...It doesn't break down and digest properly in your body. And now, with camera technology crammed into a pill, you can see the ugly truth for yourself.
Heba, author of the beautiful real food blog, My Life in a Pyramid, posted a great entry about an experiment conducted to show what really happens to the food you eat. I hope it convinces any fence sitters that gatorade and ramen noodles are not food! Check out the youtube video for yourself:
I am compelled to share this excellent food politics post and urge you to take action:
Maine Challenges Food Sovereignty
In summary, a small-town farmer in Maine, who happens to reside in a town where the local government has declared "Food Sovereignty," is being sued by the state for producing and selling Real Food. The Food Sovereignty movement in Maine began in Sedgwick and grew to a handful of other small towns.
The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” This includes raw milk, locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you can imagine. It’s also a decided bucking of state and federal laws. -- Food Renegade
The concept of declaring Food Sovereignty is brilliant and long overdue...if Blue Hill, ME falls to big gov't (whose witch hunt is of course prompted by big ag interests), where is the hope for the rest of us? We should all get involved to promote similar ordinances in our towns.
Please act on the plight of farmer Dan Brown and write to the Maine politicians involved (see info at the end of the abovementioned post.)
We "real foodies" are passionate promoters of good food in all its pure, natural glory. And no real food seems to come under fire more than raw milk. I have no desire to summarize the debate, nor highlight the issues here; I simply want to remind everyone that the quality of your raw milk matters. To read more about raw milk, please see my article, The Truth about Real Milk.
Only grass-fed raw milk is real milk (specific to cows' milk). It is not a good idea to drink raw milk from cows living on a grain-based diet. All commercial, industrial milk comes from grain-based dairies, and it is all pasteurized, sterilized, deodorized, "supplementized," adulterated, etc. We real foodies know to avoid such sludge...but it is important that we remind ourselves and our curious friends that grain-based raw cows' milk can be harmful and should be avoided.
Cows thrive on their natural diets...any creature does. Because cows were designed to eat grass and grass alone, their guts are not equipped to properly digest a steady diet of grains. Among other deleterious effects, such a diet changes the ph of the cow's gut, promoting the growth of malevolent e. coli...the well-known, oft-publicized cause of food borne illness.
Raw milk is not the enemy...harmful e. coli does not infect cows and their milk arbitrarily. The primary culprit is the grain-based diet. So if you want to consume and enjoy Real Milk, make sure it is raw milk from free-range GRASS-fed cows. To learn more, read:
Cornell News on Cattle Diet and e. coli
Science Daily on Diet and Disease in Cattle
Study on Grain Feeding and e. coli in Cattle
We are all concerned with the food industry using nuclear waste to irradiate consumer foods (in the name of "safety," ridiculously enough...if big ag weren't allowed to practice such dirty farming techniques, we wouldn't have a problem that needed to be eradicated). But how many people realize they are irradiating their foods and themselves at home?
If you use a microwave oven, you are causing serious harm to your food and yourself. Microwaving is not cooking. Among other assaults, a microwave depletes your food of nutrition and mutates its cellular structure (with a carcinogenic result). No one who cares about the quality of their food and their long-term health should use a microwave oven. And the offensives go deeper... Did you ever wonder why hospitals shouldn't microwave blood before transfusions or why mothers are warned against microwaving baby's bottle (the potential results are death and malnutrition, respectively)?
Read below for the shocking truth about microwave ovens, their history and their effects on our food and health. This is information you need to know, and it isn't being promoted by our government, health agencies or the electronics industry. Please unplug and throw out your microwave, then use the money you would have spent on an upgrade to buy a nice convection toaster oven or a new enameled or stainless pan. Your body will thank you!
Tom Valentine's Original article in Nexus Magazine (for purchase)
Yes, our world just keeps getting crazier and more infuriating. The plots of decades-old dystopian, dictatorial, Big Brother books seem to be playing out before our eyes. Are we awake and watching?
The government has said, more than once through different vehicles, that we, the people, do NOT have a fundamental right to eat the foods of our choice...to produce and eat our own food! Lunacy...
This is not going away, my friends, and we need to fight this tide.
Just read for yourself and continue to research and warn others:
FDA Legal Brief (associated with link above)
If you are like most Americans, you eat your fruit and toss the core...or pits. Who would want to eat something as unappetizing as apple cores containing seeds, right? And, hmmm, haven't we been told that apple seeds are dangerous for us because they contain cyanide?
It is once again time to defy the status quo, my friends. Apple seeds, the inner seed of apricot pits, peach pits, etc., are not harmful...in fact, they contain a cancer-fighting substance known as Laetrile (or vitamin B17).
This cancer preventative and cure has been used successfully for years around the world. This substance is natural, nontoxic, and free (if you are eating it in your foods anyway)...and our government has banned it. One man was actually sent to prison for selling and promoting apricot seeds as a cancer cure. I know...unfathomable. But, not really, once you begin to peel back the layers of corruption in the cancer industry and the government regulatory agencies that support it.
Don't take my word for it, read for yourself...please...and for your sake and the sake of your loved ones, don't begin your research with the ingrained presuppositions into which we have all been indoctrinated.
A wonderful place to begin your cancer truth journey is Ty Bollinger's book, Cancer: Step Outside the Box
Read on to learn the truth about "cyanide" and laetrile, and discover how apple seeds (and other "inedibles") can save your life.
Because this journal format is intended to be "fast facts to make you think," I will not use this post to explain our culture's broken birth system, nor will I write a treatise on the ills that befall women as a result. Suffice it to say that the ever-growing C-section rate is a dismal result of the birth industry's unnatural, unhealthy, illegitimate, technocratic factory approach to pregnancy and birth.
It might be called a crime against women, but they are willing (unwittingly perhaps) participants. Because too many women do not themselves understand what their bodies have been designed to do, they believe the lies in which we are indoctrinated from girlhood. They neglect to question the cascade of interventions and technological "requirements" of hospital birth, hence they end up victims of the system and the doctors that they "trusted."
It need not be this way. And our empowerment as women who can birth begins with knowledge.
Please read the links here to understand this crucial issue affecting a society of women and children.
Cesarean rates by state (and keep in mind these ever-increasing numbers are nearly three years old...)
The Unnecesarean post: Defending Ourselves Against Defensive Medicine (an excellent index of articles explaining how we got here)
The truth about orange juice should come as no surprise to those of us who have begun to lift the lid on the dirty little secrets of the food industry. But just in case you may be holding on to the hope that there is truth in labeling, or that Real Food can be mass produced and sold commercially without degrading quality, I am going to throw out this quick little bit of information.
Commercial orange juice is not real food. There is a reason that carton after carton (even the "pure," not-from-concentrate kind), OJ exhibits an identical flavor profile. That sweet citrus rush is not natural. I enjoyed the truth-revealing post on the Food Renegade blog and thought I'd use it to kick off my "Did You Know" journal.
Read about the secret ingredient that sells orange juice and please pass it on. Then, grab some ripe organic oranges (if you are able, you blessed warm-climate denizens) and make your own Real orange juice. Or, better yet, eat them whole...keeping the fiber with the juice reduces negative fructose sugar impacts on your system.
