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enigma wrote:

Billy wrote in

ct.net.au:

May I just have plain, natural, non-technological food,
please?

no, of course not!
go to http://www.nonais.org & read yesterday's entry. then go
to the Fed's comments page & request the USDA not corrupt the
meaning of 'naturally raised' as they have the meaning of
'organic'.
as a small (natural, organic) farmer in the gun sights of big
ag, i thank you.
lee

http://www.nonais.org

Anybody who eats, should read the above page.

Big agribusiness and their "bought and paid for" politicians are trying
to separate us further and further from food production so that we will
be totally at their mercy.

Over half the seeds sold for gardens already have copyrights on them.
Small ranchers aren't allowed to butcher their own live stock, unless
they have stainless steel abattoirs, which are prohibitively expensive,
unless you are a major producer. This flies in the face of the fact that
most diseases can be tracked back to manure filled feed lot operations,
and rapid and undiscerning butchering of the animals.

For real food, support Community Supported Agriculture and small farms,
and buy locally, if given a choice.

It is amazing to me how often I come across the reference to feed lot
beef vs. pastured beef. Simple societies that consume large quantities
of meat do not get cardiovascular disease. The difference seems to be
the omega-3 fatty acids content of the animals food (apparently this
holds true for farmed salmon as well). Grass and leaves (and algae) are
high in omega-3 fatty acids. Grains are low in omega-3 fatty acids but
high in omega-6 fatty acids. Where our ancestors used to have a diet
that had a ratio of 1 to 1 of omega-3 to omega-6, our present diet is
roughly 1 to 10. Healthy food makes healthy people.

Grains also destroy the stomachs of the steers that it is fed to, which
is another reason that feed lots need to use antibiotics on their herds.
This in turn breeds antibiotic resistant bacteria which are becoming
more and more prevalent in the human population.

For those who haven't read it, you may want to read about the effects of
corn on beef in Michael Pollans article for the NY Times,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...F932A05750C0A9
649C8B63.

Lastly, gardeners, try to identify the weeds in your gardens befor you
pull them out. Some of them are medicinal, culinary herbs like cleavers,
purslane, chickweed, dandelions, and lambs quarters. These plants can
furnish flavor, fiber, diuretics, potassium, calcium, omega-3 fatty
acids, and anti-inflammatory compounds, among others things, to your
diet. I hate to think that some of us get sick, when the cure is growing
out in our own yards.
--

Billy

Bush & Cheney, Behind Bars
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/2...g_study_counts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movemen...George_W._Bush