Marion Nestle - We need new food policy
FOOD, Inc. see it here
Insight into were our food comes from and how it is produced ....and the big companies that control everything.
http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/08/food-inc-corporate-controlled-food.html
Food is Medicine, GM Food is Poison
Among all developed countries, Americans are the fattest people in the world. The World Health Organization found over 60% of the American population is obese or overweight. Even more disturbing, the U.S. is the only country in the developed world to label obesity a national security health risk. Top Pentagon officials have warned Americans are becoming so fat, most of those volunteering for the Army are disqualified because of their size. Child obesity is also on the rise in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control estimates 1 in every 3 American kids are either obese or overweight. Jeffrey Smith, the author of Seeds of Deception, points to the mass production and consumption of genetically modified foods in the U.S. as a possible source of the problem.
http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/08/food-is-medicine-gm-food-is-poison.html
Showing posts with label Big Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Food. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Newsletter Post Script: Food
If you're a current subscriber to our every-other-month newsletter, herbalYODA Says! you would have received the July issue this morning. Later today our subscribers will get this update.
Food issues must be on most everyone's agenda of concern as several news items directly related to the most recent issue of hYS arrived this morning.
Just four companies control 84% of the nation's beef and 70% of its pork, one company controls 40% of our milk supply, another holds patents on 80% of our corn, and just five chains sell 50% of the nation's groceries — and this recent report goes on to suggest this concentration is at the root of problems in the rural economy.
Corporate ownership in the natural food market place has grown exponentially over the last decade
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/services/corporate-ownership.html
You can read more about 'plant sterol' hype in food and drugs, much from GMO sources
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/please-explain-this-to-cargill.html
And how GMO corn just might alter sea life -
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/corn-and-dead-zones-in-gulf.html
"Another Look at Livestock's Contributions to Global Climate Change
The Organic Center reports on a paper issued by the World Watch Institute (Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are cows, pigs, and chickens? by Robert Goodland, and Jeff Anhang) that estimates livestock accounts for over 51% of worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — a share more than four-times larger than the recent, official estimate (11.8%) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Although the report's findings are far outside the current mainstream projections, it's written by two experienced analysts working for the World Bank, and they identify eight key differences they have with the FAO projections.
The most significant, which accounts for over one-third of the difference, is something they term "overlooked respiration by livestock." Other factors they identify include overlooked land use changes, undercounting animal numbers, and misclassification of certain emission sources.
The report reinforces the growing consensus that much more work is needed to develop accurate estimates of agricultural sources of GHG emissions, a necessary first step in crafting policies to cost-effectively reduce emissions."
(source: Frontier Natural Products)
Important to consider also is the development of a new campaign against GMO food
NON-GMO CAMPAIGN
Coming in October 2010, the first NON-GMO Month
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/non-gmo-campaign.html
In Europe, all products containing more than 0.9% GMO are labeled by the government. In the U.S. and Canada, on the other hand, government has done nothing to inform consumers about which food and products contain GMOs.
It is estimated that GMOs are now present in more than 75% of the processed foods in the average grocery store.
Many people are concerned about the potential health risks of products made using the relatively new technology of genetic modification. The Non-GMO Project respects your right to know what’s in the food you’re eating and the products you’re buying.
Where consumers can learn more http://www.nongmoproject.org/consumers/
But some good news is that later this summer I'll be able to offer organic Chia seed in bulk for about $18/pound plus shipping in addition to all the other good organic, bulk items offered in our Natural Store. CHI Members receive a discount on all their orders.
Stay tuned!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Growing Healthier Food
I would encourage everyone to make a point to see FOOD, Inc.
It is enlightening if you are new to learning about the ways Big AG and the corporatocracy controls your food supply. And it isn't just regular foods sold in regular supermarkets, its the organic market as well.
I look back on the food I was provided growing up and cannot imagine the way is grown and or processed today. My mother shopped at the Amish Farmer's Market, we had eggs and butter delivered from the farm, our milk wasn't homogenized, and in the summer we had lots of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and fresh seafood.
I think real food makes a difference in how healthy you can be. I also don't think it is a terrible thing to eat meat, basically because some people do need to eat meat to insure there metabolic needs are met. (Find out your metabolic standard with our self-test, $40)
The key to the health of the meat you eat is based on what and how it is raised.
Just like the oft-misunderstood insanity of pH in humans, pH in animals makes a difference too. It becomes more important because you are directly impacted by what animals are fed.
We know about hogs that are fed sugar coated corn flakes to fatten them up; cows that are fed corn, soy, ground up cows and chickens; and chickens that are altered to get fat fast. It is that assembly line mentality applied to farming that seems to have lead us down the path to the current level of terribly poor health status.
One thing struck me while re-viewing FOOD,Inc. This one thing is something I have never heard in news reports about E.coli problems with meat.
Its the corn!
First it is most likely to be GMO, and it is raised with an over abundance of toxic chemicals.
Secondly, when ruminant animals that are - by nature - known to rely on grass as their food, feeding them corn and any other add-in you might think of changes their gut pH.
When you change the pH, you foster E. coli.
When you utilize crowded feed lots and faster and faster processing methods, you foster E. coli.
When you over dose animals with antibiotics and hormones aimed at a fast fix for this problem, you haven't considered the real issues.
Not considering the real issues leads to all the problems, and the concept that it is cheaper to pay the fine than correct the cause.
You can make a difference. Healthy food begins with your voice. Tell your grocer you want naturally raised meats and eventually that's all that will be sold.
In the interim, join an "own a cow-pig-poultry-sheep" group that feeds only what comes naturally.
It is enlightening if you are new to learning about the ways Big AG and the corporatocracy controls your food supply. And it isn't just regular foods sold in regular supermarkets, its the organic market as well.
I look back on the food I was provided growing up and cannot imagine the way is grown and or processed today. My mother shopped at the Amish Farmer's Market, we had eggs and butter delivered from the farm, our milk wasn't homogenized, and in the summer we had lots of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and fresh seafood.
I think real food makes a difference in how healthy you can be. I also don't think it is a terrible thing to eat meat, basically because some people do need to eat meat to insure there metabolic needs are met. (Find out your metabolic standard with our self-test, $40)
The key to the health of the meat you eat is based on what and how it is raised.
Just like the oft-misunderstood insanity of pH in humans, pH in animals makes a difference too. It becomes more important because you are directly impacted by what animals are fed.
We know about hogs that are fed sugar coated corn flakes to fatten them up; cows that are fed corn, soy, ground up cows and chickens; and chickens that are altered to get fat fast. It is that assembly line mentality applied to farming that seems to have lead us down the path to the current level of terribly poor health status.
One thing struck me while re-viewing FOOD,Inc. This one thing is something I have never heard in news reports about E.coli problems with meat.
Its the corn!
First it is most likely to be GMO, and it is raised with an over abundance of toxic chemicals.
Secondly, when ruminant animals that are - by nature - known to rely on grass as their food, feeding them corn and any other add-in you might think of changes their gut pH.
When you change the pH, you foster E. coli.
When you utilize crowded feed lots and faster and faster processing methods, you foster E. coli.
When you over dose animals with antibiotics and hormones aimed at a fast fix for this problem, you haven't considered the real issues.
Not considering the real issues leads to all the problems, and the concept that it is cheaper to pay the fine than correct the cause.
You can make a difference. Healthy food begins with your voice. Tell your grocer you want naturally raised meats and eventually that's all that will be sold.
In the interim, join an "own a cow-pig-poultry-sheep" group that feeds only what comes naturally.
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