"To various Gods do mortals bow, Holy Cow and Wholly Chao!"

looks good on [hemp] paper anyway. >sigh< good artcile on marc by the way that goes along with that poll;)

Women who rely on the popular painkillers acetaminophen and ibuprofen are more likely to develop high blood pressure than those who don't take the over-the-counter drugs, a team of doctors said yesterday.

Daily use of either medication can increase the risk of hypertension by more than 90 percent, say medical researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who questioned 5,123 participants in the Nurses' Health Study.

Acetaminophen, widely sold in a variety of strengths, is best known by such brand names as Tylenol, Panadol and Liquiprin. Ibuprofen is sold as Advil and Motrin, among a host of other brands. Both acetaminophen and ibuprofen are analgesics that numb pain. But ibuprofen can be narrowed further into the class called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, of which aspirin is a member. Aspirin has not been found to have an adverse effect on blood pressure.

Don't just burn it, learn it!

The world's phattest "protestival" has a burning desire to present you 6 stages of speakers and bands, all speaking up for justice. Add hundreds of arts, crafts and food vendors, and put scores of leading marijuana law reform organizations in one of Seattle's most beautiful waterfront parks and you have a recipe for free speech Seattle style.

http://www.seattlehempfest.com/

We are already hard at work preparing Seattle Hempfest 2005, and although we have seen many victories locally there is still much work to be done. The recent federal ruling on medical marijuana has created activists out of many average Americans. Globally, the plight of Australian Schapelle Corby, facing 20 years in an Indonesian prison, is a call to action for all of us. The best way for you to begin to get involved is to get informed.

So soy is not just a food, it has medicinal powers that might be good for some but tremendously bad for others.

I think Karen Dawn is not interested in looking as critically at soy as she looks at cow milk, because she has a political ideology she's pushing, and for her ideology to work, there can't possibly be anything wrong with soy.

The animal products have to be bad, and the plant products have to be good, that's how the ideology works.

Got Milk? You've Got Problems: http://www.rense.com/general67/milk.htm

This poll is getting lopsided...

Should Marc Emery be extradited to the U.S.?

Yes - 258 - 26.22 %

No - 726 - 73.78 %

http://www.vancourier.com/

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...

Close Informant And Friend Of Former FBI Agent John O'Neill, Killed on 9/11, Tells How FBI Higher-Ups 'Shut Him Down' Letting 9/11 Happen: http://www.arcticbeacon.citymaker.com/articles/article/1518131/31621.htm

Army Intel Unit Exposes Massive FBI 9/11 Cover-Up: http://www.madcowprod.com/08122005.html

Hi-Res Scans of Major 9/11 Article in Daily Mail: http://www.911blogger.com/2005/08/hi-res-scans-of-major-911-article-in.html

Long ago gave up fast foods and processed foods..........

Yes 257 29.30 %

Gostin JAMA.2005; 294: 842-844.

Yes 253 38.69 %

http://phydeauxpets.com/item_detail.asp?item_id=1473

No 189 42.95 %

Good old herbs. They look better all the time.

Our cows will eat from your hand. Our cattle aren't "mad"...they're spoiled babies. At this point all ours are heifers, cows, and one bull, so we can afford to get attached to them since we know that won't be sold for food, but used for breeding.

Toronto, Canada [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] While corn is primarily used to distill ethanol, a new facility in Spain will convert wheat straw as the ethanol's feedstock.

Experts agree that it is critical to use technology that extracts fermentable sugars from the whole plant, including wheat straw and corn stalks. SunOpta has signed a 4.7 million Euros (USD $5.8 million) contract to supply its so-called "steam explosion" equipment and process technology to Abener Energia S.A. of Seville, Spain, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abengoa, for a commercial production facility to convert wheat straw into ethanol.

Scheduled to be operational in the fall of 2006, the facility will be built adjacent to an existing cereal grain to ethanol plant operated by Abengoa.

Chinese Hemp Industry has Boundless Potential Posted by FoM on November 05, 2001 at 09:01:46 PT Business News Source: People's Daily

As world fashion increasingly moves toward simplicity, comfort and health protection, experts point out that hemp, a major economic crop in China, could have great market prospects after the nation's entry into the World Trade Organization. Xia Jingyuan, a senior official with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture in charge of the extension of agricultural technology, said that the annual output of Chinese linen is worth over 10 billion yuan (about 1.2 billion US dollars).

According to Xia, the ongoing upgrading of China's agricultural industry has given Chinese hemp a great opportunity.

Environmentally friendly, high value-added and versatile, Chinese hemp products could be a major money-maker in market both here and abroad, said Xia.

For example, ramie, once used as forage, could provide a new type of vegetable protein for livestock and boost stockbreeding of southern China.

Red hemp used in paper making could prevent the felling of forests while clothing made from hemp is particularly comfortable to wear and poses no health hazard.

Being one of the earliest fabrics used in China, hemp's heyday can date back 4,000 years when only nobles and royal families could afford to wear finely spun linen while coarse linen were favored by commoners.

The production technology of linen has undergone constant improvement. In 1984, the country made a breakthrough in the degumming technology, bringing worldwide attention to linen products.

Analysts say that to establish a modern linen manufacturing and processing system with Chinese characteristics, China should double its efforts in scientific research and international cooperation, because each breakthrough in relevant technology will greatly boost the sector's upgrading.