Going through some materials unexpectedly for the "Grow A Healthier Pizza" Manuscript I would like to submit to Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

I met Jessica November 11, 2012 at the Pacific Symposium 2012

Her name appears on the plaque that will hang next to the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Art, "How Fast Can A Dream Grow? As Fast as a Blade of Grass!"

Looking now at a video I made with John Ikert, Professor Emeritus at MU. This video was made at the National Heirloom Expo, September 10, 2012.


END OF INDUSTRIAL FARMING SYSTEM

The organic, biodynamic, ecological, and sustainable food system of the future clearly will need to be “scaled up” from current levels, if they are to replace the industrial food system. However, if they are to be scaled-up without losing social and ecological integrity, they must span the entire vertical food chain, from farmers to consumers – from dirt to the dinner plate. If the cooperative value chain intersects with the industrial supply chain at any level, it will become a part of a vertical integrated or vertical competitive system in which large corporate entities have the economic or political power to extract the profits from the entire system. The sustainability of profits for farmers in vertically cooperative value chains depends on maintaining the social and ethical integrity of relationships among those at all levels in the food value chain, from producer to consumer. Relations based solely on economics are inherently and inevitably unsustainable. While such relationships are easier to form and maintain in local and regional food systems, vertical cooperation can span national and even global markets as well. The key to success is to form and maintain a meaningful sense of personal connectedness among people with shared ethical values. With modern communication and information systems, such relationships are not limited to local, regional, or even national markets.




http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/papers/Australia%20-%20Rediscovering%20Agricu...



IKERT SPOKE ABOUT WILLIAM ALBRECHT APRIL 2011


Ikert was speaking I see on Agricultural giant William Albrecht.

Albrecht was an expert on soil quality and was the first scientist to find a relation among soil, food quality and human health. He produced dozens of publications on the subject before his death in 1974.

His philosophy of soil and human health is contrary to the new Biotech Ag philosophy that believes we can engineer seeds to contain pesticides that are Round Up Ready. Round Up destroys soil fertility and human fertility, but this matters not to the latest and greatest Biotech Ag trends.


I first learned of William Albrecht from Dr. Bernard Jensen, my spiritual father. He wrote about one of Albrecht's soil experiments in his book, "You Can Master Disease."


HERE IS THE PRESS RELEASE I FOUND ABOUT JOHN IKERT SPEAKING ON
WILLIAM ALBRECHT






http://munews.missouri.edu/environment/2011/0425-media-advisory-lecture-to-ho...

John Ikerd: The Future of Sustainability Is Relocalization

Lloyd Alter
Living / Green Food
June 14, 2010

He concluded with a vision of a repopulated rural America.

The cities of the future will be looked at as being obsolete, and there are logical reasons for people to disperse. In the future we ill have clusters of dense but small communities, where people will spend most of their lives.....Rural people people must choose which aspects of their lives and culture they want to preserve, and which they will have to let go. The future of communities will be built on lasting value. We can discard the crap that we are building now, and new American farms will be built on the insights from the past. The factory pig farms, they can be razed to the ground or left as a monument to our stupidity.

The structures of the future may be new and energy efficient, but will be built on the ideas of the past. Rural places have great opportunities. Many still have water and air and a sense of belonging and caring, of being a part of something bigger than yourself. And the preserved architecture is the most visible sign of the viability of a community.

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/john-ikerd-the-future-of-sustainability-...


JOHN IKERT WEBSITE

http://www.johnikerd.com/johnikerd.com/Home.html



MANY VIDEOS OF JOHN IKERT

http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/




BROKEN LIMBS

A film that was inspired by the works of John Ikert.

http://www.brokenlimbs.org/john-ikerd-works/



CONTRAST JOHN IKERT WITH THE POSITION OF NINA V. FEDEROFF,
PRESIDENT OF AAAS, 2012::


HERE IS NINA FEDEROFF, AAAS PRESIDENT SPEAKING
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2006450



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