option is to plant a straw-bale garden and add the straw to your hot compost pile at the end of the season to kill most pathogens.

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blushingfantasy · 7 years ago

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On Tuesday night, Californians voted to pass Proposition 22, a ballot measure supported by app-based gig companies that exempts them from reclassifying their workers as employees.

Companies including Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Postmates, and more, spent big to convince voters to approve the measure. The company-funded Yes on Proposition 22 campaign spent over $200 million (including millions in donations to the California GOP), deployed a record number of lobbyists, and spread waves of misleading political mailers. At the same time, Uber’s and Lyft’s chief executives undertook a media tour featuring threats to exit the state and repeatedly attempted to exempt themselves in California’s courts. The campaign bought digital, television, radio, and billboard ads, and also sponsored academic research Meanwhile, delivery drivers were forced to use Yes on Proposition 22-branded packaging while the apps themselves told users to vote yes.

On the other side of the issue was a grassroots campaign run by driver advocacy groups and organized labor, which spent just over $20 million.

“We’re disappointed in tonight’s outcome, especially because this campaign’s success is based on lies and fear-mongering. Companies shouldn’t be able to buy elections,” Gig Workers Rising, a California-based driver advocacy group said in a press release early Wednesday morning. “But we’re still dedicated to our cause and ready to continue our fight. Gig work is real work, and gigi workers deserve fair and transparent pay, along with proper labor protections.”

As news of the results broke, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi took to Twitter to show his excitement and shared a tweet from early Uber investor Jason Calacanis calling Assemblywoman Lorena S Gonzalez, the author of AB5, a “grifter” who “failed to hand gig workers over to big-money unions”.

After some time, Khosrowshahi reversed the retweet and instead emailed drivers a more subdued message celebrating that the “future of independent work is more secure because so many drivers like you spoke up and made your voice heard—and voters across the state listened.”

This is undoubtedly a victory for capital over labor, and one that will likely allow the unprofitable gig economy to continue limping along at the expense of workers. It does not, however, change the reality that the “gig” business model is doomed in the long-term.

For years, gig companies have misclassified employees as independent contractors—a legal distinction that has allowed unprofitable enterprises to avoid expensive labor costs such as a minimum wage, health insurance, and safe working conditions, among other benefits of employment. Proposition 22 was cooked up to undo Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a California law that codified an “ABC test” to determine if a worker was independently contracted or employed by a company and which went into effect in January.

After AB5 went into effect, attorneys for some of California’s largest cities, along with the state’s attorney general, then filed suits demanding an end to app-based gig company worker misclassification. Uber and Lyft have waged the main legal battle, but lost the case and every appeal since, making Proposition 22 a make-or-break measure.

“Prop 22 means I get no workers’ compensation, no disability, no sick pay, it would be touch and go for me,” Mekela Edwards, an Oakland-based Uber driver who hasn’t worked since March because COVID-19 poses a high health risk to her. “I have to ask how long my unemployment will last, how long I’ll have before I’m forced to go back out there and work. I don’t want to imagine it, I can’t imagine being forced to choose between my health and making a living.”

Hundreds of thousands of people work for the gig companies behind Proposition 22 and many have been devastated by the COVID-19 recession. Still, this has not stopped the gig companies from threatening to take drastic measures if they’re not allowed to have their way. Over the past few months, Uber and Lyft in particular have threatened to radically downsize where service is offered, fire most of their drivers, radically restructure into a franchise model, or leave the state entirely, if Proposition 22 fails.

California voting Yes on Prop 22—which includes fine print that any changes to it must be passed with a seven-eighths majority in the state’s legislature—is a huge setback for labor. It will trap hundreds of thousands of workers under a permanent misclassification scheme that rewards a racist business model that disproportionately hurts Black and brown workers. Despite all this, Proposition 22 is not the final say on this matter in the U.S. or internationally.

AB5 clones are being considered in New York and New Jersey, while Massachusetts’ Attorney General has already sued Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers in the state. Despite objections from Uber’s and Lyft’s impressive lobbying operations, the PRO Act—which would grant gig workers the right to collectively bargain, as part of a massive overhaul of labor law—has passed in the House.

“This is really a story about the kind of cities we are building,” Katie Wells, a researcher at Georgetown University told Motherboard. “The kind of cities—the kind of world we’ve built—it has allowed these entities to come in and build up a workforce through an extractive and predatory system. Regulators have to keep that in mind.”

Outside of the U.S., the global 2019 strike on the day of Uber’s public offering has been followed by successive waves. Over the summer, thousands of delivery workers organized militant strikes and protests in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador targeting Uber Eats and other exploitative food delivery apps. These have been joined by even more strikes and protests in Nigeria, France, and India. At the same time, Uber is losing legal challenges in France, Britain, Canada, Italy, where high courts have either outright ruled Uber drivers are employees or have opened the door to lawsuits reclassifying them as such.

Governments across the world are also beginning to push Uber to pay billions in taxes that it has evaded over the past decade. In Britain, Uber will have to pay £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) in unpaid value-added taxes it avoided by exploiting a legal loophole. In the U.S., Uber has dodged billions in taxes and wage claims through misclassification: in New Jersey it owes over $650 million in taxes, while in California drivers have filed $1.3 billion in wage claims against Uber and Lyft.

Since Uber’s only hope for survival lies in misclassifying workers and labor law, though, it won’t give up the billions to be made both domestically and globally (even if at a loss) without a fight.

“There’s a lesson here for workers of all sectors, beyond classification: companies are willing to spend massive amounts of money to take away their rights,” said Jerome Gage, a Lyft driver and organizer with Mobile Workers Alliance. “It’s incredibly important for workers to organize to protect themselves, to protect upward mobility, a minimum wage, sick leave, healthcare—to roll back a century of basic protections that try and keep Americans out of poverty.”

Proposition 22’s victory, however, can’t obscure the fact that these companies are doomed. Even with a wage guarantee that effectively pays $5.64 an hour, the companies are no closer to sustainably achieving profitability than they were yesterday. Overcrowded markets for ride-hailing and food delivery, along with vicious price wars and poor unit economics meant there was never any real hope of achieving a monopoly, erecting barriers to market entry, and raising prices to levels that, for many of these companies, would yield their first ever profits.

There’s good news for investors, however, who will finally begin to see returns on investments that have long been underwater thanks to massively inflated valuations that have tumbled in public markets. Indeed, share prices for Uber and Lyft soared in premarket trading on Wednesday morning.

For workers, though, things will be bad. It is hard to imagine how hundreds of thousands of workers earning wages just under half of the minimum wage will be able to feed themselves, maintain housing, afford medical care, or otherwise make ends meet, especially under the boot of a pandemic and with no hope of government aid until next year.

Localities, cities, states, and countries will have to begin cooperating if they’re to have any hope of weathering the storm. They’ll need to start being aggressive, experimenting with ways they can outright take over the platforms or prohibit companies from providing the service to begin with—all while figuring out ways to expand mass transit so that not only they’re not only meeting the needs of people who need transportation, both those who worked for app-based ride-hail companies previously.

For the sake of maintaining an illusion that they’ll one day be profitable, gig companies have waged war in California at great expense to their workers, the public, and employees in other industries whose employers may grow emboldened this moment. The fight is far from over, and there is hope for labor in the continuing coordination of driver advocates, regulators, and legislators around the world, but it will get messy as likely to harken a period of unprecedented social unrest among increasingly immiserated gig workers.

“Beyond California, we need to strike early and strike quickly to ensure swift defeat to this idea that you can change the basic nature of employment and deny benefits to your employees,” Gage told Motherboard. “I ask people not involved to try and understand the labor movement in your area. Reach out to unions and ask how you can help volunteers…Get involved with and spread the world—[money] can buy misinformation and it can deceive, but it can’t beat the solidarity between two workers or between human beings.”

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On Tuesday night, Californians voted to pass Proposition 22, a ballot measure supported by app-based gig companies that exempts them from reclassifying their workers as employees.

On the other side of the issue was a grassroots campaign run by driver advocacy groups and organized labor, which spent just over $20 million.

“We're disappointed in tonight's outcome, especially because this campaign's success is based on lies and fear-mongering. Companies shouldn't be able to buy elections,” Gig Workers Rising, a California-based driver advocacy group said in a press release early Wednesday morning. “But we're still dedicated to our cause and ready to continue our fight. Gig work is real work, and gigi workers deserve fair and transparent pay, along with proper labor protections.”

As news of the results broke, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi took to Twitter to show his excitement and shared a tweet from early Uber investor Jason Calacanis calling Assemblywoman Lorena S Gonzalez, the author of AB5, a "grifter" who "failed to hand gig workers over to big-money unions".

After some time, Khosrowshahi reversed the retweet and instead emailed drivers a more subdued message celebrating that the "future of independent work is more secure because so many drivers like you spoke up and made your voice heard—and voters across the state listened."

For years, gig companies have misclassified employees as independent contractors—a legal distinction that has allowed unprofitable enterprises to avoid expensive labor costs such as a minimum wage, health insurance, and safe working conditions, among other benefits of employment. Proposition 22 was cooked up to undo Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a California law that codified an "ABC test" to determine if a worker was independently contracted or employed by a company and which went into effect in January.

"Prop 22 means I get no workers' compensation, no disability, no sick pay, it would be touch and go for me," Mekela Edwards, an Oakland-based Uber driver who hasn't worked since March because COVID-19 poses a high health risk to her. "I have to ask how long my unemployment will last, how long I'll have before I'm forced to go back out there and work. I don't want to imagine it, I can't imagine being forced to choose between my health and making a living."

“This is really a story about the kind of cities we are building,” Katie Wells, a researcher at Georgetown University told Motherboard. “The kind of cities—the kind of world we've built—it has allowed these entities to come in and build up a workforce through an extractive and predatory system. Regulators have to keep that in mind.”

"There's a lesson here for workers of all sectors, beyond classification: companies are willing to spend massive amounts of money to take away their rights," said Jerome Gage, a Lyft driver and organizer with Mobile Workers Alliance. "It's incredibly important for workers to organize to protect themselves, to protect upward mobility, a minimum wage, sick leave, healthcare—to roll back a century of basic protections that try and keep Americans out of poverty."

"Beyond California, we need to strike early and strike quickly to ensure swift defeat to this idea that you can change the basic nature of employment and deny benefits to your employees,” Gage told Motherboard. “I ask people not involved to try and understand the labor movement in your area. Reach out to unions and ask how you can help volunteers…Get involved with and spread the world—[money] can buy misinformation and it can deceive, but it can't beat the solidarity between two workers or between human beings.”

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besthomepackersandmoverss1 · 6 years ago

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14 Essential to Safely Pack and Transfer Domestic Packaging Materials

Packaging and transportation of equipment is more complex than you think. Safety should be the first priority when you think of packing and moving your household goods. Proper packaging of goods in your home is very important because the protection of your household goods is mainly contained in the way they are packed. That's why we get a lot of calls to all those users who want to control, compact and transfer everything. In most cases, you do not understand what kind of packaging material should be used? Well, if you plan to pack and transport your products safely and learn about the types of domestic packaging, which you need to pack and transport safely, then here, is the publication that you should checked out. Today, I share the list of the 14 most important home items that you will need to pack and transport all the items in your house safely.

Although strong elements and can still face small clouds of the box, sensitive elements are very weak inside the truck. Make sure to use proper packaging material for good quality packaging. It is true that packing goods will help you to protect your goods in a better way.

How hard and safely you pack, if the packaging material you use is not good, and then the complete hard work can be wasted. Now, due to the inability to ensure the safety of its domestic products, it is clear that you should use the best packaging material. Packers and Movers in Delhi provides safe and sustainable packaging materials.

Boxes and tape are common packaging materials that we all know. To help you pack everything safely and transport, I share a list of 14 basic packaging materials for your home which you cannot ignore. If you use these loads to replenish your products, you can greatly reduce the risk of losses during transportation.

Have you ever wondered what makes it so complicated to return home? Complications are due to the different types and sizes of materials. Small domestic packaging is easy when you have the right kind of packaging. But dealing with huge furniture and appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators, etc. It's a bit complicated. When it comes to moving the house, transportation is the vaguest part, because you never know what can happen on the road. You can get trapped in bad weather, roads are not right; you end up in an accident, etc. In fact, there could be anything that could damage your property.

What is the product?

Packaging material plays an important role in the packaging of household products. If you have packed everything carefully, it is the only way to ensure maximum security for your goods and items. Therefore, you must have enough local packing material before you start packing.

If you are hiring a moving and packing company or planning to pack and transport yourself, then it is very helpful to know the type of packaging material to use to get the best quality packaging.

Basic packaging material for home required for safe transport

Whether you do it yourself or packaging and transport professionals do it for you, it is also important to pack everything safely for a smooth transition. Best Home Packers and Movers ensure the safety of your product. Since, there are usually many types of domestic packaging available today from portable cardboard boxes to imitation paper, bubble wrap, peanut wrapping, and more. There are now many types of packaging materials that can be used to reduce the risk of loss during transportation.

The list below contains 14 basic household packaging materials which can be used to safely pack and transport all types of home appliances and other materials.

Placing boxes

This list is at the top of basic packaging requirements because it is the most commonly used domestic packaging material in packaging. There are boxes available in different shapes and sizes to fit your items properly. Most often, these swap bodies can be used to fill non-pear material such as clothes, kitchen boxes etc.

Since the items you have, they will be mainly of different shapes and sizes, it is best to buy small, medium, large or very large, cardboard boxes of different sizes. Order of boxes helps you pack your bags carefully. Be sure to combine them well so that your qualities are well adapted.

But remember that if you use a growing box of different sizes; be careful while loading these boxes in the truck. The load should be done in such a way that there is no difference between the boxes or if they do not bump. Then load these boxes carefully so that you can be damaged free.

Special boxes

While the purpose of placing boxes is to mobilize public goods, placing boxes are specially designed to provide adequate protection for their sensitive goods. The size of these boxes depends on the size of your wardrobe and the size of sensitive items that you want to take.

There are the various types of boxes you can go for:

· Garment Chest: If you like your clothes and want to pack them in your new home, then the clothing chest is a good option for buying them. These boxes contain a metal rod so that your clothes remain intact. You can buy these crates for every cabinet filled with your clothes.

· Heavy box: Heavy box means double-walled box, so you can easily transfer plants and other sensitive items with double protection.

· Cell group: These boxes are better separators for glasses and small delicate accessories. In fact, you can wrap each element and keep it in your cell, which will ensure the highest level of elements during their displacement.

· E-fund: I think its name helps in estimating its importance and purpose. Well, you can use these electronics box to fill the monitors, computers and other types of electronics that you consider weak for static electrical problems.

Wrap the gift

Packaging sheet is one of the essential packaging materials that we need during internal transfers because you have to wrap sensitive items. You can also use them to fill the vacancies which can damage objects during transport. Plain paper or brown paper will be fine for this. To pack items after a minute, it is best to use tissue paper or plain paper.

Wrap the bubble

Bubble pack is the most common and most secure type of packaging that can be used to wrap delicate materials. During the movement, using a bubble film can be the best option to protect delicate properties and sensitive elements. Just wrap the delicate objects in the bubbles and the air-filled packaging material will absorb any unwanted effects and will protect the objects during loading.

Peanut Pack

These are generally used to fill the empty space inside the boxes. Using Peanut Wrapping You can make any empty space to fill any empty space regardless of the size and shape, which also provides excellent safety and cushion for excellent and delicate items. For maximum protection, just cover the lower part of the box with a thin layer of groundnut, then keep your luggage and then cover them with another layer of groundnut. Then shake the box until the empty space is filled by peanut, and then add a final layer before closing the box.

Never use non-biodegradable products (filling) because get rid of it. Therefore, I recommend using peanut starch, because even though it is more expensive, it is only biological. But remember that it disintegrates on coming into contact with water, so if you are in extreme humidity conditions then you need to be fully aware.

Foam envelope

If you have very heavy objects that can wrap peanuts and bubbles, then I recommend using foam. When you roll heavy items, such as a refrigerator, a washing machine, etc. With foam, you can get adequate protection. If the road is difficult or is in the grip of a truck, the use of sponge will be very useful. If you have to pack cushion or such items then this boxing is very useful. It provides any damage from the scratches.

Mobile cover

You can buy growing blankets because they are large and thick and can easily be wrapped around large pieces of furniture like wardrobe, display stand, etc. This will save them from any type of scratches and scratches as well as any dust and dirt. They also offer extra cushioning and security for their luggage in the moving van. To prevent scratches and damage, they can also be packaged while carrying huge objects on the scale.

Stretch conveyor wrapping

There is another item expansion packaging in the list of essential household items during domestic transport. You can use extension coils for motors to protect some surfaces during the entire running process or they can use them to hang objects or to attach them together.

However, be careful if you move into extremely hot areas during the summer months. In fact, if you keep it for a long time in very hot weather, it can damage the clean finish of your property.

Labeling

It is important to label the box correctly and you should buy labels for each box. You can also print and group your labels. However, some people do not write, but to keep the track and mark box, just buy posters of different colors. You can use one of the ways that you like best, but labeling each box is essential.

Square cut

Burglars are important and you have to buy at least one when moving your house. You can eliminate the unloading process very fast by using Tool Cutting Tool, which took a lot of time.

Scissors

Scissors are very helpful when you need to open the boxes or unpack the items because it is damage free and prevents the expensive items.

Mattress bag

Mattresses are so large and large that they are not kept in boxes which they brought. So it is best to put them in the Mattress bag. It will ensure full security of your wages during transportation.

Other handbags

Apart from a specially designed mattress bag, it is also important to buy a bag. You can buy lockable bags because they are safe to carry and give extra protection to your goods and items. You can also get vacuum bags because they provide a lot of space. Then there are garbage bags that you can use to keep junk.

What are the original home packaging materials you can use?

The whole process of home transport is very stressful, mentally and physically, but I think the packaging is the most important element because you have to organize, organize and properly organize items so that they are safe and secure during transport. To make packaging, you need quality packaging materials for home, in which you can never leave the protection of your luggage.

Today, I discussed the essential 14 essential items needed to move the house. You can also use other packaging materials, but I think these 14 elements are the key elements when you do the local goods themselves for packing and transport. After that, when you go to buy items, you will definitely be able to see a list of packing materials in the house which we had already analyzed.

However, if you have chosen a professional transportation company and a job package, in this case, you should closely monitor these materials and make sure you use them to fill your products. These are the most common domestic packaging materials used by professionals, but if the company you are using does not use packaging supplies, then you need to check and ensure the quality of the packaging.

I hope this article will help you to pack and move safely with domestic goods. But if you are already able to move and you know about other domestic packaging materials that can help you move safely, do not hesitate to share this blog.

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teachanarchy · 8 years ago

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A Nervous Wreck’s Disabled Guide to Stepping Up

Navigating dis/ability and anxiety in the call to action

It’s very easy to get overwhelmed. With so many actions, so many organizations that need your support, it’s easy to drown in the sea of I SHOULD/I CAN’T and find yourself shocked into inaction. There’s a lot of people who don’t know what to do. There’s a lot of people who are frustrated with accessibility issues surrounding some more common forms of resistance.

A lot of people are asking: how can I help? I’ve weathered a process to figuring out how I can help build community and fight for justice & I’ve gotten pretty good at it, so I’m going to share that process with you. I’m going to breeze through the list of steps, and then describe how I went though them to get where I am today. Okay, great: here we go.

A NERVOUS WRECK’S DISABLED GUIDE TO STEPPING UP:STEP ZERO: Give yourself a moment to breathe.STEP ONE: Make a list of what you’re good at.STEP TWO: Make a list of your limitations.STEP THREE: Make a list of people and organizations who need support.STEP FOUR: Make a list of people and organizations you are connected with.STEP FIVE: Put it all together.

CASE STUDY: ME

I’m going to use myself as an example: My body and my brain don’t work quite the same as most, and I get frustrated with my inability to just show up in the street to throw down, for example. After sober self-reflection and negotiation with my dis/abilities, I’ve been able to design a strategy where I can do work that matters to me, that helps others, and is actually working with my body instead of against it.

0.I find it easy to get overwhelmed and shocked into inaction by the weight of the world. First and foremost, I give myself permission to feel overwhelmed. I find the key to fighting panic is to accept the feelings and let the panicked thoughts run their course. I listen to my body. I take a long shower. I pray. I center myself, that I can remember what’s important and look to the future with an eye that is both critical and hopeful.

1.Once I’ve got a more level head, I write down a list of things I’m good at: I’m a writer. I am a great cook. I know basic carpentry and maintenance of a household. I’m good at internet research. I’m okay with public speaking but excel in one-on-one conversation. My faith in Allah and my passion for justice are assets. I am an empathetic person who feels very strongly in rising up for the disadvantaged and marginalized in the world. I write it down, because these things are critical to remember and having a physical copy is helpful for me to process everything.

2. I consider my limitations. I don’t place judgement on them; I accept my limitations for what they are. I write them down on paper: I cannot stand for long periods of time or march long distances. I cannot risk arrest. I can’t go to a venue that has flights of stairs without elevator or escalator. I spend maybe too much time looking at this list because it hurts and it’s easy to dwell on what I can’t do. I give myself space for the feeling. I understand that most romanticized forms of protest aren’t accessible to many. There are allies & accomplices who can risk facing down the pigs, who can march for hours to shut down freeways, who can put their bodies on the line for justice. Let those who are willing & able rise up to their ability. I’m no good to the movement if I’m dead or hospitalized and my access to doing the work is severely limited from behind bars; so I swallow my guilt when I see family on the news shutting down on Lake Shore Drive, and I get back to considering what I can do to help.

3. I write down a list of the people and organizations who need support. I try to be as specific as I can. This requires a bit of research. It’s easy to say refugees need help, it may take time to come around to these three organizations in my city are helping refugees and need support. I look at organizations who are doing good work — I find the donate page on their website.

4. Next, I write down the people and organizations I know. I consider my faith community. The local organizations I admire. I consider the people in my life who are doing good work: the brother who gives so much of his time to a refugee family struggling to get on their feet, the sibling doing suicide prevention work in the trans community, the sister who uses her car to give free rides for people going to medical appointments. I think about the communities I’m a part of who could be doing more to help others.

5.With everything written down, I can look at these four categories and start putting ideas together:

I can write well, but I can’t risk arrest at a march. Aisha is going, though, and she’s just down the street: I can write protest signs and hand them off along with some other important supplies (water bottles, vinegar soaked bandanas, anti-tear gas mix in spray bottles) & Aisha can distribute them at the march.

I can hold a marathon of cooking in my home kitchen (to help process my feelings, because I know cooking good healthy food will calm me down), and when it’s done I can package it up and donate some healthy halal homecooked food to the refugee family brother Chris has been supporting.

I have a little extra money this week. I can use it to patronize the immigrant-run business down the street and keep money in my community instead of giving it to corporate interests.

I can reach out to LGBTQ orgs in my city and educate on advocacy for Muslims. I can reach out to Muslim orgs and talk to them about strategies for trans inclusivity. Let’s start with e-mail or phone calls, and maybe it can develop in to some in-person discussion with local leaders.

I can commit 30 minutes every day to calling my senators and local representatives to make sure [x bill doesn’t pass, y bill does, the literal antichrist doesn’t get appointed to the supreme court, etc].

I have a lot of friends and family who can see the direction this country is headed, aren’t happy, and while they believe something should be done about it don’t know how to get involved. I can plan a potluck dinner from home to have friends and family over to raise money for that organization doing local legal support for immigrants and refugees. While they’re over I can teach my less-informed family about the importance of this work and help strategize how they can get involved, too.

I have a lot of connections, and a lot of organizing experience I could put to good use. I am going to get my friends together and help create a prayer space for marginalized Muslims and do what I can to empower others to build community together in a way that is safe, accessible and affirming for everyone.

That last one is maybe a bit grander of a direction than many may be willing to take it but this is the point I’m trying to make: in this process, you can’t leave any idea behind. You don’t have to do everything on your list. Just write out every possible idea that comes to your head. Start with the tiniest most basic good deed, the kind of thing you think any decent human being would do, and move your way up to those big-picture dreams you feel like you could help bring to life if the stars aligned in just the right way — because you may find one day that they have.

Be mindful of your limitations, but more importantly celebrate what you excel in.

Maybe you know how to knit! And you can host a knitting circle at your church to discuss an issue you care about.

Maybe you’re an artist! And can create advertisements and art in support of that organization you admire in your free time.

Maybe you’re a dank meme creator! And do um whatever it is that entails? Which will help somehow I’m sure of it.

Maybe your aunt is queen bee at the retirement center! And with a little help she can coordinate a senior call-in to your local representative.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s also pretty easy to sit down and think about the ways you can contribute to the movement. We can make space for both, but if you want more help figuring out how to step up, I’m here. Lots of us are.

Peace & blessings,

[Madison Mahdia Lynn is a community organizer in Chicago and founder of Masjid al-Rabia, a women-centered LGBTQIA+ affirming organization providing spiritual care for marginalized Muslims. Masjid al-Rabia recently launched a fundraiser, & so here’s a tip: making a sustaining donation to local inclusive feminist Muslim organizers would be an extremely helpful & incredibly easy way to show up this afternoon. Just something to consider. Here’s that link again.]

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cliftonsteen · 5 years ago

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How to Protect Coffee Quality During Sea Transit

Sea transportation is one of the riskiest moments in coffee’s route from farm to roastery. The beans spend days in a container exposed to high heat and humidity, both of which can cause cup scores to plummet.

To discover how to better protect coffee during sea transit, I spoke to Diego Lara Lavarreda, Global Coffee & Cocoa Specialist at agricultural packaging manufacturer GrainPro, Phitsanuchai “Chai” Kaewphichai, Co-Founder and Business Advisor at Thai coffee producer and distributor Doi Chaang Coffee, and Le Duc Huy, Vice-Chairman at Vietnamese coffee and pepper exporter Simexco Daklak LTD.

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A TranSafeliner is installed in a container before the loading process begins. Credit: GrainPro

The 3 Things That Can Seriously Damage Green Bean Quality

Some say that the moment coffee cherries are picked, the clock begins ticking and the quality starts degrading.

Many factors affect a coffee’s quality and stability, but once you’re dealing with dried green beans, there are three main issues to consider: temperature, relative humidity, and moisture content.

Coffee is hygroscopic, meaning it will absorb and retain moisture from the air. Diego tells me of a five-month GrainPro study in Costa Rica in which the moisture content of Arabica coffee stored in an environment with a high relative humidity increased by 2%.

In extreme cases, coffee’s hygroscopic nature can lead to oxidation and mold. Diego tells me, “Oxidation of coffee beans causes the physical change of whitening.”

Also referred to as being “oxygen-bleached,” whitening happens when green beans absorb significant amounts of moisture from the environment. As the coffee’s physical appearance changes, so does its flavor. A loss of acidity and a baggy or past-crop flavors are the notable effects.

Meanwhile, mold threatens not just the cup score but the health and safety of consumers. “The biggest problem with highly increased moisture content during transportation is that ochratoxin could be created in the coffee, which is not fit for human consumption,” says Huy.

Diego agrees. He tells me, “Coffee beans affected by oxidation and mold can present a loss of aroma and flavor, resulting in cups that will not meet the quality standards of roasters and consumers. This puts at risk the prices that can be traded between the parties, but also the very health of consumers who are drinking poor-quality coffee with the possible presence of ochratoxins.”

Unfortunately, sea transit can result in those extreme conditions that lead to oxidation and mold.

FIBC Hermetic Pouches are used to store 1–2 MT Big Bags. Credit: GrainPro

Why Sea Transit Is Particularly Challenging

Imagine a sunny day out near a port, or even on a beach. It is hot, sticky, and humid. Then, as the sun sets, it quickly becomes cool – the type of weather where you might pull on a light sweater.

And now, imagine that green coffee on the ocean freight. It is potentially exposed to this fluctuation of temperature and humidity for days as it makes its way to the destination port.

Add in unpredictable weather patterns, long journeys with possible delays at port, and the differences between the climate of the origin and importing country, and sea transit can pose a significant challenge.

“There are many factors that can affect the quality of the coffee beans during transit, but the most important factors are moisture and temperature fluctuations,” says Diego.

The relative humidity over the ocean depends somewhat on the climate and season. However, according to Senior Research Scientist Isaac Held of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in the US, it is “roughly” 80%.

This poses a challenge for the transport of coffee beans. Coffee consultant and author Jean Nicolas Wintgens writes that a relative humidity level of 75% “corresponds to a moisture content in the bean of 15–16%… This is the critical level for fungi formation.”

Fluctuating temperatures increase the risk of mold. Diego says, “The fluctuations between day and night cause… condensation, which will affect the coffee bags and promote the development of mold. Those problems are going to be perceived in the cup and will cause rejections and losses.”

Huy says that this is worsened by the typical supply routes of green coffee. Transporting containers from countries of origin, which typically have tropical climates, to countries that may have cooler, more temperate climates can lead to condensation within the container.

For some coffee companies, sea transit can cause insurmountable problems. Chai tells me that Doi Chaang Coffee used to ship their beans from Thailand to the United States. Eventually, however, they had to stop selling to this market.

“Some years ago, we had problems with exporting our green beans to North America. We found out that when it reached our customers’ port, the quality had changed due to the long weeks of transit over the sea.”

Not only was his company losing money, but their brand and reputation was being damaged. Even today, no matter the destination, he tells me that “we always worry about how our coffee will reach our customers.”

Workers load coffee into containers with TranSafeliners. Credit: GrainPro

How to Protect Green Coffee During Sea Transit

Protecting the coffee from moisture and temperature fluctuations is essential, especially during longer journeys. “Select a good transportation service,” Huy stresses.

He recommends looking closely at the ventilation and if containers are dry and in good condition.

However, it’s not just about the container. Diego emphasizes the importance of hermetic packaging that will prevent gas and moisture from getting to the beans (as well as keeping insects and other contaminants out).

Chai agrees. He used to use inner linings made of calico cloth. However, he switched to hermetic packaging to better protect the beans. “For many years, we mostly used calico cloth as an inner liner for jute sacks… But we found out that using GrainPro is more suitable and more welcomed by our customers, so we are using it to replace calico cloth sacks. The result is very positive from our customers as we do not have to worry about the coffee quality changing over the long transit,” he says.

There are two ways to do this: protect the container with a liner and protect the beans themselves with a pouch. Both methods will prevent air and moisture entering, no matter the temperature or relative humidity outside.

In fact, trials conducted by Cafe Britt in Costa Rica and Peru found that adding hermetic cocoons on the storage stage before transportation significantly reduced the sensorial perception of degradation, including in past-crop coffee. The cupping notes from the final blind test said that the sample stored in cocoons had a “very good flavor, despite being from the previous harvest” and “slight floral flavor,” while the control sample had a “slight old flavor perceptible in the cup, slight harshness” and was “tainted.”

TranSafeliner is used in a shipping container. Credit: GrainPro

Sea transit is an almost inevitable part of coffee trading, with many origin countries located thousands of kilometers away from the customer’s port. Yet it comes with risks: falling cup scores, oxygen-bleaching, and even mold. Roasters, traders, and producers need to understand these and appropriately protect their coffee – especially if they’re transporting specialty coffee.

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Written by Sunghee Tark. Featured photo caption: Containers ready to be shipped using TranSafeliners. Featured photo credit: GrainPro

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Wine Grape Growing Mind Blowing Tips

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Best and worst diets for 2020, ranked by experts, with a popular one near last

Who won the 2020 battle of the diets?

For the third year in a row, the well-researched Mediterranean diet KO’d the competition to win gold in US News and World Report’s 2020 ranking of best diets. The report, released Thursday, is now in its 10th year.

“The hallmarks of a ‘best’ diet include balance, maintainability, palatability, family-friendliness, sustainability, along with healthfulness. The Mediterranean diet gets checkmarks in all of those boxes,” said Yale University Prevention Research Center founding director Dr. David Katz, one of 25 judges on the panel.

“It’s no surprise that the Mediterranean diet remains the No. 1 best diet overall,” said nutritionist Lisa Drayer, a CNN contributor. “It’s easy to follow and offers a healthy eating lifestyle.”

The Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes simple, plant-based cooking, also captured first place in best diet for healthy eating, easiest diet to follow, best plant-based diet and best diet for diabetes.

Vegetables are on display at a market, on August 7, 2014 in Lille, northern France. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Meals from the sunny Mediterranean have been linked to stronger bones, a healthier heart, a lower risk of dementia and breast cancer, and longer life, along with a reduced risk for diabetes and high blood pressure.

The diet focuses on eating less red meat, sugar and saturated fat and more Omega-3-rich fish and olive oil. Red wine can be enjoyed in moderation and socializing with friends and family during meals is part of the prescription.

Top honors

Following closely behind the Mediterranean diet were the respected DASH, Flexitarian, WW (the rebranded name popularly known as Weight Watchers) and MIND diets. Their high rankings are a trend in the report’s results each year.

“We’re interested in diets that have proven staying value — not fad diets that are here today, gone tomorrow,” said Angela Haupt, managing editor of health at U.S. News & World Report. “The diets that perform well are safe, sensible and backed by sound science. That’s going to be consistent from year to year.”

The DASH diet is often recommended to lower blood pressure. Its premise is simple: Eat more veggies, fruits and low-fat dairy foods while cutting way back on any food high in saturated fat, and limit your intake of salt.

Studies have shown following this diet can reduce blood pressure in a matter of weeks.

The flexitarian diet tied with the DASH diet for second place because of its emphasis on whole grains, fruits, veggies and plant-based proteins. It’s basically a vegetarian diet that allows the occasional piece of meat or fish, thus making it “flexible.”

The MIND diet is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets that some may find a bit easier to follow, as it requires less fish and fruit.

Both MIND, which stands for “Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay,” and the Mediterranean diet have been shown to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in studies.

WW came in fourth on the best diet list but took first place in the report’s ranking of best weight loss and commercial weight loss programs. Not only is the diet healthy, the panel said, but it wins top points for stressing the importance of support for dieters.

Despite winning the respect of nutritionists, WW has been losing market share this year; the company’s CEO told analysts the loss was due to the growing popularity of the keto diet, which makes carbs taboo.

Speaking of the keto craze …

Down for the count

Sure to upset its legions of fans, the trendy keto diet came in next to last in the ranking of 35 diets, just behind the obscure Dukan diet.

Both diets aim for “ketosis,” a metabolic state that burns the body’s stores of fat instead of carbohydrates, the body’s natural source of energy. To do that, the diets restrict carb intake to levels nutritionists feel are highly unhealthy as well as completely unsustainable.

In the keto diet, Drayer said, “carbs are limited to about 20 grams per day,” the equivalent of one small banana or apple. Due to the drastic cut in carbs, the diet can cause “headaches, nausea, dizziness and fatigue, particularly in the beginning,” she said, adding that “long-term studies on its effectiveness are lacking.”

In place of carbs, the keto diet emphasizes high levels of protein, fats and dairy, typically full of saturated fat that can contribute to cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.

“I am not a fan of the keto diet, though it may be helpful as a ‘jump start’ to weight loss and can help you quickly rid your diet of processed carbs and sugars,” Drayer said.

Which may be why the keto diet tied for third place in the race for best “fast” weight loss diet.

‘Fast’ weight loss?

First place in the get-rid-of-fat-quick category went to HMR, the Health Management Resources program. It involves purchasing meal replacements from HMR, such as shakes, nutrition bars and multigrain cereals, and adding vegetables and fruits to round out the meals.

(AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Second place went to Optavia, which used to be called Medifast. It, too, wants you to buy and eat many of the company’s pre-packaged products, supplemented by some foods at home.

Both diets could be difficult to follow, Haupt said, “because prepackaged meals tend to get old fast.”

The highly ranked WW tied for third, along with Jenny Craig, which ranked 12th in the best overall diet list.

But the low/no-carb diet Atkins and the keto diet also tied for third place, despite ranking in the deep bottom of other diet categories, such as best diet, most healthy diet and best diets for heart health and diabetes. Ironically, HMR and Optavia joined them toward the bottom of the other categories.

Why would diets that are considered good at helping drop weight quickly be ranked so badly overall?

“The ‘best’ way to lose weight fast is to do something very silly, unsustainable and arguably irresponsible. It’s not truly best — just fast,” said Katz, who is the president of the True Health Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to health promotion and disease prevention

“Many things that are truly bad for health can cause short-term weight loss,” Katz said. “The most effective diets for ‘fast’ weight loss impose severe restrictions that cannot be maintained and would not be compatible with health if they were.”

That’s because quick weight loss diets usually emphasize some drastic cut in nutrients or the elimination of an entire food group that can’t be maintained over time. When the diet stops, the weight comes back, often at higher levels than at the start of the diet. It’s the body’s response to “yo-yo” dieting, studies show.

“Spending your life weight-obsessed, and going on and off diets, is no way to live,” Katz said. “One of the things we hope to convey to the American public is that it’s time to grow up about diet and give it more respect.

“Grown-ups don’t generally expect to ‘get rich fast;’ they understand the need to work, over time,” Katz continued. “But everyone thinks there is some magic formula they haven’t tried yet for rapid weight loss. The consensus of the U.S. News judges is a resounding rebuke of that silly idea.”

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#When #Science #and #Sense #Collide #farmasi #girlmakeup #hairstyle #makeupartistsworldwide #selfie #stylish #stylist #view #women #youtube

Toworking day we’re likely to communicate relating to All-natural and Organic Pores and skin Treatment and how it can be confemploying as well as challenging to try to settle for treatment of your human body in these “Eco-friendly” controversial instances.

The nation nowadays as well as the globe is getting to be a lot more “GREEN” mindful each day. It has became into a sort of Business Hype-term and like so a lot of other ‘large’ selling from time to time the concept can get dropped in the big lighting and hullabaloo of ‘Coolness’.

Individually I’m happy that men and women are waking up and taking an focus in their well-being. What I am not so delighted about is the way some are making an attempt to go about it!! I was speaking with a customer of mine the other day who observed that they ended up dismayed to find out that all the big grocery store chains acquired most of their ‘organic’ greens from an additional nation in which no laws were enforced and where the general thought was that if solely twenty% of the crop was developed with no insecticides than the whole crop could be regarded as organic and hence marketed at a much larger price.

Even though I understand a bit of corporate marketing and making a residing – how does one make feeling and really know? When did ‘we the people’ lose our ability for alternatives and integrity?

Nowadays we sustain ourselves so active that we tend to give our energy absent…….we give ten or more hrs of time a day away in exreplace for income, we give our kids to a person else to increase, we give our overall health to our Physicians to control, we give away so much……

And now I feel a broad significantity are waking up to that real truth and begining to question the challenging concerns and I am individually delighted.

Acquireting back again to our authentic matter of Natural & Organic Skin Care – for several several years Nourishment and Overall health has been the ‘main or in’ difficulty on absolutely everyone’s thoughts. They ‘eat proper’, drink drinking water, practice, take their nutrition, the listing goes on. Yet not a good deal of people have tackled the other vital and critical issue of what I call – “Outside the house Physique Care.” By the time most people get off the Elliptical in the early morning they’ve accomplished their exercise part – they have drank that glass of orange juice – and then action into the demonstrateer to pour potions over their bodies that consist mostly of chemical compounds and very little if any of the good things.

If one is hunting for a entire package deal of health – one has to think of what’s going on to their pores and skin!! So how does one do that without having a Science Level? Grow to be INFORMED. Study labels, get pleasant with someone who can make their own merchandise, ask questions, do scientific studies. In this day and age of lightening velocity internet, questions can be questioned and answers located inside mins. Begin taking back your power of choice!!

You’ll uncover as you start this experience that there are lot of opposing facets. Some will say that unsignificantly less there are no perfume oils employed or preservatives you never have a “Natural or Organic” product. Other folks will go the way of the “Company Entire world” and place a little goodness and a lot of chemicals in their product. Become INFORMED.

My hope is that with time Beauty and Natural Attractiveness will find a equilibrium. There calls for to be a mix of Science and common sense after deciding on your body care items.

The 1st and most important thing is LABELS. Read your labels, study the web site you are geting from, ask questions…..become INFORMED!

Appear for labels that are easy to read, seek products where elements are acquainted and easy to pronounce. Today most website proprietors and shoppers are more nervous about how safe their commerce site is alternatively than how safe their products are!! Question questions, don’t ‘impulse buy’ from a refreshing site, send out e-mail, look for cellphone figures and TALK with these people!!! You will before long get the sense of who is undertaking this as a craft and who is SERIOUS about their business.

Try out to continue to be away from individuals who use business chemicals in making their cleaning soaps (even if they’re handcreated!

Lye, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Stearates and many others. whilst made from organic supplies – they duncooked dampness out rather than to the skin and can become skin irritants over time. Lye, specifically to the new soap producer can result in severe skin burns if not combined safely through out the soap batch or as well much is used.

When purchasing Glycerin Cleaning soaps – look for those using vegetable glycerin as opposed to just glycerin. Glycerin is a by product of soap making so amazing care have to be given by the soap maker to KNOW where their glycerin is coming from. Substantial commercial soap businesses tend to sell this by product and it can be found in most regional craft merchants.

“Vegetable glycerine arrives to us through a very intricate and sophisticated method of extraction known as Hydrolysis, and the end product that we refer to as “Vegetable Glycerine” is usually the derivative of another oils generation. The essentials of this technique is that the fat and oils of a raw ingredient (usually palm or coconut oils) are crack into crude glycerol fats, under the combined action of water, weather and tension. People temperatures can exceed four00 levels and the articles is usually held under pressure for 20-a few0 minutes. What is actually honestly going on is a sort of “counter-stream” where the water absorbs glycerol from the fatty acid phase of the oil production. When this phase this glycerol is isolated and even more dinonethelessed to give buyers a traditional ninety nine% Glycerine product.

Vegetable Glycerine is a clear, colorless, and odorless liquid with an astonishingly candy flavor having the regularity of thick syrup. It truly is used as an consultant in beautys, toothpaste, shampoos, soaps, natural treatment options, prescribed drugs, and other family items. Due to the fact it’s soluble in possibly, water and alcoholic beverages, its flexibility is a major benefactor in its purported expansion and well-likedity within the manufacturing sector. It is a must have as a organic source ingredient with emollient like qualities which can susually and soothe the skin and it helps the outer epidermis is keeping moisture. This helps to clarify why it is one of the best cosmetic additives used today. Other uses consist of its solvency action which aides herbalists in extracting botanical properties from plant materials without the use of alcohol. Here is especially helpful for those with alcohol sensitivities as most liquid herbal extracts contain alcohol. But given its significantly limited shelf daily life, extracts made from Vegetable Glycerine typically have a shelf life of fourteen-24 months while alcohol extracts can have an prolonged shelf life of 4-six years.”

You will also find in your search – that there is certainly substantial controversy over preservatives. Parabens, Formaldehydes, etc.

Allow me take you on a quick and very layman’s science spin:

Organic vs. Inorganic Compounds – Organic compounds are that contains chemical compounds( chemical compounds are substances that consist of 2 or more elements that are sure with each other in a resolved percentage by mass.) so organic compounds are made up of chemical compounds whose molecules are made of carbon.

Inorganic Compounds are considered to be of mineral, not organic, origin.

Complementary, most organic compounds are usually seen as being of biological origin. An important subset of organic compounds is still extracted from natural resources given that they would be far too pricey to be produced artificially.

Parbens are fundamentally organic compounds that can be often found in natural vegetation and some bugs. They’re esters made up of acids.

So….why preservatives?

“Preservatives are substances that destroy microorganisms and fungi (or at the very the very least make it very difficult for “living things” to endure), and have no result on the shelf life of the oils. Microorganisms, fungi, yeast and other perhaps risky microorganisms typically steer clear of waterless compounds (this kind of as balms, salves, pomades and oil-only blends) and also substances with a fairly high pH (like soap), yet prosper in humid surroundingss. For this reason, soaps and oil-based mostly skin care packages do not need preservatives – but as opposed to these, lotions, lotions and any other compound where water is existing require introducing a preservative if the shelf life and integrity of the product need to be extended further than 2 or 3 months.

It is important to understand that the efficacy of preservatives depends, by definition, on their ability to kill dwell cells; in other phrases, their harmfulity is an inescapable component of their reason of being. Several natural extracts, plants and necessary oils contain substances that have the power to productively kill bacteria, yeast and fungi; even so, in many instances these substances are or can be toxic for individuals, too. A typical instance are citrus or grapefruit seed extracts: although these have natural antimicrobial properties, some of their constituents are thought to be guilty for life-threatening hormonal imbalances. As well, citrus seed extracts usually are not recognized for cosmetic use in Europe and in Japan, and are consequently not an selection in those international locations.

In between the artificial preservatives accessible for handmade skin care products, paraben-based methods seem to be particularly controversial. A large number of articles, guides and so-named “professional” thoughts point to paraben-based preservative systems as being responsible for the “skin unfriendliness” of many industrial products. Nonetheless, in-element health care and scientific researches show that paraben-based preservatives are by far less dangerous, both for the skin, and for the environment, than most other varieties of preservatives, such as for instance those that drop into the “formaldehyde donors” group.” ing INFORMED – you can make smart choices.

Science isn’t evil – it is vital to understand when producing combos, compounds etc…..no subject how straightforward those could be. The soap writer can not disregard it and neither should you. There needs to be a balance among your common sense and what Science can show us.

Finally thanks the attempts of those of us who are truly focused to our profession of giving remarkable natural goodness in skincare – change in sellers and in brands is coming – little by little but certainly. Perfume oils are being put to a higher test and chemicals such as phalates are being taken off from them. A lot progressively combinations of Important Oils are being designed that scent amazing.

Areas do exist that permit for choices and healthful options. This kind of as Ka Nani Principles where the consumer can pick what aromas and additives go into their decided on Bathing and Skin Products.

WoodSprite Organic Body – that presents you a assortment of products to choose from.

Try doing a search and you may find a myriad of Natural Soap Generaters.Attain know them – ask questions if they don’t react or are not able to answer your questions or refuse…….move on. How much is it price it to you?

An additional question that comes up very often when purchasing for Natural Skin Care and that’s price. Why is there such a variance? Rates differ for several various factors.

Most internet sites are in the ‘craft business’ and therefore raise and cut their costs just to eliminate their extra stock and to guarantee that their stores are the most acquired from. This will not always equate out to high quality.

Some choose to go the only organic ingredient course and therefore the price is dictated to by the cost of the raw ingredient – these companies typically adhere with only a couple of suppliers.

Then there are some that are center of the road prices where they shop close to and price evaluate all their raw ingredients before buying them – these companies usually take the time to find the greatest quality for a fair price and have several suppliers alongside back-up suppliers as well.

Don’t forget that raw ingredient prices are going to vary a little bit in accordance to the places that they are purchased in. Often domestically bought raw ingredients are going to be somewhat less in price than those that are bought and delivered from another locale.

Become INFORMED – Make your own choices and TAKE back your power and duty for your TOTAL health package!!

Science and Sense can co-exist together if one is aware of how to weave them together.

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