Fukushima's High Radiation: It affects the U.S!

If you haven't already heard, Fukushima (a city in Japan) has been leaking about 300 tons of radioactive water daily into the Pacific Ocean since March of 2011. 

The Japan Times states, “In November, plans to begin the delicate operation of removing spent fuel [with] radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Removing its spent fuel, which contains deadly plutonium, is an urgent task. The consequences could be far more severe than any nuclear accident the world has ever seen"

***100 times larger than Chernobyl


What are the most recent affects from this radiation?

The plant life around Fukushima shows mutations:



& in our West Coast....

Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast

One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima

Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high %  of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada: 
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monk fish

Plankton, bluefin tuna & other sea life collected between Hawaii & California are already testing high for radiation, these levels are expected to continue increasing!!!

What to do? 

-Don't eat fish from the Pacific, ESPECIALLY TUNA!
-No seaweed from Pacific either!
-Eat foods that protect against radiation: cilantro, milk thistle, ginseng, red clover, rosemary, broccoli & many more..

Say NO to GMO!

Before reading I would like to say that everything you buy counts! The public is offered the power of purchasing what they desire...with this power change can arise.

So, what is genetically modified food (GMO)?
The Non-GMO Project states, " they are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered w/ DNA from bacteria, viruses or other plants & animals. These experimental combinations of genes from different species cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding."

What is wrong w/ GMO?  
The pesticides: a direct result of super weeds becoming resistant to Monsanto’s Round-up pesticide in their GMO crops. The amount of allowable glyphosate (ROUNDUP) in oilseed crops such as flax, soybeans & canola will be increased from 20 parts per million (ppm) to 40 ppm, which GM Watch acknowledged is over 100,000 times the amount needed to induce breast cancer cells. .

The herbicides linked to our groundwater:
This groundwater contamination study from March, 2011, published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, where researchers found the chemical in 60-100% of all air & rain samples tested, indicating that glyphosate pollution and exposure is now omnipresent in the US.

*Keep in mind that glyphosate is considered by the EPA as a Class III toxic substance, fatal to an adult at 30 grams, &has been linked to over 20 adverse health effects in the peer-reviewed, biomedical literature.

What to do?
Look for packages w/ the non-gmo project label on it, buy organic & do your research on all products, NOT JUST FOOD. GMO is in products such as:

                                  

The Real You: Alan Watts

Who are you? Are you ready to wake up?

"What you do is what the whole Universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole Universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing." - Alan Watts (Philosopher) 

The real you (deep down) is the WHOLE universe. Life doesn't push us around like a puppet, we are what we experience ourselves: we are connected to everything so we are everything in a body experience.

"You are a function of this entire galaxy. Furthermore, this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies, and you look and look and look; and one day you’re going to wake up and say … Why, that’s me!"


You don't have to remember the past, like you don't have to think about how you work the thyroid gland. You just do it! 

Affirmation: I am the universe. 

We NEED Bee's: Save the Bee's!

 I am dedicating this blog post to the bee's, for the sake of the bees and our entire Eco-system. This needs to be talked about!

Honey bees play an important role on earth; without bees and their jobs of pollination we would not have 65% of the crops we eat today. 80% of flowering crops are pollinated by honey bees as well. So how long can humans survive without the honey bee? Leave this answer up to Albert Einstein:

No more bees = no more pollination = no more plants = no more animals = no more humans. 
  
So what's happening today with the bee's? Honey Bee's are dying out. The so called "Colony Collapse Disorder" has wiped out 10 million beehives. Quartz reports, "Scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once."

Bee's are also affected by the pesticides that farmers are using. A detection of 35 different pesticides was found in a sample of bee pollen. Chemicals on crops kill bees.

Quartz also states that, “Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.”

How to SAVE the bee's? 

1. Plant a garden

2. Plant wildflowers

3. Don't use pesticides

4. Spread the word about bee's: blog, share, tweet, post, speak!!!

5. Buy organic

6. Buy honey from local farmer's markets or any honey that supports the bee's

7. Get involved by signing petitions to ban pesticides and non-gmo foods.

8. Support anyone in favor of saving the bee's, any produce or items that give a % towards saving the bee's.


& here's something entertaining for you in support of the bee's: