I was wondering where all the tomatoes went! Now I know!

Tainted tomatoes cause stores and restaurants to take precautions

2:04 PM EDT, June 9, 2008

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You can have it your way -- as long as you prefer your fast food sandwiches and summer salads without certain types of tomatoes.

Stores and restaurants across the region are withholding tomatoes from consumers because at least 145 people across the country, but none in Pennsylvania, have been sickened by an outbreak of salmonella-tainted tomatoes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the weekend expanded a warning about tainted roma, plum and round red tomatoes. Tomatoes on the vine, cherry and grape tomatoes and home-grown tomatoes are safe to eat, the FDA said.

Washing potentially affected tomatoes likely will not eliminate the risk, the FDA said. If consumers are unsure of the safety of their food, they should contact their retailer or discard the food.

Reusable Bags For Shopping

I posted a couple of weeks ago how I bought the green reusable bags to take
the the grocery store and I just wanted to give an update. I bought 6 and yesterday
I went to the store and bought a ton of stuff (I usually go once a week to the store) and
if they would of used the plastic bags they could of easily used about 12 to 15 bags. I had
that much stuff. I honestly thought I was going to have to buy a few more of the green
bags but they were able to fit everything into 4 bags!!! I was amazed by that!! I really like
my new bags and really encourage everyone to buy a couple and try them out!

Plastic Bag Addiction

The Numbers…Believe It or Not

Introduced just over 25 years ago, the ugly truth about our plastic bag addiction is that society's consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that's 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute.

Single-use bags made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are the main culprit. Once brought into existence to tote your purchases, they'll accumulate and persist on our planet for up to 1,000 years. Australians alone consume about 6.9 billion plastic bags each year, that's 326 per person. According to Australia's Department of Environment, an estimated 49,600,000 annually end up as litter. In 2001, Ireland used 1.2 billion disposable plastic bags, or 316 per person. An extremely successful plastic bag tax, or PlasTax, introduced in 2002 reduced consumption by 90%. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to make that many plastic bags. Four out of five grocery bags in the US are now plastic. Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food. In a dramatic move to stem a tide of 60,000 metric tons of plastic bag and plastic utensil waste per year, Taiwan banned both last year. According to the BBC, only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the UK are recycled. According to the WSJ Target, the second-largest retailer in the U.S., purchases 1.8 billion bags a year. As part of Clean Up Australia Day, in one day nearly 500,000 plastic bags were collected. Unfortunately, each year in Australia an estimated 50,000,000 plastic bags end up as litter. The average family accumulates 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store. Each high quality reusable bag you use has the potential to eliminate an average of 1,000 plastic bags over its lifetime. The bag will pay for itself if your grocery store offers a $.05 or $.10 credit per bag for bringing your own bags. Windblown plastic bags are so prevalent in Africa that a cottage industry has sprung up harvesting bags and using them to weave hats, and even bags. According to the BBC one group harvests 30,000 per month. Click here to see our line of reusable shopping bags

Nighttime light linked with breast Cancer

I had a doctor also tell me it is important for kids to sleep in darkness. He said that kids that slept in darkness without the nightlights had fewer colds, ect. I guess your body needs darkness to get down to all levels of sleep so the body can heal. He said that if your child has to fall a sleep with a night light to turn it off after the child has fallen a sleep and to try and not get in the habit of night time light as early as possible. I read the following in Women's Health magazine today.

Black Out!!

Nighttime light is associated with breast cancer, reports a study in Chronobiology Researchers overlaid satelite images of Israel with a map of breast cancer cases. Cancer rates were 73 percent higher in communities with the most artificial nighttime light, usually from streetlights, businesses and outdoor home lighting. Exposure disrupts the body's nocturnal production of melatonin, a hormone that can suppress tumor growth, which may explain the link, says study co-author Richard Stevens, Ph.D. Beef up bedroom windows with dark shades and nix surplus illumination or install outdoor motion sensors.

(Bump) Too Many Bottles!!

(Bump-older post reposted)

Bottles, bottles, everywhere!!!

I recently switched to a PUR water pitcher and I think it taste better than all the bottle water I

bought over the years and it is so much cheaper!! Also it is a relief not to have to buy all that heavy

bottle of water at the store!!

Carolyn

Bottles, bottles, everywhere

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/climate411/91/bottles-bottles-everywhere.html

Dallas Gorilla turns 55 today!

I have seen this Gorilla back when we lived in Dallas and went to the zoo there. In fact
I probably saw her a few times! I remember because they had a sign back then saying
how long they had had her and I was amazed back then! Happy Bday Jenny!! They have a picture of her on the link!!

http://www.happynews.com/news/592008/gorilla-celebrates-55th-birthday-frozen-cake.htm

Amazing!

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! To be living in such a time. This looks like it could solve a lot of problems!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhi4Q8EDTU