I came from a long line of farmers and, in the '80's I worked for USDA, Farmers Home Administration (FmHA). Our stated mandate was to support family farms. Even then, large farms were crowding out the small ones. Farmers are probably the most resourceful, hard-working, and caring people in the country. Once we get big government/corporate agriculture out of the way, farmers will re-build the food industry, if they can get a piece of land. Support local farms and small businesses!
How do we get big government/corporate agriculture out of the way when its investors are getting support from fascist regimes everywhere? Family farms need to diversify out of cash crops into human food for local markets.
It's my guess that everyone has a past that includes farming. In my short lifetime, I've noticed the clearing of walnut trees, apricot, and cherry tree orchards, and no doubt a host of other food producing acreage. The fertile valley soil was compacted, and mostly residential units were then built on the scarce resource. Rain was then unable to percolate into the urban landscape as it had for millennia. Problems ensued, and the process of producing fruit and nuts was forever forfeited.
Cities have grown, farmland has been thereby infringed upon and consumed as though it were a renewable resource. Mountains surrounding the fertile valleys were left untouched while the valley real estate was bought by developers. Govt intervention was non-existent, and the outcome has come home now to bite us with terrible results.
The time to act has been long past. Much like the Second World War; wherein if the Nazis were allowed to grow their war machine to their liking, the country would have over-run the entire world eventually, even their allies. A costly stop had to be made while it was still tenable.
Please forgive me for persisting in this thing, but it has become quite evident that current conditions are becoming less clandestine and more in our face after a long and protracted preparation for this very event. The prophet E.G. White of the 19th century correctly directed the children of faith to work a small farm, but large enough to offer sustainability and a little distance from neighbors. She correctly predicted that in the "end of days" that the greed and sinfulness of man would overshadow his conscience and that due to this, the livestock would become unfit for food. An advocate of natural healing methods and those to grow foods, she was instrumental in educating many, saving lives and promoting Christianity along the way.
Those days are gone, and we're now living in the time when it is difficult to find ANYTHING healthy to eat. Turning to Christ for a future of no worries, through eternity, is an option we should not forego. Trusting in His Word is an open door among so many other locked pathways. Don't let deception or despair guide you astray.
Young people can see what's going on. Some, like my youngest son, are committed to subsistence living. They produce a lot of their own food and have neighbors who share their views (and their food). Thank you, John, for your excellent service. See Dr. John's Blog.
John, it is not necessarily that hard. Your example shows you know how to do it. You chose soil with big rocks. I chose soil without big rocks, started with good topsoil. Mulching is important. Compost to retain soil health. Learning from locals which varieties work best in your climate. Then spend several years growing stuff and learning what works best for the different plants. Tomatoes, kale and potatoes have few problems, though you have to move the potatoes or plant late to avoid potato bugs. Healthy plants defeat the bugs (mostly). It does require some investment in fencing and maybe raised beds. But my raised beds are 8 years old and the wood is still good (2x8s and 4x6 lumber used)
If the garden location is not determined, a gardener can seek out a better fit of circumstances, as with our rural garden. We bought the rural place with soil maps as the first step, but in the Austin rental, the back yard had a whole lot of rocks in clay soil, which had to be removed. They were not huge, just a whole lot for the amount of soil, which I cleared the top foot of.
It sure is good to find out what grows well in your conditions, which kinds of crops, and which varieties, ad start with that to get a harvest, before experimenting further. I have discovered a lot about what works well in Austin and what doesn't work, but it is not identical to Yoakum, which is about 90 linear miles away.
A couple of nights ago, after dinner at the house of a young Japanese couple with whom I am helping to make a local start-up school for kids, 8 year old Ana (the youngest daughter) asked me which is considered more rude in America, burping or farting? After we all had a good laugh and I gave my personal opinion, we got another laugh when she asked for a translation of "sukashi pe" (silent but deadly). She is as cute as a button, but her nickname among her older siblings is "hezaru" (farting monkey).
The reason I mentioned this, is that upon glancing through the article, I could easily imagine a future where our digitized and monitored Social Credit Score is linked to a methane tax to save the planet. A dollar a toot? Woops. Gotta hold my tongue. I may have just given yet another money spinning idea to one of Bill Gates' stink tanks ... uh ... "think tanks".
In the Catholic boy's school my dad put me and my brothers in for our first year in Japan, some of the clique of thought-they-were-cool Asian kids started calling me "aka jiri saru" (red-assed-monkey) for the way I peeled-oranges-like-a-monkey.
I didn't care, nor did I need their approval. They couldn't hurt me. I had started to grow, could do 10 pull-ups, and I signed up for Judo club.
Hi John! LOL ... aka jiri saru is a new one for me.
I had wrestled in high school (took 4th in the North Carolina state tournament), and did a bit in college ... but I was in for a rude awakening when I first arrived in Japan and tried judo. A different beast altogether. Most of the younger guys were built low to the ground and had thighs as hard as bricks. Could even begin to do clean sweep or throw. Once we were down on the mat, I could kind of hold my own — unless I was on bottom, which was usually the case. 😂
But those days are long gone now. Now just enjoy and occasional YouTube of the NCAA matches. Japanese Olympic wrestlers, especially the women's team, are also top notch, but don't get much time on the air.
Another LOL. Ukemi was the only thing that saved me when I got rear ended at a stoplight in Kanuma machi while on my brand-spanking new Honda Magna. I must have flown 5 or 6 meters before hitting the pavement and rolling. Was too shocked to be angry, so I picked myself up, ran to the car to see if he was alright ... only to discover quite a different language gap. He was a deaf mute, using sign language with his younger brother when he hit me. Another story for another day. 😂
Flatulence is caused by vegetation fermenting in the colon. It is fermented because humans cannot digest fiber. Those on carnivore diets notice the almost complete absence of this embarrassing problem.
Your digestive enzymes will adapt if you eat the same kind of fiber, such as beans, as a staple, and you will digest better, with much less residue to break down to methane.
No, I won’t actually. Legumes are not a proper human food, full of lectins and other anti nutrients that disrupt proper digestion. I used to eat beans before I knew better for many years. I don’t miss them or their negative health effects. They always rot in the gut creating gasses as they putrify. As do any fibrous veggies. Humans need zero fiber in our diets, just as we need exactly zero carbohydrates.
Agree with Klaus--the gut function requires fiber independent of whether it can be absorbed. Without fiber, Pooping would be slowed, and carcinogens would have more time to sit in the colon. Not good. Putrify is funny way to say ferment, isn't it?
Hi Meryl, I understand that is what you’ve been taught, but science proves it wrong, like so much in medical/nutrition literature. Here is an article that explains what I and all the other carnivores experience, a complete lack of constipation, and elimination of digestive issues, IBS, etc on a zero fiber diet: https://www.doctorkiltz.com/fiber-myth/
{...Humans need zero fiber in our diets...} BINGO !!!
But a thriving micro-biome in my gut desperately does !!!
Neural communication from colon to brain is about 7 times more dense than vice-versa; so who's the boss at the end of the day ? ...
Human bodies are nothing but another vehicle to keep anaerobic gut-buddies thriving even a long time after the Great Oxygenation event that would have finished them off for good.
We're not the apex creature, we're just a tiny one among the myriads of interconnected puzzle-parts in the "Big Picture".
This is in the medical/physiology literature, and I find it to be true in my own body, having given up eating birds and fish in spring 2001, when I began practicing Buddhism. It was a difficult transition at first.
But isn't your phone typically in front? You'll be dinged by some else's toots. And I can personally attest that upon getting up to leave a bus in San Francisco many years ago, I heard a GREAT deal of complaining from my own emissions. Me? I didn't smell nuthin'
It wasn't intentional, but I DO have to admit it was funny to hear all the loud complaints. My wife brings it up from time to time. And I crack a smile.
Climate Change hoax - never forget that Canada's PM Justin Trudeau eliminated 100 years of climate statistics because they were counterproductive to his global warming agenda.............
With Trump's attempted assassination and the blatant truth of government corruption being showcased heavily today, and in the heat of a presidential election that is filled with conflict rather than joint resolution, we need to wake up the world more than ever. That's my duty as an artist/human being.
I need your help to share THE FIRST Film EXPLOITING THE CORRUPTION OF COVID by Michael Angel Loayza Jr.
Thank you, Meryl and Door to Freedom. This is a beautifully coherent description of what is happening. With a clear solution and call to action. Small farms and regenerative agriculture are the way.
As a former farm owner and avid gardener, the movement for family farming is very dear to me. Human freedom has always been based on closeness to the land.
” We all want to protect animals and environment, as well as our own health, but it seems the obvious way to do that is to address the evils of factory farming and excess chemical additives used for crops and livestock" Indeed!. I did the math and found that the difference between the current 425 parts per MILLION in the atmosphere and 350 parts per MILLION in the atmosphere is a minuscule .0075%! It is not the molecule CO2 that is the issue, but rather what we call soot, unburned carbon, along with a huge number of industrial pollutants, aerial spraying, deforestation, using rivers, lakes and ocean for sewage and other waste disposal. Time to focus o reality. When Reality looks into a mirror, she sees Truth.
Regenerative agriculture uses no fertilizers, weed killers or insecticides, produces superior quality food, and the farm animals get to live in natural, low stress manner. There are organizations that educate farmers on these wholistic practices. Polyface Farm is a great example.
Yes, and so is this amazing book by Will Harris of White Oak Pastures: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food.
True but that doesn't mean he is practicing medicine without a license which would be something he could go to jail for. Practicing health is our own business.
Yes. they do it to make make money or to save money. The perps attempting to get rid of the humans definitely should send them all down below. "They" won't push healthy, organic food because they can't feed ALL the people with it. The same goes for healthy raw dairy, coconut oil, organic hair and face products, grass fed meat and other proteins, supplements.
We are being misled by many corporate food producers. When there was an uproar about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), many producers just changed the name to "bio-engineered ingredients". It's the same tainted crap. Read the labels and demand healthy foods.
I get that it works for some people, but as others pointed out, it does not work for everyone. That is why it is critical to NOT have a government-prescribed diet, one size fits all.
The WEF knows better than the humans who cooperated with nature, developing great wisdom and know-how and thriving for millions of years. When big business entered the scene things got a lot more complicated. The WEF is big businesson steroids, as we all know, so their concern for our health is risible. But whether the WEF, WHO and the rest of these robotic gangster types are human is moot.
I came from a long line of farmers and, in the '80's I worked for USDA, Farmers Home Administration (FmHA). Our stated mandate was to support family farms. Even then, large farms were crowding out the small ones. Farmers are probably the most resourceful, hard-working, and caring people in the country. Once we get big government/corporate agriculture out of the way, farmers will re-build the food industry, if they can get a piece of land. Support local farms and small businesses!
How do we get big government/corporate agriculture out of the way when its investors are getting support from fascist regimes everywhere? Family farms need to diversify out of cash crops into human food for local markets.
Fascist regimes may be everywhere but there is no faction more formidable than ordinary people discovering their collective strength.
Most modern ordinary people are too well indoctrinated to be collectable.
It's my guess that everyone has a past that includes farming. In my short lifetime, I've noticed the clearing of walnut trees, apricot, and cherry tree orchards, and no doubt a host of other food producing acreage. The fertile valley soil was compacted, and mostly residential units were then built on the scarce resource. Rain was then unable to percolate into the urban landscape as it had for millennia. Problems ensued, and the process of producing fruit and nuts was forever forfeited.
Cities have grown, farmland has been thereby infringed upon and consumed as though it were a renewable resource. Mountains surrounding the fertile valleys were left untouched while the valley real estate was bought by developers. Govt intervention was non-existent, and the outcome has come home now to bite us with terrible results.
The time to act has been long past. Much like the Second World War; wherein if the Nazis were allowed to grow their war machine to their liking, the country would have over-run the entire world eventually, even their allies. A costly stop had to be made while it was still tenable.
Please forgive me for persisting in this thing, but it has become quite evident that current conditions are becoming less clandestine and more in our face after a long and protracted preparation for this very event. The prophet E.G. White of the 19th century correctly directed the children of faith to work a small farm, but large enough to offer sustainability and a little distance from neighbors. She correctly predicted that in the "end of days" that the greed and sinfulness of man would overshadow his conscience and that due to this, the livestock would become unfit for food. An advocate of natural healing methods and those to grow foods, she was instrumental in educating many, saving lives and promoting Christianity along the way.
Those days are gone, and we're now living in the time when it is difficult to find ANYTHING healthy to eat. Turning to Christ for a future of no worries, through eternity, is an option we should not forego. Trusting in His Word is an open door among so many other locked pathways. Don't let deception or despair guide you astray.
Ray
The average farmer is old now, Phil. Our age.
Thanks Earl Butz and Henry Kissinger!
;-(
Young people can see what's going on. Some, like my youngest son, are committed to subsistence living. They produce a lot of their own food and have neighbors who share their views (and their food). Thank you, John, for your excellent service. See Dr. John's Blog.
Thanks Phil, Very Good!
Growing a vegetable garden is way harder than most people imagine.
Farming is purportedly just-too-much unless you grew up in it, I am told.
John, it is not necessarily that hard. Your example shows you know how to do it. You chose soil with big rocks. I chose soil without big rocks, started with good topsoil. Mulching is important. Compost to retain soil health. Learning from locals which varieties work best in your climate. Then spend several years growing stuff and learning what works best for the different plants. Tomatoes, kale and potatoes have few problems, though you have to move the potatoes or plant late to avoid potato bugs. Healthy plants defeat the bugs (mostly). It does require some investment in fencing and maybe raised beds. But my raised beds are 8 years old and the wood is still good (2x8s and 4x6 lumber used)
Exactly Meryl! It can be done! Get outside and get started!
If the garden location is not determined, a gardener can seek out a better fit of circumstances, as with our rural garden. We bought the rural place with soil maps as the first step, but in the Austin rental, the back yard had a whole lot of rocks in clay soil, which had to be removed. They were not huge, just a whole lot for the amount of soil, which I cleared the top foot of.
It sure is good to find out what grows well in your conditions, which kinds of crops, and which varieties, ad start with that to get a harvest, before experimenting further. I have discovered a lot about what works well in Austin and what doesn't work, but it is not identical to Yoakum, which is about 90 linear miles away.
Here is the basic layout for our climate zone, adaptable anywhere that you can grow cabbage-family and garlic over-winter. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Meryl, you are doing mankind a gigantic service with the reporting you do. Stay strong and keep up your great work. Regards, Jake McLean
A couple of nights ago, after dinner at the house of a young Japanese couple with whom I am helping to make a local start-up school for kids, 8 year old Ana (the youngest daughter) asked me which is considered more rude in America, burping or farting? After we all had a good laugh and I gave my personal opinion, we got another laugh when she asked for a translation of "sukashi pe" (silent but deadly). She is as cute as a button, but her nickname among her older siblings is "hezaru" (farting monkey).
The reason I mentioned this, is that upon glancing through the article, I could easily imagine a future where our digitized and monitored Social Credit Score is linked to a methane tax to save the planet. A dollar a toot? Woops. Gotta hold my tongue. I may have just given yet another money spinning idea to one of Bill Gates' stink tanks ... uh ... "think tanks".
In the Catholic boy's school my dad put me and my brothers in for our first year in Japan, some of the clique of thought-they-were-cool Asian kids started calling me "aka jiri saru" (red-assed-monkey) for the way I peeled-oranges-like-a-monkey.
I didn't care, nor did I need their approval. They couldn't hurt me. I had started to grow, could do 10 pull-ups, and I signed up for Judo club.
Hi John! LOL ... aka jiri saru is a new one for me.
I had wrestled in high school (took 4th in the North Carolina state tournament), and did a bit in college ... but I was in for a rude awakening when I first arrived in Japan and tried judo. A different beast altogether. Most of the younger guys were built low to the ground and had thighs as hard as bricks. Could even begin to do clean sweep or throw. Once we were down on the mat, I could kind of hold my own — unless I was on bottom, which was usually the case. 😂
But those days are long gone now. Now just enjoy and occasional YouTube of the NCAA matches. Japanese Olympic wrestlers, especially the women's team, are also top notch, but don't get much time on the air.
Yes, I was also better in the grappling, but I learned to block attacks pretty well, too.
I was 5'10" and 120#, so the shorter, denser guys did throw me fairly often at first.
I got good at ukemi.
Another LOL. Ukemi was the only thing that saved me when I got rear ended at a stoplight in Kanuma machi while on my brand-spanking new Honda Magna. I must have flown 5 or 6 meters before hitting the pavement and rolling. Was too shocked to be angry, so I picked myself up, ran to the car to see if he was alright ... only to discover quite a different language gap. He was a deaf mute, using sign language with his younger brother when he hit me. Another story for another day. 😂
A "freak accident", to be sure. I am glad you were able to roll out of it.
I have been hit by cars and trucks 6 times, ruining 2-3 of the bikes, but not me.
I really strive to avoid being hit by knowing my regular routes intimately.
Flatulence is caused by vegetation fermenting in the colon. It is fermented because humans cannot digest fiber. Those on carnivore diets notice the almost complete absence of this embarrassing problem.
Your digestive enzymes will adapt if you eat the same kind of fiber, such as beans, as a staple, and you will digest better, with much less residue to break down to methane.
No, I won’t actually. Legumes are not a proper human food, full of lectins and other anti nutrients that disrupt proper digestion. I used to eat beans before I knew better for many years. I don’t miss them or their negative health effects. They always rot in the gut creating gasses as they putrify. As do any fibrous veggies. Humans need zero fiber in our diets, just as we need exactly zero carbohydrates.
Agree with Klaus--the gut function requires fiber independent of whether it can be absorbed. Without fiber, Pooping would be slowed, and carcinogens would have more time to sit in the colon. Not good. Putrify is funny way to say ferment, isn't it?
Hi Meryl, I understand that is what you’ve been taught, but science proves it wrong, like so much in medical/nutrition literature. Here is an article that explains what I and all the other carnivores experience, a complete lack of constipation, and elimination of digestive issues, IBS, etc on a zero fiber diet: https://www.doctorkiltz.com/fiber-myth/
{...Humans need zero fiber in our diets...} BINGO !!!
But a thriving micro-biome in my gut desperately does !!!
Neural communication from colon to brain is about 7 times more dense than vice-versa; so who's the boss at the end of the day ? ...
Human bodies are nothing but another vehicle to keep anaerobic gut-buddies thriving even a long time after the Great Oxygenation event that would have finished them off for good.
We're not the apex creature, we're just a tiny one among the myriads of interconnected puzzle-parts in the "Big Picture".
How do you explain the excellent functioning of mine on a zero fiber diet for over a year? And many, many others have the same results.
Animals may be equal, humans are definitively not ...
Would be interesting to study your gut micro-biome and compare its composition to others.
"Your mileage may vary", as they say.
This is in the medical/physiology literature, and I find it to be true in my own body, having given up eating birds and fish in spring 2001, when I began practicing Buddhism. It was a difficult transition at first.
The literature created by the cult of veganism, you mean. Here is an article that will enlighten you on the state of nutrition science: https://foodmed.net/2017/08/medical-evangelism-adventist-diet-advice/
Medical evangelism: helping hand for unscientific diet advice? -
I can tell that you are an evangelist, Debbie, and I wish you well on your path, but we do not all have the same path.
I raised a calf for Ag. class in 1972-1973, to pass the class, and I quite eating cows after raising that lonely calf for slaughter.
People have different reasons for their actions. I practice non-violence, Ahimsa.
They need to make smart phones with olfactory sensors! Your digital currency account will be automatically debited for each offense.
But isn't your phone typically in front? You'll be dinged by some else's toots. And I can personally attest that upon getting up to leave a bus in San Francisco many years ago, I heard a GREAT deal of complaining from my own emissions. Me? I didn't smell nuthin'
It wasn't intentional, but I DO have to admit it was funny to hear all the loud complaints. My wife brings it up from time to time. And I crack a smile.
Ahem.
A wise man once said, “Whosoever smelt it, dealt it.” Then again, another wise man said, “He who denied it supplied it.”
The bottom line: We are the carbon they want to eliminate.
Precisely!
Climate Change hoax - never forget that Canada's PM Justin Trudeau eliminated 100 years of climate statistics because they were counterproductive to his global warming agenda.............
https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/100-years-of-climate-data-deleted-from-canadian-policy-report-including-historic-high-and-low/
What a hypocrite snake this Justin.
My friends,
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Thank you, Meryl and Door to Freedom. This is a beautifully coherent description of what is happening. With a clear solution and call to action. Small farms and regenerative agriculture are the way.
Great position statement.
Freedom is homegrown.
The anti-human agenda masquerading as addressing climate change is such a transparent scam. When will people wake up?
As a former farm owner and avid gardener, the movement for family farming is very dear to me. Human freedom has always been based on closeness to the land.
Here's an article from earlier this year.
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/food-sovereignty/
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
Thank you! Sharing...
” We all want to protect animals and environment, as well as our own health, but it seems the obvious way to do that is to address the evils of factory farming and excess chemical additives used for crops and livestock" Indeed!. I did the math and found that the difference between the current 425 parts per MILLION in the atmosphere and 350 parts per MILLION in the atmosphere is a minuscule .0075%! It is not the molecule CO2 that is the issue, but rather what we call soot, unburned carbon, along with a huge number of industrial pollutants, aerial spraying, deforestation, using rivers, lakes and ocean for sewage and other waste disposal. Time to focus o reality. When Reality looks into a mirror, she sees Truth.
Regenerative agriculture uses no fertilizers, weed killers or insecticides, produces superior quality food, and the farm animals get to live in natural, low stress manner. There are organizations that educate farmers on these wholistic practices. Polyface Farm is a great example.
Yes, and so is this amazing book by Will Harris of White Oak Pastures: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food.
Sure thing. Until he is slapped with practicing good health without a license!
R
True but that doesn't mean he is practicing medicine without a license which would be something he could go to jail for. Practicing health is our own business.
Yes. they do it to make make money or to save money. The perps attempting to get rid of the humans definitely should send them all down below. "They" won't push healthy, organic food because they can't feed ALL the people with it. The same goes for healthy raw dairy, coconut oil, organic hair and face products, grass fed meat and other proteins, supplements.
*no antibiotics either.
Reducing global temperature is a fool’s errand. Life on our Earth flourishes in warmer climates. Cooling leads to famine.
We are being misled by many corporate food producers. When there was an uproar about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), many producers just changed the name to "bio-engineered ingredients". It's the same tainted crap. Read the labels and demand healthy foods.
I get that it works for some people, but as others pointed out, it does not work for everyone. That is why it is critical to NOT have a government-prescribed diet, one size fits all.
The WEF knows better than the humans who cooperated with nature, developing great wisdom and know-how and thriving for millions of years. When big business entered the scene things got a lot more complicated. The WEF is big businesson steroids, as we all know, so their concern for our health is risible. But whether the WEF, WHO and the rest of these robotic gangster types are human is moot.