You may have sprayed garlic juice, tobacco juice, combonations thereof on your tomatoes to stave off aphids and the like...you may have sprayed any number of "organic solutions" on your precious crops. But, there is a naturally occuring compound that will not only protect your plants from unwanted insects, but for livestock as well. It's called Diatomaceous earth (DE, diatomite, diahydro) and it is a clever approach to pests. Yes I know, one plant's pest is some benign bat's snack...however, serious small-scale growers (say, tomatoes, green beans, squash, etc.) pull their hair out to keep insects nibbling on other things.
Diatomaceous earth is one good answer. It's simply a porous, chalky, white sedimentary rock composed of fossilized diatoms-- hard shelled algea. The compound absorbs the waxy outer layer of an insect's body; they die from dehydration.
DE can be used in livestock and humans, but the efficacy is low since there is no shortage of liquid in the digestive tracts of either. So, if you've run out of eco-friendly insecticide ideas, give this one a try. It doesn't smell and your plants won't mutate into super-tobacco.

Last fall, Congress passed legislation that ceased federal, tax-generated funding for the
inspections of facilities used to slaughter horses for human consumption. Because all facilities must be inspected to
operate, this effectively shut them down. They could not pay the inspection fees themselves. While not illegal in the
US to eat horse meat, it is a disgusting idea to many diners, so the horse meat produced was typically exported to
Japan or European countries, like France, Belgium and Italy.
British supermarket chains, such as Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, are 








