Category Archives: food

Two Important Op-ed Pieces This Christmas Season

Posted on 27-December-2020 by rogerdhansen

Two very insightful op-ed pieces were published during this Christmas season. They suggest that instead of feeling trapped by our 2020 conditions, we should look beyond our small world and look at the bigger global picture. There is much good … Continue reading →

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An Alternative Form of Worship

Posted on 20-June-2020 by rogerdhansen

In the COVID-19 era, people are starting to question what a future religious service might look like.  Recent changes in LDS meetings, encourage more religious instruction in the home and less instruction in chapel lessons.  Sunday meetings have been reduced … Continue reading →

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Distributing Food at Navajo Mountain Chapter, the Navajo Nation

Posted on 23-May-2020 by rogerdhansen

Last week, I visited the Navajo Mountain Chapter to provide some supplies for distribution:  hand sanitizer, masks, boxes, gloves, and coffee.  The majority of these supplies were provided by Navajo Santa, a Utah-based NGO.  A major food distribution from an … Continue reading →

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Assisting Rwenzori Mountain Elders with Food and Other Necessities

Posted on 19-April-2020 by rogerdhansen

The Rwenzori Mountains are located along the Uganda/Congo (DRC) border.  The Congo side is beset by Ebola and lawlessness.  The Uganda side is more stable.  But the recent outbreak of COVID-19 virus has made the food situation for the elderly … Continue reading →

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LDS Church (Via BYU) Endorses Caffeine Consumption

Posted on 21-September-2019 by rogerdhansen

Apparently Church leaders have completely changed their mind about caffeine consumption.  A food store display for Coca Cola has a major endorsement by Brigham Young University sports. Apparently Coke is the official drink of BYU. Coke contains a healthy dose … Continue reading →

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Global Extreme Poverty

Posted on 31-December-2018 by rogerdhansen

Recent United Nations’ Report While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions are still living with their families on less than the international poverty line of US$1.90 a … Continue reading →

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We Are Also Selling Vanilla Beans from Uganda

Posted on 21-December-2018 by rogerdhansen

In addition to selling specialty coffee, we are marketing Ugandan vanilla beans to help finance our humanitarian efforts in Africa. Vanilla is a important cash crop for small-scale and subsistence farmers in Uganda.  The variety is know as bourbon vanilla … Continue reading →

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We Are Selling Ugandan Coffee

Posted on 08-December-2018 by rogerdhansen

Subsistence farmers in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains grow coffee beans as a cash crop.  Coffee brewed from their beans has great taste and aroma, and is organic and fair trade.  Unfortunately, the area, located in western Uganda adjacent to the Democratic … Continue reading →

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Pay LDS Tithing or Feed Your Family?

Posted on 17-April-2017 by rogerdhansen

General Authorities need to be careful about the advice they give members during General Conference.  Suggesting that tithing should be paid before feeding your family is NOT good policy. In April 2017 General Conference, the following advice was given: After … Continue reading →

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History and the Nutritional Value of Alcohol

Posted on 13-February-2017 by rogerdhansen

By Andrew Curry, Writer [1] People drank the stuff (alcohol) for the same reasons primates ate fermented fruit:  because it [made them feel good and because] it was good for them.  Yeasts produce ethanol as a form of chemical warfare–it’s … Continue reading →

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