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GREENING

We have added a new step to our greening up our life.

No, we are not going off the internet, the most wasteful additions to global warming. Not our cell phones. And I sure didn't leave the AC off today.

No, I mean at a more micro level.

Another area than global warming.

I have been on and off with organic products.

I usually am interested in them because they are superior in quality. I care less about the chemicals and all.

I read another article the other day that says organic makes no healthful difference. It made me angry. So I know that I am onto something here.

I took the first tangible step with cage free eggs. I wasn't interested in the eggs as much as how the chickens were kept.

Then I saw how cage free works and the chickens are still all crowded in.

So I have gone the next step to free run eggs which, by coincidence, are also organic.

I guess that when you have them all closed in you have to feed the antibiotics and hormones and color for the flesh and all that.

Actually I know that they have to do this.

I used to have clients who made the chemicals. I worked with their salesmen. I went on sales calls to see their unique problems. I learned that a chicken in the usual store sense is all tricked up with unnatural ingredients.

Anyway. With each change, from regular to cage free and from cage free to free run, there has been an incremental increase in quality!

Now. Another new thing.

I was in the milk case looking for the best date and I found that they have organic milk. Fat free. And ultra pasteurized so the freshness date goes out 6 weeks.

No (added)hormones. No antibiotics. Happier cows.

We haven't tried the milk yet but it can't be as problematic as the cartons I have been getting of the regular stuff. They frequently stink a couple of days before the past sale date.

Now, I bought organic and all that when I lived in Boston. Bread and Circus. Now Whole Foods.

It was just better food, like I said.

When we came here I gave it up.

Now I am taking it up again.

Another area.

I realized that the natural ingredient household products were as good as the regular. Now they have dishwasher tabs, household cleaner, laundry detergent and dish detergent. They are going into the bag too.

All of this costs more.

I don't care.

I am happy to pay the added amount.

Is it worth it?

I don't know but it feels better.

Now, if I could find me some biodegradable plastic bags.................

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