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Could Your Slow Cooker Be Leaching Neurotoxic Lead?

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I started researching slow cookers in order to replace mine when I found crazing in the glaze. In the end analysis, this may or may not be a big deal. However, I thought this would be worthy to pass on for those who were unaware of this as I was so you can make your own evaluation.

[Excerpts used with permission of US Wellness Meats: Written by Kelley Herring, Healing Gourmet]

In the 1970s, the electric slow cooker became almost as popular as disco music and pet rocks. As you probably already know, the slow cooker has made a dramatic resurgence in recent years. And it’s not just for their convenience (although that’s still a top selling factor).

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Activated Charcoal: Why No Mama Should Ever Be Without It

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This activated charcoal is not the kind found on your burnt toast! Updated March, 2016.

Activated charcoal is a highly adsorptive antidote for emergency use (and a few other no-emergency uses), able to rapidly mop up toxins and chemicals. Toxins adhere or stick to the very porous surface of the charcoal, so nothing is absorbed by the body – instead passing through and out of the GI tract. It is a fine, black powder that is odorless, tasteless, and nontoxic, and it has proved its value over and over again.

But you have to know about it and have it on hand for it to do any good!

It was 1831. In front of his distinguished colleagues at the French Academy of Medicine, Professor Touery drank a lethal dose of strychnine and lived to tell the tale. He had combined the deadly poison with activated charcoal. (source) Need I say, please don’t try this at home!

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Get Monsanto Out Of Your Garden: List Of Seed Companies NOT Owned By Monsanto

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Have you unknowingly invited Monsanto to your garden party? Updated from 2013.

In 2005, Monsanto grabbed 40% of the U.S. seed market and 20% of the global seed market when it bought out Seminis, making them the largest seed company in the world—supplying the genetics for 55% of the lettuce on U.S. supermarket shelves, 75% of the tomatoes, and 85% of the peppers, with strong holdings in beans, cucumbers, squash, melons, broccoli, cabbage, spinach and peas!

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