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Caylee Anthony

I know that I’ve mostly posted articles concerning the environment in this community and have failed to keep with the broader mission of this website which is to harness consumer power to demand high standards of ethics across the wider range of issues where consumption behaviors can have an effect in the world of business, politics and culture. The recent failure of the American criminal justice system with respect to to the death of two year old Caylee Anthony has reminded me of my original intentions for The Conscious Consumers’ Community.

I decided I would take a stand to do whatever I could to prevent Casey Anthony from personally profiting from the death of her daughter the minute I saw her first post-acquittal TV appearance where she let her hair down, smiled and posed for the cameras. Her first act, (that of appearing respectable, downtrodden, & sad before jurors & cameras) was over and she was now back to her real self for her second act, (the self that was partying while her daughter lay in a shallow grave). I’m asking the members of the Conscious Consumers’ Community to join me on a quest to prevent  Casey Anthony from gaining any more fame or money  through the death of her daughter.

I propose a consumer boycott against any company & their sponsors  that pay Casey Anthony for anything related to death of her daughter. This boycott will exist until it is proven beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt exactly how a 2 year old girl wound up in a shallow grave with tape covering her mouth & whomever put her there is brought to justice. I want to send a message to any broadcaster, network or other media company & their sponsors that the idea of Casey Anthony gaining profit or fame through the death of her daughter is abhorrent to the members of this community & we will boycott all their programming & sponsors.

Please comment if you agree with me on this issue &/or become a member of this community & post a profile where you can share your own views on this or any consumer issue so we the consumers can stand together to have an effect on the media ‘CULTure’.

America could be the breadbasket to the world. Instead the Standard American Diet (acronymed as S.A.D.) kills in  various & sundry ways. Americans have one of the world’s highest rates of heart disease (you call it a disease, but it’s really a CHOICE). Your bloody choice also contributes to planetary problems as meatcentric diets become popular in other parts of the world.

The core of the problem is the vast amount of natural capital it takes to produce a meat-centric diet. According to your “Worldwatch Institute”, “Perhaps the greatest potential for increasing food use efficiency lies in reducing consumption of meat, a grain intensive food… Reducing consumption of livestock, especially beef, could free up massive quantities of grain & reduce pressure on land”. Read the rest of this entry →

[SAN FRANCISCO] “Apocalypse Near“, a first novel by screenwriter Eric Haase won first place at The Green Book Festival in the electronic / interactive book category. The book combines the true account of Haase’s clinical death experience with cyberpunk science fiction elements & interactive media (animation, film clips & dynamic web pages). The author created the online media to intensify the book’s message about environmental predicaments, why they may be occurring & what he learned while clinically dead that could help avert further catastrophe. Read the rest of this entry →

Originally published on The Conscious Consumers Network: ( 06/22/05 )

It seems aneurysms, (defined as an abnormal ballooning of a portion of an artery, related to weakness in the artery wall) have been a recurring news item lately as they have afflicted celebrities: (actor John Ritter [thoracic aortic aneurysm], singer Laura Branigan[brain aneurysm], & most recently legendary rocker Neil Young [brain aneurysm]). Thusly, it may seem this often debilitating & deadly condition is on the rise. Aneurysms are definitely on the rise with yours truly, as I survived a burst brain aneurysm just over a year ago, even after my emergency doctors called me for dead. (CLICK HERE to read that story).

Neil Young’s aneurysm may be found to be particularly ironic, as my researchreveals that aneurysm spikes may stem from roots in the American farmlands that Neil Young has fought hard to defend.. (i.e. Farm-AID & in his music.. see my Neil Young ‘musical editorial’). My struggle to recover from the brink of death via my burst aneurysm is one thing, but when something like this happens to Neil Young, I get mad & I demand answers! Read the rest of this entry →

The Equation Is The Mission & The Message Is The Mission is the Equation. E=C2

by E.
Originally published on The Conscious Consumers Network: ( 12/08/04 )

Electronic media visionary Marshall McLuhan said “The medium is the message.” Within the bounds of this web site, the message is the equation E=C2.

This equation is a piece of the massive amount of data that I feel was “upoaded” into me during my clinical death experience & it succinctly encapsulates the mission of The Conscious Consumers’ Network.

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By E. Originally published on The Conscious Consumers’ Network on 07/19/04

In our mass-media influenced society, where we are bombarded by images of physically fit, beautiful people, there is an enormous interest in what the proper diet is so that we may claim that hyper real body for our own. Diet books were 9% of all book sales in 2003. The health spa and gym industries also take in millions annually. However, even with all this interest over what should be put into our bodies, the American population suffers from specific diet related diseases at a disproportionate rate in comparison to most other populations.

What can account for such a negative statistic in the so called “most advanced nation on the planet”? Could it be those ultra processed, preservative riddled, artificially flavored & colored “dead” foods we eat from boxes and cans? Or could it be the meat-centric, saturated fat laden fast food we catch on our 30-minute, eat-it-as-fast-as-you-can and get-back-to-work lunch breaks? It couldn’t be. Thoey’re FDA a& USDA pproved so they must be O.K., right? ‘Its’ the same food those people with the beautiful bodies oin the TV commercials are eating .and they wouldn’t lie, would they? Well, they are lying. It is processed dead foods and the meatcentric diet which is giving us and the planet a host of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, deforestation, soil erosion, certain cancers and many others.

What diet fad do you follow? Which book by which health guru or pseudo doctor is right? Let’s scrap all that and get down to the basics. Read the rest of this entry →