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POPSNative American Legends These are wonderful stories. I read some of these when I was a kid. Just happened to find these by accident while looking for something else. You never know what you'll find on the internet. There are many links to artwork, etc. I'll be there for a while. :)
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POPSWhy we love the sweet life Once people figured out how to extract sugar from beets and corn that grew in more temperate climates, there was no turning back. Today, according to Sugar Knowledge International, an independent sugar technology organization, we eat 120 million tons of sugar a year, and it's an expanding market.
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POPSGot Corn? This is when other countries realize just how dependant THEY are on the U.S. Europe simply doesn't have the room to plant 90 million acres of corn. Other countries are eagerly placing orders for the bumper crop of U.S. corn. How funny it is that the U.S. is called the scum of the Earth...that is until we have something they want and need. This is also good for alternative plastics like PLA which are made entirely of corn and are environmentally friendly. ; )
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POPSWarning HIGH-FRUCTOSE I was asked last night about why is high-fructose bad... The answer could have taken the rest of the night - This site is a good resource on the topic as well as the topic of sugar in general. Be sure to check out the agenda google calendar on the right of this blog for my next speaking engagement - click on the links - they lead you to maps and further details. Carl The Trainer
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POPSNot just a Farm Bill, it's a food bill If the eaters and all the other “people on the outside” make themselves heard, we just might end up with something that looks less like a farm bill and more like the food bill a poorly fed America so badly needs. Call your Senator!
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POPSMysterious Bee Deaths Linked To Pesticides? Comment hsutton wrote: Pesticides "in and of itself is probably not the cause of the honeybee's dying. What are you feeding them? If the answer is a combination of high fructose corn syrup and water then it should be noted that some time back a genetic modifier introduced into "corn" is the real culprit. This modifier causes the corn to make it's own "pesticide". Going back to feeding them real Sugar/Water will stop most of the problem. Monsanto and other companies are putting these things in 90% of the vegetable crops in the US, and have been for some time. Whatever it's doing to the honey bees it will also eventually do to us. If this trend continues human beings will start dying from "unknown" causes sometime in the very near future too. Comment by subscriber:hsutton
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POPSChocolate Pumpkin Cake Recipe Check the source for a picture (that would NOT clip for me). This cake is very very good. I made it today. Frosting : 6oz. cream cheese softened. 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 2 1/4 tsp cocoa 1/4 tsp cinnamon 3/4 tsp vanilla Beat until creamy In separate bowl beat 1 1/2 cups heavy cream and 3/4 cup powdered sugar and scant 1/4 tsp orange food coloring until soft peaks form. Fold whipped cream mixture into cream cheese mixture. After frosting cake, chill 30 min. Chocolate glaze: 4oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped. 1TBS cold butter 3TBS corn syrup. Place these items in a medium heatproof bowl. Bring 1/2 cup heavy cream to a boil and pour over chocolate. Let stand 3 min. and whisk smooth. Cool 3 to 5 min. and pour over top of cake.
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POPSGood Grief, Our American Diet is Deadly I've heard a lot of conservatives claim that poor people in the U.S. are obviously well-fed, because they are more likely to be overweight. This flies in the face of science suggesting that unhealthy and fattening foods are cheap and readily available, while healthy foods are hard to find in poor communities and they are expensive.
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POPSDrink your Pomegranate Juice I had never had Pomegranate juice until about a year ago.. It's really good stuff. Stay away from fakes with High Fructose corn syrup..
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POPSYou are what you eat can watch the movie on PBS Independent Lens-a real eye opener http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/film.html
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POPSBertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans Plaice Potato Prawns Prune Raisin Raspberry *NEW*Rotten Egg Rubber Rum Salad Dressing Salmon Salt Sand Sardines Sausage Shampoo Shrimp Soap Soda Water Sour Cream Spinach Squid Strawberry Jelly Strawberry Mousse Sugar Sulphur Sushi Sweetcorn Syrup Tartar Sauce Tea Thyme Toast Toe nails Toffee Tomato Ketchup Tripe Trout Turnip Vanilla Varnish Vinegar Vomit Walnuts Wildgrass Wood Worcestershire Sauce Yoghurt Zucchini
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POPSDon't Blame The Market For The Global Food Crisis!
New products, impossible if corn had been sold at its market value, were developed to make use of the artificially low cost commodity. The ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar and became the sine qua non of the modern American diet, leading to today’s “obesity epidemic." If using corn to force-feed grazers like cattle* flies in the face of reason and sound market principles, using it to fuel cars is absurd. In essence, ethanol is nothing more than the continuation ad absurdum of the same policies begun in the Nixon administration as part of its corporate welfare package to agribusiness. *grass-eating animals whose stomachs are not designed to eat grains. Thus, they require massive injections of enzymes and antibiotics to be able to digest what we force-feed them. “Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn’t make it in a free market,” said Williams. The only reason it is produced in the first place is that it is subsidized heavily with money confiscated from citizens.
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POPSGMO - what we don't know An interesting article. I, for one, would like to have a choice about what I consume. Without accurate labeling, it's next to impossible to make an informed purchasing decision.
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