Starbucks: Take responsibility for the milk you use

"The United Farm Workers’ need our support.   Please pass out their flyer [below] and ask customers to help encourage Starbucks to tell Darigold member dairies to stop sexual harassment and other abuses."

Dear Starbucks Manager:

The women and men who provide you with the milk to make lattes, cappuccinos, frappes and other products urgently need your help. These workers, employed on Darigold member dairies in the Pacific Northwest, have faced sexual discrimination, violations of the law, and long hours with no rest or meal breaks. To make matters worse, many of these workers have been retaliated against for speaking out, lost their jobs, and in the case of the Darigold Dozen, been sued for complaining about not receiving legally mandated breaks.

Some Darigold dairies have made a practice of sexual harassment. The harassers keep their jobs and the women get fired. It’s time to take sexual harassment out of the supply chain.

Your mission statement talks about inspiring and nurturing the human spirit. To date, consumers, elected officials, even dairy workers themselves have called on Starbucks corporate headquarters to live up to this mission and take action. But to date, nothing has changed. For that reason, I’m now asking that you add your voice to our call for justice and corporate responsibility. By demanding that Darigold immediately met with the United Farm Workers to resolve this situation, Starbucks can truly demonstrate its commitment to social responsibility. 

Starbucks is a major buyer of Darigold* milk. It needs to take social responsibility for the products it uses to make profits from.  

Your customer

*Even if the packaging of the milk does not say “Darigold”, that does not mean it was not sourced from this company.

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Strange Are The Ways of Ungrateful Man

Are You Ungrateful?

When trouble comes into our lives we cry out to God for help.  We are torn and racked with pain, fear and worry about the outcome of our situation.  As we kneel to pray, we do it with certainty that God will hear in some instances.  This happens only when our hearts are full and overwhelmed by life on life’s terms situations.  It doesn’t matter what is happening because what is currently occurring in our life has happened to someone in the past.  The point is now that same thing is touching our lives.  We have not seen this occur in our life before, therefore, we feel devastated as if life has somehow wronged us.  When trouble has reached us, it takes a while for us to understand that there is a lesson to be learned and a way out.  

As we traverse through the pain of being uncertain about the outcome, we call on God laying down, sitting, standing, at work, in our cars, on our friends’ shoulders and at every wakening moment.   We cry out for God’s help despite what we say we believe.  If He could just hear us, see our need and fit it; life would be so much better.  When the answer comes it’s not always what we want to hear.  Sometimes we are clearly instructed to let go and let God work it out.  Other times we are in such fear that we lack the ability to let go or even perceive those clear signs staring us in the face.

Why cry out and pray for help when you really don’t want it?  I say this because we are often given the hard choice of following God’s guidance or going it on our own.  When it comes to following the clear guidance that does not match what we think it should be, we tend to move in the opposite direction.  You really don’t want help or guidance unless it matches what you think it ought to be.  There you are stuck in your mess crying out for help only to receive it and then turn it away.   

Ungrateful man how strange are your ways.   What is even stranger is that once God’s help prevail in our situation, how quietly we forget to thank Him, praise Him, and even tell others of His goodness and mercy.  We somehow envision that it was not as bad as it had seemed, that we in some miraculous way changed the outcome of our circumstance and totally forget how hard we cried and prayed for God’s help.  Even asking for forgiveness has slipped our minds. Now in some way we have become invincible.

Trials will come and so will pain and suffering, we will cry out again and again to our God.  However, will we continue to forget His mercy?  Will we forget what has God delivered us from?  Has He healed your body or saved the life of someone close to you?  Has death taken hold of some suffering soul as a means of relief?  Yes, death comes to each of us and is the door that releases us from this world of sorrow and pleasure.

Death should be celebrated for in it lies a greater reward.  All to often we forget that God has blessed us with this life and that death is our return to unto Him.  It's all about the journey.  I am grateful to have lived and enjoyed the life my creator designed for me. My journey has taught many lessons, some very difficult to grasp and others much easier.  However, the journey home is sure.  The time and date I will reach my destination have already been determined.  There is no need to grieve, but rather focus your attention on life’s journey, for life is the path that leads to everlasting and eternal joy.  I am grateful to have shared my life with you.  “Adrienne Vanterpool”

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What is Love?

No Greater Love Than His:

How do we express your love to those we care for?   Are the people in your life sure of how you truly feel for them?  Does love make you feel vulnerable? Does commitment make you feel afraid to be who you are in the relationship?  Do you allow yourself to feel free enough to enjoy the simple things in life based on the love that you have for each individual?  Is fear controlling how you feel?  Are you able to communicate exactly how you feel? Do you feel brave enough and strong enough to love unconditionally?  Can you love without putting extra conditions on the life of the person that you say you love?  Are you judging your mate because they cannot do exactly what you say they should?  Are your feelings of love subjected to unrealistic expectations?   Do you gage your love based upon something that someone did or did not do for or toward you?  

Think of how you would feel if someone implemented any of these conditions into your relationship.   Would not you feel unworthy of being loved or cared for simply because you made a mistake or didn’t meet up to their standard?   That is not loving.   Many books have been written about the subject of love and loving.  How do we know what true love feels like?  Is it based on our definition only?  In biblical terms, love is defined by God’s love of an ungrateful people.  God’s love is shown in His ability to forgive the repentant soul and grant mercy to the sinful.  His is compassionate love, given freely to all those who would receive it.   He forgives, again and again, sends the warning of impending disaster, heals the sick, offers rest to the weary soul, shelters the homeless and provides peace in the time of war. 

What kind of love is this?  Do we have the capacity to love as exampled by God’s love for His creation?   The love of God is not dependent upon any of the conditions we place on each.  If that were so, we would be doomed.  By following the example given to us by the prophets and teachers sent to bring God’s message of hope, we learn to love in spite of ourselves. 

Placing unrealistic expectations on people we care for will only lead to destruction and not build a strong foundation for any of our relationships.   It may be difficult to love unconditionally, but the flip side is going through life facing your own demons.   Life has its ups and downs, relationships will come and go God’s love never changes and His door is still open.  Can we offer the same to those we say we love?  “Adrienne Vanterpool”

Let Food Be Your Medicine

What causes sickness and disease? 

There are many causes for sickness and disease occurring in the body.  Many of us become sick due to lack of proper nutrition while others develop sickness brought on by airborne viruses and other issues having to do with our environment.  Most medicines have been tested and tired prior to their distribution.  However, have we heard it said: “Let Food Be Your Medicine?”  When does food become a soluble solution of prevention, maintenance, and healing?  How do we use it to conquer disease in the body? 

What causes sickness or disease and one person may not adversely affect another.  Often categorized illnesses fall under question which are general and which are life-threatening. Generally the common cold, flu, diarrhea, and fever which are all short-term ailments while other life-threatening diseases like cancer, diabetes heart disease,, pulmonary or respiratory diseases kidney malfunction's, liver problems and the like very serious inflictions that need our immediate attention.   Subdural hematomas and other types of bleeds which occur in the brain or subcranial region can cause loss of memory and death if not treated properly.   How do we use food to combat, prevent, and treat or maintenance these sorts of diseases? It is not that simple to figure out. There are no plain answers, however, food plays a vital role in the process of healing, maintaining, and being healthy as a means of prevention.  Food optimizes health.  When a scientist looks at and examines the cause of sickness and disease it is often found that food or the lack thereof and improper nutrition is the culprit.  "Adrienne Vanterpool"

Below are some studies and research were done on this topic.

• Nutritional disease 
• Unhealthy diet 

• What causes poor nutrition?