Yanking the Wool From My Eyes...
Or; Man, how could I be so DUMB?
(To the Editorial Staff of Mother Earth News, in repsonse to their holiday card depeicting Santa changing Rudolph's nose to a CF): Dear Mother, It's sad that you - of all publications - are oblivious to the serious environmental implications of fluorescent lighting. Ever hear of mercury? Know what 'safe' levels of exposure are? ZERO. Know that if a kid breaks a floures bulb in their bedroom, that room becomes a toxic waste site? Ever THINK about what happens to the mercury in the bulb after it burns out? Uh-huh, it winds up in your tuna, and in your child's (or grandchild's) brain. C'mon. We've counted on you for DECADES to tell it like it is. Do the research, report the real. Or contact me and I'd gladly submit an article, on approval, on the pros and cons of switching to fluorescent lighting. By the way, Rudolph, as a ruminant, is powered by forage*. In short, Rudolph - and his uniquely bio-luminescent nose - are 'solar powered'! R L M McWilliams a fan since the 70's Writing to you from an are of the US where the heat generated by incandescent bulbs is welcomed nine months out of the year! *Or, rather, by the rumen inhabitants he harbors in his forestomach that actually digest the forage he consumes, providing him with protein in excess of the crude protein content of that forage when they in turn, are digested by Rudolph. Since some of these gut inhabitants are classified as members of the Animal Kingdom, Rudolph is considered by at least some animal nutritionists to be 'an indirect carnivore', but that is fodder for a different article.
(To the Editorial Staff of Mother Earth News, in repsonse to their holiday card depeicting Santa changing Rudolph's nose to a CF): Dear Mother, It's sad that you - of all publications - are oblivious to the serious environmental implications of fluorescent lighting. Ever hear of mercury? Know what 'safe' levels of exposure are? ZERO. Know that if a kid breaks a floures bulb in their bedroom, that room becomes a toxic waste site? Ever THINK about what happens to the mercury in the bulb after it burns out? Uh-huh, it winds up in your tuna, and in your child's (or grandchild's) brain. C'mon. We've counted on you for DECADES to tell it like it is. Do the research, report the real. Or contact me and I'd gladly submit an article, on approval, on the pros and cons of switching to fluorescent lighting. By the way, Rudolph, as a ruminant, is powered by forage*. In short, Rudolph - and his uniquely bio-luminescent nose - are 'solar powered'! R L M McWilliams a fan since the 70's Writing to you from an are of the US where the heat generated by incandescent bulbs is welcomed nine months out of the year! *Or, rather, by the rumen inhabitants he harbors in his forestomach that actually digest the forage he consumes, providing him with protein in excess of the crude protein content of that forage when they in turn, are digested by Rudolph. Since some of these gut inhabitants are classified as members of the Animal Kingdom, Rudolph is considered by at least some animal nutritionists to be 'an indirect carnivore', but that is fodder for a different article.