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Post by bunkie on May 28, 2009 9:17:13 GMT -5
great post dan, and i couldn't agree more.
the big corporations is truly a big knot in the chain. there's so much seed they've been pushing in the third world countries and such, where crops are failing and not producing as promised, farmers are committing suicide every day, not a pretty or abundant picture at all. and it's mostly all done to line the pockets of the coporate owners and shareholders as you mentioned.
your mention of the unhealthy drinking water sent a chill up my spine...now they say there are drugs, medicinal, in the drinking water. i wonder if a filter will eliminate them?
anyway, good post and i agree, it's why i am here!
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 28, 2009 10:11:38 GMT -5
HUZZAH to each word Dan! I can support your commentary from the bible if anyone is interested in hearing it.
As for chemicals in the water... well... we ought to be damn near terrified. A year or so ago I read and article and supporting research about city water in major European cities that had a shocking amount of cocaine. Gee? How did that happen? Seems druggies pee and the remnants of what they ingest are not completely filtered by livers and kidneys.
So, we support being solutionists!
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Post by silverseeds on Jul 12, 2009 15:01:51 GMT -5
I am very impressed with this forum, it is a small group but one with alot more knowledge then many larger forums I tried out.
Alan I love your message. I think it is imperative for our future.
As for a few who think we cant completly reject modern farming, I ask why not? It might make more pounds of food per acre, but what about nutrition, per acre. And at what cost? Sure not everything from th past should be idealised, they were as human as us. But whether by neccessity or not the fact remains they held a connection the their sorrundings, that many of us long for. People I think idealise these things because we can feel they are related and they of course are.
Now with plant breeding and better understanding of soils, we can do things our ancestors would have done anything for. The future can be ours, but not if we let our very ability and right to feed ourselves, be threatened, by globalism, and run away science expermients, passed as genetic improvements, through a media bought and paid for. I think pure genetics, and the possibilities of plant breeding offer us the clearest paths to freedom and sustainability.
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Post by ozarklady on Dec 26, 2009 16:43:22 GMT -5
I think that we must save the good about advances, and throw out the bad things. For instance, technology is how I am able to read this forum, and research things online.
But, we need to get informed about everything. Everything we eat, plant, or use everyday.
In another forum, I discovered that washing soda is in our foods. It has a hazard caution right on the product, and it is used in our foods! The more I learn about modern foods, the more I want to take control over the products that I eat and use in my house. Then you move it out a step, if I am going to take something inside that I grew outside of my house, what is used there? Soon, I am reading feed labels, and investigating, soon I am reading garden additives and investigating. Instead of throwing in the towel completely, we need to keep the good, the pure, the honest... and throw out the bad, the impure, the poluted, and the dishonesty. In order to do that we must be as well informed as possible. Which means alot of time online and researching. This nice thing about this forum, you guys, have already done some of the work, so I can just pick your brains, and wander off to research some other project that I am working on.
One of my things is gene pool. In plants and animals. Just what effect does a reduced genepool have on the human body, when we no longer eat a diverse diet? Just what effect is there on the human body, when we no longer eat bulls, but only steers... male animals are usually castrated to grow out for eating. That tenderizes the meat, helps them grow etc. I understand that... but, that decreases the male hormones that are ingested in our foods, makes the hormones that we eat mostly female ones... will this emasculate human men? I don't know, and I don't know if a study has been done. But, surely eating a vast vegetable genepool, and eating meat, that also includes male hormones, simply must be better for us. We need diversity in our diets, to maintain our bodies, how do you know, that poorly producing corn over there, just might have more of a vitamin or mineral that we are lacking in than some modified corns have. I want variety! I want massive genepools.
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