At least this site is honest. Check out your swimming pools website if you own a salt pool and see if they are being honest about it just being a chlorine pool.
Understand Salt Water Swimming Pools & Salt Water Pool Systems for Inground & Above Ground Pools.
Source: Salt Water Swimming Pools: Maintenance, Systems, Filters, Testing, Benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — New parents, get ready to feed your babies peanut-containing foods — starting young lowers their chances of becoming allergic.
Source: New advice: Peanuts in baby’s diet can prevent scary allergy
Oh my! A gift of possessed “snacks” at a pediatricians office. Could there be any better “planned obsolescence”. What a better way to start one off on the road to sickness and increased profitability by the medical community.
But this actually started me thinking about antibodies in mother’s milk. Our immune systems and antibody systems are highly regulated. Antibodies are controlled by feedback systems that work on antibodies produced. It’s likely that mothers who eat peanuts can transfer some peanut allergy _protection_ to their infants through their breast milk. The best thing you can do for your child is to breastfeed.
Best to all
Follow up post http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/allergy-and-the-gastrointestinal-system/
And check out a recent vaccination post http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/3195-2/
Bob
Were singing in one of my swimming pool conversions yesterday. _Before_ the big rain. How do they know? :-)
Bob www.PuraVidaAquatic.com
Source: David Wolfe at Standing Rock – David Wolfe
Welcome my friends.
Please take a moment to listen to the interview in the source above.
I have been telling as many people as I know about the outrageous behavior of our big chemical companies at Standing Rock. Don’t separate oil production and agricultural pesticides they are both produced by massive chemical companies that do not have your best interest at heart.
Permaculture in my opinion is more than taking a class to allow you to name specific zones and to get a landscaping license specializing in permaculture. It is about living with our world, and protecting our world, and protecting our insects –and water –and people, and being a little less selfish.
But that’s just my opinion.
Owner is really having fun. Has got many eating from her hand!
Took a month or so longer than I thought to clear up but I just recovered a 2″ piece of 1″PVC pipe from the deep end.
I “love” trying to take pictures that really show anything. I know it just looks light green but that little piece of PVC is _10_ft down with no toxic algaecides. There are a huge number of ponds in Los Angeles less than 2ft deep that are not clear. Look at all the (anti)algae stuff for sale on any pond store site. :-)
Wait till they get big! She will have 2 to 3 ft koi!
Best to all.
I started to write a long Facebook rant :-) about a comment on aerial spraying and it got so long that I decided to write it out here and then post a link there. So everyone who reads this blog gets the benefit of another pesticide rant :-)
The initial facebook post was about all the dead and defective dragonfly nymphs that I have seen this last year.
http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/dead-dragonflies/
Someone there asked where I have seen these effects. And my reply is as follows.
I have seen significant effects in the Escondido area, Vista area and further South towards San Diego.
And it is almost impossible to find open acknowledgment by the cities and counties of everywhere they are spraying. Do they openly let everyone know by informing the news media? Do they post Flyers more than 10 days in advance? Do they make any good-faith effort at informing the public in a timely manner? No they do not. So just because I know that they have done some localized spraying in San Diego doesn’t mean that I believe for a second that there has been no other aerial spraying in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California.
I do know that they are trying to do some more aerial spraying in the Temecula area. Say goodbye to any non toxic grapes there. And anybody’s backyard organic garden.
But if there has been aerial spraying over a commercial organic area the organic product is still sold as “organic”. Because the owner didn’t add anything themselves, and possibly didn’t even know, and all of the toxic pesticides approved by the National, State, and City governments — and vector control agencies are as pure and nutritious as vitamin water aren’t they.
Source: 2016 Marketplace and Last Tours of the Year
A fantastic place and wonderful wonderful permaculture passionate food. If you can possibly manage I highly recommend it.
Tomorrow in Fallbrook it’s not that far! Maybe see you there!
Bob
People on non-toxic Studio City (facebook) have started becoming concerned about aerial spraying for zika in Los Angeles
Good for them! But reading some of their posts has brought back memories of my attempt to communicate with Orange County vector control. Below is a transcript of that interaction but briefly: I looked at their sources, their references for why they needed to spray and the only one that was even valid was from 1964
1964! and I questioned how it was even done and got a response that was nothing but a bunch of gobbledygook. They sent a bunch of pointless and illogical references to “prove their point”. I’ll call them idiots. Apparently they can’t even analyze their own data sources and insist that they have to spray everyone’s backyard organic garden.
[Transcript]
From: me
Date: Aug 16, 2016 12:39 PM
Subject: quote about mosquito egg desiccation
To:
Cc:
Xxx
I hope you are well! I may have been the instigation for questions regarding your quote about mosquito egg desiccation in the Orange County Register. I hope you didn’t take it personally. I received a copy of your response where you gave the following reference
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> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvec.12167/full
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Your above reference is primarily about relative humidity factors but gives the following reference for mosquito egg survivability upon desiccation
Desiccation resistance has been explored in Ae. aegypti, with eggs surviving up to eight months (Meola 1964).
1964??? Nothing better :-)
This reference is unfortunately seriously flawed. The authors state that. …
All the eggs collected were assumed to
correspond to Ae. aegypti because this is the only container breeding Aedine mosquito species in this region
Mosquitoes hatching were _assumed_?? to be Ae. aegypti. Rates were as low is 2 – 7% and none of the hatching larvae were tested genetically for being Ae. aegypti
OMG One way of looking at this is simply that this was a selection for contaminating mosquito eggs.
There have been other studies involving desiccation but the ones I have looked at have serious issues as well.
Your primary reference above used high relative humidities in most cases. It also looked at saturation deficit of the ambient air.
Survival times of mosquito eggs appear to be reliant not only on relative humidity, but more specifically, the saturation deficit of the ambient air. This measure of atmospheric moisture takes the temperature-dependent water-holding capacity of air into account. The comparative desiccation studies by Sota and Mogi (1992) revealed eggs of the various Aedes species had higher survival rates at low saturation deficits and decreased survival rates at higher saturation deficits. The importance of saturation deficit on mosquito vectors is reflected in simulation modeling by Focks et al. 1993 who found that high humidity is correlated with high rainfall and temperature
I’m not sure that high humidity and high rainfall is a common anual occurrence in Southern California :-) (Maybe in Florida!)
I am sure that you are passionate about keeping us safe from mosquitoes here in Southern California but I am concerned that the chemicals are doing more damage than the mosquitoes. I personally use my PhD in microbiology to raise dragonfly larvae :-)
Best to you
[End of transcript]
And the response I got was complete trash. They aren’t interested in doing something for a reason they just want to promote their own jobs. And keep you from having an organic garden in your own backyard by spraying the snot out of us by airplane and helicopter.
sigh
[Some] women show widespread exposure to environmental toxins—and levels are often even higher in their newborn babies.
Source: Mom’s exposure to toxic chemicals shows up in newborn – Futurity
It is easy to postulate that some of these herbicides and insecticides have a higher incorporation in growing cells. This would explain the higher levels in infants but it would also suggest a likely impact on our immune systems since our immune systems require growing cells.
The sloppiness of herbicide toxicity studies by the big chemical companies is criminal in my opinion. I can grow much of what I eat and a pond or swimming pool converted to non-chlorine is a great food resource.
