Today was the first time I ever tried blowing an egg. It was a fun & grubby experience.

Firstly, I gently stuck a pin in the top and bottom of a fresh egg.

Then I blew, and blew & blew

Until all the white & the yolk had come out of the egg.

I wanted to dye my egg naturally, so I chopped half a red cabbage & boiled, then drained off the liquid.

Then, I put a sticker onto the egg shell to identify where the dye had taken more easily. After trying this, it is obvious that this could work making any kind of pattern you wanted on your egg.

How to get the dye to cover all of the egg? :-        Well, an empty egg shell floats doesn’t it.

So…….. I put the cooled down red cabbage water into an empty jam jar, filled to the very top, put the egg in and screwed the top on. This was left for a couple of hours.

When I took the egg out of the jar, I was happy to see how well the dye had taken.  I peeled of the sticker to reveal the true colour of the egg in it’s original form , pre dye.

If you use a sticker to keep some of the egg undyed, you can write on the space that is not dyed & use these for place settings at a dinner party. If it is a drunken party, you can always have a fun food fight after by throwing these at each other!

All in all, I was happy with this experiment. And no explosions or accidents.

My blue eggs turned out o.k 1st attempt.

The red cabbage was not wasted either. Some was mixed into cous cous & the rest went on top of my compost bin.

HAVE A VERY HAPPY, NESTLE FREE EASTER. X

There is an increadible book that I first read a couple of years ago. The book is NOT ON THE LABEL by FELICITY LAWRENCE. Reading this book WILL make you think twice about what you buy to consume & may put you off eating some things completely, for life.

I re-read the chapter on chicken this week & want to share some of the information given in this book. Felicity exposes some of the grossly unethical conduct of the meat industry, by doing undercover investigations & even taking low paid shifts in meat production factories to gain the inside knowledge of what actually happens to the meat that we eat. So often blissfully unaware , we often are, of what has happened to our meat before it goes anywhere near a packing factory or supermarket shelf. Felicity is /was a reporter for The Guardian Newspaper & writes very factually about her investigations.

In the early stages of poultry processing, the birds are put into a scold bath. 180 dead birds a minute are dipped into this to make the plucking process easier. The water in the scald bath is changed, just once a day so try to imagine if you wish, the amount of excrement & feathers that float around in the bath for hours. The temperature of the bath is 52 degrees, which is an ideal temperature for salmonella & campylobacter contamination.

During the next stage our  chickens are ridded of what feathers are left by a rubber fingered plucking machiene. Lots of faeces gets squashed out of the carcasses during this process. If just one of these birds is colonised with campylobacter the rest will be contaminated also. Organic & free range birds go through the same process, same machienes, same day, no less at risk of contamination than mass the produced, cheap, factory chicks.

Felicity went undercover, on shift, at a family run, Devon factory whilst doing a report for The Guardian. This factory supplied to Sainsburys & also produced West Country &  Organic Poultry for supermarket sales. Their website quotes ” total control & traceability “. Word had gotten out that chicken breasts from Dutch crates had been seen there, re packed, labeled with new use by dates & sent out for a Sainsburys special offer. A Brittish red tractor logo stuck onto them to identify the meat for un suspecting shopper to buy. Under UK food labeling law it is NOT ILLEGAL to label foreign meat with a Brittish red tractor logo as long as the meat is from the EU.

Annother company, Denby Poultry was annonymosly tipped off to Derbyshires Chief Envorionmental Officer. The caller reported that Denby Poultry was taking condemned chicken, diseased & contaminated birds ( which should have been sent for rendering or for pet food production ) . Denby Poultry was trimming it, washing it with bleach and selling it back to the human food chain. Denby poultry products was a pet food processing plant. It sold, cleaned up, waste meats to annother company who applied illigitamate health marks before selling it again to other companies. The owner of Denby poultry was found guilty in his absence at Nottingham Crown Court ( suspected of having fled the country ).

The tumbling industry is even more scary. Tumbling is the process where the ” bulking up ” of a chicken takes place. Most of this takes place in The Netherlands as chickens arrive their from Thailand & Brazil via Dutch ports.The chickens are often salted, as the tarrif on salted meats is significantly lower than that of unsalted. Tumbling helps to dilute the salt. During the tumbling process chickens are defrosted, then injected with additives & water & tumbled in huge, concrete mixer type machienes. Then they are re frozed and shipped for further processing. Tests conducted by Hull City Council & The FSA have found chicken breasts that have contained pork & beef waste & hydrolyzed proteins. Hydrolyzed proteins are skin, hyde, bone even ligaments and feathers, where the proteins are extracted through exposure to high temperatures or by chemical hydrolysis. Yep! then it’s injected into a chicken. Yum! By the way, adding proteins from other animals is NOT ILLEGAL either. Some of the concerns & implications of this are, with alduterated beef waste in our chickens, could that spread BSE ?   With antibotics being injected into our chickens, is that lowering our human tollerance to antibotics ?  And with pork being added to chickens that have even been labeled ” halal ” is that not an outragous abuse & insult to Hindus & Muslims?

We have the right to know what is in our food. The governments do not protect us on this issue and despot supermarkets have outragous levels of control.

 The chapters in this book are: 1) chicken, 2) salad, 3) beans, 4) bread, 5) apples and bananas, 6) coffee & prawns 7) the ready meal. All the chapters listed have raised my eyebrow several times at what the food industry gets away with.

An essential read.

I have never been as disgusted with the food industry as I have been during the last 24 hours.

I saw a DVD.  ASPARTAME  SWEET MISERY and was not overly surprised but I got progressively concerned.

What is Aspartame:

Aspartame is a chemical sweetener which is used massively by the soft drinks companies.

It is made up by  aspartic acid, phenylalanine & methyl ester. Methyl ester is meth alcohol i.e wood alcohol which is a very serious poison. When the body breaks down methyl ester it turns to formaldahyde ( used as an embalming fluid).

Major rise in brain tumours:

In the US in 1984 6,900,000lb of aspartame was comsumed and this amount doubled by 1985.

Between 1983-1984 brain tumour were up by 10% in the US. Diabetes up by 30% and brain lymphoma up by 60%.

Aspartame also causes MS, & seizures and much much more including ( as shown in a research study ) occular bleeding i.e bleeding from the eyes.

GRAS:

Aspartame is listed as being  a GRAS product. GRAS meaning generally recognised as safe.

When something is classified as “generally recognised as safe” it means that it only kills 1 in 1 million people!

The FDA claim that Aspartame is the most thoroughly tested foodstuff, although there has been an awful lot of testing on this product the test results are very freightening. And bear in mind that a lot of the research on this produt has been funded by Nutrasweet and soft drinks companies.

In one study conducted on monkeys that consumed the aspartame in milk 1 monkey died and 5 had gran mal seizures.

MSG:

MSG, monosodium glutamate was removed from baby food as it was shown that MSG caused holes in the brains of rats that were being tested. It has been shown that Aspartame does the same thing!

A quick trip to the corner shop:

I was telling my dad the other day what I had come accross and told him a little about Aspartame and the dangerous effects it has on the body. He asked if it was on the label so I went to my corner sho & within 5 minutes I found Aspartame in the following:

Diet pespsi, diet coke, pepsi light, robinsons fruit shoots ( this is designed for kids!), edbull, fanta, powerade isotonic drink ( made by coca cola), nestle milk straws,trident splash gum, wrigglys extra, wrigglys airwaves, hubba buba bubble tape and muller light yoghurts. This was in just 5 minutes.

Last night I was even more angered when I saw the official FDA list of what Aspartame can cause and what foodstuffs contained it.

Official FDA list: Coutesy of www.dorway.com

When I saw this list and read at the bottom of the table that Aspartame is used in chewable vitamin tablets I went to look at my bottle of vitamin C and read label. IT DID contain Aspartame. How angry was I.

Methyl Ester in nature:

Methyl Ester in nature is found in larger quantities in fruit but, in nature methyl is bound to pectin. Humans lack the enzyme to break down pectin so the methyl the naturally occuring Methyl can pass through the human body doing no harm whatsoever. Nature is so clever like that but Methyl ester on its own is highly dangerous.

Death by methyl ester:

Diane Fleming got a 50 year jail sentence for murdering her husband by methylanol poisoning. You can see her interviewed in the film Aspartame sweet misery.

Her attorney neglacted to mention that her husband was a big consumer of aspartame products. It does look very likely that consuming these products did cause his death.

Where can I find out more?

There are many sites on aspartame but a good one to chect out is www.dorway.com

Watch the film:

Here is a link to watch the film.  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-566922170441334340

FDA..Food and drug administration or otherwise known as.. Food despot arseholes..

This week the FDA Food And Drug Administration announced that it was allowing and encouraging the irradiation of lettuce & spinach in America and guess what, it allows irradiated crops to be sold with no labelling so the consumer has no way of knowing if the lettuce or spinach that they are eating has been irradiadted or not. Whatever happened to freedom of choice ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPGxL0HbklY Watch this American TV news report and read on.

Scary stuff eh !

Some reports say it is labelled, some say not. Some say it is safe, some say it is not.

I am pretty darn sure it is far from safe and I am angry & appauled but yet, not surprised.

The FDA insists that the levels of irradiation that they use to kill e.coli will have no effect on the nutritional value of the food. ( aye bollock’s )

When food irradiation is known to cause DNA damage and is used to kill germs, viruses and insects then surely it can’t be the best way to treat our food stuffs. Leave our bloody food alone. We have the choice to either buy fresh foods and prepare them ourselves or to purchase pre prepared meals or fast food.

If we choose to buy fresh and prepare our meals from scratch we have the right to un- bastardized produce.

Unfortunately I have very limited time today to go into much more detail on this subject but I do suggest that you continue to find out more on this issue if you care for yours and your families health.

Below is from Natural News.com who welcome people to pass on the information on their website. Below is a podcast on their site detailing the FDA’s interference with our natural food supply.

From Naturalnews.com

Why does this matter? Because irradiation kills photonutrients, including anti-cancer nutrients that are protecting your health right now. With this rule, the FDA is literally killing the food supply!

This alarming report covers the FDA’s evil plot to destroy the nutritional value of the food supply through mandatory irradiation of fresh vegetables. It follows the FDA’s decision to start irradiation spinach and lettuce.

Go to this page then click on ” click here to listen to mp3″ under the paragraph above.

http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html#61