tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post7547612976565065901..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: Fib-Busting FridayJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-29076651607510166922017-02-07T12:07:09.112-10:002017-02-07T12:07:09.112-10:00February 5 @ 10:01 AM, please provide examples of ...February 5 @ 10:01 AM, please provide examples of factory farming that are not regulated, and please describe what is horrible about that. While you're at it, please continue on with other industries besides agriculture, and please include organic agriculture as well with those other industries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-62085666705769852202017-02-05T10:01:48.900-10:002017-02-05T10:01:48.900-10:00But factory farming is horrible an should be regul...But factory farming is horrible an should be regulated. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-77477186185657906372017-02-04T16:03:29.009-10:002017-02-04T16:03:29.009-10:00I'm puzzled that haoles Spacer and Kallai are ...I'm puzzled that haoles Spacer and Kallai are leading the charge to find a long-lost Hawaiian fishing trail. They must know that there is and always will be legal access from Pila'a and Larsen's. They aren't fighting for a trail. A trail exists. They are fighting for an EASIER trail. What idiots. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-9120605142873099932017-02-03T23:09:08.813-10:002017-02-03T23:09:08.813-10:00That ad on YouTube. Still trying to make sense of ...That ad on YouTube. Still trying to make sense of the "message".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-74135753808704955412017-02-03T22:03:54.017-10:002017-02-03T22:03:54.017-10:00Hmmm. How come all these non-Hawaiians like Space...Hmmm. How come all these non-Hawaiians like Spacer and the Kallais are trying to make claims about an ala loa? Why do people even listen to them? And why does the garden island print this "news" on the front page? Is it really "news" they are "exposing" and does it help sell papers? Just trying to sort out the real factual information here. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-25838812150191252822017-02-03T20:13:26.383-10:002017-02-03T20:13:26.383-10:00@6:00 pm. Sorry, that is a gross generalization a...@6:00 pm. Sorry, that is a gross generalization and is generally false. 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry tell me so. Small doses would have a negative health impact over time only if their was accumulation. Small doses are generally metabolized quickly and eliminated. Please provide examples to back up your statement. And please, don't mention lead, mercury, or DDT which are relics of the past.Robin Clarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-62748609758516155602017-02-03T19:46:08.158-10:002017-02-03T19:46:08.158-10:00600 pm, seems like you have forgotten that the hum...600 pm, seems like you have forgotten that the human body has organs that remove poisons from the system. Explain what the liver and kidneys do. Things are not simplistic as you say. What you say are heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, etc. that do accumulate. Your logic fails.<br /><br />DINKYDAOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-56181693914868008462017-02-03T18:00:40.971-10:002017-02-03T18:00:40.971-10:00Small doses over long periods of time = chronic ex...Small doses over long periods of time = chronic exposure = negative health impacts. Big dose and small doses over time BOTH will kill you and or accelerate, exacerbate your health problems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-5476439959631812762017-02-03T14:28:55.430-10:002017-02-03T14:28:55.430-10:00Not every illness is from pesticides.
The dose mak...Not every illness is from pesticides.<br />The dose makes the poison.<br />Natural doesn't mean not toxic.<br />Toxic compounds are found in plants, even those we eat. <br /><br />See: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/health/lychee-fatal-illness-india/<br /><br />Every year since 1995, a mystery illness has plagued a town in Bihar, India. Around May and June each year, large numbers of young children would start showing signs of fever. They'd have seizures and convulsions, before slipping in and out of consciousness. <br /><br />In 2014, hundreds of children were admitted to hospital exhibiting symptoms of this illness, said to resemble encephalitis. Of 390 admitted for treatment, 122 died.<br /><br />Teams of researchers and medical experts searched exhaustively to find the cause, but to no avail. Heat, humidity, malnourishment, the monsoon and pesticides have all been considered at one stage to be contributing factors to the illness. <br /><br />A new report, published in The Lancet Global Health medical journal on Tuesday, claims to have discovered what's behind the devastating disease: the unassuming lychee.<br /><br />Analysis of blood and spinal fluid samples showed no signs of infection or exposure to chemicals and insecticides.<br /><br />This area is the largest lychee farming region in India.<br />Parents reported that children in the affected villages spent most of the day eating lychees from the surrounding orchards, often returning home in the evening "uninterested in eating a meal."<br /><br />Urine samples showed that two-thirds of the ill children showed evidence of exposure to toxins found in lychee seeds -- found in higher levels in unripe fruits. In the presence of these toxins "glucose synthesis is severely impaired," the study said, leading to dangerously low blood sugar and brain inflammation in the children.<br /><br />"The synergistic combination of litchi consumption, a missed evening meal, and other potential factors such as poor nutritional status, eating a greater number of litchis, and as yet unidentified genetic differences might be needed to produce this illness," the study said.<br />Similar outbreaks had been reported in another lychee cultivation areas in West Bengal, and also beyond India in parts of Vietnam and Bangladesh.<br /><br />Previous research had focused on pesticides rather than the fruit itself.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-58187273321273139982017-02-03T13:44:52.363-10:002017-02-03T13:44:52.363-10:00Regarding sunscreens, I don’t feel a total ban on ...Regarding sunscreens, I don’t feel a total ban on the sale of products containing those two chemicals is necessary. There are many consumers who use sunscreen but do not swim in the ocean. Product choices should be kept available for those who are working outdoors, gardening, hiking, enjoying their back yard, or doing other non-ocean related activities. <br /><br />Creating awareness and urging consumers who do swim in the ocean to use products that are labeled as reef safe, or do not contain the harmful chemicals noted, would be a better partial solution to the problem of reef damage, in my opinion. <br /><br />Continued thanks for your informative and thought provoking blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-44350104446089933322017-02-03T12:58:28.479-10:002017-02-03T12:58:28.479-10:00Great blog! Very interesting.
Washington, D.C.-ba...Great blog! Very interesting.<br /><br />Washington, D.C.-based "Center for Food Safety" (misnomer if ever there was one!) pays LOBBYIST "Dr." Ashley Lukens (PhD in political science, clueless about medicine, agriculture, toxicology, epidemiology, plant pathology, etc., and certainly NOT a farmer) to hang out and spread lies for them at the State legislature.<br /><br />In oral and written testimony on bills being considered there, some of which CFS authored, she claims that CFS is a nationwide "public interest, sustainable AGRICULTURE nonprofit organization" with "over 800,000 farmer and consumer members across the country, including nearing 10,000 in Hawai‘i."<br /><br />I find this impossible to believe. First of all, CFS is certainly not an agriculture organization. Second, how many farmers do you think would sign up as members of this regressive, voodoo-like, fear-mongering, ill-informed group?<br /><br />I raise livestock on a small scale. I would never call myself a farmer or rancher --- I love it but there's no way I could make a living from it. But I know hundreds of farmers, big and small, across the state and not one of them is a member of CFS. Farmers are generally honest, hard-working, and practical people. They base their decisions on science, evidence, and reality. No way that would fit into the CFS/Ashley Lukens scheme.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com