Washing fruits and vegetables reduces risks of food poisoning, but irradiating them is probably the most thorough safety precaution.
A team of international collaborators have come up with a map of protected areas Madagascar needs to establish in order to preserve the most biodiversity.
Florida homeowners should be screeching at the tops of their lungs. One of the reasons that much of Florida gets its water from places like Georgia (my tap water in Sarasota came from an aquifer in Gerogia) is that Florida has as its bedrock calcium carbonate. If you pump the water out from extremely porous calcium carbonate, many times large empty subterannean caverns are exposed. Ever hear of a sinkhole? Guess why they don’t pump water out of Florida aquifers? So now Nestle wants to pump an enormous amount of water from Florida aquifers…is it too much to hope their plant falls into a ginormous sinkhole of their own creation?
And why drink water from your tap when you can pay upwards of $1.00 a glass for it, generate nonbiodegradable waste, and burn loads of fuel transporting it? Isn’t that essentially what Nestle is selling? Augusten Burroughs had the right idea going into marketing. “They took all the water, and bottled it up in plastic/Charged folks a dollar, and boy were they ecstatic.” Sad that the “they” references the buyers OR the sellers.
Bottled water is a complete sham. It’s amazing that NY had to take up an ad campaign explaining to people that their tap water was just as clean as bottled water, and regularly beat bottled water in blind taste tests.
Remember Spaceballs? We’ll have Perrie-air next. : )
Florida homeowners should be screeching at the tops of their lungs. One of the reasons that much of Florida gets its water from places like Georgia (my tap water in Sarasota came from an aquifer in Gerogia) is that Florida has as its bedrock calcium carbonate. If you pump the water out from extremely porous calcium carbonate, many times large empty subterannean caverns are exposed. Ever hear of a sinkhole? Guess why they don’t pump water out of Florida aquifers? So now Nestle wants to pump an enormous amount of water from Florida aquifers…is it too much to hope their plant falls into a ginormous sinkhole of their own creation?
And why drink water from your tap when you can pay upwards of $1.00 a glass for it, generate nonbiodegradable waste, and burn loads of fuel transporting it? Isn’t that essentially what Nestle is selling? Augusten Burroughs had the right idea going into marketing. “They took all the water, and bottled it up in plastic/Charged folks a dollar, and boy were they ecstatic.” Sad that the “they” references the buyers OR the sellers.
Comment by flyingsirkus — April 12, 2008 @ 11:50 am
Yea, it’d disgusting.
They should be working on Ryan’s proposed Robo-RoboRally project instead!
Comment by ClintJCL — April 12, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Bottled water is a complete sham. It’s amazing that NY had to take up an ad campaign explaining to people that their tap water was just as clean as bottled water, and regularly beat bottled water in blind taste tests.
Remember Spaceballs? We’ll have Perrie-air next. : )
Comment by ideonexus — April 13, 2008 @ 11:46 pm