A nerve was triggered last week at Rawesome. The actions of our government destroying health food which cost club members tens of thousands of dollars has every farm food lover alarmed.
Maybe it will take a plop of cow dung and a squirt of fresh milk from udder to tonque to get our elected officials to put the FDA out to pasture. Whatever it takes, America is ready!
Mark McAfee has effectively won battles against the establishment, by working with the media, holding rallies and asking for help from celebrities. He wants farmers to lead their consumers and get media savvy.
The Colbert Report spoofs the FDA’s incursion into a peace loving community of raw foodists with guns drawn. Now, late night American’s know their government wants to be their nanny!
Cheryl Hadden reads between the lines of a new FDA missive on improving enforcement. Parsing the gooblydegook, Cheryl maintains it is a lot of words and not much substance.
Posted in Food Politics | Also tagged food safety |
Kimberly Hartke reviews a new book, The Hidden Dangers of Soy. Borne out of the near death experience of a woman who thought soy would do great things for her health, this book is a wake up call to others deceived by the aggressive health claims of the soy industry.
The founder of a Pennsylvania Farmers market, Tom Maurer speaks out against the food safety bills, saying they veil a hidden marketing agenda.
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.
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…
Posted in Natural Health | Also tagged blog carnival, cow boarding, dangers of soy, Dr. Kaayla Daniel, problem with soy, Raw Milk, real food, real milk, soy, toxins in soy, USDA |
Robyn O’Brien, a mother of 4, is an unlikely adversary of the chemicals put in our foods by food manufacturing industry. When her child developed allergy problems, she was thrust into a search for answers. She now is the founder of allergykids.com, has a blog called Food Politics and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.
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