Hug Monsters® - A Message from Out of Space to All Cute Friends!

Hug Monsters® are aliens from the HugMe Planet. After years of observing Planet Earth and all its inhabitants, Hug Monsters® have finally decided to TAKE ACTION and try to save our Planet, and all its Cute Friends with their special powers. Their message to all humans is:

“Look all around you… clearly there is so much anger and hate in your World. What contributes to this anger and hate: discrimination?, the never ending wars and disagreements in the Middle East?, uneven wealth distribution?, atrocious crimes? Some people are sick and have an emotional addiction to being angry, but are all humans plagued by this disease? Answer is no…

Humans live in a period now where they have so much access to information (through newspapers, TV, Web). Because humans have so much technology around they expect things faster too! People are now able to see so many examples of other people getting what they want and having their expectations met while they continue to struggle. Therefore anger and hate is increasing because their expectations are increasing but are not being fulfilled. People hate seeing others having their expectations fulfilled while theirs aren't, jealousy is a very common feeling!

When people get what they want, then they are happy and content with themselves. But when they don't get what they want quickly, they get frustrated and that frustration breeds anger and hate towards others… Why is it so hard for people to be happy for others? Once you reached serenity and peace with your own achievements, you release all stress and free yourself from wants, desires and expectations so you can be happy with your present life and actually focus more on what you love and become a successful individual! Stop trying to follow your neighbors or trying to meet the expectations of others  and start listening to your heart and follow your dreams.

Us, Hug Monsters we became a great civilization because we embraced each other and all our differences making our life so much grander and prospering together. Our message to the silly Earthlings is: Be Cute and Happy! Have patience! Forget malice, leave aside prejudice, greed and thirst for power… Don’t hate! Just Hug! Hug it out! It starts with a hug and a smile to make the World a better place!”

Panda Poo Used for World's Most Expensive Tea!

When one thinks of tea, they may think of sitting back and relaxing in a comfortable armchair, cozying up to a roaring fire and then indulging in a warm, chewy chocolate chip cookie. They don’t think about pandas and certainly not panda poo. But, turns out, it’s all about the panda dung!

A Chinese wildlife expert and university lecturer turned entrepreneur is brewing what will be the World's most expensive cup of green tea, fertilized with panda droppings, according to various reports. Sichuan University lecturer An Yashi is debuting a special blend of green tea that is expected to go for as much as approximately $35,000 per pound. According to Yashi the tea has a mature, nutty taste and a very distinctive aroma while it's brewing.

Why is the poo so popular? Turns out panda excrement is loaded with various vitamins and minerals that come from bamboo – what pandas primarily eat. “Pandas have a very poor digestive system and only absorb about 30 percent of everything they eat,” Yashi told everyone. “That means their excrement is rich in fibers and nutrients.”

Yashi is convinced that all those important nutrients end up in the tea through that fertilization process. These nutrients are no joke, and Yashi claims that they are immensely powerful. “Just like green tea, bamboo contains an element that can prevent cancer and enhance green tea’s anti-cancer effects if it is used as fertilizer for the tea.”

Mr. Yashi is collecting the dung at a panda breeding centre in southern China. Reports say that he has been given a patent by China Authorities to market the tea. He has reportedly resigned from Sichuan University to focus on his tea venture. He has already collected five tons of feces, started growing the tea and expects the first harvest to be ready by spring, according to various reports. For the first batch, buyers would get not only the tea but also a special panda-shaped tea set and two of the entrepreneur's panda paintings.This brew would be ten times the price of the current most expensive tea in the World!

Yashi, is hoping the discovery – along with it’s hefty price tag – will earn him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. He might not be far off track with that idea. Kopi Lupak, an Indonesian coffee, is brewed from beans that have been eaten and then digested by the Asian palm civet, a catlike wild animal and can sell for as much as $150 per pound.