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The GMO Controversy

I have an old friend who, a couple of years ago, made a decision to radically change his way of life. What he did is almost unreal for the rest of us. He simply stopped eating food we are all familiar with, and instead he eats only fruits, vegetables, and various grains and nuts. All that in its raw and natural form without any cooking, baking, or frying. Of course, as a practical man (he is a math teacher in my wife's school), he didn't do this overnight and instead used a methodical approach so his switch from "ordinary" food to this final stage of the strictest vegetarian diet possible lasted a couple of years in order to adapt his organism better and to avoid potential dangers on the way. Contrary to other vegetarians I know, he didn't do this because of some illness or because his organism is not capable of digesting meat and thermally processed food. Instead, this was an act of free will and strong belief that he is doing a good thing. I strongly admire him ...

Serbian Chevapchichi

"Gently, he took her by the shoulders and turned her around, facing her back into the house. - Let's go have dinner. Vincent said he made us that Serbian cevapcici." - Eureka, TV Show. The very last decade of the very last century of the previous millennium was very exciting in many ways. It won't be remembered by all the meaningless Balkan wars flaming down here for many years, nor by the final end of the communist era in this part of Europe, nor even by the birth of the European Union idea or the rise of the new world order we are all living in today. No, to me, it was the birth of the internet, email, the World Wide Web, social networks, instant messaging, blogging, and everything we are using in our homes on a daily basis the same way we do with television or radio or... the kitchen and all its appliances. Although the internet network and its services were invented many years before, it was the nineties when all started to go real worldwide and accepted by the...