Believe it or not. You be the judge.
A common ingredient in commercial bread is derived from human hair. More specifically, they are derived from Chinese hair salons, where the hairs are soaked in an acid to become a non essential amino acid called L-cysteine.
Some L-cysteine is synthesized in laboratories, but the majority of the time, it’s extracted from cheap and abundant natural protein sources of human hair, often from Chinese hair salons, chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum byproducts.
This non-essential amino acid is isolated through a chemical process, then packed and shipped off to commercial bread producers. The producers then add it to many baked goods as a dough conditioner in order to speed industrial processing. It is usually not added directly to flour intended for home use, but you'll find it throughout commercial breads such as pizza dough, bread, rolls and pastries. Maybe we should go back to baking our own breads.
While the thought of eating dissolved hair might make some westerners uneasy, most consumers ultimately have no principle objections to doing so. For Jews and Muslims, however, hair-derived L-cysteine poses some significant problems. Muslims are forbidden from eating anything derived from a human body, and many rabbis forbid hair consumption for similar reasons.
Even rabbis who permit the consumption of hair would forbid it if it came from corpses. And since much L-cysteine comes from China, where sourcing and manufacturing practices are notoriously questionable, this is a real concern. In one case, a rabbi forbade the consumption of L-cysteine because the hair had been harvested during a ritual at a temple in India.
On to another topic, U. S. law has granted the Coca Cola company a unique exemption to import coca leaves, while prohibiting anyone else from importing what might otherwise become a popular super food.
There are chicken nuggets and then there are chicken nuggets. Some are breaded chicken pieces. Some are pieces molded from purée chicken parts and then breaded. But many of us enjoy the tender tidbits, often feeding them to our children and grandchildren, thinking that they are a healthy treat.
Have you ever noticed that while there are plenty of varieties of nearly all common fruits, (apples, oranges, peaches etc.) each banana seems identical to another? When someone says banana you think of a large fruit with yellow skin and a soft pale middle.
That is because only bananas of the "cavendish" variety are sold in stores, as fruit corporations long ago decided that it would best serve their profits to train customers to expect all bananas to be identical. Unbeknownst to many, there are indeed many varieties of bananas out there including the "Musa" species, which are drastically different from the bananas in taste and texture.
In order to preserve their distinctive properties, "cavendish" bananas are never allowed to reproduce sexually. That means they all have the same exact code as the first cavendish tree selected by U.S. fruit corporation in the 1950's to replace the Gros Michael banana.
The Gros Michael banana, another genetically identical cultivar, was so devastated by disease that it could no longer be supplied in the global market in any quantity. Now that same disease is targeting the cavendish variety, exposing yet again the folly, and non sustainability of mono culture. (widipedia org/wiki/banana).
Don't throw away the skin of the banana. It is rumored to take away the itch when the skin is rubbed on mosquito bites.
Many disposable coffee and carry out containers are filled with cancer causing agents, in particular formeldehyde preservatives in styrene. The department of Health and Human Services has been pressured by the chemical industry for years to delay forwarding this information on to the public.
Nevertheless formeldehyde, caplafel cobalt tungsten carbide and certain glass fibers have been dubbed reasonably anticipated to be human carcinazins. The United States government is now reacting to these discoveries.
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly how the biotechnology industry and government agencies are trying to handle the escalating "superweed.” Biotech's quick fix for superweeds could lead to "super superweeds.”
More farmers are going organic to improve their soil, save energy and produce better food. Conventional farming methods may gradually be going the way of the buffalo, at least for many smaller scale farmers who are discovering the practical and financial benefits of switching to organic techniques. (TMC)
There is so much to know and learn. Education is a lifetime adventure.
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• Thursday, July 7th: Collin Christensen, Ed Possin, Elizabeth Eder, Cheryl Boverhuis, Casey Johnson, Chad Quam, Scott Reese, Jon Spatenka, Anna Jacobson, David Anderson, DeAnn Skroch.
• Friday, July 8th: Zaine Augustine Briedenbach, Parker John & Payton Lorraine Bunn, Barb Hagen, Al Lee, Adam Arends, Jacob Terry Phillips, Deacon Thomas Lang, Summer Paulson, Deb Jacobs, Marlene Jensen.
• Saturday, July 9th: Larry Otto, Corey Pence, Mavis Knudtson, Joni Calderon, Lisa Worke, Dale Peterson, Deb & Dean Hunt, Jennifer & David Lageson.
• Sunday, July 10th: Kalene Larson, Ethan Green, Brett Dunlap, Sally Hanson Sadden, Suzanne Skroch Larkin, Carley Ray Talamantes, Holly Swearingen, Anna Uetcsh, Todd Borchert, Kym Cameron, Paulette Nelson, Ryan & Amy Crabtree their 6th, Dustin & Jenna Quimby.
• Monday, July 11th: Zoie Marie Jensen, Shirley Wallace Tennant, Nicholas Lee Shultz, Helen Scripture Schubert, Kelly Sauke, Nataniel Lizarazo, Michele Degan Reistad, Rochelle Thompson, Lisa Goodnature Noble, Christopher Olson, Jessica Mangskau, Elaine Peterson, Naomi Hemingway, Randy Borchert, Scott Knutson, Celina & Richard Drecher, David & Bonnie Jensen, Carrie (Thompson) & Danny Wichmann.
• Tuesday, July 12th: Daniel Christensen, Kimberly Peterson, Rick Pelzl, Daryl Waltz.
• Wedmesday, July 13th: Megan Elizabeth Nowariak, Audrey Lillian Peterson, Marayah Mae Mortenson, Kolette Lageson Stevenson, Brenda Misgen, Sandra Cerney Collins, Joseph Adrian Parks, Ed Nelson, Cynthia Fuerniss, Dick Larson, Amber Anderson, Jean Johnson, Corey & Danielle Wangsness, Jason & Shannon Peterson.
• Thursday, July 14th: Kallen Reed Rasmussen, Gavin Cole Halverson, Sharon Richards Lucas, Annette Hove, Madison Larkin, Dana Simonson, Jeff Kitzer, Jerry Langlie, Lee Cummins, Shane Davis, Peter Kasper, Roger Swearingen, Bethany & Ashley Ashton.
• Friday, July 15th: Nathan Daniel Wayne, Nathan Joseph Bauers, Levi Peterson, McCoy LaVerne Schwierjohann, Bob Long, Thad Aaseth, Judd Aaseth, Stacy Seath Tempel, Lacinda Jensen, Vicki Utpadel Knudson, David & Kim Killian.
Hope your day is bright and filled with delights.
