Oh, You Meant Or-GAN-ic, Not You've-Been-Tricked

Turns out my supertaster pregnancy aversion to Safeway's O Brand (O is for Obnoxious Overpricing of Outright Obfuscation?) wasn't so far off (don't even get me started about how far away from artificial sweeteners the gestating tongue made me go). I'd heard suspicious stuff about Aurora's version of organic farming back in, oh, 2005, but didn't even know they were a supplier to Safeway until seeing today's ABC story detailing the lies many big retailers told while charging triple for, well, regular milk. By regular milk, I mean milk with just as many unhappy, grain-fed, rBgh-laced, eColi-ridden, antibiotic-pumped cows behind it as any other brand. Lovely news! It's back to the local dairies we must go...

{We actually signed up for home delivery (zippity doo dah!) of local, grass-fed, non-rBgh milk in glass bottles a couple months ago (super cool except for the price, sigh, as with anything labeled enviro or healthy -- the green tax is just as bad or worse than the baby tax) but then I had some dietary concerns that led me to give up dairy for awhile and they kindly allowed me to postpone our start date. That day has come. It's time to go local, my friends.} Read more!

Less Excema for Organic Milk Drinkers

A recent study showed that infants who consumed organic milk (and whose mothers consumed org milk while pregnant/bfeeding) were 36% less likely to have excema than those mom/infant pairs consuming conventional milk. Read more!