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Comment on The Worst GMO Foods by Donna

Donna — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:21 +0000

Thanks the wealth of knowledge that you have provided for me. I don’t have much use for sugar but I am going to have to go in and dig a little deeper on your info on the papayas,(which I don’t know why I care ,I don’t even like them!!) I have been to the Hawaiian Islands 3 times and one my favorite places was the Dole Plantation, And after touring for several hours and seeing all the banana, mango, and papaya trees growing so naturally out in those massive fields???? Well I have to get back to you on that one. Any who…
I am lucky I was raised on a farm where every thing we ate we grew, and I have family members who still hold on to that tradition of growing and harvesting their own veggies so luckily I am supplied very well in the summer with “home grown”, A lot of which I will can and freeze for later use.

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by DairyCarrie

DairyCarrie — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:37:27 +0000

Donna, google a little longer and you will find out that only about 35% of the cheese made worldwide is made with natural rennet. Here in the US, the great majority of cheese is made with an artificial rennet.

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by DairyCarrie

DairyCarrie — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:35:07 +0000

For some reason your response didn’t show up in my inbox. Sorry for the delay in response.
Have you ever considered asking a farmer directly as your source? The HumaneMyth video twists things around and has some of their facts wrong. If you look at veal consumption in the Unites States, it is a very small percentage of the meat we eat. Many anti dairy groups like to tell people that male dairy calves are destined to a future as veal calves. This simply is not true. Estimates are that less than 10% of male dairy calves go to veal production. Holstein bull calves are most often raised as steers. While they don’t exactly match beef breeds for growth they aren’t that much further behind. But that fact doesn’t tug at the heart strings as much as the idea of veal calves. As far as insemination goes… Not all dairy farms use AI by any means, many dairy farms still use bulls to impregnate their cattle. Conception rates are higher for farms that use bulls because a bull will breed a cow several times while she is in heat and with AI she would only be bred once. So saying that AI is a more reliable way to get animals pregnant is false. We use AI on our farm because I don’t trust bulls and I want a wide genetic selection for my cows. Speaking of bulls, what they insert into a cow is much larger that an AI pipette. The only place I have seen the term “rape rack” used is on animal rights literature. I have never heard anyone use that term on a farm. I don’t see anywhere in these videos that say what you said about cows in your post. Again you don’t have to partake in animal agriculture but please, learn more about the topic before you attack. I am happy to answer your questions.

Comment on About Us by Donna R Schrum

Donna R Schrum — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:10:03 +0000

Best Blog on the www so glad to have come across, I feel I have every thing I didn’t know at my finger tips!!!!

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by Donna

Donna — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:33:48 +0000

Well I really shouldn’t have read this one before retiring to bed….I have never really thought about being Vegan until now….I have sent a link to this blog to the Mothers of my Grand-Children who LOVE, LOVE LOVE the stuff. And yes I followed your research and believe you really do know what you are talking about. Any idiot can Google Rennet and get sick by reading how it is extracted from a young calf’s stomach… Carrie Dairy Cowgirl….everyone makes excuses for their chosen profession but come on, research doesn’t lie!!!

Comment on Tough Women On Game Of Thrones by Donna

Donna — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:31:35 +0000

I have never watched the show but now I am intrigued! I am all about powerful women, with sex-appeal! Love your insightful-ness!

Comment on The Greatest Military Defeats In U.S. History by doug

doug — Sat, 11 May 2013 15:43:37 +0000

This shows me how little Americans know,about American History.The war of 1812 must have been deleted from your history books.Amercian forces invading and trying to take over Canadian land,were soundly defeated,not once but twice.Resulting in a march on Washington,where combined Canadian patriots,burned down the White House and portions of the U.S. capitol city.If this sounds like fiction,please check it out for yourself.Canada quietly celebrated these victory’s in 2012,with out fanfare,(as our custom)

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by Jimm

Jimm — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:12:57 +0000

Thanks for your response, Carrie. I got my information from several sources before writing the article. I am not saying that what you are claiming is right or wrong - or whether or not you use them - but I didn't take the info from one source. Here are a few of the sources I used for some of the terms and conditions that I described. Video about what I wrote about: This video is on artificial insemination, explaining how they do this:

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by Dairy Carrie

Dairy Carrie — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:07:30 +0000

Whoops… got cut off….
I was saying, I respect your choice to be vegan. There is a lot of misinformation out there, please do some fact checking before you spread more misinformation.

Comment on Eating Cheese Is Bad For You by Dairy Carrie

Dairy Carrie — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:02:27 +0000

Hi,
As you can probably tell from my name, I am a big fan of cheese. While I respect your right to be vegan I would like to clear up some of your statements about cows. First a 6mo old calf would never be able to be milked. A cow doesn’t create milk until she has a calf. A cow’s gestation is 9mo, same as a human. So unless the calf got pregnant 3mo before it was born it would be impossible to milk a 6mo old calf.
Most heifers (a heifer is a female that has not had a calf yet) are bred around 13-16mo old. They have their first calf right around the time they turn 2 years old.
Cows are not kept continually pregnant. After a cow has a calf dairy farmers wait 2-3 months to rebreed them. A pregnant cow also has what’s called a dry period before she calves where she is not milked. That is usually for the 2mo before her due date.
Lastly the idea of a “rape rack” is pretty far off. Some farmers keep bulls for breeding their cows and they breed the cows. Some farmers use artificial insemenation which is using frozen semen to impregnate the cows. A cow comes into heat roughly every 21 days. She is only able to get pregnant while she’s in heat and that applies to a bull or AI breeding.
Like I said, I respect your right to choose what you

Comment on I Am Not Spartacus by Jimm

Jimm — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:09:06 +0000

Billy, if you read the works of Plutarch, Appian, and Florus – there really isn’t a lot of information to be gained by this slave revolt and their stories are all different. However, it is stated that Crassus (the richest man of Rome) attacked Spartacus and his remaining slave army with a force of 7 Legions (about 42,000 soldiers). The final battle occurred at the present territory of Senerchia on the right bank of the river Sele in the area that includes the border with Oliveto Citra up to those of Calabritto, near the village of Quaglietta, in High Sele Valley, which at that time was part of Lucania. Six thousand of his surviving followers were crucified along the Appian Way from Rome to Capua.

Comment on I Am Not Spartacus by billy hill

billy hill — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:28:16 +0000

I am also a fan of the spartacus series I have bout an watched every season an seen then all more than once. After a while I wanted to to jus how much of the series is based on actual events and from what all I’ve read on many sites it is pretty close to what historians claim took place but one question I do have is about the cilician pirates in the series they betray spartacus and had roman soldiers hidden inside the ship. Did they really bring the soldiers to attack spartacus?

Comment on Five Cool Inventions by Archimedes by Richard m. Henderson

Richard m. Henderson — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:12:34 +0000

Myth Busters Program-Obama puts Myth Busters to the test. Jamie and Adam tried to test Archimedes Ray. Archimedes theroy has to be retested because I think you and President Obama were close to solving some of the mystery. In Ancient reliefs that I saw many years ago Archimedes was sitting and using some type of Ray. This is could be something similar to the ray used for the Griecian Ships, but the leads me to conclude that Archimedes used not only one type of appartus, but two or more. Archimedes is a real GENIUS and I believe the stone relief is what he used in that situation along with the 500 mirrors which is possible to reach conditions to cause serious problems.

Comment on Five People Born on Earth Day, April 22 by Elektrak Edwards

Elektrak Edwards — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:26:19 +0000

I was born on 22nd April. Funnily enough I posted this today.

Comment on Five Odd 9/11 Coincidences by vijay

vijay — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:37:24 +0000

Hi there i would like to comment …some wierd things about the new boston bomber-the 19 year old- got the US citizenship on 9.11.2012

Comment on Five Reasons the Beatles Were Not The Best Band by John

John — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:50:23 +0000

You are aware that the Beatles stopped touring because the equipment wasn’t loud enough to play over screaming teenage girls, right? They then went on to release 5 incredible albums often considered the best of all time. That refutes reasons 1 and 5. As for reason 3, anyone who judges the talent of a musician on what they play and not what they write is very misguided.

Comment on Interesting Facts About The Easter Bunny by Jimm

Jimm — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:48:30 +0000

The traditions of most religious holidays have their origins elsewhere. They didn’t make it up on their own. Is that degrading? I suppose some people would be upset, but no religion practiced today is original in their belief system.

Comment on Interesting Facts About The Easter Bunny by mr_frankenbeef

mr_frankenbeef — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:20:08 +0000

so… you mentioned that; “nor is it degrading to religious beliefs” and yet you don’t really explain the origin at all, you say, immigrants brought it in the 1700′s but totally miss the actual ‘origin’ itself… Ishtar pronounced easter was a babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. how is celebrating a middle eastern ancient goddess not degrading to any religion that says otherwise? ^^

Comment on Best Characters On Game Of Thrones… by Jimm

Jimm — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:38:02 +0000

I was a big fan of Drogo, too. There is a rumor that Syrio is Jaqen H’ghar, since they both are from Bravos and both have a soft spot for Arya. Who knows? We technically didn’t see Syrio die…

Comment on Best Characters On Game Of Thrones… by Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:33:37 +0000

I loved Drogo…he was such a deeper character than you thought he was at first. I also refuse to believe that Syrio is really dead!

Comment on The Dirty Secrets Of Benjamin Franklin by ben

ben — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:42:18 +0000

wow this is interrestng

Comment on Five Famous Soldiers That Were Homosexuals by Colin

Colin — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:02:33 +0000

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Comment on New Traffic Streams Through Using Pinterest by Doug

Doug — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:25:05 +0000

Great Post,thanks for sharing!

“You should always give credit to the places you get your pictures. This way you can avoid copyright infringement.”

Nope – Copyright always remains with the photographer. You need written permission to be able to use the image.

Comment on Fortune 500 Companies Using WordPress by Self Storage

Self Storage — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:21:54 +0000

Public Storage Canada also uses the CMS for their site. They were recently added to the wordpress showcase (http://wordpress.org/showcase/public-storage-canada

Comment on Five World’s Greatest Feats of Strength by Jimm

Jimm — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:02:46 +0000

Alexander Zass was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He served in the Russian Army during World War One. When you’ve written 1600+ articles, I’ll listen to your erroneous information…