Kill the Horses!

Saturday, March 26th there was a story about the wild horses that live in the Foothills in Alberta. Like everywhere there are two groups of people: the one who protect them and the others, who want them to be 'extinguished'. Thats what the 'extinguisher' said. His arguments 'they have never been here, they don't belong to this country and so on'. He seems to be one of those who shoot and than think or even avoid thinking at all.
The American continent is the birth place of horses. They lived here since 60 million years - slowly evolving from rabbit like creatures to there modern shape - until they were extinguished about 8000 years ago because of climate change and being hunted by humans. Luckily before that there was a migration of early horses over the land bridge to Asia, to Europe and Africa. In the 15th century horses were reintroduced by Spaniards and later on brought to northern regions by the Comanche people.
 When did this 'Extinguisher' arrive in Alberta? I am sure that was quiet late.
How did his ancestors arrive in Alberta? Probably with the help of horses, or did they walk from New York or Halifax to Alberta?
Lucky guy:  horses don't shoot! But some people need some 'thing' to shoot at!
         There was an other argument against these horses: they eat the grass down to the root and kill the grass lands. This happens only when horses are kept in a small area where they cannot move on to other feeding grounds. Watch a horse feeding on grass: it takes the upper third of a lump of grass with his lips, rips it off and moves on. Thats the way, nature keeps them all alive. Horses, zebras and all the animals that relay on grass. Otherwise none of them would survive thousands and millions of years. If there is not enough food, then they go deeper to the grass root.
So what's this all about? Every year we extinguish so many animals and plants that some day our descendants have to show their kids in a book how a bird or a horse looked like. I know, some people would like to see a deer, where one of these horses is feeding on the grass now because they can shoot the deer and killing the horses is not allowed in Alberta. And I hope the latter will not change!

Myth about Sugar

Using brown sugar seems to be 'in' at time. There are storys about the 'bleached' white sugar. "They use chloric acid and even worse mercury to bleach the sugar, don't eat the white sugar!"
Interestingly, every one who is warning me because of my white sugar has a straight  answer when I ask them 'why?' But they don't know it.
It is with all these rumors: many believers and no  knowledge.
And then there is Cane and Beet Sugar. Cane is best, no Beet is best.
In fact: sugar is sugar. Sugar is a specific chemical substance. It is the main energy source for nearly every living. Plants produce sugar using CO2, water and sun light. (This is a short description)

Cane, sugar beet and sugar palm all have the same so called 'Disacharid', that is the sugar that we use. And most interesting: clean sugar after crystallizing is naturally white! You can't make it whiter!
So what is brown sugar? It is nothing else than 'harvested sugar' still mixed with soil from the area where it came from. It is not clean sugar. The process of cleaning takes a lot of time. The solved sugar in the water-dirt-sugar solution has to crystallize. For this process is essential a special sort of lime stone. That means producing white sugar takes time and is costly.
Most countries now use beet sugar, especially in the northern hemisphere because the 'modern' sugar beet now contains up to 35% of sugar compared to 2 to 3% of the origin sugar beet and it grows even in colder regions.
The sometimes different taste of brown sugars comes from the soil that you eat. For example the Caribbean soil is different from soil in Europe or North America.
It makes more money to sell not totally cleaned sugar then the white one. And You buy it and use more of it to get your sweetness. But there is one advantage in the brown sugar: with the soil you get some minerals. Whether this is worth the higher price per gram clean sugar, I don't know.

So, why these rumors? Many of them come from 'naturalists' spreading them without knowing the facts. Some of them come from self-appointed healers. When you go to a healer you are eager to hear some bad things in your live, environment or your habits, foods and so on. To not disappointing you, they have an answer. Doesn't matter whether it's true or not. You are happy, now you know what was wrong!
It doesn't take long and they offer you a just discovered secret about a special plant from Africa or Asia that will take all the mercury and other poison out of your body that you got from the dangerous white sugar.
 For sweetening take what you want, it doesn't matter, just compare the price and do the math.
And first of all: don't listen to rumors without questioning them.
Have a sweet coffee!