Category Archives: Social Responsibility
Stop the Inhumanity. Stop Joseph Kony.
My Heart Beats for the Children of Uganda.
I’ve been a supporter of the Invisible Children for over 5 years now. This year is the final push to let our legislators know that America isn’t the only place on this planet that matters.
Watch this video to learn how to get involved in stopping Joseph Kony’s inhumane atrocities.
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What’s in Your Food? New Findings of Arsenic in Your Chicken
Is your food just food?
“2 million lbs of arsenic compounds have been fed to chickens every year and 85 tons of arsenic compounds to pigs.“
G. X. Sun, P. N. Williams, A. M. Carey, Y. G. Zhu, C. Deacon, A. Raab, J. Feldmann, R. M. Islam, and A. A. Meharg. Inorganic arsenic in rice bran and its products are an order of magnitude higher than in bulk grain. Environmental science & technology, 42(19):7542{7546, 2008.C. F. Jelinek and P. E. Corneliussen. Levels of arsenic in the united states food supply. Environ. Health Perspect., 19:83{87, 1977.E. K. Silbergeld and K. Nachman. The environmental and public health risks associated with arsenical use in animal feeds. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1140:346{357, 2008.
Filed under Agriculture, Consumer, Food, Harmful Ingredients, Health, Social Responsibility
Earth’s Berries Giveaway! CLOSED
In honor of the holiday season, I’ve decided to give away one 500g bag of Earth’s Berries!
If you haven’t heard about these, check out my review on them here.
Ditch It: Your Bad Habit,You Didn’t Know Was Bad…
Ahh, Smart Water…
it tastes so refreshing, and like Jennifer Aniston believes, the name says it all: drinking bottled water is a smart choice, right? Wrong. Here’s why,
Made Right Here
Do You Know Where Your Products Come From?
The reason I post this video is simple: it’s to get you thinking about where do the products you buy come from? How are they made? Were they made ethically? Did the people who make your product have passion about the product and its origins? Did their hands, physically inspect the product? Is the product organic? Did the same company oversee the product from beginning to end? Did they care about the people who made their product and were the people who made it happy to?
There are a lot of videos I could have shown, but what struck me about the particular video was the passion the French have for the product (linen). I bet you’ve never seen so many people care so much about a plant in a field… It’s hard to say after watching this video that there’s no difference in the quality of a product that’s produced by people who care and companies that have social responsibility, as opposed to companies who don’t practice these qualities. Do you think the things you buy were made by happy workers, who were treated well? Do you think these people cared about the outcome of the final product? Furthermore, was your product produced in a way that was sustainable (safe for the environment and safe for the people creating it)? Research where the things you buy come from. I bet you won’t find these same qualities in products made by big corporations.
Videos like this serve to reinforce the importance of buying local and/or supporting companies that practice social and ethical responsibility.
Know of any companies or products that practice making goods the way they do in this video? Mention it in the comments. The more availability we can find, the more we can support buying things we care about.
Filed under Agriculture, Clothes, Consumer, Environment, Fashion, Organic, Plants, Shopping, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Living
