The recent recall of hundreds of thousands of eggs and the illness of over a thousand people due to salmonella contamination is a wake-up call to the dangers of factory farming. And it’s bound to encourage more people to buy organic eggs from local farmers, or to keep their own backyard chickens.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the descriptive label given to an ever-increasing number of children – especially boys – who have trouble fitting into the school system and disrupt family life. Complaints about their behavioral “problems” include hyperactivity, poor attention span, lack of concentration, disruptiveness, clumsiness, recklessness, defiance, and irritability. As I wrote in [...]
Summertime can be simple and fun without exploiting Nature, damaging the environment, worrying about your family’s health and stressing you out. Here are some articles from Natural Life Magazine’s archives to help.
Some Natural Life Magazine readers may have noticed that whenever we use the word “Nature” meaning universe in which we live, and all its living and non-living things, we capitalize the letter “N.” So I thought I’d let you know why we do that.
Whale researcher Alexandra Morton has organized a walk down the British Columbia coast in support of wild salmon and in an attempt to get the government to outlaw penned salmon farms from B.C. waters.
A preview of Natural Life Magazine’s May/June 2010 cover and table of contents.
People begin to examine their food choices for many different reasons. Among our concerns are economics, personal health – including food security after recalls for contamination by listeria and e-coli, environmental degradation due to pesticide use or pollution caused by long distance transport, and abuse of farm workers. But eventually, many of us realize that food is power and that our food choices can help change the world – for better or for worse. Hence, the growing organic, locavore, and Fair Trade movements.