Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

http://www.lovinghut.com/
Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
The term pleather ("plastic leather") is a slang term for synthetic leather made out of plastic, a portmanteau of plastic and leather, the term can be either descriptive, or derogatory, depending upon the user (the derogatory use implies use as a substitute for genuine animal hide leather to cut costs)...

From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2008-10-01

Tainted Food from China



Unilever latest to find tainted milk in Chinese goods
By Jenny Wiggins, Consumer Industries Correspondent

October 1 2008 03:00
Unilever yesterday became the third multinational food group in less than a week to issue a product recall linked to the Chinese melamine scandal, highlighting weaknesses in global food safety practices.

Unilever said it would stop using Chinese milk powder for some products after it found melamine, an industrial chemical that has made thousands of Chinese children sick, in batches of Lipton-branded tea powders exported to Hong Kong. It recalled four batches of milk powder.

The move follows US food group Heinz's recall last week of 270 cases of Chinese-produced baby food sold in Hong Kong, and UK confectionery group Cadbury's this week of all chocolate produced at its Beijing factory.

The recalls have forced food companies to test their own products for signs of contamination, rather than rely on food safety checks from local authorities, and more carefully assess their suppliers. Most multinational food companies buy ingredients locally.

When the melamine scandal broke earlier this month, companies assumed their products were free of the chemical because the dairies from which they bought liquid milk had been cleared by the Chinese government. Subsequent tests by companies had found melamine in their products, nonetheless.

Unilever, which had imported milk powder for use in its tea sachets from New Zealand and Europe until May, when it switched to Chinese suppliers, is switching back to imported powders.

Unilever could not comment on whether imported powders would be used for the ice-cream it makes and sells in China. It does not use Chinese milk powder in the ice-cream it exports from China, but it does use local powder in the ice-cream it sells in China.

Cadbury said yesterday it had added "additional checks and procedures" to its Chinese manufacturing process, such as requiring suppliers to produce a so-called "certificate of analysis" from an accredited laboratory showing products are safe to eat.

Swiss food group Nestlé - which cited government clearance of its suppliers when defending the safety of its Chinese-made infant formulas and chocolate bars this month - has started running its own tests for melamine in China, as has Mars, the US food group.

Indonesia's food and drug regulator last week said it had found traces of melamine in several foods imported from China, including Mars's M&M's and Snickers brands. Mars had previously been told by Chinese authorities that none of the milk powders supplied by its two Chinese and two foreign dairy suppliers were contaminated.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
(Source: http://www.ft.com/; image by: http://www.aboluowang.com/)
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