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9:00 - 10:00 Food Justice Speak Out [Mid-City Gym]
Organic Uprising!
Standing Up for Nature's Original Technology
Description: Organic Uprising! is an introduction to our current food emergency and how, through starting to grow some of our own food, even one beet, and perhaps, alfalfa in pots, we begin to regain our beat with nature.
Leslie Goldman, Presenter: Leslie Goldman, known as Your Enchanted Gardener, is a full time blogger who advocates for Real Food Safety. His work is called Plant Your Dream and he would like to inspire more people to become Beet Keepers. His current concern is the deregulation of genetically engineered alfalfa and other crops. Currently, he is speaking up for alfalfa through learning to grow it. Leslie lives with others in the Enchanted Garden, a third-acre near SDSU that aims to sustain a natural environment. He uses inspired poetry, photos, and videos to get his message across.
Location: Farmers Market
ALTERNATIVE WORDS
#YourEG on Twitter, Leslie Goldman, Enchanted Gardener,
leads a Spirit Rally on the site of the City Heights Farmers' Market.
Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's Talking
Beet Plant & organic alfalfa seeds, welcome you to this
Organic food planting giveaway..Speak a message
to the White House about Cultivating Food Justice by
saying NO to GMO, and YES to growing organic alfalfa in a BioSmart
pot!
SPONSORS
Sponsored by White Wave, Seeds of Change, City Farmers Nursery,
The Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Summer Garden
Gathering Program, and The Prosperity Hive; Grow Strong, and
The IRC New Roots Community Farm.
TENTATIVE SPONSORS
TO CONTACT TOO!
Braggs Sprinkles and Liquid Amino's, Dr. Bronner's Magic All Soaps,
Stonyfield Farms, UNFI NON GMO Project, Food Democracy Now break
up Monsanto Project, Institute for Responsible Technology Seeds of Deception book,
HAVE YOU GOT AN ENCHANTED GARDENER
ON YOUR TEAM? Once upon a time, there were two men
named Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield. They had a dream,
but no body would listen! Have you got a dream, too?
What is it? They went to 100 publishers wanting to publish
a book of Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories.
Leslie, Your Enchanted Gardener, has a dream! Now is the time
to turn back GE Seeds and take back all our seeds because each
of us needs to be organic growning in beat with Nature's Original
Technology of the sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and healthy soil
made from compost. Now is the time to create a Tipping point
where we Not Only Say NO to GMO, Genetically Modified foods, but
we say yes to being an Organic Uprising, each one of us Growing
some of our own food!
BACKGROUND
The Book "The Ultimate Gardener," authored by Charlie Nardozzi
of the National Gardening Association was dedicated to Leslie. It says
To Leslie Goldman, Enchanted Gardener, for planting dreams and
seeds of inspiration. To all those who garden and for those who dream
to garden one day.
By the way, what happened to Mark and Jack? They now have sold
more than The Chicken Soup for the Soul book series of over 200 titles has sold over 112 million copies, with titles translated into more than 40 languages.
ORGANIC INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS
AND LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVISTS
WE ARE ONE ORGANIC UPRISING!
CAMPAIGN of The BEET KEEPERS, RETURN!
My personal experience with Whole Foods Market.
I have called on Whole Foods Market twice for help. both times
they came through for me. One time, I wanted to go to Mexico
to give away organic oranges to kids on World Environment Day 05.
I reached out to WFM. Within 24 hours, I received a sponsorship
that paid for my expenses for the trip. Another time, I wanted
to promote JR Organics and a locally grown picked that day strawberry
campaign. Again, WFM came to my aid, helping me pay for the
San DIego Earth Fair booth. I admit I have personal ties with WFM.
Michael Besancon, #4 in the organization, was a hippie in the 60's.
He was my original avocado sandwich maker!
Read that story about Michael and the Avocado Sandwich's here--
THE ASSAULT ON OUR FOOD
AND THE NUCLEAR ASSAULT ARE
COMING FROM THE SAME CONDITION
A LOSS OF THE BEAT WITH NATURE
“Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperate passively with their own death.”
Japan’s Leaking Water Radiation 100,000 Times Above Normal
MARCH 29, 2011
MEET MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IN rBHT
NO LABELING OF GMO's
A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT
AND BRINGING THE US INTO ALIGNMENT WITH THE CODEX
ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION (of the USDA) http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Codex_Alimentarius/index.asp
Issued by Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC), United States, a unique nationwide coalition of leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists and representatives of organized labor, public interest environmental and women's health groups.
NOTE: Headings and editings have been added by the editor of this website.
Codex Alimentiarius decided to support rBGH mortatorium
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the U.N. Food Safety Agency representing 101 nations worldwide, has ruled unanimously in favor of the 1993 European moratorium on Monsanto's genetically engineered hormonal milk (rBGH).
The first major blow to GE foods
This unexpected ruling, revealingly greeted by the U.S. press with deafening silence, is a powerful blow against U.S. global trade policies which are strongly influenced by powerful multi-national corporations, such as Monsanto. The Codex Commission ruling has also forced the U.S. to abandon its threats to challenge the European moratorium before the World Trade Organization later this year. As importantly, the ruling represents the first large scale defeat of genetically modified foods on unarguable scientific grounds, apart from ethical and ideological concerns.
Biased experts
Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of unlabeled rBGH milk in February 1994, the U.S. has exerted considerable pressure on Mexico and other trading partners to approve rBGH in efforts to increase pressure on Europe through the World Trade Organization. In this, they have been strongly supported by reports from the Food and Agriculture/World Health Organization's (FAO/WHO) Joint Expert Committees on Food Additives (JECFA), including its latest September 1998 report, which unequivocally absolved rBGH from any adverse veterinary and public health effects.
"Horizon Organic believes it is important for consumers to have the choice of milk and dairy products produced without the use of growth hormonesŠ Horizon Organic is committed to providing wholesome, delicious, certified organic foods produced without the use of growth hormones, antibiotics or dangerous pesticides."
Monsanto, supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), insists that rBGH milk
is indistinguishable from natural milk, and that it is safe for consumers. This is blatantly false:
rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 toxic effects,
including mastitis, on its POSILAC label.
rBGH milk is contaminated by pus, due to the mastitis commonly induced by rBGH,
and antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.
rBGH milk is chemically and nutritionally different than natural milk.
rBGH milk is contaminated with rBGH, traces of which are absorbed through the gut.
rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor (IGF-1), which
is readily absorbed through the gut.
Excess levels of IGF-1 have been incriminated as a cause of breast, colon, and
prostate cancers.
IGF-1 blocks natural defense mechanisms against early submicroscopic cancers.
rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to the viability of small dairy farms.
rBGH enriches Monsanto, while posing dangers, without any benefits, to consumers,
especially in view of the current national surplus of milk.
Three people saw the value of the little alfalfa seed packets
I brought to #expowest. Each gave $20.00 when I asked for
a contribution. The first was Tom of UNFI, The Second Dave Murphy
of Food Democracy now, The Third...
FOLLOW UP
Photo of Addison goes here...
for the kids, we do this...
I WAS ON HELENE BERK's RADIO SHOW
MARCH 14. IS THAT MP3 available?
I was on a radio show March 14 from Downtown Disney...
The show is not yet available...or is it...Helene Beck?
Call Helene and her new co-Host, Amanda Dowel, a.k.a., Little Sparrow on Z Talk Radio with your questions:
424-644-6234 or join the Z Talk Radio Chat Room for an interactive conversation. Helene is a Registered Dietitian, while
Little Sparrow is a Medical Intuitive, Reiki Master, Shaman, Touch Therapist, Energy Healer, Animal & Angel Communicator and Medium.
Together, they address topics on MIND, BODY & SOUL. Connect with Little Sparrow on Skype as "littlesparrow2" & via AncestorOfLight.webs.com
ORGANIC UPRISING # (HILLCREST) FARMERS' MARKET
AND EVERY FARMERS' MARKET
ROMANESCO CAULIFLOWER SPEAKS UP
AT SUZIE's FARM
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY
THE WHITE HOUSE AND ELECTED REPD
ARE IN BED WITH BIOTECH
We NEED A REAL OPEN DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE,
ETHICS, AND FOOD
THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT MAY
HAVE PASSED BUT UNTIL WE HAVE
REAL FOOD SAFETY, SUPPORT FOR LOCAL
ORGANIC FARMERS, WILL WE NOT HAVE
TRUE EARTH BASED HOMELAND SECURITY
I'm focusing on this Economist spread because I think it beautifully exemplifies (and reinforces) the conventional wisdom on the future of food.
President Obama displayed his fealty to it by placing an agrichemical-industry lobbyist in charge of agricultural trade negotiations and by tapping a Monsanto-funded scientist to lead the USDA's research program.
USDA chief Tom Vilsack expresses it when he natters on about ramming open foreign markets to our surplus farm products.
Nina Fedoroff, until recently the State Department's chief science advisor, promotes it every chance she gets. She has moved on from shaping U.S. foreign policy on ag science to another influential position: president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The globe's best-endowed grantmaker, the Gates Foundation, endorses it every time it cuts a deal with agribusiness giants like Monsanto and BASF.
BILLS GATES AND THE DOOMSDAY VAULT
TELLING ARTICLE
We can legitimately ask why Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation along with the major genetic engineering agribusiness giants such as DuPont and Syngenta, along with CGIAR are building the Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic.
Who uses such a seed bank in the first place? Plant breeders and researchers are the major users of gene banks. Today’s largest plant breeders are Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and Dow Chemical, the global plant-patenting GMO giants. Since early in 2007 Monsanto holds world patent rights together with the United States Government for plant so-called ‘Terminator’ or Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT). Terminator is an ominous technology by which a patented commercial seed commits ‘suicide’ after one harvest. Control by private seed companies is total. Such control and power over the food chain has never before in the history of mankind existed.
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