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 Did you know? June 09, 2006 2:51 PM

  • Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, designed it to run on vegetable and seed oils like hemp. In fact, when the diesel engine was first introduced at the World's Fair in 1900, it ran on peanut oil.
  • Two decades later, Henry Ford was designing his Model Ts to run on ethanol made from hemp. He envisioned the entire mass-produced Model T automobile line would run on ethanol derived from crops grown in the U.S.
  • Even in the 1920s, the oil industry had massive lobbying power in Washington. Lobbyists convinced policymakers to create laws favoring petroleum based fuels while disgarding the ethanol option.
  • Nearly a century later, amidst oil wars in the Middle East, Global Warming, and a nearly depleted oil supply, the U.S. government is finally shifting attention to fuels that are more along the lines of Diesel and Ford's original ideas.
  • In an interview with the New York Times in 1925, Henry Ford said: "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumac out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."
  • 23% of U.S. consumers now buy organics at least weekly.
  • "Organic" has replaced the word "natural" as the mainstream food buzzword.
  • Asian Americans and Latino/Hispanic Americans are more likely to purchase organics than Caucasians.
  • African Americans are more likely to be what the Hartman Group calls "Core Organic Consumers," those most involved in the organics world.

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    		Hi Rain June 10, 2006 3:26 AM

    Hi Rain, We must both get the Organic consumers Association newsletter! Well done for posting it up. I just sent the same thing to all my mates in my email address book. We need more biofuels in Ireland. The government is pratically suppressing it by refusing permits for producers, and then if they do produce it without a licence sending the customs and excise people after them! We hope to have our vehicles converted to duel fuel by the end of the year. Bio and desiel, as it is hard to get biofuel at the moment, but after we finish organic college we hope to be able to grown our own! Peace and light, Claire  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
     
    		 June 23, 2006 4:16 AM

    COFFEE PROTECTS DRINKERS' LIVERS: A study published in the journal "Archives of Internal Medicine" indicates that coffee may greatly reduce the risk of liver damage in those who consume alcohol regularly. Every daily cup of coffee reduced the incidence of cirrhosis, a condition that destroys liver tissue, by 22 percent, according to researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program. However, Dr. Arthur Klatsky, the leader of the study, said the results "should not be interpreted as giving a license to drink without worry, because of all the other problems connected with drinking." adding, "the only proper advice is to drink less."
    Learn more:     http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_751.cfm
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    		 June 23, 2006 4:17 AM

    BEER INGREDIENT REDUCES PROSTATE CANCER RISK: A new study from researchers at Oregon State University reveals that a natural ingredient found in beer may reduce the risk of prostate cancer. The ingredient, found in the hops used to brew beer, is xanthohumol, and belongs to a group of plant compounds called flavonoids that can trigger the death of cancer cells along the surface of the prostate gland. Researchers are quick to point out the amount of xanthohumol in beer is far too low to be of any benefit, estimating it would require consuming a case of beer per day to activate the positive effects. German brewers have already responded by creating a beer with ten times the amount of xanthohumol, marketing it as a "healthy beer."
    Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_761.cfm  [ send green star]
     
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