Comments on: Could eco-friendliness be harmful to our health? http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/could-eco-friendliness-be-harmful-to-our-health/ Business Women of Opinion! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeni Middlehurst http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/could-eco-friendliness-be-harmful-to-our-health/comment-page-1/#comment-4779 Jeni Middlehurst Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:38:59 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6357#comment-4779 How did we manage when the green grocer tipped soily spuds into our raffia shopping bags, the butcher placed a piece of beef, the blood oozing through the paper wrapping on them and the baker carefully placed a cardboard box with a cream sponge inside on top? A peck of dirt before we die? We are becoming so sanitised we'll be dead before we've taken so much as a pinch. Antiseptics and antibiotics are fine, but the results of over use has resulted in super bugs. How did we manage when the green grocer tipped soily spuds into our raffia shopping bags, the butcher placed a piece of beef, the blood oozing through the paper wrapping on them and the baker carefully placed a cardboard box with a cream sponge inside on top? A peck of dirt before we die? We are becoming so sanitised we'll be dead before we've taken so much as a pinch. Antiseptics and antibiotics are fine, but the results of over use has resulted in super bugs.

]]> By: Angiewelly http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/could-eco-friendliness-be-harmful-to-our-health/comment-page-1/#comment-4772 Angiewelly Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:33:38 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6357#comment-4772 I do believe the hospitals are following the "Nanny State" we seem to live in. Years ago we never had all these infections and hospitals were much cleaner and most things were used more than once. We are not opening ourselves up to infection as long as we use common sense. Hospitals are very wasteful but as long as they claim it is for "Infection Control" they can spend far more money on things that are disposable rather than re-usable but in my opinion it does not have to be this way. Most infections are brought in by Visitors not through bad handling of medical equipment.<br><br>Angie I do believe the hospitals are following the “Nanny State” we seem to live in. Years ago we never had all these infections and hospitals were much cleaner and most things were used more than once. We are not opening ourselves up to infection as long as we use common sense. Hospitals are very wasteful but as long as they claim it is for “Infection Control” they can spend far more money on things that are disposable rather than re-usable but in my opinion it does not have to be this way. Most infections are brought in by Visitors not through bad handling of medical equipment.

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]]> By: FreshGreenKim http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/could-eco-friendliness-be-harmful-to-our-health/comment-page-1/#comment-4771 FreshGreenKim Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:25 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6357#comment-4771 I would contend instead that what is harmful to our health is unhealthy food raising. Factory farming is where ecoli and salmonella thrive. One sick animal in a lot of 1000 mass processed will contaminate the entire batch. Shopping for locally grown and raised food will reduce most risk of food borne illnesses. <br><br>Also, if there were maggots in the compost, then they were indeed recycling it. Yes, it's gross, but that maggots are insect larvae and they break down almost anything organic. (here's an article I found... <a href="http://www.bugspray.com/article/maggots.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bugspray.com/article/maggots.html</a>)<br><br>Anyway, stand by your green practices. You're respecting the planet and your health. I would contend instead that what is harmful to our health is unhealthy food raising. Factory farming is where ecoli and salmonella thrive. One sick animal in a lot of 1000 mass processed will contaminate the entire batch. Shopping for locally grown and raised food will reduce most risk of food borne illnesses.

Also, if there were maggots in the compost, then they were indeed recycling it. Yes, it's gross, but that maggots are insect larvae and they break down almost anything organic. (here's an article I found… http://www.bugspray.com/article/maggots.html)

Anyway, stand by your green practices. You're respecting the planet and your health.

]]> By: Morag http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/could-eco-friendliness-be-harmful-to-our-health/comment-page-1/#comment-4758 Morag Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:34 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=6357#comment-4758 Oh, the Daily Mail. Never happy without a scare story ... but how did they tie it in to a negative impact on house prices, I wonder? Oh, the Daily Mail. Never happy without a scare story … but how did they tie it in to a negative impact on house prices, I wonder?

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