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Hi Janet - I joined Parkinson's to invite anyone who wanted to learn more about healing with nutrition to join my mail-list. BTW, I forgot to mention in my last post that jars aren't good for wheatgrass and baby greens - that's why I got a one-level automatic sprouter myself (in addition to using the jars) - for the green plants. Bean sprouts grow beautifully in jars - but not wheatgrass! I don't know personally anyone who's been healed from Parkinsons with the living foods program. But I'm very grateful to those in this group who joined my mail-list because now we'll be able to see the results first-hand of gradually changing over to an organic vegan whole foods diet with a large dash of fresh home-grown food in it. T. Colin Campbell, prof. of nutrition + biomedical science at Cornell who headed The China Project - the biggest epidemiological study ever undertaken of the relationship between our food choices and disease - switched to a vegan diet as the evidence came in from the China Project (he used to eat meat every day - his Ph.D. dissertation was on how to increase protein content in cattle!) - more info on this if you send for my recipe at [log in to unmask] I haven't sold any sprouters yet. When I do, I want to invest the money in micro-enterprises for women in Africa, Asia, etc. - so they can buy computers and have jobs, food, etc. I'm a white African. I will reach out to such women by word-of-mouth initially - I have many contacts across Africa, through friends and friends-of-friends. $200 is set by the manufacturer. I'm hoping to be able to get the computers at discount from large distributors. Free Knowledge, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that I've just started too. Free Knowledge's goal is to raise funds for computers for 'the poor', then GoGreen will help them get a business going so they can pay back the money for their computers, and we have cash for computer for the next community (see http://www.gogreen.org/corp.htm). I'd planned for GoGreen (the taxable for-profit side of Free Knowledge) to be Free Knowledge Inc d/b/a GoGreen. This is common on the web, e.g. I was reading at INB.com (internet News Bureau) last week a press release of a not-for-profit in LA that's set up an entire mall to sell product for its not-for-profit activities. But it's a sensitive point with the IRS. Two days before I went up on the web, the IRS called me to say GoGreen couldn't be a subsidiary of Free Knowledge because it gave an unfair competitive advantage to the manufacturer of the sprouter! Actually, Free Knowledge was going to ride on GoGreen's tails, not other way round, so IRS had it upside-down. Anyway, now GoGreen is Val Archer d/b/a GoGreen. It's my choice to invest the profits in micro-enterprises for women in Africa because that's where my heart is. I grew up with all that suffering round me. I have a part-time job that pays all my expenses. Though one day I plan for Free Knowledge/GoGreen to have mini-training centers round the world to train 'the poor' in use of their computers and in running co-op business and in healthy healing lifestyle. I'll live at one of those centers, so I'm creating for myself the lifestyle I want to live. I'm not into material things - every piece of furniture in my house is second-hand (except my computer). Even my fax I chose a refurbished one from Netscape Mall. I want to serve. That's my joy. A business is intrinsically for-profit, I agree, but we can run it in a way where we care for our customers, our environment, our community, for everyone who works in the business, etc. In other words, we can rip off planet earth and all living beings on it, or we can try create a new world through business, and through our actions in our daily life. Sorry, Janet, I think I created the wrong impression with my first post - I'm just starting to reach out to people and share my knowledge about healing with whole foods. And I'm learning as I go along. I appreciate very much your feedback and the dialog you got going - you've taught me a little more as to how I should extend the invitation to folks to join a mail-list on nutritional healing. Thanks! Val *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/2/99, at 12:30 AM, janet paterson wrote: >to val archer: > >At 23:26 1999/01/01 -0500, you wrote, part: >>Financial gain is not my motivation > >why did you join the parkinson's disease information exchange network? >if you know of anyone with parkinson's disease who has been 'healed' >please give us their names and phone numbers >i, for one, would be more than happy to hear their stories personally > >>you'll see from my web site that profits on the sprouter >>will go to micro-enterprises for "the poorest of the poor." > >i would like more information on this program: >why does the sprouter cost over 200 dollars? >how are the profits calculated? >how are the 'poor' recipients determined? > >i am confused by your signature: >>http://www.gogreen.org - a business that cares - >>get computers to 'the poor' - >>when you get free of pain with Mother Nature > >i thought the '.org' on a web site designation >was restricted to non-profit organisations: >is 'gogreen.org' a government-registered non-profit entity? >who are your auditors? >do you have financial statements? > >what does your business 'care' about, specifically? >isn't a 'business' intrinsically 'for-profit' >regardless of how much it cares? > >how does your 'computers to the poor' program work? >who supplies the computers? >who determines the recipients? > >janet > >janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada >[log in to unmask] http://www.gogreen.org - a business that cares - get computers to 'the poor' - when you get free of pain with Mother Nature.