Thursday, July 30, 2009

Congress Don't Harm Our Food - Stop HR2749 Monsanto's Food 'Safety' Scam

The bill is being voted on this week.

It looks as if it was written by and for Monsanto.
It would seriously harm small farmers, local farms, make it difficult if not impossible to safe seeds.

This is a bad bill to say the least. A good bill would substantially encourage local farming, small farms, organic farms, seed saving and much more.

Let house (and senate) members know this and the other stealth 'food' bill are totally unacceptable.
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!! CALL TO ACTION !!

Beware of Monsanto and so-called Food Safety Bills !!!

To find your local House of Represenative Member Click Here:
http://www.house.gov/house/
MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

To Find your local Senator click here:
http://www.senate.gov/
general/contact_information/
senators_cfm.cfm?State=IN

Ask Congress to Defeat HR 2749
http://www.gnhealth.com/calltoaction.html

A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress--HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped!

HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse.

Working full tilt to stop that bill.  I know stuff out there is terrible but we have to stop the bill.  It opens the door to everything.  

Reach others.  Keep reaching others.  Use the FTCLDF link.
FTCLDF.org Petition number 993

Put out a red alert.  Don't stop on this. Everyone should be doing it all weekend.  To media, to radio channels, to TV channels, to any group you can possibly think of, to churches and temples - everywhere.

And calls to the Judiciary committee chair, John Conyers, would be good.  Let him know the country is going berserk to stop that bill because it is a disguised Patriot Act.

It is a take over of our country, using food as the cover.

Warrantless entry, no due process, surveillance, monitoring, taking of all records, unlimited punishments with no judicial review even over appropriateness and validity - that is, they can do whatever they want to any of us (because it covers anyone who "holds" food) without it even being appropriate or valid.  And a shutting down of all food supplies to any area of the country and of all transportation that has ever "held" food - that is, all of it.  That's martial law without needing a political reason, just declaring "contamination" or "agroterrorism" whenever they want.  

They've turned food into a nightmare weapon.  It's the Kissinger Plan of "control food, control people".  And with that cut off of food movement, they can destroy any dissent, literally destroy any group, never mind destroying anyone in the food business by cutting off supplies to restaurants, groceries, etc.

Demand an investigation into who wrote it and the other bills.

  • Washington Office: 202-225-5126
  • Detroit Office: 313-961-5670
  • Trenton / Downriver Office: 734-675-4084

john.conyers@mail.house.gov

His fax number is 202 225-7680 and they have to keep the faxes and share them with everyone. 

He's interested Toxic Mold
Congressman John Conyers Introduces
H.R. 1268: "The United States Toxic Mold Safety and Protection Act" ("The Melina Bill")

So he won't be happy to learn that CODEX which is inside HR 2749 includes these standards:

* Dangerous and toxic levels (0.5 ppb) of aflotoxin in milk produced from moldy storage conditions of animal feed will be allowed. Aflotoxin is the second most potent (non-radiation) carcinogenic compound known to man.
* All nutrients (vitamins and minerals) are to be considered toxins/poisons and are to be removed from all food because Codex prohibits the use of nutrients to “prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease”

* All food (including organic) is to be irradiated, removing all toxic nutrients from food (unless eaten locally and raw).
http://www.smh.com.au/national/catfood-irradiation-banned-as-pet-theory-proved-20090529-bq8h.html

* Nutrients allowed will be limited to a Positive List developed by Codex which will include such beneficial nutrients like Fluoride (3.8 mg daily) developed from environmental waste. All other nutrients will be prohibited nationally and internationally to all Codex-compliant countries [2].

* All nutrients (e.g., CoQ10, Vitamins A, B, C, D, Zinc and Magnesium) that have any positive health impact on the body will be deemed illegal under Codex and are to be reduced to amounts negligible to humans’ health [3].

* You will not even be able to obtain these anywhere in the world even with a prescription.

* All advice on nutrition (including written online or journal articles or oral advice to a friend, family member or anyone) will be illegal. This includes naturalnews.com reports on vitamins and minerals and all nutritionist’s consultations.

* All dairy cows are to be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone.

* All animals used for food are to be treated with potent antibiotics and exogenous growth hormones.

* The reintroduction of deadly and carcinogenic organic pesticides that in 1991, 176 countries (including the U.S.) have banned worldwide including 7 of the 12 worst at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pesticides (e.g., Hexachlorobenzene, Toxaphene, and Aldrin) will be allowed back into food at elevated levels [4].
* Mandatory use of growth hormones and antibiotics on all food herds, fish and flocks

* Worldwide implementation of unlabeled GMOs into crops, animals, fish and trees.

* Elevated levels of residue from pesticides and insecticides that are toxic to humans and animals.

Some examples of potential permissible safe levels of nutrients under Codex include [2]:

* Niacin - upper limits of 34 mcg daily (effective daily doses include 2000 to 3000 mcgs).

* Vitamin C - upper limits of 65 to 225 mcg daily (effective daily doses include 6000 to 10000 mcgs).

* Vitamin D - upper limits of 5 μg daily (effective daily doses include 6000 to 10000 μg).

He also ought to care because poor black communities could be a first target in any cut off of food.  

Reach Conyers.  Stop that bill.





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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Earthlings: Seeing The World Feelingly

Watch the full movie (or at least the last few minutes) on YouTube here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142

How humans can and do treat other animals - other earthlings.

Essential for understanding what is happening to other earthlings across the planet each and every day that is done by humans.
Essential for understanding the consequences of continuing these practices by humans.

Also the recent movie Food, Inc is worth watching. After watching Food, Inc watch Earthlings to see what was left out of Food Inc. that needs to be said clearly too, not hidden away.

Not knowing what is actually happening allows further harm to animals - other earthlings.

More importantly, there are beautiful scenes of animals alive and well, along with compelling scenes that each person's daily personal choices can contribute to (or not), showing what can be stopped right now - today.

If nothing else watch the last few minutes of only beautiful animal scenes and words to consider on being kind to animals, on being kind to one another.

Starting viewing the last few minutes of the film by moving the viewer slider to after 1:26:35.
For some people this may be a good place to start the movie.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142

These last few minutes are well worth watching and considering.

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E A R T H L I N G S  

http://www.earthlings.com/

EARTHLINGS is an award-winning documentary film about the suffering of animals for food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research.

Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made, EARTHLINGS is nicknamed “the Vegan maker” for its sensitive footage shot at animal shelters, pet stores, puppy mills, factory farms, slaughterhouses, the leather and fur trades, sporting events, circuses and research labs.

The film is narrated by Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix and features music by platinum-selling recording artist Moby.

Initially ignored by distributors, today EARTHLINGS is considered the definitive animal rights film by organizations around the world. “Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one that gets people talking the most,” said Phoenix. “For every one person who sees EARTHLINGS, they will tell three.”

Animal Treatment Society

In 1999, writer/producer/director Shaun Monson began work on a series of PSAs about spaying and neutering pets. The footage he shot at animal shelters around Los Angeles affected him so profoundly that the project soon evolved into EARTHLINGS.

The film would take another six years to complete because of the difficulty in obtaining footage within these profitable industries. Though the film was initially ignored by distributors, who told Monson that the film would “never see the light of day and should be swept under the rug,” today EARTHLINGS  is considered the definitive animal rights film by organizations around the world.

Nation Earth was established to produce documentary films on socially urgent issues. EARTHLINGS, released in 2005, was the company's first feature film and is the first of a documentary trilogy. The company is currently at work on the second installment, UNITY, which will explore the unifying force of consciousness found in nature, animals and humankind. UNITY is scheduled to be completed in 2009. For more information please see www.unitythemovie.com


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Friday, July 24, 2009

USA Milk Has Strong Link To Autism, Schizophrenia, Diabetes & Heart Disease - Better Milk Is Availabe From Other Cows

the type of milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism and schizophrenia. 
evidence from ten countries has demonstrated a strong association between high intake of milk from A1 positive cows and high incidence of these diseases, and has correlated very closely with World Health Organization data on the level of deaths from mental disorders.

The side chain coming off this histidine is a protein fragment known as beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM 7). The negative health effects of this fragment can be devastating because it is a powerful opiate or narcotic as well as an oxidant.

a pile of evidence from more than 100 scientific papers examining population studies and research with both animals and humans.

All human beta-casein is more like the A2 type, meaning that human milk releases much less BCM 7 than is released in A1 milk.

BCM7 has been shown to cause neurological impairment in animals and people, particularly autistic and schizophrenic changes. It also interferes with the immune response.

BCM 7 is pro-inflammatory to blood vessels, and selectively binds to epithelial cells in mucus membranes such as the nose and throat, where it can stimulate excessive mucus secretion.

strong evidence that people with stomach ulcers or untreated celiac disease also absorb BCM 7 in this manner.
Babies are likely to absorb it this way too


This susceptibility of babies to the effects BCM 7 makes infant milk formula products from A1 cows a very poor choice.

[USA has] the wrong cows

Changing over a dairy herd of cows from A1 to A2 is simple and cheap, and it can be accomplished in less than ten years.

on average New Zealand A2 cows produce more milk than A1 cows.
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Milk Protein Linked to Autism, Schizophrenia, Diabetes and Heart Disease

Friday, July 24, 2009 by: Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
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Key concepts: Cows, Diabetes and Casein

(NaturalNews) Knowing about the health benefits of raw milk is not enough. In his book The Devil in the Milk, Dr. Kevin Woodford says we have one more lesson to learn: there is a link between the type of milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism and schizophrenia. Epidemiological evidence from ten countries has demonstrated a strong association between high intake of milk from A1 positive cows and high incidence of these diseases, and has correlated very closely with World Health Organization data on the level of deaths from mental disorders.

Dr. Woodford, Professor of Farm Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln University in New Zealand, points out that milk consists of three parts: fat or cream, whey, and milk solids. The devil resides in the milk solids, composed of many different proteins along with lactose and other sugars. One of these proteins is beta casein.

All proteins are long chains of amino acids that have many branches coming off of the main chain. Beta casein is a chain with 229 amino acids and proline at number 67, at least in old fashioned cows, the ones that are A2. These include Guernseys, Jerseys, Asian and African cows. About five thousand years ago, a mutation occurred in this proline amino acid, converting it to histidine. Cows that have this mutated beta casein are the A1 cows. These are more recent breeds in the span of history, like Holsteins and Friesians.

The side chain coming off this histidine is a protein fragment known as beta-casomorphin-7 (BCM 7). The negative health effects of this fragment can be devastating because it is a powerful opiate or narcotic as well as an oxidant. Dr. Thomas Cowan has thought all along that something was "not quite right" on the milk issue. Writing for the Bovine, he says that many of his patients, in spite of trying to eat only the proper dairy products still have illnesses and are unable to tolerate milk. He has suspected "the story with milk wasn't quite finished."

In his attempt to finish the milk story, Woodford brings together a pile of evidence from more than 100 scientific papers examining population studies and research with both animals and humans. He explains the science underpinning the A1/A2 hypothesis and shows that BCM 7 is associated with milk intolerance and a range of auto-immune diseases including Type 1 diabetes, the diabetes that usually occurs during childhood or young adulthood. In people with Type 1 diabetes, the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells.

There is an important difference between the human beta casein protein and the beta-casein produced by A1 cows. All human beta-casein is more like the A2 type, meaning that human milk releases much less BCM 7 than is released in A1 milk. When New Zealand researchers tested human milk, they found less than 1% of the BCM 7 than was released from the same amount of A1 milk. This means that the narcotic effect from human milk fed to babies is less than one thousandth of that found in A1 milk.

BCM7 has been shown to cause neurological impairment in animals and people, particularly autistic and schizophrenic changes. It also interferes with the immune response. Animals injected with BCM 7 can be provoked into Type 1 diabetes. BCM 7 is pro-inflammatory to blood vessels, and selectively binds to epithelial cells in mucus membranes such as the nose and throat, where it can stimulate excessive mucus secretion.

When BCM 7 is released into the gut, it should be difficult for it to get through the gut wall and into the bloodstream because it is a fairly large molecule. But in people with leaky gut syndrome, it is able to pass easily through the gut wall and enter the bloodstream. Dr. Woodford states that BCM 7 can be detected in urine. According to him there is strong evidence that people with stomach ulcers or untreated celiac disease also absorb BCM 7 in this manner. Babies are likely to absorb it this way too, because their gut walls are able to pass large molecules easily into the blood stream. That is how they are able to absorb their mother's colostrum.

This susceptibility of babies to the effects BCM 7 makes infant milk formula products from A1 cows a very poor choice. Opioids like BCM 7 slow the rate of passage through the digestive tract which explains to Dr. Woodford why babies fed on cows milk formula products rather than human milk are susceptible to constipation and can suffer anal fissures. He suggests it is possible that this slower passage of A1 milk through the digestive system may increase lactose intolerance.

He views early and prolonged exposure to BCM 7 in infant formulas as a significant factor in the rising rates of autism and Asperger's syndrome along with the rest of the range of disease states that can result, and he is pushing for research on the topic. Until this is done, he suggests that mothers breastfeed their babies for as long as possible and insist on breast milk substitutes made with A2 milk.

The reasons for the mutation that produces BCM 7 is unknown, occurring many thousands of years ago. The A1 beta casein gene spread rapidly in many countries in the western world. Speculation has it that the spread of A1 cows resulted from their calves drinking A1 milk and being exposed to the opiate BCM 7, making them more docile than the older breeds. As a result, basically all American dairy cows have mutated beta-casein and are predominantly A1.

It is not known whether BCM 7 is likely to be a problem in cheese, ice-cream, yogurt, or other milk products. The French did not accept the A1 breeds of cows, and the delicious cheeses of France are made with A2 milk. In the U.S. there is only one A2 dairy so far, located in Firth Nebraska.

Absorption of BCM 7 is much less in people with healthy digestive tracts, suggesting that maintaining digestive health should be a priority in anyone drinking milk in countries with predominately A1 cows. One of the best ways to achieve this is with daily use of probiotics.

What can we do about the fact that we have the wrong cows? BCM 7 is not found in goat's or sheep's milk which are A2, so drinking their milk instead of milk from cows is an option. Changing over a dairy herd of cows from A1 to A2 is simple and cheap, and it can be accomplished in less than ten years. It requires only that farmers inseminate their cows, naturally or artificially, with semen from A2A2 bulls. In New Zealand, farmers have already started converting their herds in anticipation of rising consumer demand for A2 milk. An added bonus for them is some recently published research revealing that on average New Zealand A2 cows produce more milk than A1 cows. Dairy farmers in the U.S. may be well advised to begin the switch to A2 as soon as possible to be able to market A2 milk products as consumer demand rises in the face of these findings.

This rosy scenario assumes no politics get in the way of an easy changeover, which could be a big assumption. Since the issue of the link between A1 milk and Type 1 diabetes and heart disease was initially raised in early 2003, the New Zealand Food Standards Authority has demonstrated clearly that in the battle between the interests of the dairy industry and those of public health, the industry always wins. As usual, scientific evidence can be molded and withheld by those with vested interests, and consumer choices can be manipulated by corporate interests.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Movies - Beautiful Organic Permanent Raised Bed Garden In France

An movie example of an inspired, intuitively created vegetable garden in France and how it works as a whole organism.
Creating a spiral of fertility.

To modify and adapt a permanent raised bed garden to each location with:

- no cultivation
- no chemical or organic fertilizers
- no chemical treatments
- no compaction of the soil


A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden

A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden
A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden Pt2
A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden Pt2
A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden Pt3

A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden Pt3

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Genesis Farm - Transition US

Genesis Farm
http://www.genesisfarm.org/

Genesis Farm is a learning center for Earth studies. We focus on the connections between the health of our global commons of air, water, land and nature, and the health of our local communities and bioregions. We root ourselves in a spirituality that reverences Earth as a primary revelation of the divine.

Genesis Farm offers a variety of residential and non-residential programs, including an accredited masters-level course in Earth Literacy, on our 226-acre farm in northwest New Jersey. We invite you to come to Genesis Farm to take part in our work.

    "We're at a moment where there are no guarantees as to the Earth's future. It's a question of our own critical choices. And I think what we're deeply in need of is a transforming vision....A vision that opens the future up to hope."

    -- Miriam MacGillis,OP, co-founder of Genesis Farm, from "Fate of the Earth"
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Welcome to Transition US
http://www.transitionus.org/

We are a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, support, training, and networking for Transition Initiatives across the United States.

Transition Initiatives are part of a vibrant, international grassroots movement that builds community resilience in response to the challenges of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis.

Together we can make the transition to a more fulfilling, equitable and sustainable world.


Get Involved


Join the Transition movement, and be part of the solution to create an abundant and resilient future!
Start an Initiative (or get involved with an existing one)

This is the best way to have an impact on your community and environment. You’ll get to meet and work with great people, and be part of a network of like-minded souls all of whom are committed to creating positive and lasting change by rebuilding resilience into their local communities.

    * Find an existing Transition Initiative in your locale
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Attend a Talk or Training

If you’re new to Transition, you might want to come along to an introductory Transition Talk, or attend one of our more in-depth Training workshops. We offer a range of training courses, materials and events that can support and develop your work with Transition. Two courses are readily available:

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Veganic Agriculture Network - For Safer, Healthier Food

The Veganic Agriculture Network is a new movement in North America to promote the production of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and cereals without the use of artificial substances nor the use of animal products. We promote sustainable, low-impact, plant-based farming and gardening.
http://www.goveganic.net/

Following the lead of the Vegan Organic Network, which has promoted plant-based agriculture in Europe since 1996, we aim to bring more information about these techniques and principles to a North American audience.

Our mission is to

- Connect people who are interested in veganic agriculture so they can share knowledge and ideas. We created a yahoo group to facilitate discussion.

- Support farmers and gardeners who are changing to veganic methods, and publicize options for certification.

- Make the wider population aware of the possibility to grow veganically.

- Explain the global context of veganic agriculture, in relation to the environment, food, and animal protection.

Introduction to veganics

http://www.goveganic.net/spip.php?article19

Veganic agriculture is an approach to growing food that encompasses a respect for animals, the environment, and human health. Also known as "stockfree" "vegan organic" and "plant-based," this is a form of agriculture that goes further than organic standards, by eliminating the use of products that are derived from confined animals and by encouraging the presence of free-living animals on the farmland.

Organic farmers are currently permitted to use animal products as fertilizers, such as manure, blood meal, bone meal, feather meal, and fish emulsion, but these animal products are often obtained from intensive farms and slaughterhouses. Not only does large-scale animal farming have a heavy impact on the environment, most modern farm animals are kept in highly confined conditions and are exposed to a variety of contaminants. Veganic agriculture breaks the link between livestock operations and the production of organic plant-foods by maintaining fertility using plant-based techniques.

Like organic agriculture, veganic doesn’t use the following products:

- No pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides)
- No chemical fertilizers
- No genetically modified organisms (GMO)

In addition, veganic agriculture doesn’t permit the killing of animals, nor the use of products derived from confined animals:

- No blood meal, bone meal, feather meal, fish meal, fish emulsion, shrimp compost
- No manure

Instead, veganic agriculture uses plant-based techniques for fertility:

- Mulch
- Vegetable compost
- Green manure
- Chipped branched wood
- Crop rotation
- Polyculture
- And all other techniques that are sustainable and don’t rely on the exploitation of animals.

Beyond that, veganic agriculture seeks to demonstrate a more sustainable way to farm, with reduced dependence on fossil fuels. As much as possible, veganic farmers produce their sources of fertility directly on the farm. The veganic maxim is that by feeding the soil, the soil will feed the plants. By adding organic plant-based materials to the soil, this produces rich living soil that is bountiful with microorganisms, which in turn feed the plants and create long-term fertility. Veganic techniques aim to replenish biodiversity of plants and animals, and veganic growers are dedicated to the care of the wild ecology that surrounds and makes up their farmland.




Is manure essential?

http://www.goveganic.net/spip.php?article112

The organic farming movement relies heavily on composted manure for fertilization. But do plants really need manure to grow?

First, let’s consider the supposed necessity of using manure. The agroindustry clearly shows that it’s possible to grow food without any manure. Food is produced using chemicals for fertilization, or even without soil by using liquid feeds in hydroponic culture. At the other end of the spectrum, if we look at a natural system such as a forest, plants grow wonderfully without the addition of manure.

Farmed-animal manure is not necessary for crop production. Organic farms have access to such large amounts of manure because the high consumption of animal products in North America results in an abundance of animal feces. Manure used in organic food production is often sourced from animals that were raised in inhumane conditions and exposed to contaminants like pesticides, antibiotics, and GMO’s. This excess of manure is a modern condition, resulting from densely-packed industrialized farms and a dietary shift in westernized countries to animal-centered meals, but manure is by no means the most efficient or cleanly-sourced way to fertilize organic crops.

In fact, it would be more efficient to directly use the fodder to fertilize the soil than to feed the animals, collect the manure, compost it, transport it, and spread it on the soil. And by using plant-based fertilizers instead of manure, farmers can produce fertility from their own land and use fertilizers that have not been exposed to common agricultural contaminants.

Instead of adding manure to the soil, we can add plant-based fertilizers like mulch, "green" manure, vegetable compost, and chipped branch wood. This provides food for the multitude of organisms that live within the soil. The organic material is decomposed and eaten by earthworms, arthropods, fungus, and bacteria, making nutrients available for the plants. In other words, "manure" is present, but it comes naturally as a byproduct of this free living fauna.


The soil food web

http://www.goveganic.net/spip.php?article18

There is more life in the ground than above in the ground. Healthy soil is flourishing with microorganisms, and the complex interactions between the flora and the fauna create a soil food web. This diagram shows a simplified version of the soil food web with the different organisms that are found in a healthy environment:


To see this diagram full-size, click the image at the bottom of this page and zoom for more detail.

Some growing techniques disrupt the balance of the soil food web. Pesticides, for example, are purposely designed to kill organisms, and they destroy part of the soil food chain. In conventional agriculture, chemical fertilizers are used to directly feed the plants, but at an expense: the chemical fertilizers do not feed the soil, and the microorganisms do not have the nourishment they need.

In organic growing, the idea is that by feeding the soil, the soil will feed the plants. Organic fertilizers contain an array of decaying matter that act as food for microorganisms. The soil food web creates fertility by decomposing this organic material. The microorganisms break down part of the organic matter into a state that is accessible to plants, providing the plants with nourishment; and part of the organic material is transformed into humus, which improves water retention and lessens the leaching of nutrients. The microorganisms also improve the overall fertility simply by moving through the soil, creating tunnels and glueing soil particles together. This allows for better aeration and drainage, less compaction, and the movement of nutrients within the soil.

Even with veganic agriculture, some techniques upset the balance of the microorganisms. With tilling, because the soil is turned, the microorganisms are suddenly buried or brought to the surface, and tilling can destroy fungal growth and worm tunnels, which both help with the long-term sustainability of the soil. Bare soil is prone to erosion and nutrient leaching, and creates an uninviting habitat for microorganisms. By using mulch instead of tilling, the delicate balance of healthy soil can be preserved.

To learn more about the soil food web, check out the book Teaming with Microbes, along with the detailed summary and description of the book.

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Certified Veganic

Participatory guarantee system
http://www.goveganic.net/spip.php?article106

A new certification program, Certified Veganic, is currently being developed for farmers in North America. The standards are modeled significantly after the Stockfree-Organic certification that was developed in the U.K.

Certified Veganic is based on a participatory guarantee system (PGS), which involves the farmers and consumers in the process of developing and administering the certification. PGS has been used around the world to offer low-cost, regional certifications for small organic farms, with an emphasis on knowledge-building for the farmer. With PGS, the farmer’s signed agreement is publicly disclosed to ensure a greater level of public involvement, farmer commitment, and overall transparency.

Below is the draft edition of the Certified Veganic program. It includes an introduction to the certification, the goals of the Certified Veganic program, and the standards and principles. This draft is still open to change, and we welcome feedback and opinions.

For farms in North America, 3rd party Stockfree is another option for plant-based certification.


Veganic Farming Standards

Veganic farming is a step well beyond organic farming. Like Organic farmers, Veganic farmers use no synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides or Genetically modified ingredients. But in addition, Veganic farmers do not use any manures or slaughterhouse byproducts and are prohibited from using even organically approved broad-spectrum pesticides. Instead of the purchased manures and manure-based composts used on organic farms, Veganic farmers must rely on careful crop rotations and green manuring to provide long-term fertility for food crop production. Veganic farmers may also buy in rock powders, hay mulches and high nitrogen soybean or alfalfa meals as short-term fertility sources, but veganic farmers must be able to demonstrate a long term plan of sustainable production minimizing the use of off-farm inputs.

For farmers that have been farming organically without the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers for a period of 36 months from harvest, there is no transition period to be considered "Certified Veganic". Farmers that have used synthetic chemical fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides less than 36 months before harvest can still register as "Certified Veganic TRANSITIONAL".

Goals of the Certified Veganic Program

(1) Break the bonds between organic and factory farms

The primary source of nutrients on most Certified Organic farms comes from factory farmed animal wastes - blood, bone, feathers and the pelletized feces of animals kept under inhumane conditions. Factory farms profit when Organic farmers pay to remove these wastes, making factory farms more financially sustainable and literally subsidizing the production of cheap meats. The first goal of Certified Veganic agriculture is to provide a labeling system for organic farmers who are willing to completely sever the tight bond that currently exists between inhumane factory farms and organically grown produce.

(2) Care for soil and water resources and minimize agricultural impact on wildlife and biodiversity.

(3) Demonstrate a truly sustainable system of food production

The use of manure even from humanely raised animals is prohibited on Certified Veganic farms. The gathering, transporting and spreading of animal waste as a fertility source for the growing of vegetables is fundamentally unsustainable and only continues because of the cheap availability of fossil fuels and the huge appetite for animal products in the general population.

Veganic farmers may grow the same forage crops that livestock farmers grow, but instead of feeding them to the cow or horse, then gathering them up and spreading them back on the field, they let the soil microorganisms digest the plant residues right there in place - providing nutrients for vegetable crops that will grow the next year. By cutting out the "middle man" (in this case the cow or horse) veganic farmers return a larger amount of organic matter back to the land than the farmer who first fed those same forage crops to the cow. Veganic production methods use much less land to produce much more people food - and they do more to increase the long term viability of that land to produce food crops for people.

Standards and Practices

To be Certified Veganic, the farm must follow all USDA organic and Certified Naturally Grown standards and practices (see www.naturallygrown.org/standards.html for a summary of USDA Organic growing practice requirements) and IN ADDITION must meet the following Veganic Standards and Practices

(1) Animals on the Farm

No animals are kept for food production or any other commercial purposes. This does not include companion animals (cats and dogs for example) or "Rescued" animals (even if they are farm animals).

(2) Fertility Sources

Providing nutrients on a veganic farm is more complicated (but not necessarily more difficult or expensive) than on a farm that can truck in manure or use synthetic chemical fertilizers.

Certified Veganic farmers have a clear knowledge and record of exactly what percentage of their fertility management comes from bought and brought in sources (including soybean meal, alfalfa meal, rock powders, wood chips and bought in hay mulches) and how much comes from the farm itself (through cover cropping, green manures, undersowing, companion planting and careful rotations). The veganic farmer must show an annual increase in the ratio of on-farm to purchased fertility management until 90% of the fertility comes from on-farm sources.

No manure or products of animal or fish origin (including but not limited to blood meal, bone meal, feather meal and fish emulsion) can be used as nutrient sources at any time or for any reason on the Veganic farm, including manures from animals not raised for food (for example horses). Wild harvested bat and seabird guanos are allowed only in greenhouse production.

(3) Pest and Disease Control

Veganic farms minimize and work to ultimately eliminate the use of even organically approved pesticides with crop rotations and diversification. Even organically approved pesticides that are classified as "broad-spectrum" pesticides and therefore harm beneficial organisms are prohibited on the Veganic Farm after the first year of certification. Those pesticides are the following: Pyrethrins and rotenone, tobacco and biocides based on animal derivatives.

(4) Competing Birds and Larger Mammals

Shooting, poisoning and trapping to kill competing wildlife (including deer, birds, woodchucks) is prohibited. The use of fencing and Electric fencing, netting, wire mesh, sonic repellents, raptor models, scare balloons and scare tape or other sorts of "scarecrow" devices is encouraged. To discourage the need for control of small rodents, inspections include demonstration that steps have been taken to eliminate rodent problems in food storage areas including wire mesh, sealed coolers and food storage areas or sealed food containers, and minimizing small rodent habitats from around barns and food storage areas (for example elimination of woodpiles, boxes, trash piles. Also maintaining mown areas around food distribution areas if it’s reasonably possible on that site). Absolutely no killing for sport is allowed on Certified Veganic farms.

(5) Wildlife Diversity and Environmental Conservation

The production of food crops for human consumption is a necessary "unnatural" act that displaces wildlife. Certified Veganic farms seek to minimize that impact by taking the following steps.

(a) Follow all legal environmental requirements

(b) Consult environmental authorities for "best practice advice" (for example USDA NRCS and state level Environmental Conservation Depts) before taking steps that will obviously impact the environment.

(c) Leave undisturbed field margins around the outside of fields for wildlife conservation

(d) Maintaining existing hedges, ditches, treelines and leaving stone walls that act as wildlife habitat and corridors.

(e) Planting attractant species for beneficial insects and birds

(f) Planting or encouraging "native" plant species

(g) Installation of bird and bat boxes and winter feeding stations for birds

(h) Avoiding the disturbance of ground nesting birds when cultivating and mowing

(i) Mowing from the center of the field outwards so that birds and mammals can escape to the outside

(h) Timing mowing operations in field-areas to allow grasses and wildflowers to set seed

(i) Protecting waterways with buffers and active planting of trees and shrubs to minimize erosion

(j) Maintaining unfenced wildlife corridors (for example not fencing from the road all the way down to a waterway... there should be space left at the waterway so wildlife can move through without having to go up to the road).

(k) No new drainage in areas with significant conservation value

(l) siting of new agricultural buildings should take into account environmental and aesthetic impacts

(6) Special Record Keeping Requirements on Certified Veganic Farms

Because the level of planning and care in rotations and cover cropping on Veganic holdings is at a much higher level than with organic to be certified, Veganic farmers have an extra level of record keeping to demonstrate they are working towards a self-sustaining operation.

Besides the online (or written) application that Veganic farmers received and the inspection forms, Veganic farmers must send in the following:

(a) Map of the farm with production fields clearly labeled or numbered

(b) Accompanying 3 years forward green manure schedule with what green manures were used last year, are planned for this year, and are planned for the following 2 years. (We are NOT asking for records on what vegetable crops were grown where, only what cover crops).

(c) List of brought and bought in fertility sources and an estimate of the percentage of fertility that is coming from on farm sources (home grown mulching, cover cropped or inter-planted green manures) and what is coming from bought in sources (rock powders, soybean meal, alfalfa meal, hay mulches, etc) broken down by N, P, K. A realistic plan for minimizing the use of bought and brought in inputs over the long run should be apparent.



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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Ritalin & Other ADHD Drugs Useless And Stunt Growth Permanently - Behavioral Treatments Work

Ritalin & Other ADHD Drugs Useless And Stunt Growth Permanently - Behavioral Treatments Work

behavioral treatments for ADHD
are available and have been proven to work without the side effect risk of pharmaceuticals.

Stimulant drugs such as Ritalin provide no long-term benefit in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

researchers followed 485 children for eight years and found that children who remained on medication for that entire time showed no improvement in symptoms over those who had stopped taking the drugs.

stimulant drugs do improve the social functioning and reduce symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity in children with ADHD for the first year of treatment.


Is this going to make a benefit for my child long term?
"The answer is no.
Behavioral treatments are going to have much better benefit in the long term.
"

ADHD drugs appeared to stunt children's growth.


Children who had never taken stimulant drugs were an average of six pounds heavier and 0.75 inches taller than children of the same age who had taken the drugs for three years.
This height and weight difference was permanent.
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ADHD Drugs Proven Absolutely Useless for Children - Plus, They Stunt Growth

Thursday, July 09, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Key concepts: Drugs, Adhd and ADHD drugs

(NaturalNews) Stimulant drugs such as Ritalin provide no long-term benefit in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the latest findings of the ongoing Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA), published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

According to previous analysis of MTA data, stimulant drugs do improve the social functioning and reduce symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity in children with ADHD for the first year of treatment. In the current analysis, however, researchers followed 485 children for eight years and found that children who remained on medication for that entire time showed no improvement in symptoms over those who had stopped taking the drugs.

"If you put a child on medication, he or she is far better right at that time. The question for parents is: Is this going to make a benefit for my child long term?" said researcher William Pelham, of the University of Buffalo. "The answer is no. Behavioral treatments are going to have much better benefit in the long term."

Another analysis of MTA data, published in the same journal, found that use of ADHD drugs appeared to stunt children's growth. Children who had never taken stimulant drugs were an average of six pounds heavier and 0.75 inches taller than children of the same age who had taken the drugs for three years. This height and weight difference was permanent.

According to Pelham, behavioral treatments for ADHD can be harder to find than drugs, and often insurers will not cover them. Nevertheless, such treatments are available and have been proven to work without the side effect risk of pharmaceuticals.

"It's wrong for a doctor to say to a parent, this treatment is harder to find, so instead we're going to put your child on a drug that will have no long-term benefit," he said.

Sources for this story include: health.usnews.com.

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More Evidence Daily Exercise For All Ages Helps Most Everyone - Increases Survival Better Than Angioplasty For People With Heart Disease

regular exercise
provide remarkable help for patients with certain forms of serious heart disease.

improved indications of disease in people with heart failure, a condition usually thought to be incurable
exercise improved cardiac event-free survival in coronary patients better than angioplasty with stents.

about 800,000 angioplasties are performed each year in the U.S. at a cost of about $10 billion annually
[Exercise gets better results than $12,000 per angioplasty.]


long term benefits of angioplasty have been questioned by many doctors

after five years of follow-up
participants who went through exercise training had a better event-free survival rate than those treated with stent angioplasty.
63 percent of patients had survived, free of cardiac events.
only 40 percent in the angioplasty group

Two other studies
exercise can often help even patients with very serious heart problems.
reduced their cholesterol levels and markers of inflammation (which are associated with heart disease).

moderate exercise program daily for four weeks improved the function of endothelial cells in patients with heart failure.
endothelial cells
are a
ssociated with the progression of heart disease and heart failure when they don't function properly.

No improvement was noted in the control group of heart failure patients who did not exercise.

beneficial effect of exercise was seen as much in older subjects as in younger.
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New Evidence: Exercise Helps Heart Disease, Increases Survival Better than Angioplasty

Saturday, July 11, 2009 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
Key concepts: Disease, Heart disease and Angioplasty
http://www.naturalnews.com/026596_disease_heart_disease_angioplasty.html

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation meeting recently held in Barcelona, Spain, new heart research was presented that shows one treatment in particular can provide remarkable help for patients with certain forms of serious heart disease. It's not a new drug or surgical procedure. Instead, it's a natural therapy -- plain old-fashioned regular exercise.

In fact, in several studies just presented at the meeting, exercise reduced the markers of heart disease in patients following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). What's more, it improved indications of disease in people with heart failure, a condition usually thought to be incurable and often just treated with symptom-relieving drugs. But the news that's perhaps most likely to make some interventional cardiologists' hearts skip a beat or two was the evidence presented that showed that exercise improved cardiac event-free survival in coronary patients better than angioplasty with stents.

Also called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), angioplasty is commonly used to help people with coronary artery disease whose arteries are narrowed and even blocked by a build-up of sticky plaque. By threading a thin tube through a blood vessel in the arm or groin, interventional cardiologists perform angioplasty to restore blood flood through a clogged artery. A tiny balloon at the end of the tube is inflated when it reaches the exact spot of blockage. That pushes the plaque outward against the walls of the artery, restoring blood flow. A small metal device called a stent is also carried by the tube and deployed at the site of the blockage in order to prop open the artery.

This approach to treating heart disease is a huge business. A report in Bloomberg News last fall noted that about 800,000 angioplasties are performed each year in the U.S. at a cost of about $10 billion annually [Exercise gets better results than $12,000 per angioplasty.] And, although many cardiologists consider angioplasty to be the "gold standard" of care in most types of acute coronary events such as heart attack, the procedure's long term benefits have been questioned by many doctors. In addition, the role of angioplasty in treating other kinds of coronary disease, like angina, isn't clear.

To help shed light on this issue, researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany conducted a study to compare the event-free survival rate in 101 stable angina patients. Research subjects with the condition were divided randomly into two groups. Each group was treated with either a regular exercise program or with angioplasty.

The results, just presented at the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation meeting, showed that after five years of follow-up, the study participants who went through exercise training had a better event-free survival rate than those treated with stent angioplasty. In the exercise group, 63 percent of patients had survived, free of cardiac events. However, only 40 percent in the angioplasty group had survived without cardiac problems (which included heart attack, stroke and death).

Two other studies released at the Barcelona conference also back up the idea that exercise can often help even patients with very serious heart problems. Research by Dr. Tomasz Mikulski and colleagues from the Medical Research Centre in Warsaw, Poland, showed that aerobic training using an exercise bike not only improved the physical fitness of cardiac patients following bypass surgery, but also reduced their cholesterol levels and markers of inflammation (which are associated with heart disease).

Dr. Marcus Sandri from the University of Leipzig presented data showing that a moderate exercise program daily for four weeks improved the function of endothelial cells in patients with heart failure. This is important because endothelial cells, which line the circulatory system, are associated with the progression of heart disease and heart failure when they don't function properly.

No improvement was noted in the control group of heart failure patients who did not exercise. Dr Sandri noted in a statement to the media that the beneficial effect of exercise was seen as much in older subjects as in younger. "The effects of exercise were not diminished in our older heart failure patients which suggests that exercise as a treatment might be just as effective in older patients as younger," he explained.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Moving To Organic Food For Everyone - Remove GMOs, Hormones, Antibiotics, Rendered Dead Animal Wastes, Pesticides/Herbacides

not to allow GMOs to produce any crops and cloned animals for food.

Everything that people eat must be organically grown
the simplest way to do that is not to allow any of the following five substances from entering any food production:

 

  • Hormones,
  • Antibiotics
  • Rendered Dead Animal Wastes
  • GMOs
  • Pesticides/Herbicides.
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This is an excerpt from a longer article:

FIVE PILLARS OF FOOD SAFETY

The Insider Story of rBGH

 

NAVDANIA Address, New Delhi, India, October 1-2, 2008

By Shiv Chopra, B.V. Sc. & A.H., M.Sc., Ph.D.


http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=22

...

In terms of food production Canada is the most blessed country on earth. With vast tracts of arable land, immense supply of fresh water and a very sophisticated farm population it could produce the healthiest and most abundant food supply. However, it does not. The food that Canada produces is considered internationally to be the most contaminated. While rBST was not allowed to be used in this country for dairy cows concoctions of various other hormones continue to be fed and injected to stimulate meat production in beef cattle and pigs. Furthermore, farm animals of every type are fed and injected many different antibiotics to increase meat production. In addition, almost all meat-producing animals are fed on diets containing dead animal wastes obtained from slaughterhouses. Finally, food crops which farm animals and people consume in Canada are grown from pesticide-dependent GMOs.

 

With some exceptions these products are not allowed to be utilized in any food-producing animals in E.U. countries whereas U.S. and Canadian governments hold a different view. Hormones, antibiotics and slaughterhouse wastes continue to be utilized in both these countries. As a result, litigations have been going on in the World Trade Organization where parties accuse each other of causing trade barriers without producing the necessary scientific evidence. However, the fact is that hormones used in beef stimulation have been shown to be complete carcinogens, meaning that they can initiate and promote cancer. Similarly, non-therapeutic uses of antibiotics to food-producing animals are not allowed in EU countries whereas in Canada and U.S. huge amounts of many different antibiotics continue to be used on Canadian and U.S. farms. Antibiotic use in farm animals is known to cause antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens, such as E. coli, Salmonella, VRE, MRSA, Campylobacter, Clostridium difficile and other organisms and because of which many of these organisms are no longer treatable with any known antibiotics. Slaughterhouse waste is also completely banned in E.U. countries whereas these materials continue to be fed back to food-producing animals, including cattle, pigs, poultry and fish, in Canada. The feeding of slaughterhouse wastes can cause Bovine Spongiform Disease (BSE) in cattle and meat consumption from thus infected cattle can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people.

 

All these practices are described in my book. Titled: CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower it is to be released as soon as I get back to Canada in the next couple of weeks. The point that I make in this book is that there is enough food for everyone to eat but, as Mahatma Gandhi said, it will never be enough to satisfy greed. For instance, according the Economist of August 2, 2008, the number of farmers in the U.S.A. is one million whereas in India it is two hundred million. Much of the food that those one million U.S. farmers produce is from pesticide dependent GMOs made by multinational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Pfizer, Syngenta, BASF and others. Now, the farmers are being enticed to turn food crops into producing the so called green fuel ethanol to cause road rage and climate change. The only solution to this madness is not to allow GMOs to produce any crops and cloned animals for food. Everything that people eat must be organically grown and the simplest way to do that is not to allow any of the following five substances from entering any food production:

 

  • Hormones,
  • Antibiotics
  • Rendered Dead Animal Wastes
  • GMOs
  • Pesticides/Herbicides.

 

I refer to this approach to food production as the FIVE PILLARS OF FOOD SAFETY. In doing so, all food would automatically become organic. I feel that as the children of God and citizens of the world people must have the right to eat and feed their families the food that nature intended and not what GMO companies are forcing them to swallow. Finally, I would like to stress that small farmers of India and those of Canada are under similar pressures to yield their farms and livelihood to factory farming which must be resisted at all costs by the governments of both these countries. In doing so, they will help to save the health and livelihood of their citizens. If, on the other hands, any governments refuse to follow these principles of food safety people all over the world may need to resort to the type of salt march that Mahatma Gandhi undertook to bring the British Raj to its heels.




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