Great idea and ads from the Thai Red Cross. Donate and download the font based on the recent floods in Thailand. All proceeds go directly towards victims of the floods. You can head to Facebook or Fonts Fights Flood for more info or to donate.
The NCC created an app, Norwegian Consumer Countil Hormone Check, through which consumers can check items for hormone altering chemicals, which major cosmetic manufacturers continue to use. Seeing as the labels of cosmetic products are virtually incomprehensible, how are consumers meant to know what is safe to use and what is not?
All you have to do is scan the barcode, and you'll see if it contains any hormone altering chemicals. You can choose to share it with friends on Facebook to warn them, and report the product. Pretty cool, and although it's in Norwegian, it's easy to see when something is OK, and when it's not.
Alternatively, you can head over to their Facebook app and just enter the product code or search for the name of the product to find out more information. Handy.
Don't know about you but I certainly don't buy this crap by McDonalds. Sure, it's nice to see someone who actually benefits from the fast food behemoth (albeit an owner of a massive industrial food processing plant), but am I really meant to believe that it's all cosy and safe down at the farm? What's with that music? Are we meant to believe he's sitting on a pile of potatoes in Idaho? Could he at least sound sincere? Apparently there will be more so keep those eyes peeled (see what I did there?).
I'd love to see the poultry version of this. As Co.Exist (depressingly) point out, "Where its food comes from is illustrated not by Frank Martinez but by the potato mountain in front of which he is perched. That gives some sense of the industrial scale that McDonald’s is actually working with. It’s not interested in small farmers because those farmers aren’t even on McDonald’s radar. In fact, McDonald’s doesn’t even buy direct from farmers, but from suppliers who contract with farmers. Frank Martinez doesn’t even work for them."
