Plastic in the Ocean - not all BS after all

So, my skeptical mind has wondered about that "island of plastic the size of Texas" floating out in the ocean. "The extra continent"? Really?

Sure, I switched from plastic bottles to stainless steel for drinking water, and use canvas bags for my groceries - but I live in land locked Kansas. I did that to help my delicious bovine neighbors not ingest so much plastic (also actually a problem!). But, here is a video of the team that actually collected data and did some number crunching to estimate the amount of plastic in the oceans.

http://www.crypticmoth.com/2006/07/internet-debut-of-alphabet-soup.html

See for yourself.

HFCS - High Fructose Corn Syrup or Highly Flawed Corn Stuff

In the last week my colleagues (being briallinat and well informed as they are!) informed me that corn syrup manufacturers use a process that includes mercury in their production... yuck! Paper found here:

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069X-8-2.pdf

So, instead of reaching for Pepsi, I reluctantly drank water... then I was considering a Dr pepper or SOME sort of contraband liquid to a healthy diet - and in walk some other colleagues, who quickly inform me of the OTHER toxic substances in HFCS, now killing our bee populations.

http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i33/html/8733scic2.html

The worst part - is the totally weak conclusion found at the end of the C&ENews article - that the information on toxic HFCS is important to bee keepers! Duh. What about the humans??