Author: Daisy Luther

The Organic Prepper

You probably saw the article last week about the massive recall of Sargento products. As it turns out, the Sargento products are only a drop in the bucket – there are 130 more products out there and the FDA is under a gag order not to name them.

I couldn’t make this up.

Today, Sargento added more products to the list. (You can find them below.) I think that they should be applauded for being the most open about the potential listeria contamination in their products.   Continue reading “Cheese Recall Affects 130 More Products … But The FDA Isn’t Allowed to Name Them”

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It’s the hottest day of the summer so far. The mercury is way up there, and all you want to do is stay in your nice air-conditioned home until it cools off after dark. But alas, you have a life, and you have to go outside. The second you open your door, the heat blasts you so hard it feels like a physical blow.

That’s exactly what it’s like online right now, no matter where your politics lie.   Continue reading “How to be a Peaceful Person in a Hostile World”

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After five years of drought, a new disaster faces Northern California: the imminent collapse of the Oroville Spillway.

Nearly 200,000 people were evacuated last night from areas below the Oroville Dam due to the fear that the main spillway is pending imminent collapse and the emergency spillway is literally, just a cleared hill which showed massive erosion when they tested it with a small amount of water yesterday.   Continue reading “The Oroville Spillway Disaster: Why You Should NEVER Wait for the Official Evacuation Order”

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If you were caught up in the midst of a massive earthquake – the kind that takes down buildings and buckles roads – would you know what to do?

I’m not talking about a minor temblor that shakes a glass off the counter and sends it to shatter on the floor.

I’m talking about The Big One. The one for which we are long overdue.   Continue reading “How to Survive an Earthquake”

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If a food company invented a new version of a typical food and then packaged it in a box without the ingredients etc. listed on the packaging, there would be quite the outcry.

So why is it that Okanagan Speciality Fruits is allowed to market a new variety of GMO apples without telling people the reason they’re so “special” is that they are genetically modified?   Continue reading “GMO Apples Hit American Stores This Month: How and Why to Avoid Them”

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Water contamination is a major issue in the United States, even if you aren’t in the midst of an emergency. As I recently wrote, one-third of Americans are living without safe running water right now. For some, it’s because they can’t afford to pay their water bills, while for others, the local supply has become tainted.

The increasing frequency of water concerns makes having a filtration device more important than ever. Having written a book about water for preppers, I’m always interested in trying different products related to my pet topic.   Continue reading “Product Review: The Simple, Lightweight AquaPail 1100 Gravity Filter”

Daisy Luther

Amid the screaming and wailing of the anti-Trump activists, it’s easy to lose sight of the possible changes that the United States – and even the world – could see when Donald J Trump officially becomes the President of the United States on Friday. Most people want to see the changes as either black or white, but there are many shades of gray in each of them.

Here are nine changes we could see, presented without judgment.   Continue reading “Bane or Blessing? 9 Ways Trump Could Change the World”

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In a clearcut case of an ironically bearded hipster fox guarding the henhouse of truth, Slate presents a brand new extension that Chrome users can install. The tool not only identifies “fake news” but allows readers to narc on anything they don’t like.

Of course, anyone who would accept a word that Slate has to say as “truth” is so far left-leaning that they’re about ready to topple over, and will report a lot of true things they just don’t like as “fake.” We all know that in their eyes “fake” and “something I don’t like” are identical in definition, and that definition has nothing to do with the act of thinking critically.   Continue reading “Slate Presents a Fake News Tool So You Can Narc on Stuff You Don’t Like”

Daisy Luther

According to a new report, more than a third of the population of America has no access to clean, reliable drinking water. We don’t generally think of the United States as being a country where people just cannot afford to access safe water, but this is becoming more common every day.   Continue reading “One Third of Americans Can’t Afford Safe Running Water”

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How do you survive a flood, mudslides, avalanches, power outages, and gale force winds? What about sinkholes and buckling roads?

You’re going to be so disappointed when I tell you the secret.

Because it’s not dramatic. No firearms, carabiners, or specialized equipment were used. I didn’t need to consult my beloved SAS survival manual even once. If it were a movie, you’d fall asleep within 15 minutes.   Continue reading “An Unsexy Survival Plan for California’s Epic Floods, Avalanches, and Mudslides”

Daisy Luther

It’s always unnerving to learn that NASA, arbiters of space safety, missed a giant hunk of space rock flying so close to the Earth you almost needed to duck.

Like the asteroid that did a fly-by at just half the distance between the Earth and the moon on Monday of this week.

Unlike the movie Armageddon, we may not have enough warning for Bruce Willis and friends to get on a rocket and go blow it up before it hits us.   Continue reading “Incoming: NASA Totally Missed an Asteroid That Was Closer to Us Than the Moon”

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Milo Yiannopolos has become incredibly rich being outspoken, even a bit of a troll.

Now, he’s getting even richer with an enviable quarter million dollar book deal that he just signed with Simon and Schuster. While people love to hate him, it’s exactly that which allowed him to get the deal about which they’re all so outraged.   Continue reading “The People Freaking Out About Milo’s Book Deal Are the Whole Reason He Got a Book Deal”

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After Christmas, all is not calm and bright in the retail world.

For those who are still under the illusion that our economy is great and prosperity is nigh, you might want to consider the massive loss of jobs that will be forthcoming as stores across the country go into damage control mode to try to stop the hemorrhaging from lackluster holiday sales.
Continue reading “Retailpocalypse 2017: Hundreds of Stores Will Be Closing”

Daisy Luther

No one knows how to profit from scaring the pants off of people quite like the government. And they don’t even need an actual threat to make it happen.

Take “climate change” and “global warming” for example.   Continue reading “Climate Change: The Government’s Best Revenue Stream Since War and Taxes”

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Anyone who has ever watched a movie like Outbreak or Contagion knows that all pandemics start with Patient Zero. Maybe an infected monkey escapes from a lab. Maybe a farmer in China contracts something from a pig. There is always some seemingly insignificant interaction with some type of mutation that occurs in a far-off place that results in a global catastrophe.

While these are fictional examples, they’re not so far from the truth. That’s why it is smart to be alert when an unprecedented mutation or transmission occurs. That doesn’t mean a pandemic is necessarily going to erupt, but it means you should be aware the possibility exists.   Continue reading “CDC Confirms: Mutated H7N2 Virus Transmitted from Cat to Human in the US”

Daisy Luther

Kim Jong-un has claimed that the secretive state of North Korea is close to testing ballistic missiles that could reach the United States.

President-Elect Trump responded on Twitter since he (quite reasonably) doesn’t trust the MSM to report accurately, with “It won’t happen.”   Continue reading “Trump Responds to North Korea Nuke Threat: “It Won’t Happen””