Nostradamus Vobiscum

A day in the life of the walrus... in trouble.

2010-09-17T16:31:00.000-04:00

The other night I was sitting at my desk having a bit of wine and pouring over some of my predictions when I caught a bit of news on the plight of the walrus in Alaska. Back in my day, walruses liked to spend their time lounging on GIANT slabs of sea ice…just hanging around with their calves. When it was time to eat, a delicious fish dinner was just a frigid dip away. Ahhh, those were the days.

Oh…but now, it’s a very different story. The warming of the arctic waters has melted the sea ice forcing the walruses to go ashore. Normally living in groups of around 500, there is now an estimated 10,000-20,000 along the shore line…can you imagine that!?!?! The poor calves are extremely vulnerable to being trampled to death. And now that delicious fish dinner is even hard to come by. My prediction is bleak but there is a pretty good chance the Pacific walrus will be on the path to extinction by the end of this century.

Pesky Mosquitoes!

2010-08-22T09:32:00.000-04:00

Err... I was up half the night last night bothered by an itchy bite that I got while enjoying a bit of night air. Seems those pesky mosquitoes are EVERYWHERE! The warmer temperatures caused by global warming has really made these suckers multiply like Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar! And now their even living longer! This increases our risk of catching a disease like Malaria, Dengue fever or West Nile Virus! We have tried to spray around this Old Papal Palace but have you seen the size of this place?! It costs more francs than Homer Simpson spends on Duff beer in a year... and let me tell you that's a lot!

The Code of ECCE

2010-08-19T08:02:00.000-04:00

You've heard about them all before.. try this, try that...... I'm talking about Extreme Diets. Seems people now days will try anything! Most have very low food intake and quirky food limitations like fasting or near starvation, cabbage soup or juice diets and even taking dangerous diet pills. Why... some people have even went so extreme as to ingest tapeworms in an effort to lose weight…what a mess!

Here’s the deal…and it ain’t rocket science. If we didn't stuff ourselves with Slabdogs and Kochie Kreeme Donuts every other day, we wouldn't need to do these extreme diets. I predict an end to obesity and related illnesses by following the healthy eating principles of the code of ECCE ( Eat Carefully, Control Excess ).

Our World of Excess

2010-08-17T20:55:00.000-04:00

I often see people overwhelmed by the problems our world is facing. They think they could not possibly make a difference. But the reality is we can have a big impact on the world by making simple changes to our daily lives.

As I sit here enjoying a hot cup of joe from my reusable mug I am reminded of Planet Satiety and how waste had a very negative affect on the people and the planet. Before you grab your next cup of joe listen to this...

Over 40 million paper cups are used in the US alone every day for beverages like coffee... that's over 400,000 every 15 minutes and over 16 billion cups each year. Over 6.5 million trees were cut down to make make those16 billion paper cups. Plus, 16 billion paper cups uses 4 billion gallons of water and results in 253 million pounds of waste. Every tree used for paper cups is also removed from the ecosystem and can no longer absorb carbon dioxide, produce oxygen or filter groundwater.

The environmental impact of a paper cup is staggering. And where is all that trash going?! Nearly half the landfills in the US are full.

Now give that a ponder! Its a Globulate mandate of overindulgence if I ever heard one! Now how can we do our part in helping Mother Earth? It's what I call the 4-Rs... rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle!

Another Distastous Predition

2010-08-15T13:17:00.001-04:00

Alas, yet again, as I predicted back in 1555, the Gulf oil spill which has spilled nearly 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has come to fruition.

All eyes should still be focused on the Gulf as the disaster there is by no means over yet. We are dealing with contamination of the entire surface of the ocean all the way down to the very bottom of the sea floor as well as land and atmospheric contamination. The oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.

Adding insult to injury is the dumping of 1.8 million gallons of a toxic stew of dangerous chemical into our oceans.

The truth is, we have not even begun to witness the after affects of what will linger for many years to come as the result of this mega disaster.

As the people learned in Planet Satiety, what was first thought of as a good idea to launch all the worlds trash into space does not come without dire and irrevocable consequenses. When will people learn to treat our world like Sir Rex did? Mother Earth is our life support.

I Predicted Big Fish...They Predict Polar Bears!

2010-04-28T22:45:00.002-04:00

I've had to get a couple days of rest. I've been so busy, I haven't been eating very well lately. Just Monday night, I ate almost and ENTIRE Slabdog. I know it isn't the best thing but they're just so darn convenient. The recipe is in Planet Satiey...but I wouldn't recommend it!

During my time of rest, I was surfing the web to see which of my latest predictions, if any, are coming true. Surfing the web is the easiest way to stay on top of all of this; I'm so grateful to Al Gore for inventing the Internet. At any rate, I stumbled on something here. Now I'm predicting that all the big-fish species could be gone just like I outlined in Planet Satiety. But, in as little as 40 years, 2/3's of our planets polar bears could be gone. Why? Global Warming...that's why! Found this article below that gives reasoning behind National Wildlife Federation's (NWF) prediction. I'll post the article below, but remember...THIS IS NOT MY PREDICTION...this prediction belongs solely to NWF, but I can totally see this happening:

The chief threat to the polar bear is the loss of its sea ice habitat due to global warming. As suggested by its specific scientific name (Ursus maritimus), the polar bear is actually a marine mammal that spends far more time at sea than it does on land. It is on the Arctic ice that the polar bear makes its living, which is why global warming is such a serious threat to its well-being.

How are polar bears affected?
•Population sizes decreasing
•Sea ice platforms moving farther apart and swimming conditions more dangerous
•Fewer hunting opportunities and increased scarcity of food

As climate change melts sea ice, the U.S. Geological Survey projects that two thirds of polar bears will disappear by 2050. This dramatic decline in the polar bear is occurring in our lifetime, which is but a miniscule fraction of the time polar bears have roamed the vast Arctic seas.

Rapid Arctic ice melting in 2007:
•Caused a record low for the surface area of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, nearly 23 percent below the previous record low in 2005.

•Melted an additional area equivalent to the size of Alaska and Texas, combined (compared to average sea ice conditions).

•Exceeded the projections of most climate-ice models. Based on the rapid melt, one NASA scientist projected summer ice could be essentially gone as early as 2012.

Population Size Declines
In southern portions of their range, like Hudson Bay, Canada, there is no sea ice during the summer, and the polar bears must live on land until the Bay freezes in the fall, whereupon they can again hunt on the ice. While on land during the summer, these bears eat little or nothing.

In just 20 years the ice-free period in Hudson Bay has increased by an average of 20 days, cutting short their seal hunting season by nearly three weeks. The ice is freezing later in the fall, but it is the earlier spring ice melt that is especially difficult for the bears. They have less time to hunt during the critical time when seal pups are born. As a result, average bear weight has dropped by 15 percent, causing reproduction rates to decline. The Hudson Bay population is down more than 20 percent.

Retreating Sea Ice Platforms
The retreat of ice has implications beyond the obvious habitat loss. Remaining ice is farther from shore, making it less accessible. The larger gap of open water between the ice and land also contributes to rougher wave conditions, making the bears’ swim from shore to sea ice more hazardous.

In 2004, biologists discovered four drowned polar bears in the Beaufort Sea, and suspect the actual number of drowned bears may have been considerably greater. Never before observed, biologists attributed the drowning to a combination of retreating ice and rougher seas.

Scarcity of Food
Exacerbating the problems of the loss of hunting areas, it is expected that the shrinking polar ice cap will also cause a decline in polar bears’ prey -- seals. The reduction in ice platforms near productive areas for the fish that the seals eat affects their nutritional status and reproduction rates.

Polar bears are going hungry for longer periods of time, resulting in cannibalistic behavior. Although it has long been known polar bears will kill for dominance or kill cubs so they can breed with the female, outright predation for food was previously unobserved by biologists.

Polar Bear Status
In 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act primarily because of the decline of its primary habitat: sea ice. The Secretary of Interior listed the polar bear as threatened but restricted the Endangered Species Act's protections and thus the polar bear's future is still very much in jeopardy.

The polar bear is the proverbial "canary in the coal mine" of the serious threat global warming posses to wildlife species around the world, unless we take immediate and significant action to reduce global warming pollution.

You can view this article in its entirety by visiting:
Global Warming and Polar Bears - National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Effects-on-Wildlife-and-Habitat/Polar-Bears.aspx

To get the lastest predictions of mine, just buy the book Planet Satiety...that gives you the full story. http://www.planetsatiety.com/

Hubble Turns 20!

2010-04-24T22:17:00.001-04:00

Well, today is the 20th anniversary of NASA's launch of the Hubble Space telescope. WOW...20 years! I remember it just like it was yesterday. I know this "Hubble" has done some pretty amazing things like capturing images of far away galaxies, nebulas, and dying stars...not to mention the worlds first shot of Paris Hilton's hot tub from space! But folks, I have some grim news. My prediction has it that the Hubble XL...in the 22nd century...captures something far more astonishing. Over a few glasses a wine and several smokes...I've created this image for you:

This my friends, are the Rings of Glutton. This is the result of our governments plans to fire our trash into space...where it was supposed to burn up - poof...gone! But as you see, this plan will go haywire. It doesn't have to be this way you know. With your help, you can do your part to change this. But, you need to be well-informed and well-prepared. Read Planet Satiety to learn more about the Rings of Glutton and all the other mess that faces us in the 22nd century. To learn more...or buy your copy of Planet Satiety, visit us at http://www.planetsatiety.com/.

-Ciao!

Our Biggest Landfill

2010-04-22T22:25:00.001-04:00

I'm back! Things are taking shape here in the old Papal Palace. You wouldn't believe this place. Had to move all my stuff into this office now that Cardinal Aceité took over the bedroom. Given his health, who do you think had to move everything...Nostradamus lui-même!!!

Now that Cardinal Aceité got that new tv, blue-ray disc player, and one of them new iPads...we got a lot of extra trash to get out of here. Speaking of trash, you know my prediction about Rings of Glutton? Well I just learned something that even I couldn't have predicted...The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. You got to read about it. I outlined it below. And in case you didn't hear about The Rings of Glutton, you must read Planet Satiety...our future depends on it. You can get it straight from the Planet Satiety Website: http://www.planetsatiety.com/.

Now, about that garbage patch:
In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and sailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.

The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever-accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California; scientists estimate its size as two times bigger than Texas [source: LA Times]. The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii. Each swirling mass of refuse is massive and collects trash from all over the world. The patches are connected by a thin 6,000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone. Research flights showed that significant amounts of trash also accumulate in the Convergence Zone.

Silverman, Jacob. "Why is the world's biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?." 19 September 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. 22 April 2010.

Notie Posting #4

2010-02-18T20:39:00.000-05:00

It’s me again, Nostradamus.

I’ve had a helluva a headache all this week with the sawing, pounding and yelling about the construction project here at the old Papal Palace in Avignon, France. The project supervisor from Rome -- Cardinal Aceité Balsamico-Basilico – wants me to vacate Pope Clement VI’s bedroom and go to a hovel of an office off the main kitchen. I guess he wants to live in Pope Clement’s bedroom and install a 62-inch HD-plasma screen so he can watch some of Dan Brown’s movies like Angels & Demons or the DaVinci Code. For my money, he ought to put up a picture of the Code of ECCE and never take his eyes off it. He needs to lose about a hundred pounds.

O well… c’est la guerre!

As I said in my last post, I want to give you a little more background on my investigation into our over-eating addiction and set the stage for introducing some of the characters in the story: Planet Satiety, The Globulate Trilogy. You can check it out at: http://www.planetsatiety.com/

The following will help get you up-to-speed:

Here’s the picture I see in the future beginning in 2031.

Our newly formed Planetary Administration comes up with a plan to end global hunger. I know it’s hard to believe today, but in those days nearly one fourth of the population of our planet will be living on the ragged edge of starvation and malnutrition. The first Planetary Administrator will create a mega-food corporation called Globulate that’ll be given the task of feeding the hungry. It’ll take two years of hard work, but they’ll succeeded. In the beginning, Globulate will require maximum productivity from everyone just to keep up with the overwhelming demand for food. As the years pass, Globulate will change from savior of the hungry to the Dictator of maximum consumption.This brings me to a principal character in all of this… Dr. Maximus Wheatley. Born in Gaborone, Botswana, raised by his mother, a teacher and native Botswanan, and his English father, an engineer and also a teacher, Max thrives. His family arranges for him to come America, where with scholarship assistance, he’s able to earn a Bachelors Degree in Bioscience from the University of Notre Dame. Armed with this degree and great optimism, he lands his first important job: a Research assistant with the mighty Globulate at the ripe old age of 22.

I foresee Max Wheatley telling this story: (pic of Max)

“One year later I weighed 375-pounds. At Globulate, I was admired and destined for greatness. Having taken several important minor subjects at Notre Dame, I was a versatile and able employee who had already attained one promotion in my first year and was in line to be elevated to middle management. Not only that, but no one could consume the SLABDOGS like me! I could pound down 3 or 4 at one sitting and had won our local eating contest twice. Two months before my 24th birthday, I had a heart attack.”

“It was the best thing that ever happened to me! In the hospital I met a young man named Rex Freshward. He was being treated for exposure and a broken arm. When I had my heart attack, I had fallen and broken my leg. The same doctor set both our broken bones. That night we shared a room in the hospital. As we got to know one another, it was clear how opposite our lives were despite the fact that we were the same age. We had one thing in common: food. He and his father created a mega-franchise food corporation called Quality Food Quickly to challenge Globulate.”

“At first I was totally scandalized! Challenge Globulate? Who would dare? Then my doctor came into our room and told me that I would die at a very young age if I didn’t start controlling my food intake and lose a lot of weight. When the doctor left, Rex looked at me and said, ‘I can help you live to a ripe old age, if you wish. Unless you want to die young.’ That day he taught me the Code of ECCE and also told me exactly what QFQ as an organization was trying to do to help people”.

(pic of Rex Freshward next to pic of the Code of ECCE)
In the Prologue of Planet Satiety, the following scenario is described.

Note: To me, this begins to hint at my personal predictions

about how we can work toward saving our planet in peril:

Accordingly – about the year 2032…

“The next day, when his father came to pick him up, Rex Freshward looked at me as he was leaving. ‘Come with us, if you want to live.’

I made the smartest decision of my life. I went with the man who would become the best friend I would ever have!

At QFQ Rex showed me the reality of the world around me. The incidence of debilitating disease was increasing daily. Nearly two-thirds of our population suffered and was being treated for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis and eating-related cancer.

At that time, 80% of our global population was overweight. Two thirds of that number were considered to be obese. Nearly 10% of the population weighed over 500 pounds! The most devastating statistic was that our children were dying at an unprecedented rate. What caused this modern holocaust of our families and children? Overeating! There was no other reason. And I had been blindly going down that very same road.

I turned my talents towards helping the Freshward family put QFQ on the map. I knew that with each customer who walked through QFQ doors… that was one more person on the road toward better eating habits and better health.”

In my next posting, I’ll introduce you to Sir Rex Freshward and some of the other characters and how they fit into this saga.

A little later, you might want to tune into my talk show: Nostradamus Vobiscum on Radio Slabcast. If so, just go to the Planet Satiety web site –

http://www.planetsatiety.com/

Ciao from Avignon! Nostradamus

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Study in Singapore Links Sugary Soft Drinks and Pancreatic Cancer - AOL News

2010-02-09T11:18:00.000-05:00

Study in Singapore Links Sugary Soft Drinks and Pancreatic Cancer - AOL News

Singapore, Schmingapore... just another footnote to the planet satiety story... too much = too much! I hate to say it, but I predicted all of this stuff. Will keep you posted (Notie)

Meanwhile, check it out: http://www.planetsatiety.com/

Monsanto: The evil corporation in your refrigerator

2010-02-09T08:38:00.000-05:00

Monsanto: The evil corporation in your refrigerator

Just look at this article. I hate to say so, but I saw it coming.

I suggest we all look to the future and see as I do, that it ain't what it used to be. Check out my recommended reading for the day to see a coincidental parallel between this article and my 'pretend' greedy food cartel, Globulate, Inc.

Go to:

www.planetsatiety.com

You'll get an idea where we're headed if we don't start watching what we put in our collective mouths. The Globulate empire is at work every day, exhorting (I always loved that word 'exhort'... very powerful!) everyone to stuff themselves so the food moguls can make obscene bonuses. Notie.

How We got Into This Mess!

2010-02-05T23:00:00.000-05:00

POSTING #3 --

HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS!

Yes, I’m back again at my desk in Pope Clement VI’s old bedroom, with more investigative findings re my story of Planet Satiety… our planet in peril! www.planetsatiety.com

You’ve read my grim report of our culture of over-consumption of food and the health related problems it generates. You know… diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, arthritis… the whole Megillah!

I won’t get into the staggering statistics about these… I’m already a bit depressed about the hellacious remodeling project going on here at the old Papal Palace. Earlier, I mentioned this curious decision by the Vatican and recently, I met with the Papal Emissary and construction supervisor, Cardinal Aceité Balsamico-Basilico, S. J. I’d hoped to convince His Eminence to put this nutty project on hold.

He was a bit obstinate, to say the least!

But moving on, I said in my last posting that I’d give you a bit more background on just how we’ve gotten into the mess we have today with all the problems of over-consumption and what we have to do about it.

Here’s My Prediction (or, Forward-story if you will):

Consider our 22nd Century. Our global society has ‘fast-forwarded’ from the early 21st Century. A gripping fear of imminent final-global-ruin pervades our culture. Global warming has spun out of control. Three-fourths of the world’s plant species are extinct. Half of our bird species have vanished. Our big-fish species – cod, tuna and swordfish – are gone. Waste management is virtually non-existent. Everyday life is governed by breathing devices to aid respiration.

Major global governments have merged to form one Planetary Administration in the belief that central control will better serve the common good and achieve a carbon-neutral environment. Recognizing our major food commodities are driven by overindulgence in fast food (it’s cheap, convenient and filling), Planetary Administration establishes large cartels, awarding far reaching authority to manage our resources, particularly our food chain. In the beginning, the food cartels were good, bringing an end to global hunger by issuing food-ration cards for all. Predictably, with a selfish, predatory strategy, the most corrupt of these food cartels, Globulate, Inc. seizes the opportunity to exploit the situation for personal gain.

Through shrewd politicking, Globulate gains control over the majority of food production and distribution. Further, with this government-sanctioned monopoly, it greedily exploits its position of power by organizing the Secret Satiety Police (SSP) to enforce mandatory food consumption quotas for everyone. Neighborhood scales-and-mirrors spies – called ‘Zoners’ – report violations to the Secret Satiety Police and its enforcement squad headed by Gerd (The Enforcer) Reflux and his merciless corrections officer, The Porkinator. Accordingly, Globulate’s insidious leverage allows it to maximize profits and dole-out executive mega-bonuses, ostensibly while serving the common good. Right!

Globulate’s strangle-hold on forced consumption appears to go unchallenged… except for one secret underground society known as the Order of ECCE and its front organization named Quality Food Quickly (QFQ), a large proprietary food operation specializing in fresh, wholesome, healthier fare. To some, QFQ is the only shining light. In these dark days, it sparks a glimmer of hope. Through its ancient Code of ECCE and under the undaunted leadership of Sir Rex Freshward, QFQ rejects the Globulate mandate of overindulgence and clings to its Code of proven healthy eating principles:

Eat Carefully, Control Excess (ECCE)

Sounds ominous, doesn’t it! Clearly, QFQ is heading for trouble, but with Sir Rex Freshward at the helm, QFQ continues to push forward with its simple message of the Code of ECCE.

In my next posting, you’ll read more about QFQ, Globulate, Inc., and how one of the character’s personal experience, set this story up to go forward.

Ciao! Nostradamus.

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Over-consumption of food is killing us!

2010-01-31T10:33:00.000-05:00

POSTING # 2

In my continuing story of Planet Satiety, our planet in peril --- www.planetsatiety.com --- I’m here today at my desk in the old Papal Palace in Avignon, France – in the heart of altar-wine country – and the seat of my continuing investigation into our culture of excess food consumption.

I’m actually sitting in the original bedroom of Pope Clement VI. Curiously, the Vatican has authorized this old Palace be remodeled into a combination sushi-bar, sound-stage and modern haberdashery… my prediction is that this idea will struggle to survive!

I don’t want to be a naysayer… but in my last post, I talked about the problems of over-consumption and what it portends. I’m not an ‘I told you so!’ kind of guy, but here are some grim statistics. (My news get better as you read.)

A Dismal Picture

Health statistics point out that nearly two-thirds of all Americans are overweight or obese. That’s over 200-million people! About half of our youth and young adults ages 6 - 20 (55-million+) have the same problem and half of them are defined as clinically obese. (Check out the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) at www.jama.ama.assn.org They list nearly 100 articles, studies or reports on this problem… and that’s just the current stuff!

One last bit of bad news: it’s estimated that over 400,000 Americans weigh over 400-pounds. (I have amorous tendencies but I can’t imagine thrashing around on a motel floor for a couple of hours with someone that size! Wow!)

Now for the good news… I’m predicting a gradual revolution against all the bad stuff we eat which causes a lot of the overweight and obesity we suffer in our culture. I predict that our American youth will read the story of Planet Satiety and adopt the Code of ECCE… a simple guide to better eating and nutrition.

Here’s a little background on the Code of ECCE:

Long ago in 17th Century Togomia, there lived a man named Young Burgerstein. Blessed with fortuitous foresight, he created the Order of ECCE -- Eat Carefully, Control Excess. He also made the Codex, a small stone block upon which he carefully carved sacred words and symbols which remind everyone that Purity, Sanctity and Enlightenment lead to good health and Longevity.

The inscription in the top triangle …

ECCE VERITAS

means: Behold the Truth!

Reading across the column tops:

EDÉRE RECTE – CONTINÉRE LUXURIA:

means: Eat Carefully – Control Excess!

Atop each column is a special icon:

The Unicorn has long been revered as the symbol of PURITY;

next over, SANCTITY, is symbolized by the Nyame Dua;

next, the Ankh symbolizes ENLIGHTENMENT;

and on the far right, the Celtic Knot, stands for ETERNITY.

Therefore the pillars of the Codex represent this equation:

‘Purity, plus Sanctity, plus Enlightenment = Longevity’

The bottom inscription reads:

RÉCORDE: NON PALMA, SINE PULVÉRE

Which means something we all know:

REMEMBER: NO PAIN… NO GAIN!

“For hundreds of years the secret order of ECCE quietly grew in numbers as its members enjoyed a healthy lifestyle. The Codex was passed down from generation to generation. Then came the advent of fast food and the many unhealthy eating habits that followed. Gone were the days of men and women hunting, gathering and preparing their own foods. Pre-packaged and processed foods were the new way. Suddenly the sacred words of the Codex were more important than ever!”

In my next posting, I’ll set the stage for how we got where we are and give you my predictions about where we could be heading. Stay tuned!

Cordially yours for the future: Nostradamus.

Forget 2012... let's talk 22nd century! NV

2010-01-17T11:25:00.001-05:00

We are… Planet Satiety! We are a culture where excess food consumption is driving our lives. Overeating is the rule of the day.

Our children are experiencing difficulties in basic daily functions because they are overweight. They can’t pass muster in gym classes, they are experiencing an increasing incidence of diabetes and other metabolic diseases… adults are gradually becoming more immobile … heart disease, arthritis and a host of other clinical conditions are all manifestations of overeating. However, there’s hope for our youth… it’s called the Code Of ECCE. You can learn a lot about this eating code by clicking on www.planetsatiety.com Planet Satiety is a SciFi story about our planet in peril. It’s a witty and caustic look at our culture of overconsumption and presents a grim outlook as to what can eventually happen… which ain’t good!