Date:   7/8/2007 9:43:04 PM ( 17 y ago)
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Just after air and water, food is life. Agriculture was the basis of America, but where are we today? In a recent Power Hour radio interview Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm stated a sobering statistic: We now have twice as many people in prison as we do farmers.

The fist hammers control by lending policies and practices designed to manage compliant farmers and crush the independent operator. A myriad of regulatory schemes hammer market access, farming methods, land use, harvest and processing techniques to forge the industrial agriculture paradigm. The direct farm-to-market concept is made well nigh impossible outside of the occasional local farmer’s market.

Seventh Plank: "Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan."

Eighth Plank: "…Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture."

Ninth Plank: "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries…"

Tenth Plank: "…Combination of education with industrial production."

How many federally-subsidized red, white and blue flag-waving farmers understand the communistic roots of their enterprise?

We have entered the N-P-K diesel mega-tractor age. Add three "nutrients," plow, seed, spray and harvest. Gone is the balance between plants and animals on the farm. Fertilizer is an industrial product. Bug and weed problems are solved with petroleum- based chemistry and genetic alteration of seed. The majority of soil preparation and harvesting is a mechanical operation. Animals, if there are any, are warehoused in concentration camp conditions until they are processed into the packaged product we have all become accustomed to eating as if it were food.

The industrial-generated manure from CAFOs is a completely different blend than excretions from pasture-based livestock. In fact, many of these nutrient-rich manures are now so laden with parasiticides, hormones, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and poisonous appetite stimulants that their use is questioned by the organic community

Auschwitz Agriculture

Eggs, poultry, pork, and dairy and beef products, now primarily come to your table from "factory farms." Big-Ag’s incarceration-production facilities make Nazi concentration camps look like resorts.

Terminal performance

The final (until the next level of atrocity is invented) attack on sane food production is the genetically modified organism (GMO). Literally cracking the code of life, gene splicing has created Frankenstein foods for various corporate agricultural purposes. Aside from the threat to the genetic code of life itself by moving such creations from the laboratory to the field, real science documents the dangers of feeding GMO food to animals and humans....The ultimate in corporate agriculture’s greed comes in two forms. Patenting plants so that corporations can "own" life and prevent farmers from growing patented plants and "Terminator" seeds, designed to make farmers dependent on corporate seed sources. Terminator seeds, like hybrids, don’t produce viable seed for next year’s planting, creating dependency on the corporate seed source.

NAIS

The proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is ostensively to be used to identify farm animals and track down the source of disease outbreaks to minimize their epidemiological potential. NAIS proponents plan to identify every farm animal with a chip or other identifier, give every farmer a premise ID number and maintain a database to track it all. The regulatory mandates will be intrusive, even absurd. If you take a horse ride "off premises" it will have to be reported. Even 4-H children will have to register their premises....Estimated cost to the independent farmer to comply with NAIS is $5 to over $30 per animal. Factory farms will have premise exemptions, which eliminate the costs of chipping and record keeping for each animal. Two types of farms. One market price. Two cost- of-operation structures. Who will still be in business after NAIS?

"Fresh foods deteriorate and eventually decompose, regardless of human manipulation. To create nonperishable qualities in food is to eliminate its nutritive capacity. Living food decays." Test your food by leaving some out on the counter. Will it decay? Buy more of what goes bad first. Avoid foods that "live" forever.

Our food supply has essentially been embalmed. If you shop in the center of the supermarket for the processed, packaged foods, it’s more a case of being cremated or mummified.

Organic?

Remember, the governmental authority that approved the feeding of brains, spinal cords and chicken manure to herbivores in our food supply is the same authority that authorizes the USDA Organic label to be applied to the higher priced foodstuffs on the pretence that a higher standard of production was used. USDA Organic really stands for yo(U) (S)tupid (D)umb (A)ss "organic." It’s only as "organic" as government is honest. Will you pay more to be fooled again?

If you really want ecologically grown whole foods, seek out food with a private certification label such as CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers www.ccof.org), QAI (Quality Assurance International www.qai-inc.com) or OTCO (Oregon Tilth www.tilth.org). Better yet, find local holistic food farmers and buy directly from them. Know your food by knowing where it comes from.

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070603.htm

 

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