I love this article on www.care2.com, written by Diana Herrington.
Baking with gluten-free flours can be tricky, but it is worth it. Imagine eating sinfully delicious desserts that are also healthy for you!
When you are just eating gluten-free whole grains, it is relatively simple. You can just throw some rice or millet in a pot, and with a little variation on the amount of water, you can get a pretty good meal.
Once you get into baking though, it’s a whole new level of complexity and precision to get that perfect cookie or cake. You can’t just substitute your favorite regular wheat recipe with rice flour for example. It just won’t work out. I often feel like a chemist in the kitchen fine tuning gluten-free recipes.
The first step is to have the proper flours. To keep it simple I have limited this list to a small handful of my favorites. I was extremely sensitive to gluten so I have been cooking and baking gluten-free for almost 20 years.
All my recipes are also 100% white sugar free and 100% unhealthy starch free. Many of the common gluten-free recipes and products are loaded with sugar and starch and that is definitely not healthy.
The healthy ones I like and use for specific reasons include: Read More...
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/9-healthy-gluten-free-flours.html#ixzz2Da8i8obP
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Which Companies Support GMO Labeling?
I think it noteworthy which companies supported Prop:37 in California and which companies did not, afterall $45,000,000 were spent by companies to defeat the proposition.
Even though Prop. 37 (the California Right to know Genetically Engineered Food Act) did not pass in the 2012 election, the mission for GMO awareness is far from over. In fact, it’s just beginning.
The initiative lost 53% to 47%. Considering that Monsanto, Dupont, Pepsi-Cola, and other food and pesticide companies spent $45 million dollars in deceptive advertising tactics to mislead voters, the ballot didn’t do so bad. Since these large food and pesticide corporations spent so much money fabricating a fake quote from the FDA on behalf of GMOs, sending out mailers that used a fake FDA seal, creating commercials with fake professors, and ceaselessly advertising lies about how it will increase the cost of food for American families by $400 a year, you’d think they’d actually have tricked more people into voting for the opposition. This gives hope to the future of the GMO labeling initiative.
The initiative is planning to shift its attention to other states. Signatures in Washington are being gathered in hopes that the GMO labeling initiative can make it on the November 2013 ballot. Oregon put efforts to getting the initiative on the ballot for 2012, but hadn’t been able to face the challenges in the process early enough. They are aiming to file for 2014. In Vermont and Connecticut, bills are being prepared to be put in the hands of legislatures.
A victory has been won for spreading GMO awareness nationwide. Before the ballot, many Americans were unaware of genetically modified organisms, and that they were eating them. Now consumers are asking themselves “What are GMOs? Are they safe for me and my family to eat? Why are they labeled in 50 other countries but not here? Why, in America, is there such a fuss on whether or not they’re labeled?” The 2012 food labeling bill has planted a seed in the consciousness of our nation, and as more Americans become more educated of what GMOs are, and the potential dangers; that seed will sprout, and eventually lead to the bill being passed in other states, until all states have GMO labeling laws just like in Europe, China, and those 48 other countries.
In the meantime, there are things that we as individuals can do to show our support. We can thank the many pro-labeling heroes that donated large sums of money to the cause by buying their products. Here is a list created by Natural News, followed by an infographic from Cornucopia, that gives us the names of the companies that supported Prop. 37: Read More....
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-companies-support-gmo-labeling.html#ixzz2Da7jUUoH
Even though Prop. 37 (the California Right to know Genetically Engineered Food Act) did not pass in the 2012 election, the mission for GMO awareness is far from over. In fact, it’s just beginning.
The initiative lost 53% to 47%. Considering that Monsanto, Dupont, Pepsi-Cola, and other food and pesticide companies spent $45 million dollars in deceptive advertising tactics to mislead voters, the ballot didn’t do so bad. Since these large food and pesticide corporations spent so much money fabricating a fake quote from the FDA on behalf of GMOs, sending out mailers that used a fake FDA seal, creating commercials with fake professors, and ceaselessly advertising lies about how it will increase the cost of food for American families by $400 a year, you’d think they’d actually have tricked more people into voting for the opposition. This gives hope to the future of the GMO labeling initiative.
The initiative is planning to shift its attention to other states. Signatures in Washington are being gathered in hopes that the GMO labeling initiative can make it on the November 2013 ballot. Oregon put efforts to getting the initiative on the ballot for 2012, but hadn’t been able to face the challenges in the process early enough. They are aiming to file for 2014. In Vermont and Connecticut, bills are being prepared to be put in the hands of legislatures.
A victory has been won for spreading GMO awareness nationwide. Before the ballot, many Americans were unaware of genetically modified organisms, and that they were eating them. Now consumers are asking themselves “What are GMOs? Are they safe for me and my family to eat? Why are they labeled in 50 other countries but not here? Why, in America, is there such a fuss on whether or not they’re labeled?” The 2012 food labeling bill has planted a seed in the consciousness of our nation, and as more Americans become more educated of what GMOs are, and the potential dangers; that seed will sprout, and eventually lead to the bill being passed in other states, until all states have GMO labeling laws just like in Europe, China, and those 48 other countries.
In the meantime, there are things that we as individuals can do to show our support. We can thank the many pro-labeling heroes that donated large sums of money to the cause by buying their products. Here is a list created by Natural News, followed by an infographic from Cornucopia, that gives us the names of the companies that supported Prop. 37: Read More....
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-companies-support-gmo-labeling.html#ixzz2Da7jUUoH
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