Harmful Stinks!

If you look closely on the label of many cosmetics, cleaning products and 'fresheners', there is usually an ingredient called fragrance. I have done a bit of research about this and one website states there are some 4000 chemicals in the fragrance arsenal (and I use that word purposely) and many of them are carcinogenic!

I have been using chemicals all my life as a forester and nurseryman; chemicals such as 245T, 1080, Roundup. None effect me like some of these fragrances do!

Chemical companies are smart though. They do not disclose the chemicals in their brew, because this is a commercial secret. Like the recipe for Coca Cola. Government allow this. But they are on a winner; sell products that are poisonous, causing ailments such as headaches, and then selling the medicine to relieve the symptoms!

I found myself pretending not to see people on the side of the road wanting a lift because I knew the deodorant they wore made my eyes water, my heart thump and my head ache. If I did pick them up, I knew I could not function properly for the rest of the day.

In our house if any of these products annoy me enough, instead of complaining; I simply throw them out.
People have become walking chemical cocktails. The women in my house prepare themselves thus.
In the shower they wash their hair using shampoo, then conditioner. Then a quick Veet to clear away unwanted hair. Then there is the shower gel - nice smelly stuff, the stink wafting through the house, out the window so even the sheep out side begin to cough.
After the dry-down, there is the special facial lotion, then the deodorant - perspiration cannot get through (I thought this was a natural process - I wonder where it goes? Oh and I thought we were going natural!). Then there is the other lotion to stop the skin drying - maybe that shower gel was toxic?
The lip gloss is an extra scent - maybe pseudo strawberry. And to top all that off there is the perfume to cover all else. All this is very feminine - no wait there is a masculine version too!

But wait; we are not dressed yet! On go the clothes, presoaked in some chemicals, washed in others and the fabric softener so strong that it can kill the good bugs in the septic tank!

It is no wonder that asthma is widespread and increasing!

Walk down the supermarket isle and the stink can almost knock you over!

But that's not all the room fresheners and those ones in cars are powerful too, then we have toilet paper with fragrance. Perhaps it is impolite to mention it but what do those chemicals do when you wipe your bum? Probably worse for women!

There is a handlotion in our bathroom called 'Botanicals' but look at the label - chemicals that you can't pronounce and 1% natural fragrance.
You have to watch natural too; salt is a natural product, but eat a kilo of it and you are dead! Then what about Datura, Nightshade, Melia and many others - all are natural, all are poisonous.

There is a lot of brainwashing being done - if you tell kids BO is bad, throughout their life they will think it bad.
And oh yes, actually toothpaste is generally pretty good!

Voilence

Tony Veitch has been in the news lately because it alleged that he injured his partner so badly that she was in hospital and a wheel chair for some time. Tony Veitch is a TV & radio personality and I barely know him, and the rare times that I have seen him, I thought he was a smart arse.

Regardless of all that rival media have been severe on him and talkback radio full of a certain hysteria forcing him to resign from his positions. But not much really known about the case and much appears to be speculation.

It appears he pushed the woman down the stairs and then kicked her several times. Nobody can condone this behavior but it raises a point. Sure it appears he became violent but he now is suffering from verbal violence. This too can be as bad a physical violence.

New Zealand has become PC and the government has recently passed an anti-smacking law which 80% of the voters was against. The proponent of the bill was a member of parliament who gained her position under MMP and was not voted into office. This make democracy a joke, but I'm not on that just now!

Violent attacks are increasing in New Zealand and reports of violence against children makes shocking reading! But really how does an anti-smacking law make us less violent?

Like it or not we are a violent species, even though we think we are 'civilised'. Maybe we are descended from a race of chimpanzees - just look how violent they are to each other. But if you don't agree with forms of evolution, look at history and how mankind has been violent to mankind. I don't have to go into the facts, there is plenty of evidence of atrocities during wars from as history goes back to the present time. Not only wars though, I suppose cavemen killed to take a piece of flint from another just as some will kill today to rob another of his cellphone.

Violence is within our breed, sitting there, perhaps latent but it is there.

There is a woman at my work who has a supervisory role and she is vehemently against smacking children. However everyone who works with her fears her because of her caustic tongue and her attitude toward them. I overheard her telling someone considering employing one of our ex employees. She denigrated the person, and then came into our office to tell us what she had done, saying that it had been hard to say what she had done - but her body language showed that she really enjoyed the power. This is just a form of subversive violence.

In Tanzania I worked with many schools and often one teacher was in charge of 200 kids! The stick ruled and the children were always well behaved, disciplined and respectful. When corporal punishment was abolished, straight away there was a decline in discipline and behavior.

Passing anti-smacking laws does nothing to stop violent crime! Violence is just under the skin of us all and we have to learn to control it, and this is done through respect.

For instance, the police are often treated as the bad guys and are not generally respected (yet when we are in trouble we can barely wait for them to come to our aid). Prisons are like hotels and inmates relax in hospitality of the taxpayer.

There is nothing wrong with smacking, for that's what it is - bashing is something different. At an early age, if a child is taught to respect, smacking is not required but discipline has to start somewhere. You can't tell me a tap in the back of an infant's hand to teach a basic lesson is going to harm the person in the future.

The term give an inch, tale a mile is true, if a child is not disciplined correctly, that child does not know the boundaries and often becomes the boss within the household.

Of course there are instances where kids that have not been smacked turn out perfect, but I'm demonstrating the need to return of respect for police, parents and in fact, the court system.

Respect goes both ways, a child should respect a parent, and the parent respect the child. A child will give a parent respect because the parent is the boundary setter, and a parent will respect the child if the child pushes the boundaries with learned strategy.