Tuesday, June 22, 2010

THE FOOD FREEDOM REVOLUTION



Throughout history, whoever had control of the food supply had the control over the people.It is amazing when one thinks about how little control we have today over how our food is grown and processed. Slowly but surely all of our food is being pasteurized under the guise of protection. This absolute denaturing of our food supply is not for our benefit but is for the purpose of making it cheaper for the corporations to grow and process food. Pasteurization of food destroys the living elements which make the food valuable to our bodies. Without the proper balance of enzymes and good bacteria, we become sickly and wind up seeking help from the very web of control that made us sick in the first place.The government and the corporations have become intimately interconnected...so counting on the government to "save" us..is not going to work. The sicker we are, the more money is made. The medical industrial complex has become the government. So.....I wouldn't listen to Michael Moore if I were you.....because either he is not aware of this fact or he is trying to promote MORE control by corporations.

Look at how we have been conditioned to have beautiful green weedless outside carpets (lawns). If the government really cared about the future of America, the environment and the health of Americans, they would be strongly encouraging us to use all of our available land to grow our own food. This way we could control what types of fertilizer we use, we could avoid pesticides, our food would be infinitely fresher, we could give our surplus to those in need, and transportation costs and pollution would be almost eliminated.We could stop poisoning our property with pesticides, weed killers and chemical feritlzers...which add nothing and actually take away from the health and well being of our living area.

Several books I would recommend are....... The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements , The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Thursday, June 17, 2010


Back to Basics: What Organic Really Means


These days, the word “organic” is everywhere. On food, clothing, pet supplies, lawn care products, and many other types of products on the market. But what does “organic” really mean? At its most basic level, organic refers to the way agricultural products are grown and processed. It includes a system of production, processing, distribution and sales that assures consumers that the products maintain the organic integrity that begins on the farm. This system, which is governed by strict government standards, requires that products bearing the organic label are made without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, antibiotics, synthetic hormones, genetic engineering or other excluded practices, sewage sludge, or irradiation. Guided by these and other standards, organic is the most heavily regulated and closely monitored production system in the U.S., enabling you to choose organic products with confidence. Learn more about why organic is the gold standard of eco-labels, and why you can trust it.


Organic Certification: A Look Behind the Organic Label
It takes a lot for a product to become certified organic. It has to be grown and processed without the use of toxic and synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, sewage sludge, and artificial colors and flavors. And the product can’t just claim to made without these substances; it has to prove it. In her featured expert profile, organic certifier Gwendolyn Wyard takes us behind the scenes to better understand exactly what “proving it” means within the organic system, and how it central this proof is to preserving and protecting organic integrity.



Washington, D.C. Schools Lead the Charge Toward Healthier School Food
Thanks to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative as well as other programs aimed at reducing childhood obesity, many schools around the United States are taking steps to offer students healthier food. As this article points out, schools in Washington, D.C. are among the most progressive on this front. School food will have to fall within strict calorie limits and be sourced, as much as possible, from local and organic growers. Trans fats will be eliminated. Plus, students will be required to exercise regularly. Read on to learn more about what the D.C. schools have in store, and how other groups are beginning to follow suit.







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Monday, May 31, 2010

I can not be silent.


They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf – J. Speer-Williams

Posted by sakerfa on May 17, 2010

The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in point.

Instead of cleaning up the unprecedented catastrophe created by the Cartel’s mega-corporations (Halliburton, Transocean, and British Petroleum), these very same companies are purposely killing our Gulf of Mexico, under the pretense of cleaning it up.

Instead of using safe, non-toxic ways to gather up the rogue oil gushing from their incompetence, or planned cataclysm, the private Cartel is using an extremely toxic chemical dispersant, with the approval of the Obama administration.

Alan Levine, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, said: “We don’t have any data or evidence behind the use of these chemicals in the water. We’re now basically using one of the richest ecosystems in the world as a laboratory.”

As reported in Britain’s Telegraph, Louisiana state Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Robert Barham reported: “We’re very disappointed in their [EPA and oil company executives] approach. The federal procedures call for a consensus between federal authorities, the responsible party and the states involved. When we met and expressed our concerns [over the use of dispersants], apparently they decided to go without us.”

And go they did. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency allowed BP to turn our Gulf of Mexico into a toxic testing ground, instead of removing the crude oil.

British Petroleum (BP) has even refused to use their own oil tankers, lying in the Gulf, to suck up most of the runaway oil, and possibly salvage it for sale later, as was done after a Saudi spill in the ‘90’s. That method was so successful, it vacuumed up about 85 percent of that renegade oil.

Nick Pozzi, a former oil pipeline engineering and operations project manager is puzzled why BP did not salvage perfectly good crude oil for later sale, and to thereby protect marine and wildlife.

What Mr. Pozzi does not know is the oil companies are owned by the world’s only legal counterfeiters – the International Monetary/Banking Cartel – who can “print” all the money they want, so making money on Gulf oil was not important to them. Killing the Gulf of Mexico is, apparently, important to them, for their own cryptic and esoteric reasons.

If the Cartel had wanted to save marine life, any oil they had not vacuumed up could have been mulched with any number of non-toxic materials, such as “Oil Sponge,” a name trademarked by Phase III, Inc.

Rated as the “best performing” absorbent by the US Army Corp of Engineers, Oil Sponge is 100% organic, and is made from renewable resources.

Oil Sponge is built using a microbial and nutrient package, capable of transforming oil hydrocarbons into a safe bi-product of carbon dioxide and water.

But, the governmental bureaucrats of the Obama administration, and the Cartel’s oil executives, had no interest in using an environmentally friendly product to clean up what is the greatest man-made environmental disaster of all time … they were intent on making this unbelievable cataclysm far, far worse, and one that could never be cleaned up.

It cannot yet be proven that the Monetary Cartel purposely blew up their own wellhead, but the crimes they have committed in their so-called “clean-up” efforts are well documented, in spite of no corporate media outrage.

After the Exxon Valdez incident of March 1989, Mycelx of Georgia developed what looks like a paper towel to soak up to 50 times its weight in oil. And while this product is used from the Middle East to Europe to Canada it was of no interest to the parties Obama charged with cleaning up the Gulf of the floating oil those very same parties caused.

Even hair naturally separates oil from water, leaving large tar globs, in which mushrooms can then be seeded. And as the mushrooms grow, they digest the oil, leaving non-toxic organics, which can then be composed into soil, great for growing healthy vegetables.

Anyone who has ever had a bad hair day knows how well hair will retain oil. In fact, Lisa Gautier, president of Matter of Fact (website for hair salons) has collected 400,000 pounds of hair, and stuffed it all into nylons to be used as booms near Gulf shores.

This idea could have been a shot in the arm of our dying economy, by creating organic compose for the millions of nutrient depleted farm acres in the world. Also there could have been a viable cottage industry of collecting hair from salons.

And, hair is certainly a renewable resource, with most of us contributing. But neither Obama or the Cartel will ever do anything for our dying US and world economy, but ensure it dies, while feebly pretending to resuscitate it.

But in the world of what could have been, there’s hay, sawdust, crushed volcanic rock, and even kitty litter that could have mulched with the oil on the surface of the Gulf waters, making for easy pick-up.

But, oil industry executives and their confederates in the Obama administration quickly made sure that all spewing oil would either sink well below the surface, or never rise to it, so it could never be vacuumed up or neutralized.

Worse yet, these international criminals of humanity, and life in the Gulf, committed their dastardly deed of deeply submerging the floating oil with an extremely dangerous chemical dispersant that would deny all marine creatures oxygen, thus killing them, and marine plant life to boot, as major underwater currents carry the poisonous oil through-out the Gulf and into the Atlantic.

Trying to give this mass murder a positive spin, BP spokesman John Crabtree said his corporation had dropped more than 560,000 gallons of [toxic] chemical dispersants on the surface slicks and 28,700 gallons of the chemical at the subsea wellhead, 5,000 feet below sea-level.

Crabtree’s justification for such an insane, criminal act was that the dispersants would drive the oil well below the water’s surface, thus keeping it away from coastal shorelines. So instead of removing the oil, BP decided to make the oil even more toxic, and drive it deep into the ocean where it can never be retrieved, but will kill all marine life in its path.

Mandy Joyce, a marine sciences professor at the University of Georgia carefully chose her words about BP’s deplorable dispersants: “Anything that requires oxygen will not be able to survive that water. The food web is going to change. You could stymie the entire production level of the Gulf of Mexico. That’s a very real possibility.”

BP’s chemical dispersants contain 2-butoxyethanol, a compound that kills marine and wildlife, exactly the life our clean-up measures should try to save.

BP’s chemical dispersants, currently being dropped by airplanes, break the crude oil into tiny droplets that sink well below the water’s surface, where they form a giant cloud or plume, making it impossible to gather, as is the obvious intention.

And with this poisonous plume creating a dead zone, currently estimated to be about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, hidden at about 3,000 feet of water, no one can place an accurate figure on how much oil has actually gushed into the Gulf.

And once this death dealing plume reaches the large, rapidly moving Loop Current, this oily cloud of doom could swing toward Florida and Cuba, killing the coral reefs and marine life there.

According to Stephen Howden, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, the Loop Current could drag the oxygen destroying cloud into shallower waters thus potentially impacting the coral reefs and fisheries near Florida’s coast.

University of Georgia’s Mandy Joyce said, “It’s a good thing the oil is not damaging the coast line, but to say everything is fine because its not hitting the coast is missing a very important part of this equation.”

And I would say, Ms. Joyce’s statement is a serious understatement.

Another person famous for misleading and under stated remarks is our president, Barack Obama.

There can be no denying that President Obama and his EPA regulators are accomplices to the crimes in the Gulf of Halliburton, Transocean, and British Petroleum by allowing these perpetrators of the disaster to be the ones in charge of the capping and clean-up efforts.

How much longer will our government allow these corporate criminals to fail with the capping of the oil gushers ,and making a dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico and perhaps the Atlantic ocean?

Thus far, President Obama has made a grandstand play by pretending to excoriate the oil company executives responsible for the Gulf tragedy for not taking responsibility.

Excuse me Sir, it’s you who should have taken control and responsibility by tasking competent individuals and companies to cap this runaway well, and to clean up the mess, without destroying the entire Gulf of Mexico in the process.

And instead of excoriating the oil company executives and government bureaucrats who dumped over a half million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf, you should be arresting them for crimes against humanity, not to mention marine and wildlife.

Additionally, Obama’s teleprompter writers had the ignorance to state the ridiculous: “I know BP has committed to pay for the response effort, and we will hold them to their obligation,” read Obama.

The very obvious point Mr. Obama, is you should have saved our Gulf of Mexico, by making sure Transocean, Halliburton, and British Petroleum had absolutely nothing to do with the clean-up efforts, rather than making them pay to turn the Gulf into a dead zone.

President Obama went on to say many parties, including the federal government should accept blame for the disaster, he stopped short of saying he, himself, should be imprisoned for his part in so destroying life in the Gulf.

“There is oil leaking. We need to stop it, and we need to stop it as soon as possible,” said Obama.

It’s not a leak, Mr. Obama. It’s a volcanic gusher spewing out an Exxon Valdez every two to four days.

From whales and dolphins to sardines, from starfish to coral reefs, from microscopic organisms to all the fish in the sea, the Cartel has embarked upon killing, and will kill … unless they are stopped. Are you man enough for the job, Mr. President?

Source
They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf – J. Speer-Williams
http://dprogram.net/2010/05/17/they-are-purposely-killing-the-gulf-j-speer-williams/

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Little Muddy Farm – Windsor, MO

Member Grower – Kansas City Food Circle


The Little Muddy Farm

Robert Wayne Jones
816-225-7344
Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
misterjones (@) kc.rr.com
http://www.thelittlemuddyfarm.com
The Farm is a first generation farm established in 2004. The Little Muddy is between Knob Noster and Windsor Missouri on SE 23 Hiway. This 69 acre spread was formerly part of a larger farm that grew corn, wheat and soybeans. Conventional farming practices were employed and as a result the soils and minerals were depleted and the ground was allowed to lie fallow for 20 years. It was over planted with sudan grass. Since the time that I have been the environmental manager, I have used organic-sustainable practices to renew the vigor and vitality of the soil. Currently I do not raise any animals or offer any animal products. Fruit trees have been planted as well as elderberries, asparagus, garlic, grapes, rhubarb. I also have a number of bees for pollination. Join our CSA in 2010 and the produce will come from my all natural garden “Shiloh’s Garden” in Lee’s Summit or from my approved network of farmers.

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(from 2009 listings:)

PRODUCE LISTING and CSA DETAILSFrom the LocalHarvest listing for The Little Muddy Farm:

The Little Muddy Farm offers fresh home grown produce for sale at the Lee’s Summit Farmers’ Market. The location is downtown at Second and Douglas, April thru October, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Two acres are under production using sustainable agricultural practices to produce healthy and natural fruits, berries and vegetables. We currently are taking orders for organic wheat grass and organic sprouts.

In 1975 I received a Degree in Plant and Soil Science, from then, Southwest Missouri State University. Thirty years later I bought a soybean field along The Little Muddy Creek and started planting fruit trees and growing vegetables. My hope is that this farm will become a community of like minded individuals who care about the food they feed their families and how it impacts all of our lives.

Spring salad greens, vegetable & herbal bedding plants will be available April 15 at our market in Lee’s Summit. Currently Organic Wheat Grass and Organic Sprouts are available for pickup. Allow 2 weeks for special orders. 2009 is expected to be our best year yet.

Farmers’ Market

Schedule and Location:
Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7 am to sellout at 2nd and Douglas in old downtown Lee’s Summit.

Farming Practices:

naturally grown, transitional, Organic (exempt)


Products/Crops:


(“WSSF” Stands for Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall.)


Vegetables: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

asparagus

beets

broccoli

cabbage

carrots

cauliflower

chinese greens

collards

cucumber

daikon

edamame soybeans

eggplant

garlic

green beans

green onions

hot peppers

lettuce

mustard greens

okra

onions

peas



potatoes

radishes

salad greens

shallots

spinach

sweet corn

sweet peppers

sweet potatoes

tomatoes

turnips


Fruits: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

apples

asian-pears

blackberries

cantaloupes

grapes

melons

peaches

pears

plums

raspberries



rhubarb

strawberries

watermelons


Nuts/Seeds: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

chestnuts

pecans

walnuts


Herbs: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall


fresh herbs


Flowers: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall


fresh flowers


Gourds: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall


gourds

pumpkins

summer squash

winter-squash

zucchini

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CSA: The Little Muddy (April-September)

In season produce grown locally with pickup dates and time to coincide with the
Lee’s Summit Farmer’s Market. Pickup and events at the farm to be announced.

CSA Details:

Season: April through September
Type: multiple farm
Since: 2007
# of Shares: 25
Full Share: $20/week or prepaid $300.00 per 20 week season
Work Req? No


Pick Up/Drop Off Points:

The Little Muddy CSA
Members pick up their shares at The Lee’s Summit Farmers Market at 2nd and Douglas on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Contact: Robert Jones
Phone: 816-225-7344
Address: 108 SE Greystone Dr
Lee’s Summit, MO 64063