Grow
a Garden... Discover REAL food...
Before it is Outlawed
One of the most wonderful benefits of a sustainable home, if windows are oriented to the south, is it's ability to generate food! Indoor gardens are a huge benfit to the air quality and produces the best food available!
The below articles,
on the passage of a corruption to the
USDA Organic
label, is scary! The only way to affect any business, is to do what
you would do with any product that is suspicious... Boycott!
"Phood"
producers are moving closer and closer to selling us things that have
no relation to real food. One can barely recognize what is being sold
in stores. Many childern don't even know where the meat on their plate
comes from: "from the store mommy!" There is no cow, pig
or chicken, in relation to a burger, pork chop or "chicken fingers".
There is no corn in relation to overly processed chips. There is no
"cheese" in the macaroni. There is little, if any, cocoa
in "chocolate". There is no humanity in "phood"
production.
REAL farms are becoming
extinct. Doesn't this scare the daylights out of you? Eminent domain
(theft of property rights by politicians/corporations) and urban sprawl
contribute to Corporate "phood" producers' farm take-overs.
Farmers have become dependent upon various conditions, that we all
have allowed to happen. They are dependent upon pesticides, rather
than rotating crops, allowing government to dictate what they can or
cannot grow, and extensive debt (to buy pesiticides, GE seeds, etc).
They've become dependent upon government subsidies (Ted Turner, and
other wealthy "pharmers", get millions of your tax dollars
to keep their pharms "growing" - do you think Ted needs it?).
Now... private ownership of water (the right to sell water) will add
to the death of farms as their water rights are stripped away because
they can no longer farm the food we need! It's a viscious circle, and
we are just barely seeing the effects on our food supply. Wars of the
future will not just be over oil... but water and food! And the corporations
will win... as long as we keep buying from them.
All subsidies (government
intervention - the theft and give-away of your hard-earned money) come
with conditions that farmers MUST adhere to, or they lose that money.
They become dependent, which eventually means that some big corporation
will soon own that land and will begin using it for GE phood-stuffs
and Terminator Seed phoods. We MUST stop sucking on the government
TIT. We don't get nutin fer free honey! Farmers become dependent upon
animal "pheed" suppliers that serve up cannibalized phood
to naturally vegetarian animals, because most cattle, pigs, chickens
and turkeys, etc, are not grazed anymore.
50% of the corn grown
in this country is genetically engineered (as are soy beans & strawberries),
some with fish and pesiticide (Roundup) genes. But cows don't naturally
eat corn! They eat grasses. Strawberries contain a fish (Cod) gene
to make them less susceptible to cold - longer shelf life. Geez, can't
do without a strawberry for a few months? No? Well then... dehydrate,
or can them! Not enough time? Maybe we should rethink what we do with
our "spare" time, and how much "stuff" we really
need, which con-sumes all of our spare time!.
Many farmers in 3rd world
countries are sold "terminator seeds" (from GE seed "manufacturers")
that will not produce a seed, that can be harvested and planted the
next year (a typical farm custom - do your children know this?); if
they do produce a seed they cannot, by law, cannot harvest them...
or they're sued! This makes farmers dependent, every year, upon the
company that produces these "phood" seeds. They lose the
farm, from the suit or because they can't afford to buy the seeds anymore...
this begins the corporate take-over. Is it any wonder that so many
are starving? Government/industry intervention into our food has NOT
worked! Most Europeans won't buy GE phood.
Then corporate "phood
pharmers" continue on, unhindered, with their "phood"
program, and sneaking it into stores with hardly a notice (Taco Bell
& Starlink Corn were the 1st, that we know of).
With seeds that contain
pesticide genes (Roundup), farmers are finding that they still must
use pesiticides, in increasing amounts. Duh. Bugs become resistent
to that crop, just as they have to the pesticide, before the gene-seed
was produced! All of this is all antithetical to a real farm! These
GE seed companies are "patenting" seeds (and genomes), thus
becoming the owner of many seeds (including natural ones), so
farmers (and you) are not allowed to use them without permission
and probably at great cost... every single year!
TOP TEN SOLUTIONS to
the "problem" of food production:
1. Get government OUT
of the business of regulating food. The USDA, FDA, EPA, ad
nauseum, has proven themselves to be totally incompetent. Unless you
consider that their agenda is not really designed to help, but rather
to control you and the food supply. After all, it will be
the next and near future world war... after the oil is gone. Stop relying
on a nanny government that only seeks to control your LIFE. FIND
OUT. Stop "believing"
these bastards... Buyer Beware! We can find food that meets
high standards, and we can demand (by withholding our money &
putting it where our mouth is) that growers begin changing their
practices.
(Monsanto bought the "Terminator" Seed producing
company). Poor farmers and third worldl peoples will be totally dependent
on these phood phascists!
2. Begin a yard garden...
Produce food. Tear down fences and Go
Big! Encourage neighbors to begin. Help them if they don't
know how. Begin living a "communal life"... Sell,
Share or Trade your veggies.
3. Get rid of the lawn
that sucks (water) and requires tons of pesiticides... which goes down
the drain and into our water source! Eat your yard...
:o) Dandilions are one of the most beneficial weeds
(a weed is a plant that man does not understand). Grow herbal
flowers. Work to affect change in your community if
gardens are not allowed... Put up greenhouses to protect your food
and to continue growing during colder seasons.
4. Get to know your neighbor
like never before... Start talking. Suggest and help him/her clean
up things you dislike, rather than force others to conform to your
agenda, which only destroys our Rights and is EXACTLY what "they"
want you to do. Return to the lost art of communication and negotiation,
without government interventionist laws and regulations. Or simply
leave others alone to relish, or wallow, in THEIR OWN RIGHTS! Move,
if you cannot tolerate it or cannot come to a mutual agreement. We
are an "intolerant" society, much as we love to
assure ourselves that we aren't... Maybe we should consider dumping
the word "tolerate" from our vocabulary. Instead... Understand
and Accept.
5. Buy products, meat
and veggies, directly from local, organic/natural farms. It may be
possible to get a better deal by paying cash to farmers & ranchers.
Request that they begin organic practices (if they don't). If organic
is not possible for awhile, encourage them to stop using pesiticides,
hormones (RGBH) and cannabalized "feed". Most farm feed contains
left-over parts of dead animals. Parts you might not normally eat...
certainly not (mad) cows!
6. Work to BAN "covenant
controlled communities" that only allow water sucking grass and
no food gardens. How insane and anti-humane is that?!
7. Buy, or Barter your
veggies and meat from hunters who are willing to share their take.
Elk, antelope, bear, deer, etc... Have a hunter fill your license if
you can't.
8. Conserve WATER! You
and/or your children can wear those jeans one more
time before they need to be washed..... Run your grey
water out to your garden. The plants will LOVE it! Collect rain
in trash barrels and your garden with it.
9. Work to change the
(water fascist) regulations that disallow this practice. Don't "believe"
the lies they spew. Your Property Rights
are at stake!
10. USE BIRTH CONTROL
- a taboo subject... but human beings are the most destructive creature
to the environment, next to government (are they human?)! Sometimes
I wonder whether we aren't just an out-of-control virus on the planet...
as Michael Reynolds, of Earthship
fame has posited in his books on building an Earthship.
It's time we really
begin putting our money where our mouth is... literally! It costs
producers a huge chunk of money to add the (corrupt) USDA label to
packaging. I had a conversation with Harvest Bread Company a few
years ago and that's what they told me. I quit buying bread with that
label, and I do the best I can to not to buy anything with that label.
But people "believe" government labels. They trive on our
"belief". Keep on top of who your food producers are and
what they are doing... it is your life-line to real health, without
drugs and the doctors who are "beholden" to pharma-con
(pill) manufacturers, not to mention the insurance industry!
An old California Organic
Food Act has been the most reliable and comprehensive label used. Find
the foods that still use that label, and stick to them. Or ones that
say "No GMO's", etc. It's very probable that producers are
forbidden to use certain words or phrases on their label. Don't you
find that outrageous? Isn't this a free society? ooops, I forget....
Not anymore! Of course there will always be those that will deceive
us with their labels, but it is a minority. And with the use and non-use
of our money they will be driven out of business. Free
Markets Rule!
Thinking
of buying another lawn mower? Buy
a SNAPPER! Or a goat...