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Who tells us what we eat?
Who regulates our food today?
This is now an issue of Food Democracy.
Food Justice is the issue of our time,
and the return to a healthy economic
will be determined now by the simple
choices we make.
Is that dollar you just spent
on a french fry helping or bankrupting
you?
Date: 2/18/2010 12:01:12 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1483 times
9:35 AM
February 18, 2010
Who tells us what to eat?
Of course, we are the ultimate chooser
of what goes in our mouth, but this becomes
a little dicey when what we no longer know
what is in the food that goes in our mouth.
This is part of the issue behind labeling our foods.
We know by USDA law now what is organic.
The organic trade is certified by various controlling
bodies that put a kind of "This is Kosher" stamp
of approval on organic food. These specs
let us know if a good passes organic
specs.
This is not the case with many other supermarket
labels. Has a food been Genetically Modified with
Organism? Often the basis of this kind of modification
is based on selling Real Estate of a sort.
There are billions of dollars are made now through
breaking the very fabric of life into its gene parts
at a cost of billions, they identifying through science
how the recombined parts can now effect human health
and plant growth, and then putting new medicines
and plants grown from GMO seeds, as an example,
on the market.
This is the essence of what Biotechnology does.
Biotechnology has saved the life on one friend I know
through stem cell research. She would likely be dead right now
if it were not for advances through gene engineering that
have extended her life; however, we get into troubling
areas when we apply Biotechnology to our foods.
One of the basic premises of nature is that through
a diverse gene pool, and millions upon millions of
possible natural combinations, nature can respond
to viruses and other issues that naturally arise to
create foods that resist whatever plight might occur.
There was once hundred of kinds of potatoes as an example,
but when a plight hit in Ireland years ago, because they
only had one kind of potato growing, all the potatoes
died. Famine set in when
that one kind of potato was infected.
Biotech, in the realm of food, does that. Rather than
extend the diversity of the gene pool, it limits biodiversity
through attempts to make commodities out of food,
Science in the hands a real estate mentality, drives
the Soul out of Food. It attempts to establish new rules
that interfere with nature and her technology that
has existed to serve the common good.
Fast forward to the world of 2010.
In our efforts to make Food Safe, we have attempted
to beat the system.
We take foods such as lettuce, and turn it into a cash crop.
We are moving farther from the diversified local organic
farm that brings to market many varieties of foods from
a single farmer. This is more in alignment with natural laws.
Grow a bunch of lettuce constantly in own field, wear
our the soil, and then attempt to package the lettuce for ease of sale,
manipulate the health of the soil, with unnatural fertilizers
and "man-made lab based technology" hygiene ideas
and you are likely to sped up the rotting process.
It matters not how many Food Safety Rules you attempt
to regulate through the Senate, as in the current US BILL
S. 510, the FOOD SAFETY MODERIZATION ACT,
or HR 2729 that passed the House in July 2009,
you are still attempting to beat the system.
The only true Food Safety from a human point of health
is:
1. to support as much local, organic farming as possible,
2. graduate a nation of new high schoolers and college
students who know how to "Keep the beat with nature" through
beginning to grow a bit of their own food.
It is not a question of how much food each student
would grow. It is a question that each student knows
what it takes to grow food. It is a question of
discovering the simple joys of growing your own
food. It is also a question of reintroducing the noble
profession of healthy farming to a new generation
of youth that deserve the opportunity to again
see that each community--wherever they live--
needs local, organic, and beyond organic, farmers.
Hundreds of thousands of new farmers are needed
now to make our cities and our local economies
again vital.
What I am talking about here is a new kind of
banking, a banking on compost, a banking on
thousands of years of wisdom inherent in simple
yet complex seeds that are here to help us
make the most of the two seeds that get together
when every child is born.
Now is the time. This is the moment.
Food Democracy is at stake.
Food Justice is the issue of our time.
Building a healthy nation begins with
the next food choice you make.
Your Enchanted Gardener
Uncle Leslie
This is what healthy Lettuce Looks like.
If the lettuce you eat does not look this
vital, please visit your local, organic farmer
at the Farmers' Market or start growing your
own. Lettuce for JR ORGANICS,
San Diego, California.
KEEP THE BEET Growing
in the window of Ms. EVA BECKER's
Science Class, Hamiton High School
Los Angeles, February 18, 2010.
The little white pots are a gift
from ANTHONY RUSSO of the BIOSMART
and EATTHSMART Company, Sponsors
of KEEP THE BEET's END OF STYROFOAM CAMPAIGN.
The Students will fill the pots with FOXFARM
OCEAN and FOREST potting soil blend February 19, 2010.
THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
is DEDICATED TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS
OF MS EVA BECKER's SCIENCE Classes
at HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL Los Angeles.
They students inspired me very much
today, February 18, 2010. I was invited by
my niece Eva to speak to a few of her
classes.
I also want to thank my new friend
ALFRED who wrote this Email here
http://curezone.com/m/fm.asp?i=932368
Reading what Alfred wrote
made me start to write this.
I met Alfred last Friday night at a Shabbath Dinner
that I attended before my trip to Los Angeles.
RELATED PLANT YOUR DREAM
BLOG
UNCLE LESLIE
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1575115
KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT
growing at the ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
San Diego.
BEET KEEPERS are here to lead the charge
toward inspiring a nation of gardeners, one pot + one beet=
You're a Gardener.
THE BEET KEEPERS LOGO
Historic NOTES
THE BEAT GENERATION
OF THE 50's
http://www.fact-index.com/b/be/beat_generation.html
THE HIPPIES--
60's
http://www.fact-index.com/h/hi/hippie.html
I graduated from high school in 1965.
The Watts Riots were happening that summer.
I remember smelling the smoke as I
walked down South Fairfax Avenue.
TIMELINE FOR HAIGHT_ASBURY
SUMMER OF LOVE
http://wild-bohemian.com/timeline.htm
I was a VISTA ASSOCIATE that summer
assigned to Parks Job Corps Center.
The Vista's would come in to accompany
the youth. I went to the Avalon Ballroom
and saw for the first time Janis Joplin
and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
George Foreman was a boxer in training
at Parks that summer. Soon after, he
gained prominence in the Olympics.
We had numbers of "Bein's in
Venice Beach and Griffith Park
in 1970 in 1971 I was
writing for the San Fernando
Sun newspaper and had some of these
photos published. My arthritis
was showing up again. in 1972 I
left LA and moved the the country
to live with DR. BERNARD JENSEN
at the HIDDEN VALLEY HEALTH RANCH.
In 1969, the students from
U.C. Berkeley, Native American Studies,
were central in the takeover of Alcatraz Island.
I was a student at Cal State Northridge
and came up to give them the indians clothes.
I was one of the few white people who slept
on the island I was told. I wrote a story
about that experience.
before I won 5th place with a story on the
Native Americans, and 11th place the following
year.
I was managing the protest table at Cal State
Northridge when DEWAYNE JOHNSON, a friend
and journalism-photo teacher came down and
told me I had won the award. That protest
was about the death of students at KENT STATE
on May 4, 1970.
http://www.fact-index.com/k/ke/kent_state_university.html
HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING
OF THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
http://www.fao.org/docrep/v7700t/v7700t09.htm
The conference also hammered out guidelines
for the commission's first session.
In May 1963, the Sixteenth World Health Assembly approved the establishment of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme with the Codex Alimentarius Commission
as its principal organ (WHO, 1970) and cleared the way
for the commission to hold its first session in Rome in October 1963.
Some 120 participants from 30 countries
and 16 international organizations attended.
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