Is Organic Milk a Hoax?

QUESTION: Friends came over for dinner recently, and the wife was asking us to explain to her husband why it's important to spend the extra money on organic milk for their children, who drink a lot of it. I tried to explain, but he's skeptical and thinks the whole thing is … [Read more...]

Around the Green Parenting Web: Natural Remedies for Winter Colds to Urgent Action: Senate Ban on BPA

Nature Moms Blog: Cold School Remedies for Winter Illness So why is it that we think winter weather means getting sick? That whole idea that cold causes illness is just an old wives tale but yet we do seem to get more illnesses in the cold weather months. Why is that? Well, I … [Read more...]

American Chemical Industry Blocks Senate Vote to Ban BPA

The Food Safety and Modernization Act (S. 510) has caused a lot of controversy. The good news is that the Tester-Hagan Amendment (if approved) would address some of those concerns, like exempt some "farms that direct market a majority of the product to consumers to clarify that … [Read more...]

Birth Rape on the Rise: Salon.com Blames Home Births

Nothing catches a woman's attention more than the word rape. For many, it is our greatest fear to be forced into unwanting, violent sexual relations. For rape victims, it is something they can never forget. To hear the term coupled with "birth" is oxymoron-like, except for … [Read more...]

Around the Green Parenting Web: My 5-Year-Old Son is Gay and Home Birth vs. Insurance

Nerdy Apple Bottom: My son is gay Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you... So a few weeks before Halloween, Boo decides he wants to be Daphne from … [Read more...]