Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Pain In Both Jaws When I Drink

Gifts yes .... but with your heart!

Gifts yes or no gifts?? Everyone is struggling with this dilemma when approaching Christmas. Apart from the financial hardship that can affect some of us, the gift should be understood as a 'gift' and not 'object to compulsively buy because you have'.

A simple gift, but prepared with our own hands and devoting our time to its preparation is certainly welcome and most 'precious' the most expensive item.

Who lacks manual and time, some suggestions to buy 'ethical and solidarity' available at the Bank of Garabombo - Milan, parking Mario Pagano (station M1)
open until January 9, 2011 - daily from 9 to 20 ; 02-54107745 for information



not forget that ALL SUPPLIERS OF GAS PRODUCERS PREPARE CHRISTMAS BASKETS WITH THEIR PRODUCTS!




made products made by prison

Products social cooperatives that work with prisoners and former prisoners in Italian prisons. The cooperative social Seriarte Ecological Made in Jail produces sweatshirts and T-shirts in the Rebibbia prison, while the cooperative Extraliberi runs a screen printing workshop in Turin prison. In Milan, in prison Bollate is tailoring cooperative Alice, in the exclusive "to rig Garabombo has created a clothing line for women.
are added so many food references in jail as pastries from the Banda Biscuits products in the prison of Verbania, the wine of Velletri prison and almond paste from Syracuse prison.
















Cooperatives

Many produced by Italian social cooperatives working with cooperative people svantaggiate.La The Rock makes bags Scampia , a suburb north of Naples, is inserted into the center Alberto Hurtado in charge of training young people in the area and offer them an opportunity for cultural growth and employment. The cooperative Borders Social Enterprise, established within the ' former psychiatric hospital in Trieste is committed entering employment for people living with mental illness by producing a line of shirts . Finally, the cooperative Fraternity produces, processes and markets organic products such as sauces, jams, sauces and vegetable creams to mark Mother Earth, a project which provides employment for people with from mental health problems, prisoners and ex-drug addicts.




Libera Terra

products Libera Terra are grown on land confiscated from the mafia . These lands, returned to the community, become productive and are back flying a healthy and virtuous economic cycle. The products are grown in accordance with the traditions of the area, according to the principles of organic agriculture, to bring on board a genuine, good and right ....
addition to the famous red and white wines "Placido Rizzotto (Centopassi) , adding new proposals: (Catarratto 100% 100% Grillo, Nero d'Avola Negroamaro 100% and 100%).
Other products, all organic: oil, tomato sauce flask, eggplant, tomatoes and baby artichokes, pesto, hot peppers from Calabria, and friselle tarallini, boiled chickpeas.


products of short chain

Increase the variety of fresh and packaged organic and short chain. From small dairy Hull (Lodi) come the pannerone (Slow Food), the typical Raspadüra Lodi, and other cheeses including growth, and Taleggio cheese . From House Guzzafame (Milan) come the "Toma the sanctuary" and the "Save" , PDO cheese typical of the area of \u200b\u200bcream. The organic farm Auburn The (Alexandria) produces goat cheese instead tomini . prosciutto crudo, coppa, lard, sausage, gammon and sausage from the sausage factory Then come San Francesco (Lodi) and the Cooperative Equofood (Modena), using spices to add flavor to fair trade products. Finally there will be the meal of the House Gaggioli (Milan South Agricultural Park), and products einkorn (Slow Food), such as flour, biscuits and noodles social cooperative Antica Earth (Brescia).

eco & fair

A Garabombo you can find many products that meet eco & fair growers and the environment as Cyclus bags made from recycled tires, clocks Oxidos metal hangers and recycled, both from Colombia and shoes Astorflex produced entirely in Italy with manufacturing methods with low environmental impact.

Handicraft Trade Fair

many new proposals fair and supportive of clothing, accessories , jewelry, natural cosmetics and organic. The proposals for the house (ceramics, textiles and accessories furniture) as bedspreads, tablecloths, vases, mugs and more!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Garlic Soup Royal Carribean

Christmas is coming and the pineapple has become a tradition, but at what price? RECIPE OF SCRAP

The retail offer has made us accustomed to a lot of exotic products. Goods whose origin is unknown and often very little of which no one can explain the economy.
But where do these products, how can they be available all year, and most importantly, can cost as little as if, behind them, there is a long chain of production, transport, packaging, storage and distribution ?
Take for example the pineapple. A product increasingly Economic, whose free fall in prices in the supermarkets of the old continent, has paid the consequences (in some ways literally) who produces the fruit.
Three-quarters of pineapples comes from Costa Rica A huge production, but concentrated in the hands of two multinationals in particular - the American Dole and Del Monte - which dominate world trade.
In a survey by the European Union and co-produced by the British newspaper The Guardian have documented both the conditions of exploitation and poverty suffered by persons employed in the plantations and the impact on health (and their local populations) caused by the massive use pesticides and chemicals needed for the cultivation intensive tropical fruit.





Fernando Ramirez, an expert agronomist National University of Costa Rica's Institute of the Universidad Nacional Toxic Substances, said the cycle agrochemical need to monocultures to produce perfect fruit for sale: "The pineapple require large amounts of pesticides, about 20 kg of active ingredients per hectare per cycle. The soils are sterilized; biodiversity deleted. Generally you need 14 to 16 types of treatment, and many of them are performed several times. Using substances chemicals hazardous to the environment and human health. "

Thanks to chemical production increased by 50% since 1998, but the substances used, lawyers in Costa Rica but deemed controversial in the world, have undermined the aquifers of the plantations and worsened the already difficult conditions of the populations of . The effects on health care: the last analysis commissioned by the government found 22 contaminants that at best trigger new forms of infection.

lower the price we pay in Europe, the higher they have to pay the producers of Costa Rica and dozens of other countries.

Source:
ilcambiamento.it

The Guardian


Watch the video (in English)