MAHO - The Mid American Health Organization

12 hours ago

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One of USA Today's "100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis"
A dazzling gift for Mother's Day, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.
"Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers." --NPR, Best Books of 2017
The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.
In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture. ... See MoreSee Less

MAHO - The Mid American Health Organization

1 day ago

Genetically engineered crops no longer subject to agency oversight or evaluation of harms.

(No labeling of GMO foods. We have to protect ourselves by supporting companies who do label and buying organic food. No testing to determine possible future damage to the land or people.The use of pesticides in and on our agricultural land kills the living organisms need to keep our soil viable with good bacteria, worms etc to help draw carbon out of our atmosphere and decrease climate change.)

Washington, D.C.—The finalized regulations differ little from USDA's draft regulations proposed last summer. Under the new regime, many GMOs that are currently regulated will no longer be subject to agency oversight, with developers( like Monsanto/Bayer) allowed to "self-determine" the regulatory status of their experimental GE organisms. GMO crops will also not undergo reviews for potential harms, including potential economic harms to farmers.

" USDA once again ignores the elephant in the room," said Sylvia Wu, senior attorney at CFS. "The vast majority of GMOs sold and grown today are herbicide-resistant crops, which encourage over-reliance on particular weedkillers and have thus proven instrumental in generating noxious weeds immune to multiple herbicides. Yet USDA pointedly refuses to use its noxious weed authority to address this serious and rapidly growing threat to U.S. agriculture," she added.

"Not only do these herbicide-resistant crop systems foster noxious weeds," said Bill Freese, science policy analyst at CFS, "they have caused unprecedented damage to millions of acres of susceptible crops through herbicide drift," he added. "Herbicide drift with GMOs has been one of the biggest problems in U.S. agriculture over the past three years, destroying crops and livelihoods, yet USDA and its new regulations do nothing to protect farmers from this threat." ... See MoreSee Less