Window Farms window gardens

Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.

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Gardein - new vegetable (vegetarian) food made from soy, wheat, quinoa, amaranth and vegetables!

The latest on the market in the vegetarian diet is Gardein who is a vegetarian, plant product, named after the combination of "garden" and "protein").

I do not know what they were thinking when they took out the product because it is made from wheat (to glue back the whole system), soy (which is almost impossible to find as GMO-free) and ofcourse top ingredients as peas, vegetables, seeds, amaranth, qunioa and kamut. I can not wait until that day that they will give a vegetarian option that is also a healthy one. It´s so easy to use other ingrediens and instead of wheat and soy, they could use chick peas or beans.

Obviously gardein kolestrolfri, contains no saturated fats and are low in fat, so it requires quite clearly an addition of fatty acids if gardein should be served as a complete meal. There is fat in the seeds (qunioa and Amaranth) but there is little so it needs more for an entire meal. Complement not only with vegetables, but also with cold-pressed oils, toasted or soaked nuts (add nuts to soak or rust to avoid lectins) and seeds.

I the U.S. Gardein is sold as freezedor fresh products and has become extremely large because soy protein has such a bad reputation.. But as I said, soy is also found in these products, probably resulting in trace of GMO contamination.

Both Tal rowan (American known vegan chef), Oprah Winfrey Show and the Ellen DeGeneres Show has been talking about the products in their productions. However, as none of them mentioned the soy protein contents GMO, which is very strange.

New Study: Soy again linked to male infertility

Long-term consumption of a soy-rich diet may decrease a male’s sperm count, says a study with mice. Adult male mice fed a soy-rich diet had sperm counts 25 per cent lower, and 21 per cent smaller litter sizes, than mice fed a soy-free diet, according to research published in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.

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The value in purchasing only organic foods

New York Times publiced this article last week...

Robert Watson, a top ingredient buyer for Kraft Foods, needed $20,000 to pay his taxes. So he called a broker for a California tomato processor that for years had been paying him bribes to get its products into Kraft’s plants.

The check would soon be in the mail, the broker promised. “We’ll have to deduct it out of your commissions as we move forward,” he said, using a euphemism for bribes.

Days later, federal agents descended on Kraft’s offices near Chicago and confronted Mr. Watson. He admitted his role in a bribery scheme that has laid bare a startling vein of corruption in the food industry. And because the scheme also involved millions of pounds of tomato products with high levels of mold or other defects, the case has raised serious questions about how well food manufacturers safeguard the quality of their ingredients.

Read more following the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/business/25tomatoes.html?th&emc=th

Giving children the best nutritional start

With childhood obesity rates apparently sky rocketing around the world, celebrity chefs redesigning school meals, and international initiatives to influence what our children eat, now is an interesting time for child nutrition.

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