composting reduces landfill

Black gold. Anything from our kitchen that can be composted , is piled up with leaves, lawn clippings and whateverelse is available to make black gold. Think how much we could reduce our landfill if everyone just did a simple thing as this, composting. Even newspaper and cardboard, paper could be composted. I refrain from composting paper goods unless it was printed with non toxic ink. If only we could get all packaging material to be made from recycled material, compostable plastics, non toxic inks, we can basically eliminate the need for garbage pickups from suburban homes. Landfills could be drastically reduced.

I killed my lawn

I never understood why people spent so much time and money on fertilizing and weeding lawns. So proud of a green lawn? All that toxic fertilizer, pesticides and weedicide that gets washed into our sewers and water system.

We mow the lawns and put the grass clippings in garbage bags. We rake the leaves and take them somewhere to be composted, hopefully. Some much time and energy for what?

I like to pile the grass clippings and leaves into composting piles. 

tāst health

we at tāst dont wait for others to tell us if something is not good our health.

why eat something if its injected, infused with, cooked with things you never heard of?

we at tāst have been looking out for your health from the beginning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15farm.html

Let's start blogging!

I’m not a writer or journalist, far from it, I’m not a nutritionist, nor do I have any medical background. What I do believe I have is a little common sense and experience.  The discussions and material presented on this blog may not always have medical backing or be substantiated by any medical studies, but hopefully everyone sees it as common sense, something that is harder to find in people these days.

Through this blog, I hope to share with everyone information and experience gained over the years about the food we eat and where it comes from and how it has affected my life.

The postings may be sporadic late in the middle of the night while half asleep or from my phone while out on the road  so there will be many grammer and spelling errors and sometimes what I post may not make any sense at all, but hopefully it will be informative.

So lets start blogging!

“Antibiotic Resistance and the Use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture”

Tasteatery stays away from meats pumped with hornones, antibiotics, steroids. In fact we go step further, our beef comes from a small farm upstate NY that is grass fed and grass finished. the grass finished being the important part. (more on this next time)

we care about what you eat. you should to.

A great person to follow,

https://twitter.com/jarkoch,

Our own goverment agency (an agency that is suppose to look out for the good of the people) is now......., just now..........testifying to the fact that the use of antibiotics in farm animals is contributing to antibiotic resistance for us.

http://www.ecocentrism.org/2010/07/20/usda-admits-link-between-antibiotic-use-by-big-ag-and-human-health/

http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2071:hearing-on-antibiotic-resistance-and-the-use-of-antibiotics-in-animal-agriculture&catid=132:subcommittee-on-health&Itemid=72

 

 

 

posterous or tumblr

we are now blogging on tast.posterous.com but it looks like i will now switch to tumblr.

what the hell

I've got a bone to pick...

I've got a bone to pick or maybe in this case a wing with the author of an article in February's issue of Fitness magazine. In "The No- Hunger way to Cut Calories" the author suggests different ways to cut 100, 200 or 500 calories a day from your diet without sacrificing taste or resorting to dieting. I totally agree that for most people, what we call "dieting" simply doesn't work. Most diets are far too restrictive and rather than teaching people how to eat, diets just eliminate certain food groups which is not a long term solution to weight loss.

The bone, or wing, I have to pick with the author has to do with some of the suggestions she makes for cutting calories. Here are my three favorites: "Ask for the 12-ounce child size soda instead of the 21-ounce medium at the drive through"; "Indulge in a slice of angel food cake drizzled with chocolate syrup rather than three cookies"; and, my absolute favorite, "When munching on chicken wings, don't toss the bones midway through. Seeing the evidence of your feast may help you eat less, studies show". Other suggestions include switching the type of pizza and ice cream that you eat.

In all honesty, I really don't know where to begin. Now, I will try to keep in mind that we all live in the real world where work and kids and stress and life in general have a way of disrupting the best of intentions. However, even with this in mind, how a Fitness magazine could offer such suggestions is beyond me. Soda, chicken wings, cake, pizza and ice cream? Is this some kind of joke??? No-one, and I mean no-one, who is trying to be healthy and fit should be consuming any one of these items, let alone all of them.

And, lets not forget that it takes a lot more to be healthy and fit than just cutting 100 or 200 calories from your diet. You need to have a balanced and nutritious diet made up mainly of whole, unprocessed foods. You have to exercise, often and for the rest of your life. You have to get enough sleep, limit stress, and still find time to work and spend time with family and friends. Basically you need to live a healthy lifestyle; and a healthy lifestyle does not include chicken wings, fast food, soda, french fries and/or angel food cake drizzled in chocolate syrup. Sorry...