Farewell to my Beloved Sweetpea

Sweetpea passed away on June 3, 2009. My heart is broken. I miss her so much. What am I going to do without you?

Today I Consumed My Last pepsi

I'm a pepsi addict, and I've continued to drink it, even though it goes against many of my principles. But no more. I drank my last pepsi today. Michael Pollan was on Democracy Now yesterday. He said some great things. His new food advice: “Don’t Buy Any Food You’ve Ever Seen Advertised”. He also pointed out that both the health crisis and global warming crisis go back to food. The abundance and cheapness of processed food contribute to the health crisis. It's criminal that soda is so cheap. Soda is subsidized, but basic fruits and vegetables are not.
Dr. McDougall wrote an article on the link between food and global warming:
An Inconvenient Truth: We Are Eating Our Planet to Death: Choosing a Plant-food Based Diet Is a Moral Issue

How did we get to this place?

Jailing Kids for Cash

Jailing Kids for Cash

This behavior is so outrageous. As long as we have private prisons, it will only get worse. I can't believe that there is now profit to be made from incarcerating people. When will the greed end!

We need to put money into prevention, rather than incarceration.

Petition to Reform Tamms Supermax Prison

Dear Friend,
Rep. Julie Hamos introduced legislation to reform Tamms supermax prison, and we already have 22 co-sponsors. Please sign our online petition to support HB2633 and forward it to all your contacts.
http://www.juliehamos.org/tamms
Why is this so important?
We need to show all the lawmakers in Illinois that there is widespread support for this bill. Please help us make sure this petition reaches every corner of the state.
Rep. Julie Hamos will personally deliver this petition to our legislators and to Governor Quinn.
Tamms is already a human rights and pubic policy disaster. Let's make it a political liability.
http://www.juliehamos.org/tamms
Tamms Year Ten
www.YearTen.org

The Food Lobby Goes to School & and My Lobbyist Rant

I'm so sick of lobbyists running this country. Bill Moyers had a great discussion about it on this week's show. The guest was Robert G. Kaiser, author of "So Much Damn Money". Something needs to be done. The money that is used for lobbying could be spent on better things.

Bill Maher Makes Sense of Health

Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.