CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE
CONFERENCE at SDSU, April 24-25,
I have a proposal in to teach
CONTAINER GARDENING 101,
the Simple Joys of Growing Some of Your Own Food.
Begin with growing a beet in a pot.
Move on to growing your very own lettuce.
For the more advanced students of Life,
start your very own Coffee Plantation today,
one coffee bean plant at a time!!!!
Grow some of your own food,
and know the local, organic farmer
growing the rest of your food!
FOOD SAFETY STANDARD
IF the lettuce you eat does not look
as fresh and alive as the lettuce
in this first photo, it may be unfit
for human consumption. Food that
has been abused or manhandled,
immediately starts deteriorating.
It is an unnatural product,
There is little any FDA regulation
can do about the Natural Law
that food deteriorates
other than follow nature's
rules.
IT is an injustice against
people and food to use
preservatives and other
methods to give good
an extended shelf life.
Our current food processing
methods of green production
are counter authentic
Food Safety.
Lettuce--and many other greens
were never intended by Mother Earth
to be packaged, shedded, bagged,
or ot...
Date: 2/7/2010 9:45:10 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 3328 times
This is healthy lettuce.
If the lettuce you are buying does not
'Feel" this vibrant, it is suspect
to diseases.
FECES in OUR SALAD
Study this Blog to understand the issues
regarding FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION
now that International Food Rule Reguators
and the FDA would like to move through
the Senate as fast as a speeding train.
In July 09, US BILL HR 2749 sped through
the House in less than a week with little
public awareness. Its sister bill, US BILL S. 510
will likely come before the full senate before long.
Artlciles that speak about "FECES in our Salad"
are here to help arouse public opinion so the
upcoming Food Safety Law passes quickly.
Behind the effort to pass these laws are efforts
by the FDA to harmonize US Laws with
international Food Rules, initiated by
the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
and other BIG PHARMA, BIG CHEMA,
and BIG AG interests.
Food grown by unhealthy practices will
naturally rot and have bacteria growing on it.
The person who shops locally, and supports
TOM VILSACK's program of
KNOW YOUR FOOD
KNOW YOUR FARMER
has a better opportunity to build a healthy
immune system that does not have to worry
about sick food.
7:33 PM
February 7, 2010
This is a photo of fresh picked locally, grown organic
lettuce grown by the JR ORGANIC Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) program. In this program local shoppers, who want real food,
buy in advance to support the Joe pay from his seeds and costs
before the shopper receives the food.
JOANE, JOE RODRIGUEZ JR, and MARIA LOPEZ,
former Student Body President PACIFIC COLLEGE OF
ORIENTAL MEDICINE (PCOM) , San Diego. PCOM
now has a JR ORGANIC CSA that began in 2007.
The students receive boxes each Thursday.
The CSA movement is becoming popular in America
and is the new BEETKEEPER movement.
The BEETKEEPERS ask that you grow some of your own food
in a container to get back in sync with the beat of nature.
The BEETKEEPERS believe that as a nation,
we can regain our confidence that we can grow our own food.
Whenever possible buy a local, organic beet from a local
organic farmer. Keep the Beet. Eat the Beet Greens.
After you have confidence, you can do this, grow other
kinds of greens, such as your own lettuce in containers.
If your lettuce does not look as good as the lettuce in this
photo, picked that the morning it was sold at the
HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET in San Diego, be causcious.
After you have confidence you can grow food in containers,
start growing trees. This will help remedy our economy
that is founded on Financial principles that are no longer sound.
Make Investments in the "Bank of Compost."
Healthy food produces healthy people
who can think for themselves. This promotes
authentic Food Justice.
It is an injustice to sell food that is old.
Lettuce is intended to rot.
Many of our foods are not intended by nature to
be processe or pre-packaged.
No Food Safety Laws can aleviate the basic problem.
We are breaking the laws of nature.
PHIL NOBLE with BRIAN BLUM
rare fruit tree plant parent at
the HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET
December 13, 09. Brian works for
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS. Leslie planted
a Seed Dream that the Brian would
campaign to have his coworkers join
the INLAND EMPIRE CSA.
ALICIA FINLEY and JOE RODRIGUEZ, November 2009
at the HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET
BEET THE BEET IS FEATURED
IN THIS YOUTUBE
MADE AT SGGE MOUNTAIN FARM
We are Seed Dreaming about a BEET KEEPER combination
CSA box box that will express the concept of coop farming
that we preach and practice.
SAMMY AND BEE
OF THE RODRIGUEZ
GROWING UP ON THE FARM
FIFTH GENERATION FARMING COUSINS
This is a video clip I made at the HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET of BEA RODRIGUEZ and her Cousin SAMMY, the daughter of SYLVIA RODRIGUEZ. I have been watching both this offspring of the RODRIGUEZ family grow up. It adds so much to my life to feel a part of this family and help in every way I can on most Sundays when I am in town. If you live in San Diego, please come by to the market. It is a wonderful experience. We can do some commerce over purple beans, but something much deeper we will exchange. Please support your local organic farmer. Feel the love of those growing real food. Help every way you can. Join a local CSA--Community Supported Agriculture. Our future of Food Safety depends on this.
Reduce Pathogen Loads
three areas:
A promising way to reduce the millions of
human illnesses triggered annually by foodborne
pathogens is to track the pathogens to their
source, understand the conditions in which
they thrive, and change those conditions. This
approach is logical and proven, yet in the case
of E. coli and leafy greens, is barely on the
radar screen of industry leaders or government
regulators.
Cattle and crop farming have co-existed on
the same farms, and in the same regions for
hundreds of years with few E. coli O157 illnesses
linked to consumption of crops. But leafy greens
marketed as ready-to-eat, fresh cut product are
uniquely vulnerable to foodborne pathogens
because:
• The harvested portion of the plants
grow very close to the soil,
• The produce is not cooked, and
• The bags or clamshells containing
fresh cut greens provide an excellent
environment for bacterial proliferation,
I SAY...
THe solution is not keeping cattle away
from the balanced farm, it is returning
to a system of acriculture that does not
make a pre=packaged commodity out of
natural products that are ill-suited for
such commerce.
The answer is not laws that further tie
the hands of local, organic farmers with
more regulations.
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