tara clasen's comments:

on Limiting Fertility?

Please mention that "alternative" medicene's such as acupuncture and ayurveda are the most healthy and least invasive place to start with issues of infertility. If this does not work then move to the more invasive treatments.

posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on Are You Gonna Eat That?

It is not just local!! It is local and organic. I will not support genetically enginered crops or pesticides. I do shop at my local farmers market and every stand i support, even the flower booth, is organic. The local movement should not support farmers who are pouring junk into our soil air and rivers. I also believe we can't go local overnight when so many already poor farmers in other countries depend on our buisness. i will buy organic produce from mexico etc... To truly do this right we need to reinvent the way our world's economy functions as well as the methods we use for shipping. Buying local is a wonderful idea and it should be done in a way that supports the enviroment but also helps the world's poor to prosper.

posted 4 years, 1 month ago
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on The Legality of Homelessness

I doughted very strongly the women who called in saying she had many bad experiences with homeless people asking for money and feeling threatened. She described one situation that sounded specific however overall she sounded easliy offendable. I lived and worked in downtown portland for almost 7 years, never once was I or any one I knew made to feel threated.I can't stress that enough, were as of course it is possible to have a uncomfortable situation occur, not I or anyone I knew or worked with ever did. I enganged homeless people as if they were any other stranger on the street, and rather then being treated badly I was the recipient of kind actions. On many occasions I have had someone who I just said no to when they asked for change outside the riteaid open the door for me, and frequently when I went to carry the a-frame board that advertised our store location(funny how that is not illegal but a person is)a homeless man would carry it back to my store for me.

I was struck my the contradiction of maria rubio, saying policy was not to end homelessness but to make the streets more enjoyable to everyone. Everyone that has money to be shopping that is. If you are bothered by seeing or interacting with homeless people then chances are you are someone who choses to stay ingnorant about many other "uncomforable" issues as well. From the legality of animal torture that happens in labs across the country, the end result of global warming(an inconvient truth well titled) to the end result of a failing mental health system.

I was shopping in the pearl district lately. Something I do not often do. I was almost run over by a bright yellow hummer with a license plate saying something about loving hummers. That is who that area is trying to cater to. keeping homeless people away and off the streets is just a way to GLOSS OVER the city. And I fing that disgusting. When I was there there was a homeless man standing asking for change, which i believe standing is legal, and not the police but secruity gaurds harassed him in to moving along. It was not the homeless man but those security gaurds that ruined my shopping experience. Which is why I do not often go there.
To some it up- fix the problem at the roots dont just try to cover it up!!!

posted 4 years, 2 months ago
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