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• Is Junk Food a Custody Issue?

  Is feeding your kids white bread, or God forbid high fructose corn syrup, the  kind of thing that should lose you custody of your kid in a divorce?   I don't think so -- even though I am a strong believer that most of what is marketed to kids is crap and shoudn't be fed to anyone, ever. But I certainly don't fool myself that the bowl of Pirate's Booty I just handed my daughter to snack on is anything other than fancy Cheetos. If most of what you feed your kids is good, wholesome, real food that bears more resemblance to how it came from the ground or the animal than to a lab-created Frankenfood, a preference for white bread or a daily bowl of Doritos is not that big a deal. Laura Bennett agrees with me. In this piece from Alternet she recounts running into a mom at her sons' school who was livid with her ex-husband, livid to the point of asking a judge to revisit their custody arrangement, for his wanton disregard for their children's health. What was the issue, you ask? Read More... Posted Jan 07 2009, 04:02 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: food, Laura Bennett, food additives, Doritos, Alternet, pirate’s booty, “food Nazis, organics, ” junk food, strict diets, get over yourself, healthy living

• Greenhouse: Bottled Water Is Evil (?)

  Remember back in the 1980s when suddenly, it seemed, everybody was lugging around a bottle of water ala Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally? Now, you can’t have a meeting, party or soccer game without those little individual bottles of water resting on ice or in the fridge. But those inviting little bottles of hydration are super bad for the environment, not to mention being economically nsustianable as well. That water (which is usually just tap water, by the by) has to get pumped from somewhere. It's been a big issue here in Michigan, which doesn't have much, but we do have water galore. There are issues with water depletion (right now, you can't pump large amounts of water out of the Great Lakes, but put that same amount of water Read More... Posted Aug 06 2008, 04:31 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: recycling, waste, water, greenhouse, bottled water, hydration, Alternet, landfill