Interesting Things

From Reuters: Wider nutrition labeling systems headed to stores in U.S.

I certainly think that this is a smart and appropriate approach if done properly.

From the article: “ONQI takes into account a number of factors in assigning a score of 1 to 100 for each food, including negatives like the amount of saturated fat, sugar and cholesterol in a food, and positives like fiber, nutrients, omega 3 fatty acids and the quality of the proteins.”

I have to agree, we shouldn’t need a PhD in order to know what we should and should not consume in our modern day menagerie of food choices. It’s nuts that we are presented with so many varieties and have no knowledge of how they’ll affect our bodies. I think steps should be taken to go even further, however this is a step in the right direction. Perhaps I should share my thoughts sometime on this…

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Digg: OPEC to Abandon Dollar Sounds like a WHEN not an IF this will happen

Perhaps this is not as serious as the original poster on digg.com makes it appear, but it got my wheels turning.

Should this and essentially all of the issues surrounding petroleum be considered a national security concern for the United States? It seems that the president should be making interdependency issues such as this that are having such an adverse affect on the constituents of the country, not only a high priority issue, but indeed an issue that must be hoisted above issues that are affecting extranational issues more than intranational.

If we had a more sound, solid and guarded economy internally insomuch that we did not rely so much on the outside world, it would then be much more feasible to extend ourselves outward in helping other countries and world crises. At the moment we simply do not have a sustainable ecosystem within our country and that must be repaired prior to extending out in all of the other endeavors with which we’re involved.

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