Yesterday, National Public Radio’s flagship news “magazine” show had a revealing story on what is behind the U.S. dairy industry woes. Through mergers and acquisitions, Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America have come to dominate the milk market and are squeezing the life out of America’s dairy farms. While Dean Foods executives brag about their “sunny days of record profits,” family farmers are having to risk their life savings to stay in business just a little while longer…
The House recently passed a new food safety bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new power and more money. According to recently discovered documents, this will do nothing to protect our food. Since 1980 it has been the official national policy to dispose of sewage waste on grazing land, fruits and vegetables, parks school grounds and home lawns.
Today, August 20, at 1:00pm for one half hour the Liberation Wellness Radio Show will be focusing on the Illinois Prison Soy Lawsuit, filed by the Weston A. Price Foundation. Sally Fallon Morell will be the guest of show host Kevin Brown. Please tune in over the internet.
Prompted by the news of the Illinois prison soy lawsuit, two blog readers ask questions about undoing the damage of too much soy food in a child’s diet. Dr. Kaayla Daniel, who is a nutritionist with an expertise in soy recovery, answers their questions.
Illinois inmates have requested a permanent injunction to halt the use of soy protein as a meat substitute in the Illinois prison system, claiming the diet violates the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
The case is captioned Harris et al. v. Brown et al. and is pending before the Honorable Judge Harold Baker of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The complaint names as defendants the State of Illinois, two administrative agencies, a private corporation that has a contract with the State to provide medical treatment to inmates, and 32 individuals who work for the State and the private corporation…
photo credit: stu_spivack Recession Cuisine: The Sacred Liver by Stephanie Small, Boda Blog “That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood.” – Barack Obama, 1/22/09 Fear is in the air and funds are short. In tough economic times, it’s best to pull inward, hunker down, and get to some serious grounding. [...]
On my library shelf, is a wonderful little book by Dr. Henry Bieler, M.D., Food is Your Best Medicine. Written in 1965, before Big Pharma had such a stranglehold on the business of healing, this doctor details case after case of how nurturing food played a role in healing his patients.When my brother was very young, he was diagnosed by our pediatrician, Dr. Knop, as celiac. She was an old school German doctor, and worked in the prestigious Yater Clinic in downtown Washington, D.C. She looked like a fierce school marm, with her dark hair pulled back in a tight bun. In her clipped German accent, she prescribed a strict diet for my brother of nothing but cottage cheese…
photo credit: -=Hot $auce=- Michael Schmidt, a Wake Up Alarm for Freedom by Tim Wightman, Interim President, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation When was the last time it happened to you? Your alarm goes off and some how you reach over without reaching over, hit snooze or even turn it off. And you lay there, not awake, but [...]
On Saturday, August 15, at 12 noon Liberation Wellness Radio Show will be focusing on the Illinois Prison Soy Lawsuit, filed by the Weston A. Price Foundation. Sally Fallon Morell will be the guest of show host Kevin Brown. Please tune in over the internet and call-in your questions to the show.
“High Fat Diet May Make You Stupid and Lazy,” screamed the headline. “A new study on rats finds that 10 days of eating a high-fat diet caused short-term memory loss and made exercise difficult,” said the copy. There’s just one problem with the press release: the rats in the experiment were not fed fat, they were fed an oil.
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I do read your blog on a daily basis; as a goat farmer and a proponent of raw milk, specifically raw goat milk, I certainly consider your blog required reading.
