Category Archives: Poetry

Pesticides in Produce: Shoppers Guide

The Environmental Working group has posted their latest list of foods with the highest detected levels of pesticides. They recommend you buy these “dirty dozen” as organic.

  1. Apples
  2. Celery
  3. Strawberries
  4. Peaches
  5. Spinach
  6. Nectarines – imported
  7. Grapes – imported
  8. Sweet bell peppers
  9. Potatoes
  10. Blueberries – domestic
  11. Lettuce
  12. Kale/collard greens

Speaking of details, I could not help but wonder why the image tag and filename for #9 is “Potatoe

http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/foodnews/img/potatoe.jpg

I’m a Climate Scientist

Scientists at the University of New South Wales have been tuning their models to interpret temperature, rainfall and soil condition variables. They want you to know that global warming leads to extreme weather conditions in the South Pacific region:

Denialists deny
This in your dreams
’cause climate change means
Greater extremes,
Shit won’t be the norm
Heatwaves
Bigger badder storms
“The Green house effect
is just a theory, sucker”
Yeah so is gravity
Float away motha’ f**cker