http://algsmith.com Healthy Families - Body, Mind & Soul - Yahoo Answers - One Man's Reflection Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:52:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The old adage "pleased to meat you" was a popular if excruciating epithet for butchers in my 'home country'! One thing is for certain -- the video below should not please anyone who considers they have an ounce of humanity in their mind, body or soul! To be sure this ... http://algsmith.com/2012/01/pleased-to-meat-you/ Some light relief at last -- well done to the creator of this fun video -- and well done to the mutt whose expressions convince us that the words are just right... http://algsmith.com/2011/05/its-a-dogs-life/ Quite like this video (below) recently promoted via Yahoo!. It makes some key points -- most important of which may be that the typical American uses 100 gallons of water a day... No wonder T Boone Pickens, the Bush family and their ilk see water as the way to make their ... http://algsmith.com/2011/03/just-typical/ God knows that we have to hope that human beings are not like rats, and not just for the reasons that may spring immediately to mind! But what is certain is that we have all been treated like guinea-pigs, in a global laboratory experiment that has already been running for ... http://algsmith.com/2011/02/are-humans-like-rats-or-are-they-simply-guinea-pigs/ If you haven't seen this film, based on Helena Norberg Hodge's book Ancient Futures, then here is an opportunty to do just that... And why, you might ask, should you want to? Well -- albeit that this video was originally published in 1993 -- the film effectvely encapsulates the issues that beset ... http://algsmith.com/2011/02/when-progress-isnt/ 2012 approaches and the alternative media is increasingly fizzing with effervescent activity proclaiming this that and the other about  the future (or lack thereof) of the world and humanity itself. Alternative theories speak of everything from: Hopi and Mayan prophecies (not to mention Nostradamus and Mother Shipton and that old blind ... http://algsmith.com/2011/01/why-hockey-sticks-are-not-jolly/ Here's a young man (Birke Baehr) who has got the message about what is wrong with our food system, and what we can do to improve it. He is also at an age (11 years) that is early enough to mean he could make a real difference... Let's hope he ... http://algsmith.com/2011/01/improving-the-food-system/ This group of well-informed, lucid and interesting presenters from the top-level of relevant scientific research, speaking at the recent Global Climate Change panel, the second presentation to House Committee Science and Technology: Energy and Environment, put forward their cases. It seems that the evidence for human impact on climate is becoming ... http://algsmith.com/2010/12/human-impact-on-global-warming/ Well, much though I dislike the concept of Christmas starting in October... as it seems to do for marketing purposes... I thought I would post this video 'early'  -- albeit that it is actually 2 years overdue since its initial release. One of today's media phenomena must be the 'x-factor' shows. ... http://algsmith.com/2010/11/early-for-christmas-or-very-late/ Dear Alan Just read your story. It's interesting how different folks can come across different stuff, yet end up concluding the 'same' basic things from access to a variety of sources. I have written articles for my own websites about cancer in the last few years and it would certainly seem ... http://algsmith.com/2010/10/reply-to-alan-holman-about-dealing-with-cancer/