Talk about misguided. The country of Denmark recently passed a tax on all foods containing more than 2.3 percent saturated fat. Naturally, many healthy, whole foods made the list of taxable foods, including: avocados, butter from grass-fed cows, eggs from hens raised on pasture, and coconut oil.
Big Ag Deceives Us With Not So Natural Foods
The label natural is one of the least regulated descriptors in the U.S. marketplace, and major agribusiness companies are using that to their advantage. In the latest report issued by the consumer watchdog group, The Cornucopia Institute, we learn that they’ve routinely filled boxes of cereal goods with GMO-riddled, chemically-laden foods and slapped the label natural on them so that we’ll feel better about buying them. From Kellogg’s to Whole Foods, it seems no major label is exempt from this practice.
Fight Back Friday October 7th
Welcome back yet again to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.
Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!
So, let’s have some fun.
Ag Subsidies Linked To Obesity
The obesity epidemic. You’ve heard about it; I’m sure. According to numerous studies, more of us are getting fat than ever before. Considering that being overweight puts you in a higher risk category for so many other diseases of modern civilization, it’s not surprising that the statistics are so alarming.
Everyone who comments on the obesity epidemic points fingers at various culprits. We don’t exercise like we used to. We eat more calories than we used to. We eat more fat than we used to. We eat more refined carbohydrates than we used to. It’s the wheat! It’s the gluten! It’s the polyunsaturated fats found in vegetable oils! It’s the lack of play! The extra TV time!
But, would you believe that for the first time ever, a report has actually pointed the blame at agricultural subsidies?
Is Your Choice Of Food A Fundamental Right?
You grow a garden; you expect to be able to harvest the food from that garden and eat it. You raise a cow; you expect to be able to milk that cow and consume the milk. You raise chickens; you expect to gather eggs and eat them. It’s uncomplicated, simple, a fundamental right. Perhaps you wouldn’t feel this way if you lived under some other form of government, but here, now, in America and other democratized countries, this is what you expect. According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise.
Did You Know Walnuts Are Illegal Drugs?
It seems absurd. Yet thanks to the regulations set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, any food that makes a non-FDA approved health claim is advertising itself as a drug, not a food. Of course, if the food is actually a drug, then it suddenly becomes subject to all the laws, testing, and requirements of regulated drugs. Translation: foods as benign as walnuts are suddenly regulated like illegal drugs.
Deadly Salmonella NOT Illegal In Foods
Two weeks ago Rawesome Foods was raided for supplying raw dairy on the same day that the nation’s largest ground turkey recall was announced. A frequently heard comment on Facebook and the blogosphere that day went something like this, “You mean that raw dairy which has not tested positive for any pathogens or made anyone sick is considered so dangerous that they have to arrest three people and destroy an entire food buying club’s inventory, but that millions of pounds of drug-resistant salmonella contaminated turkey meat gets a “voluntary” recall months after the meat not only made people sick but actually killed somebody?”
The comments express a communal outrage at the disproportionate response by our government. After all, three people spent the night in jail and are facing felony charges because they chose to distribute (safe!) raw milk. Meanwhile, absolutely nobody faces any criminal or civil charges for killing someone with salmonella. Why is that?
Because deadly, drug-resistant salmonella is not illegal in raw meat.
Rawsome Foods Raided AGAIN by SWAT
On the heels of the recent news about raw milk’s safety comes an alarmingly disturbing coordinated multi-agency raid on Rawesome Foods — a raw food buying co-op in Los Angeles. The SWAT-style raid was coordinated at both Rawesome Foods and Healthy Family Farms and has led to three arrests so far, the confiscation of personal computer equipment and raw milk cheeses, and the dumping of more than $10,000 worth of raw milk down the drain.
According to early reports from people on the scene, James Stewart (owner of Rawesome Foods), Sharon Palmer (of Healthy Family Farms), and Victoria Bloch (local L.A. co-chapter leader for the Weston A. Price foundation) have all been arrested on charges of conspiracy to sell unpasteurized milk products.
USDA Potentially Deregulates ALL GMO Crops
At the end of last week, the USDA deregulated a new genetically modified, RoundUp resistant grass created by Scotts Miracle Gro. Over the past 6 months, it has deregulated several genetically modified crops, so this isn’t really shocking or surprising. However, the real alarm comes when you read the USDA’s reasoning behind deregulation. Turns out, the same logic can be used to deregulate just about every new genetically modified crop out there.
How I Fell In Love With A Fish
The first time my imagination ever wandered to Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm, I immediately fell in love with the lush grasses, the intricate relationships between the cows, the chickens, the pigs, the rabbits, the wildlife, and the various miniature ecosystems Joel cultivated. Here was true sustainable agriculture — something more efficient and ecologically sound than randomly grazing wild ruminants. Polyface was a far cry from a return to the glorified past. It was a farm of the future — a place where, rather than being depleted, the earth was actually being improved by agriculture while simultaneously providing huge quantities of food for us.
So it always struck me as odd when people who believe so firmly that a sustainable farm like Joel’s can produce high-quality foods turned around and decried all aquatic farms as polluting, unnatural havens of the demons. For these people, it’s wild caught fish or nothing — regardless of the undeniable and growing problem of diminishing wild fish populations. Doesn’t it stand to reason that if there is something out there as wonderful for the planet and our health as grass-fed beef, there might be a similar kind of sustainable aquatic farm producing (for lack of a better description) “grass-fed” fish?
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