Joe is also a herpetolgist/snakehandler !!! He uses machetes almost daily.

There you have it.

vic, that the condor golok? i had no idea they were out yet.

I used to have a mini disc player. They never caught on really. I wonder if there is a program for an iPod where you could make it work the same?

I don't buy the whole organic thing. It is way over priced. You see someone drinking organic juice and smoking a cigarette. Or eating some free rage pork that is 60 pounds overwieght. What do you think is truly more detrimentale to your health?

I read this from WIRDED Magazine...some food for thought so to speak.

"How much better for the planet is organic food than chemically treated food? It’s not. Organic food leaves a deeper carbon footprint. Let’s start with milk. Writer Joanna Pearlstein points out that it takes 25 organic cows to make as much milk as 23 conventionally raised cattle. Reason? Organic cows aren’t beefed up (sorry, bad pun) with hormones. Organic cows also generate 16% more greenhouse gases than their counterparts.

Ditto for beef, because organic steers take longer to get bigger, which means they spend more time polluting. What about grass-fed beef? They create nearly twice the methane as a cow on a grain diet. That’s something they don’t tell you at Whole Foods.

Finally, fruits and vegetables. Natural fertilizers deliver lower than average crop yields, which require more land. And organically grown strawberries trucked here from California or Mexico leave a far deeper carbon footprint than local produce grown with pesticides.

Will preserving old-growth forests help reduce warming? No. Old growth trees actually contribute to warming.

It’s all about the math. A tree breathes in, so to speak, about 1,500 pounds of CO2 in its first 55 years. Then it takes in lesser amounts until it eventually burns or rots out, which is inevitable.

When that happens, all that CO2 gets released. Forests are famous for being natural air fresheners, but some Canadian forests actually release more carbon than oxygen because of all these decomposing old growth trees.

So if your goal is to diminish the carbon footprint of trees, WIRED suggests cutting down old, decaying trees and planting lots of new ones."


Now most people don't eat organic for the environments sake but for their own. But still it was worth a mention.

True if your simply talking carbon foot prints...but when you also consider
the pesticides, poisons, steroids, hormones, antibiotics and all the other crap that goes into the non-organic food supply....I think organic is better and definitely better for you. It is expensive though. The other thing I hate about organic is that there is no preservatives so it spoils much quicker. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I think there are far bigger fish to fry when it comes to the planet and the environment than organic foods. China and India will contribute WAY more pollution to the planet over the next 2 decades than we can even imagine and both told Obama that they would not participate in any cap and trade stuff (I don't blame them).

And wait until everyone starts disposing of their new green fluorescent light bulbs that contain mercury...What a joy that will be for the landfills and the environment. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I'm sticking with incandescent.

okay, I'm done. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I eat lots of organic food...

I grow it myself. No worry about spoiling when the pepper goes straight from the plant to your plate <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I'm not so organic as farm fresh, and most the farms i buy from use little pesitices could be organic almost... but you can defiantly taste the differnce in the beef i pick up now, i pay a little more for it, but its worth it. I'm slowly building my garden each year so it will be even less of a problem.

i recall going to the fair and going to the dairy booth and getting the best friggin milk ever. figure its that it was slow pasutrized and wasn't harmagonized.

i love the foods of summer .... maybe ill just have to start using the s5 for kitchen duty.

Darn trees!! Sucking up all of my oxygen. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

They're not. I got it at Blade.

there used to be a weekly farmers market a few blocks from my house in hawaii...it was 100% local and at least half of it was organic.


i hate when i nap too long and still have things to do.