Prevent Cancer by Detoxing your Food and your Life, blogger Kimberly Hartke launches a blog carnival on cancer prevention. Submit your ideas to this post!
Steve Bemis, Board Member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, shares his fears about HR 2749. He believes food safety is best promoted by exempting small farmers…
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped. HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse.
In January 2005, Virginia began to require permits for all mammalian milk (including goat milk), except for one species, Homo sapiens. Is someone going to make cheese from mouse milk?
Welcome to the Oakton, Virginia Farmers Market by Andrea Milstein, Guest Blogger The Oakton Farmers’ Market is in its 2nd year at the new Oak Marr Rec Club location on Jermantown Road. There are multiple ones of us who take turns as Market Masters, Pam and Jane, Jon and me. We are open for business [...]
photo credit: jayhem Wellness Protocol for Depression: Exercise, Nutrition This week’s Natural Cures blog carnival is spotlighting depression, a growing health problem in the modern world. Just recently, I heard of two heartbreaking cases of depression, one, which ended in suicide, the other, in the break up of a family. Depression is a sobering malady, [...]
My husband and I are looking forward to attending another new documentary film screening, in Charlottesville, VA on August 2, in conjunction with Farm Food Voices 2009, an annual event sponsored by Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, and the Charlottesville Chapter of Weston A. Price Foundation. Here is information about the event on the [...]
Small Farms and Food Freedom: Opening the Door to American Prosperity By Robert Burns, Aiki Farms As the Corporate hand slips it’s icy fingers around the throats of food production making legislative attempts to destroy any or all small farms via House and Senate Bills under the guise of FOOD SAFETY, there is a need [...]
Kim Alexander, a livestock producer in Travis County, TX speaks at a Listening Session in Austin, saying “Let the fire of liberty be lit.” See his impassioned comments on this You Tube video: Visit the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund website to learn more about the NAIS controversy: http://ftcldf.org
Last night, to celebrate my husband’s birthday, we went to the movies! Keith and I packed our homemade popcorn (movie theatre popcorn is made with transfats, YUCK) and headed over to Landmark Theatres in Bethesda, MD to see Food, Inc. Wow, is all I have to say. And, everyone in America needs to see this [...]
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