Big Agriculture only remains powerful if we continue to depend on their centralized systems.
Big Ag may be able to create major hurdles for small local farmers from being able to provide for their communities, but if each of us take responsibility for growing some of our own food at home they cannot stop that.
Thus, overcoming Big Ag (and their philanthropathic associates) can begin with something as simple as a definitive choice, a handful of heirloom seeds and some tlc
I love growing heirloom food crops at home which have a history of empowering the members of decentralized rebellions to provide for themselves. Amaranth is the original outlaw rebel grain. If you were caught attempting to cultivate or possessing Amaranth seed by the Spaniards back in the day (after they invaded the Américas) they would have chopped off your hand or summarily executed you. The invading Spaniards saw how valuable this crop was to the people of the Triple Alliance aka “Aztec” people (that lived in what is now Mexico), the Maya and the Inca (culturally and nutritionally) and so it was outlawed for hundreds of years. Thankfully, Amaranth is a resilient and rebellious plant and she persevered despite the despotic attacks.
Thus, I will share an article that offers info on how to grow the underrated and underutilized ancient food crop that is Amaranth (exploring it’s many health benefits and offering some recipe ideas to enjoy your harvests)
Amaranth survived despite the Spaniards attempts at ‘planta-cide’ due to a number of factors, one of the main ones being her drought tolerance and ability to readily self seed. Additionally there were many loyal and courageous subversive Amaranth gardeners that intentionally protected this important crop through the generations, saving seed from the outlaw grain and passing it onto their children in secret.
In modern day times, Amaranth offers several advantages to those of us looking to resist the imperialistic conquest of the corporatocracy. For one, the plant is very versatile in where it can grow, and not only the seeds, but also the leaves are edible very nutritious. Secondly, the tiny seeds can be easily shared with other subversive empire toppling gardeners living both close and far away, empowering more and more people to provide for themselves and their loved ones, starve the parasitic plutocracy one homegrown/homecooked meal at a time and be able to do so without having to water their garden constantly in the hot weather (due to Amaranth’s impressive drought tolerance).
My substack article linked above offers some ideas for residential scale cultivation and speedy harvesting (using low tech tools) to maximize your harvests while minimizing work. I hope you find this info helpful! 🙂
Yes. I recently purchased a bulk order of free-range, grass-fed beef from a rancher in northern BC. My only complaint is its lack of fattiness, which I now understand is the result of grain-feeding. O well, at least I know it's clean of Big Pharma!
I see now the misunderstanding: I meant that the free-range beef is lean not fatty, because it is NOT grain fed like the industrially raised cattle are. And it's the fat that I miss!
Sadly, but nevertheless we must resist and do what we can as you do. My wife and I can buy organic meat at a local farm shop. It is/was selling its own pork some of which it makes into bacon/gammon.
Unfortunately the latter is treated with sodium nitrite (E250). However the other day the wife of the owner of the large estate was in the shop. My wife (retired teacher) taught her children so I had an introduction and raised the issue.
Apparently she was already aware and my words may have helped nudge the issue. I have a facial palsy from E250 poisoning which i discuss in part here for anybody interested.
I do not yet know if this has resulted in changes in the farm shop but I was encouraged, push back against the nasty chemicals is succeeding.
The most radical decentralization of how we obtain our food is to cultivate some of our own at home (every little bit counts and each of us can do out part, even if we start small).
That is great! :) What is your favorite crop in your garden?
I intend on having some chickens and goats on our homestead but for now we live in urban suburbia so I focus my efforts on the nutrient dense crops we can cultivate at home with the space we have. We use wind fallen oak and maple logs to grow nutrient dense gourmet mushrooms (such as shiitake and oyster mushrooms) we grow our own Amaranth for making bread, we grow goji berries (as well as 26 other types of berries), lots of beans, turmeric, ginger, a range of tree fruit, potatoes and yes kale too! We do buy some food from local farmers to supplement for creating preferred meals, but in reality we could easily survive (and be healthy) eating only what we grow on our little urban suburban lot.
You missed my meaning: I don't eat vegetables! I'm on a half acre of semi-rural property, but it's not zoned for animal farming. I did purchase an eighth of a cow from a farm up north. The meat is awfully lean, though.
You on the other hand, and your fam, are amazing! All power to you!
Excellent message! More and more of humanity is waking up to theses simple truths. Thanks for sharing my book. Food security is ultimately about being human -- both our liberty and health depend on it, and the globalist are coming for our food!....
Because only the ‘big box’ supermarkets and ‘health food stores’ like Whole Foods/Amazon could sell us ‘safe food’! HAH! Oh and we had to have a mask on to buy that ‘safe food’, out in Commiefornia.
Just bought your book...though on Amazon the price varied widely depending on the search one did...linking to Amazon from your website got the best price of $20.00. Look forward to reading it when I take a plane trip at the end of the month.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Excellent verse, not written to us today. The LORD speaking to Solomon concerning Israel in times past. Their future is outlined in the Books of the Prophets. God's program today is that... all men would be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4 kjv). There is no particular nation in this dispensation that has God's ear. All have fallen short...
We need to adopt this message . Withdraw from the elected WHO and the UN whose ideas of sustainability has been bought and paid for by their profit motivated elites. Readers could also also check out this message in books by food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author Vandana Shiva. Whole heartedly support.
As always, thank you Elizabeth. It's critical that we get the word about the psychopaths at the top and their toadies, leading us surely to Hell - the Truth about MKUltra, JFK and RFK and MLK and so many others, 9/11, the terrorizing War on Terror - Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and now, Gaza.
However, there can be a severe shortage of hope, of agency in that Truth, and some sort of plan to restore us to locality, to Small is Beautiful, is so important. I know the hopeless feeling my family feels when our farms in Indiana, which fed our Grandparents and Cousins are now too small to be viable, our few hundred acres have to be tilled by a neighbor who patches together a thousand and still barely makes it. A plan to make a small farm work again, to restore the smaller towns I love, Nelson, BC,, Blackstone, VA, who can only depend on skiiers or serving visitors, to let small logging or mining be viable again and give hope to the young folks who don't want to join the lemming run to college and the City, what a wonderful thing it could be!
Let's match knowledge of the Truth of the Evil we are facing with a plan to pick away at it, some agency at last. Thanks, again!
I lost my land in a family separation. I now write in the fight to bring truth to light. I'd almost do anything to get my hands back in the soil, though.
Thank you! As usual, a well written, spot on message. To see this article in action, listen to the interview by Joe Rogan of Will Harris. He has had a profound community impact while turning his conventional Big Ag based farm to a regenerative, no waste model.
Farming, any kind of farming done with human labor is the hardest work there is. Not too many people are willing to invest the time, money and sweat-equity it takes to run a successful farming operation. A strong precursor to Mr. Klar's book was published in 2000 by Victor Davis Hanson: "The Land Was Everything." VDH was born and raised on a family farm in California. At the age of 70 he lives on that farm to this day. He wrote "The Land Was Everything" at the age of 47. He is totally unsentimental about the brutal work and absolute necessity of family faming. He calls the family farm, dating back to ancient Greece, "the matrix of Western civilization." Here's a link if you are interested: https://victorhanson.com/the-land-was-everything-letters-from-an-american-farmer/
Great link, as someone who knows how difficult it is today with the powers that be breathing down the necks (or should I say stomping on the necks) of small farmers I appreciate you forwarding this.
On Oct. 31, I received an email that said it was from Welcome to Absurdistan. The email said that I could give a free subscription to 3 Individuals by posting their email address.
Did you send that email or was it phishing?
Thanks for you good work on Absurdistan, a drop of truth in an ocean of fantasy propaganda.
Thank you. You just gave me links to my reading for at least the next two weeks, I think. By the way, "organic" is not NO chemicals. Certain approved chemicals are usually allowed. And it's not just what substances and methods you can use -- it is also a whole philosophy and mindset and way of life if you want to be truly organic. Check out biodynamics if you are interested in organics on steroids (or equivalent similar natural substance).
And that's Official Organic(tm) - I think what we're talking about is a world where there isn't a top-level Official(tm) much of anything. Of course, ymmv.
Hate to be a party-pooper, but all of you claiming to laud small farms should just try and buy one. Then, attempt planting organic crops in fallow fields. Fallow, because if they were active, they will not grow organic plants. They are polluted instead with glyphosate. This is so well-planned by Bayer/Monsanto that it will take years to recover land farmed using non-gmo seed. For that, one needs a LOT of capital and a lot of patience. I’m just telling you the truth. Small farms still exist, but the economic model in the United States absolutely dictates the use of glyphosate, gmo seed and thus shall it remain until someone with money (!!) makes a damn change. Until that day arrives even “organic” food is likely to contain glyphosate
True enough, which means that it's time and past time to start pushing back. Like us old farts planting trees that we won't see fully grown, but still plant them. What's the point? Our children (even if they're middle-aged and not listening) and grand- and great-grandchildren. It'll be hard today but even harder tomorrow. Push back against Satanic Evil wherever we can!
I think it might take more than a couple of books, that don’t address the issue. That being, glyphosate is bad stuff, energy-intensive agriculture is the alternative and the government needs to stay the hell out of it!!
Yup. You've got your craw-bar under the glyphosate, mine's planting trees, we all push back where we're standing and something's bound to move! Evil's round, and it's tactically sound to come at it from any angle...
I'm usually the party-pooper at gatherings; so glad you stepped in here. I see no evidence we can turn this devastation around. The powermongers have coordinated for so long to take control. And, they have that unseen Angel dictating his will. So, I've cast my lot with his enemy who has revealed his plan to establish a new earth and new heavens. What other hope is there?
Yes! I just read a piece on Mercola.com that ALL oats (conventional or organic) have traces of glyphosate in them. (Not a big grain eater myself but know many people who eat their ‘organic’ oatmeal on a daily basis!)
As it turns out, glyphosate is not the killer; it has been found to cause cancer in some humans but not all. The real killer is the wetting agent, or surfactant, that comes packaged with the glyphosate. This stuff kills insects, notably bees, on contact. No training or licensure in handling these products is required. As it is not the “active” ingredient in the glyphosate, “RoundUp” solution its effects are undocumented and unreported. That’s the real culprit.
Well if glyphosate doesn’t cause cancer in some folks, how did RFK Jr’s CA law firm win a $290 million case and judgement against Monsanto for the likely cancer in their client, who was a landscape maintenance person in California. The client “was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and attributed his terminal cancer to his extensive use of Round-up and other Monsanto products.”
“Glyphosate is listed as a known carcinogen by the State of California.”
So…what does that mean? …because of his ‘profession’ he had direct daily contact with Round-up and ended up with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a terminal cancer in his case…is he the ‘norm’ or an ‘anomaly’ for cancers in people caused by exposure to glyphosate?
Okay. What do you want me to say? Obviously the court saw fit to award him, do you think he was the norm or an anomaly? Do you see a difference in exposure as a landscaper? No? Have a nice day.
"All of society benefits when families tend the soil." It's so heartening to see a great restoration on the horizon. Small is not only beautiful; it's rational, healthy, productive,
Such a return to healthy living, non-toxic food, stable communities, restored wealth is so clearly what is needed. It makes you wonder how so much could go wrong in so many areas of society.
Your best writing, Elizabeth, is when you paint an excellent real-world vignette like this, an alternate optimistic future, all of it based on rock solid research. Thanks so much for this.
It's surprising to realize the future doesn't need to be this 'foregone' scripted Reset to a turbo urbanized landscape of dysfunctional poisoned communities.
Again, another timely commentary dealing with a very important topic. Thursday was our third night in front of our town planning board fighting (us, not them) a proposed solar installation (they are calling it a solar farm) . The site is surrounded by houses and was once a farm ,a real one of about 175 acres.It was voted down once and then reapplied stating the plan was scaled down but that turned out to be weasel words. We have to endure listening to their hired gun, a slick talking oliagenous lawyer who calls expert after expert to wear us all down in hoping we give up and go home. My wife brought up the idea that maybe the best thing to do with an old farm is to resurrect it . In a normal world perhaps the surrounding homeowners would see the opportunity in front of them and maybe go that route. I know however , as I have mentioned previously , work on a farm in exchange for the food I help produce. It started out as just a way to help out someone who was struggling to keep it a float.I can tell you though that he gets zero support from the people who live around him. Complaints about the noise or smell or activity in general.No one within earshot of cows mooing buys anything from him. All very strange and disheartening. It is a hard sell when most of this generation has been brainwashed into thinking food comes from stores and that food is just food so why pay any more then one has to.Today we traveled a total of 20 miles or so just to buy a gallon of beautiful yellow ,creamy ,unadulterated raw cows milk and paid twice what we could have bought at the near by store within walking distance. This brings me to the abomination which is the pasteurization scam begun in the 1950s. Based on the admitted phony Louis Pasteur's made-up out of whole cloth germ theory.Anyone interested can look this up. Anyway, I will go back to what I have said before and that is that people will only change their habits when things become dire. And again I believe we are nearing that time with our small farms. I can only hope people like Elizabeth putting out this information helps people wake up.
“Big Agriculture” in North America today . . .
Feels like United Fruit Company in Latin America yesterday.
That’s a lot of power to overcome.
Big Agriculture only remains powerful if we continue to depend on their centralized systems.
Big Ag may be able to create major hurdles for small local farmers from being able to provide for their communities, but if each of us take responsibility for growing some of our own food at home they cannot stop that.
Thus, overcoming Big Ag (and their philanthropathic associates) can begin with something as simple as a definitive choice, a handful of heirloom seeds and some tlc
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/seed-saving-to-save-the-future
I love growing heirloom food crops at home which have a history of empowering the members of decentralized rebellions to provide for themselves. Amaranth is the original outlaw rebel grain. If you were caught attempting to cultivate or possessing Amaranth seed by the Spaniards back in the day (after they invaded the Américas) they would have chopped off your hand or summarily executed you. The invading Spaniards saw how valuable this crop was to the people of the Triple Alliance aka “Aztec” people (that lived in what is now Mexico), the Maya and the Inca (culturally and nutritionally) and so it was outlawed for hundreds of years. Thankfully, Amaranth is a resilient and rebellious plant and she persevered despite the despotic attacks.
Thus, I will share an article that offers info on how to grow the underrated and underutilized ancient food crop that is Amaranth (exploring it’s many health benefits and offering some recipe ideas to enjoy your harvests)
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/amazing-amaranth
Amaranth survived despite the Spaniards attempts at ‘planta-cide’ due to a number of factors, one of the main ones being her drought tolerance and ability to readily self seed. Additionally there were many loyal and courageous subversive Amaranth gardeners that intentionally protected this important crop through the generations, saving seed from the outlaw grain and passing it onto their children in secret.
(for more info on the history of Amaranth: https://cholaconcello.medium.com/foods-of-the-americas-amaranth-the-outlaw-grain-946957d9e51 )
In modern day times, Amaranth offers several advantages to those of us looking to resist the imperialistic conquest of the corporatocracy. For one, the plant is very versatile in where it can grow, and not only the seeds, but also the leaves are edible very nutritious. Secondly, the tiny seeds can be easily shared with other subversive empire toppling gardeners living both close and far away, empowering more and more people to provide for themselves and their loved ones, starve the parasitic plutocracy one homegrown/homecooked meal at a time and be able to do so without having to water their garden constantly in the hot weather (due to Amaranth’s impressive drought tolerance).
My substack article linked above offers some ideas for residential scale cultivation and speedy harvesting (using low tech tools) to maximize your harvests while minimizing work. I hope you find this info helpful! 🙂
Long live the rebellious Amaranth!
Right on the money. EVERYthing needs to be decentralized; starting with how we obtain our food.
Let Bill, Klaus et al feast on their bugs, with us watching!!!
...starting wherever we are today and wherever we can get purchase for our craw-bars! The Evil is all connected, every pushback counts!
Yes. I recently purchased a bulk order of free-range, grass-fed beef from a rancher in northern BC. My only complaint is its lack of fattiness, which I now understand is the result of grain-feeding. O well, at least I know it's clean of Big Pharma!
And you've Pushed Back, and in Omigosh BC! Good for you!
...and in many other ways besides this😉
Depends on the grain. If it is glyphosated then the toxic chemicals get into the meat.
I see now the misunderstanding: I meant that the free-range beef is lean not fatty, because it is NOT grain fed like the industrially raised cattle are. And it's the fat that I miss!
Thanks for filling me in on this. Where is your ranch? Probably in the States, which doesn't help me here in British Columbia.
True!
Sadly, but nevertheless we must resist and do what we can as you do. My wife and I can buy organic meat at a local farm shop. It is/was selling its own pork some of which it makes into bacon/gammon.
Unfortunately the latter is treated with sodium nitrite (E250). However the other day the wife of the owner of the large estate was in the shop. My wife (retired teacher) taught her children so I had an introduction and raised the issue.
Apparently she was already aware and my words may have helped nudge the issue. I have a facial palsy from E250 poisoning which i discuss in part here for anybody interested.
I do not yet know if this has resulted in changes in the farm shop but I was encouraged, push back against the nasty chemicals is succeeding.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/sodium-nitrite-e250-the-poison-in
The most radical decentralization of how we obtain our food is to cultivate some of our own at home (every little bit counts and each of us can do out part, even if we start small).
Do you have a garden at home?
Yes, but for me that means a cow and some chickens. I can't live on kale and potatoes!
That is great! :) What is your favorite crop in your garden?
I intend on having some chickens and goats on our homestead but for now we live in urban suburbia so I focus my efforts on the nutrient dense crops we can cultivate at home with the space we have. We use wind fallen oak and maple logs to grow nutrient dense gourmet mushrooms (such as shiitake and oyster mushrooms) we grow our own Amaranth for making bread, we grow goji berries (as well as 26 other types of berries), lots of beans, turmeric, ginger, a range of tree fruit, potatoes and yes kale too! We do buy some food from local farmers to supplement for creating preferred meals, but in reality we could easily survive (and be healthy) eating only what we grow on our little urban suburban lot.
You missed my meaning: I don't eat vegetables! I'm on a half acre of semi-rural property, but it's not zoned for animal farming. I did purchase an eighth of a cow from a farm up north. The meat is awfully lean, though.
You on the other hand, and your fam, are amazing! All power to you!
Amen!
Excellent message! More and more of humanity is waking up to theses simple truths. Thanks for sharing my book. Food security is ultimately about being human -- both our liberty and health depend on it, and the globalist are coming for our food!....
Remember in 2020, when a politician banned the purchasing of seeds? ... you know, to keep people safe.
Yep, Whitmer got re-elected in 2022! Sometimes it’s hard to not get discouraged 🫣
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/04/16/michigan-bans-many-stores-from-selling-seeds-home-gardening-supplies-calls-them-not-necessary/?sh=1d8fb6005f80
In Vermont, they initially closed farmers' markets as well!!
Well, you know, Covid! You might catch it from someone at the market, from the carrots you bought at the market, or some meat you bought there. 🙄
Or was it just that then you'd be doing what you wanted, instead of what They want?
Because only the ‘big box’ supermarkets and ‘health food stores’ like Whole Foods/Amazon could sell us ‘safe food’! HAH! Oh and we had to have a mask on to buy that ‘safe food’, out in Commiefornia.
Just bought your book...though on Amazon the price varied widely depending on the search one did...linking to Amazon from your website got the best price of $20.00. Look forward to reading it when I take a plane trip at the end of the month.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Chronicles 7:14 KJV
Excellent verse, not written to us today. The LORD speaking to Solomon concerning Israel in times past. Their future is outlined in the Books of the Prophets. God's program today is that... all men would be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4 kjv). There is no particular nation in this dispensation that has God's ear. All have fallen short...
We need to adopt this message . Withdraw from the elected WHO and the UN whose ideas of sustainability has been bought and paid for by their profit motivated elites. Readers could also also check out this message in books by food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author Vandana Shiva. Whole heartedly support.
Should read unelected
As always, thank you Elizabeth. It's critical that we get the word about the psychopaths at the top and their toadies, leading us surely to Hell - the Truth about MKUltra, JFK and RFK and MLK and so many others, 9/11, the terrorizing War on Terror - Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and now, Gaza.
However, there can be a severe shortage of hope, of agency in that Truth, and some sort of plan to restore us to locality, to Small is Beautiful, is so important. I know the hopeless feeling my family feels when our farms in Indiana, which fed our Grandparents and Cousins are now too small to be viable, our few hundred acres have to be tilled by a neighbor who patches together a thousand and still barely makes it. A plan to make a small farm work again, to restore the smaller towns I love, Nelson, BC,, Blackstone, VA, who can only depend on skiiers or serving visitors, to let small logging or mining be viable again and give hope to the young folks who don't want to join the lemming run to college and the City, what a wonderful thing it could be!
Let's match knowledge of the Truth of the Evil we are facing with a plan to pick away at it, some agency at last. Thanks, again!
I lost my land in a family separation. I now write in the fight to bring truth to light. I'd almost do anything to get my hands back in the soil, though.
"Back home again," in more ways than one, huh?
BIG-anything uses regulation to weed out(pun intended) smaller competitors. I will sign on to this thinking; we need it in Minnesota.
Thank you! As usual, a well written, spot on message. To see this article in action, listen to the interview by Joe Rogan of Will Harris. He has had a profound community impact while turning his conventional Big Ag based farm to a regenerative, no waste model.
I have become a BIG supporter of SMALL. Small government, small business, small farms. Fight for the “little guy”!!
Farming, any kind of farming done with human labor is the hardest work there is. Not too many people are willing to invest the time, money and sweat-equity it takes to run a successful farming operation. A strong precursor to Mr. Klar's book was published in 2000 by Victor Davis Hanson: "The Land Was Everything." VDH was born and raised on a family farm in California. At the age of 70 he lives on that farm to this day. He wrote "The Land Was Everything" at the age of 47. He is totally unsentimental about the brutal work and absolute necessity of family faming. He calls the family farm, dating back to ancient Greece, "the matrix of Western civilization." Here's a link if you are interested: https://victorhanson.com/the-land-was-everything-letters-from-an-american-farmer/
Great link, as someone who knows how difficult it is today with the powers that be breathing down the necks (or should I say stomping on the necks) of small farmers I appreciate you forwarding this.
On Oct. 31, I received an email that said it was from Welcome to Absurdistan. The email said that I could give a free subscription to 3 Individuals by posting their email address.
Did you send that email or was it phishing?
Thanks for you good work on Absurdistan, a drop of truth in an ocean of fantasy propaganda.
Thank you. You just gave me links to my reading for at least the next two weeks, I think. By the way, "organic" is not NO chemicals. Certain approved chemicals are usually allowed. And it's not just what substances and methods you can use -- it is also a whole philosophy and mindset and way of life if you want to be truly organic. Check out biodynamics if you are interested in organics on steroids (or equivalent similar natural substance).
And that's Official Organic(tm) - I think what we're talking about is a world where there isn't a top-level Official(tm) much of anything. Of course, ymmv.
Hate to be a party-pooper, but all of you claiming to laud small farms should just try and buy one. Then, attempt planting organic crops in fallow fields. Fallow, because if they were active, they will not grow organic plants. They are polluted instead with glyphosate. This is so well-planned by Bayer/Monsanto that it will take years to recover land farmed using non-gmo seed. For that, one needs a LOT of capital and a lot of patience. I’m just telling you the truth. Small farms still exist, but the economic model in the United States absolutely dictates the use of glyphosate, gmo seed and thus shall it remain until someone with money (!!) makes a damn change. Until that day arrives even “organic” food is likely to contain glyphosate
True enough, which means that it's time and past time to start pushing back. Like us old farts planting trees that we won't see fully grown, but still plant them. What's the point? Our children (even if they're middle-aged and not listening) and grand- and great-grandchildren. It'll be hard today but even harder tomorrow. Push back against Satanic Evil wherever we can!
I think it might take more than a couple of books, that don’t address the issue. That being, glyphosate is bad stuff, energy-intensive agriculture is the alternative and the government needs to stay the hell out of it!!
Yup. You've got your craw-bar under the glyphosate, mine's planting trees, we all push back where we're standing and something's bound to move! Evil's round, and it's tactically sound to come at it from any angle...
I'm usually the party-pooper at gatherings; so glad you stepped in here. I see no evidence we can turn this devastation around. The powermongers have coordinated for so long to take control. And, they have that unseen Angel dictating his will. So, I've cast my lot with his enemy who has revealed his plan to establish a new earth and new heavens. What other hope is there?
Yes! I just read a piece on Mercola.com that ALL oats (conventional or organic) have traces of glyphosate in them. (Not a big grain eater myself but know many people who eat their ‘organic’ oatmeal on a daily basis!)
As it turns out, glyphosate is not the killer; it has been found to cause cancer in some humans but not all. The real killer is the wetting agent, or surfactant, that comes packaged with the glyphosate. This stuff kills insects, notably bees, on contact. No training or licensure in handling these products is required. As it is not the “active” ingredient in the glyphosate, “RoundUp” solution its effects are undocumented and unreported. That’s the real culprit.
Well if glyphosate doesn’t cause cancer in some folks, how did RFK Jr’s CA law firm win a $290 million case and judgement against Monsanto for the likely cancer in their client, who was a landscape maintenance person in California. The client “was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and attributed his terminal cancer to his extensive use of Round-up and other Monsanto products.”
“Glyphosate is listed as a known carcinogen by the State of California.”
Not everyone is a landscaper. 😉
So…what does that mean? …because of his ‘profession’ he had direct daily contact with Round-up and ended up with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a terminal cancer in his case…is he the ‘norm’ or an ‘anomaly’ for cancers in people caused by exposure to glyphosate?
Okay. What do you want me to say? Obviously the court saw fit to award him, do you think he was the norm or an anomaly? Do you see a difference in exposure as a landscaper? No? Have a nice day.
The RFK Jr. Case against Monsanto
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-case-monsanto-roundup-weed-killer
Thinking about small family farms fills me with hope. Great article!
"All of society benefits when families tend the soil." It's so heartening to see a great restoration on the horizon. Small is not only beautiful; it's rational, healthy, productive,
Such a return to healthy living, non-toxic food, stable communities, restored wealth is so clearly what is needed. It makes you wonder how so much could go wrong in so many areas of society.
Your best writing, Elizabeth, is when you paint an excellent real-world vignette like this, an alternate optimistic future, all of it based on rock solid research. Thanks so much for this.
It's surprising to realize the future doesn't need to be this 'foregone' scripted Reset to a turbo urbanized landscape of dysfunctional poisoned communities.
Again, another timely commentary dealing with a very important topic. Thursday was our third night in front of our town planning board fighting (us, not them) a proposed solar installation (they are calling it a solar farm) . The site is surrounded by houses and was once a farm ,a real one of about 175 acres.It was voted down once and then reapplied stating the plan was scaled down but that turned out to be weasel words. We have to endure listening to their hired gun, a slick talking oliagenous lawyer who calls expert after expert to wear us all down in hoping we give up and go home. My wife brought up the idea that maybe the best thing to do with an old farm is to resurrect it . In a normal world perhaps the surrounding homeowners would see the opportunity in front of them and maybe go that route. I know however , as I have mentioned previously , work on a farm in exchange for the food I help produce. It started out as just a way to help out someone who was struggling to keep it a float.I can tell you though that he gets zero support from the people who live around him. Complaints about the noise or smell or activity in general.No one within earshot of cows mooing buys anything from him. All very strange and disheartening. It is a hard sell when most of this generation has been brainwashed into thinking food comes from stores and that food is just food so why pay any more then one has to.Today we traveled a total of 20 miles or so just to buy a gallon of beautiful yellow ,creamy ,unadulterated raw cows milk and paid twice what we could have bought at the near by store within walking distance. This brings me to the abomination which is the pasteurization scam begun in the 1950s. Based on the admitted phony Louis Pasteur's made-up out of whole cloth germ theory.Anyone interested can look this up. Anyway, I will go back to what I have said before and that is that people will only change their habits when things become dire. And again I believe we are nearing that time with our small farms. I can only hope people like Elizabeth putting out this information helps people wake up.