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Stop the Bottled Water Scam: It is Destroying Our Environment and May Be Unsafe

Admin August 26, 2021 0 Comments

In 2019, the sales value of bottled water in Malaysia was approximately RM698.45 mil, meaning that Malaysians spent that enormous sum that year for an advertised promise of safer, purer and healthier water. But in reality plastic bottled water may not be safer, purer or healthier – it can be toxic, contaminated and harmful, and is a huge threat to the environment. Hundreds of recalls of...

Quarry in Sungai Ara, Penang threatens surrounding residents

Admin August 25, 2021 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Penang state government, Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang (MBPP), Penang Lands & Mines Office, South West District & Land Office, Department of Mineral & Geoscience, and the Department of Environment to review the operations of the quarry in Sungai Ara, Penang. The quarry activities that operate in Mukim 12, Southwest District are very close to...

CAP: Don’t be duped by fake meat

Admin August 24, 2021 0 Comments

Lately Malaysians are being gobbled up by a meaty scandal. Many are rightfully livid, demanding justice be meted out to the unethical individuals who have been feeding Malaysians fake Halal meat that are not be Halal or may have been mixed with diseased kangaroo and horse meat. But what is coming in the pipeline is even more shocking. Impossible Foods, the US-based fake meat maker that uses...

Help Ban Lead in Paints

Admin August 24, 2021 0 Comments

The Department of Standards Malaysia is currently soliciting public comments on the draft Malaysian Standard for Undercoating Paint for Gloss Enamel - Specification (Second Revision). Among the specifications is that the ingredients used in the paint formulation shall not contain lead. We need legally binding controls on lead in all paints as lead is toxic and there is no safe level of lead...

Do not forward videos with racist and seditious messages, report them

Admin August 23, 2021 0 Comments

With all the political turmoil our country has been going through, trolls as well as downright malicious people, have been creating and spreading questionable videos on social media and handphone messaging apps such as WhatsApp. These videos that are going around have hateful messages and clearly portray seditious and racist sentiments. The Consumers’ Association of Penang had recently...

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Admin August 20, 2021 0 Comments

"Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology."...

Nature’s wrath: The tragic floods in Yan

Admin August 19, 2021 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) are distraught to hear that three victims have been found dead in several locations around Gunung Jerai in Yan after yesterday’s floods. The floods and landslides were reported to be triggered by upstream water rush phenomenon at the waterfall area near Gunung Jerai. The affected residents here...

LANDSLIDE AT SHEIKH TAHIR FALAK CENTER IN PANTAI ACHEH, PENANG

Admin August 17, 2021 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is shocked by the landslide that occurred at the Sheikh Tahir Astronomy Center, Jalan Pantai Acheh, Balik Pulau, Penang recently. The information that we obtained stated that the cause of the incident was the failure of stone pitching used for slope protection due to heavy rains that had caused large boulders to slide. Information from the same source also...

LAWN TERRORISM

Admin August 17, 2021 0 Comments

"Lawns, it seems to me, are against nature, barren and often threadbare - the enemy of a good garden. For the same trouble as mowing, you could have a year's vegetables: runner beans, cauliflowers and cabbages, mixed with pinks and peonies, shirley poppies and delphiniums; wouldn't that beautify the land and save us from the garden terrorism that prevails?" ― Derek Jarman

REDUCING THE MEANING OF LIFE

Admin August 16, 2021 0 Comments

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This idea was extended by people like Descartes who saw the human body itself as nothing but a machine. Chemists tried to study chemical reaction in this light and reduce chemistry to a form of physics, and biologists tried to reduce their science to simply chemical...

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