Wednesday, May 28, 2008

If health is a right than food has to be a right, right? Do you like my proposal to feed everybody

If health is a right than food has to be a right, right? Do you like my proposal to feed everybody?
From now on grocery stores will no longer accept cash, check, or credit. You will send a percentage of your income to the government food fund. People that make more pay more while those who are in poverty pay little and maybe even nothing. You get your food card and go into the store and grab whatever looks tasty. The rates you pay in will change over time as national appetites and food costs change. Is that a great fair idea to accomplish social justice or not?
Politics - 10 Answers
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Better yet. Why should we even get a paycheck. The government should get all fruits of our labor and distribute them accordingly. After all we are too Free and need regulation.
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You already do. Food is incredibly socialized in the US. We pay 10% less than the rest of the world for our food.
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Nothing NEW..There are many people already on food stamps now and most of them have never worked a day in their life or paid one penny into the program.
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I don't think that kind of a Socialist program will go over in the US. I had an idea about everyone having money and that didn't go over. My plan was to send someone $5 and they in turn would send someone $5 and they also would send someone $5. Before you now it, everyone got $5 but that was voted down!
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Health care IS ALREADY A RIGHT, because we already have laws that make it so... Don't believe me ?.... Next time you are injured...go the ER...tell them you have no money, no insurance....and I guarantee you, that you will still be treated. They'll bill you later...but you won't pay it.... state and federal subsidies (your tax dollars), will help the hospitals absorb those losses. The law requires them to treat you! Also...a hospital cannot, by law, refuse to deliver a baby...whether the mother has insurance or not. This is the health care quagmire. We have laws that guarantee treatment, but none that guarantee payment ! You cannot escape paying for other's health care, unless you can stomach a policy which denies care to those who cannot pay. Simple as that. Case and Point... If you showed up at the ER, dying from starvation....they would have to feed you...BY LAW.
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They already have that genius...
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You would prefer to be tripping over starving babies in the gutter? If you like that kind of government, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Zaire, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and Somalia all fit that description. They have very small government and no social programs just like American conservatives say they want. That is what your dream country looks like. Pick one and move there and you'll be ecstatic! ##
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Sounds like food stamps, lol. Nope, I only buy organic and not the bs they sell at Walmart. So I don't agree with your plan.
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Yes, Matt. This healthcare thing is a joke. There are many people starving out there yet they want to address "insurance". Like Allen Iverson would say: Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about insurance. We're talking about insurance man. (laughter from the media crowd) We're talking about insurance. We're talking about insurance. We're not talking about the healthcare. We're talking about insurance. When you come to the emergency room, and you see me get treated, you've seen me get treated right, you've seen me get everything everyone else can get, but we're talking about insurance right now. (more laughter)
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Food keeps people healthy as long as it is the proper kind of food. Providing the balanced healthy diet for all persons who cannot afford it is in the best interest of our nation. Proper food keeps people healthy, and healthy people are productive people. By maintaining health by proper foods, health is maintain: people will be able to gain additional employment when the opportunity arises. This would not be an expenditure, instead, it would really be an investment in the future productivity of our economy. As far as grocery stores not accepting cash, I do not feel this is essential to this policy. Something similar already exist with food stamps. The elimination of cash is not needed or desirable. This suggestion of the elimination of cash can lead of all kind or dire consequences which can have vast economic and political and social results. Elimination of cash is not a good idea, and tying it to a social justice issue such a food to make it politically palatable (pardon the pun) is going to lead us down the path to more government control and less freedom.

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Dry food storage in plastic containers & health issues

Dry food storage in plastic containers & health issues?
Should dry food ingredients like sugar, coffee powder, tea powder, chilly powder , nuts,flour etc be stored only in food safe plastics ? Or any plastic container is alright? I am concerned about plastic leaching into ingredients, which may cause serious health issues. I know it is not good to store cooked food in non safe plastic containers. But does it hold the same for dry food ingredients also? Clarify please.
Other - Health - 2 Answers
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It's always my recommendation that you use food safe plastics for food storage. Any food, dry, wet, cooked, uncooked, can have contamination problems by coming into contact with various unsafe materials. It's always best to store them in containers that are held up to high scrutiny, and safety standards. Jennifer Long http://WonderBowls.com
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Are you talking about long term food storage, or just daily use type of items? By long term, I mean purchasing the items in bulk, and storing them for several years in your pantry? Then you should always use food grade plastics to put up your food storage. Most common are the food grade five gallon plastic buckets. Never, ever store your food, even in a food grade plastic container on a bare dirt, or cement floor. Despite the buckets being plastic, there IS still air and moisture exchange. Most people do not realize that even though a food product is in plastic that there IS still an exchange of air and moisture with the outside air (even in food grade containers). The only way to prevent this is to use food grade mylar bags and seal your food items before placing them into the food grade plastic buckets, and sealing the buckets. Nuts will only keep 1-2 years, no matter how well you seal them. The oils found in nuts cause them to start going rancid. Coffee and tea also have short shelf lives of 6months-2 years. However you said "powder." If your coffee and tea has been freeze dried and turned into powder they will store virtually forever. Always use food grade plastic containers for any type of food storage. You have much less worry though, with dry foods leaching in anything bad from the plastics though. I've had a one gallon plastic container of chilli power sitting properly stored in my pantry for just over six years. I just opened it, smells and tastes as good as anything just purchased. ~Garnet Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

health food store training courses etc

health food store training courses etc?
ive being doing courses in health food supplements etc such as A.VOGEL, Health food insutite and Quest product advisor but wanna do some other training courses or something along that lines preferably something via the internet or distance learning but cant find anything! any suggestions???

Alternative Medicine - 1 Answers
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http://www.bihusa.com/ This is the largest school in the world for homeopathy, herbology, nutrition, that offers distance learning. The course content is first rate. There are 11,000 students in 80 countries

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