New Weston A Price website launched!
It looks great and is very useful; go check it out! http://www.westonaprice.org/
NYT Article on Raw Milk
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/business/global/17iht-rbofmilk.html Articles like this frustrate me: I don’t need the .gov to be my nanny! I also don’t need the .gov to “save” me from eating natural food products whilst simultaneously pimping unhealthy, chemical-laden GMO garbage food. Conflict of interest **corporate lobby $, koff koff** anyone? It’s better to grow your own, or source it [...]
California Raw Milk Senate Hearings
California Senate Hearings 4-15—08 Joint Senate hearings to be held April 15th Raw Milk consumers are amassing to attend the Biggest Raw Milk event in History!! Senator Dean Florez and Senator Maldonado are holding joint senate hearings on raw milk for California. It appears that CDFA and the FDA are sending their “Anti Raw Milk [...]
Recipes came about by evolution?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726484.700-recipes-came-about-by-evolution.html?feedId=online-news_rss20 What a fascinating idea! An evolutionary mechanism/relationship between an ingredient’s position on the list and how commonly used it was. I would imagine there is a correlation between vitamin/mineral combinations, flavor, and maximum nutritional value which cause us to put items together.
The war on raw milk gets rough
http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=8049712&nav=menu612_2_6 FBI? Wiretaps? Federal investigation? C’mon, folks, it’s MILK!!! It never fails to surprise me how low giant agri-business will stoop to have their way. This kind of behavior also helps to confirm the high “tin foil factor” involved in agribusiness and the ideas behind the genocide of human beings in the quest for profits, [...]
Huge Raw Milk Victory in CA
HUGE RAW MILK VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA March 20, 2008. For Immediate Release: See Blog for details Raw milk consumers won a major victory yesterday as Judge Harry J. Tobias of the San Benito Superior Court in Hollister, California granted a temporary restraining order against the enforcement of AB 1735. Described as a “stealth attack” against [...]
More evidence on the benefits of a traditional diet
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=cf0a7395-3f4b-4e74-b77d-7e3404e1be5f&k=53770&p=1 This is a great article about the positive benefits of a traditional diet/low carbing being beneficial for folks. These were Canadian Native Americans eating trad foods (ooligan grease, salmon, etc) and becoming healthier as a result. Many reported significant weight loss and reduction of measures to intervene with diabetes (meds, etc.) I know I [...]
Taubes interview
Great video that is about 1 1/2 hours long by the author of “Good Calories, Bad Calories” about the low fat myth of good health, the real underlying causes of obesity, and how Americans were hoodwinked by the Keyes study regarding fat causing heart disease. Requires Real Player. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21216
Pollan Article in NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=science&pagewanted=print Regarding MRSA, bees, factory farming. Excerpt: For years now, critics have been speaking of modern industrial agriculture as “unsustainable” in precisely these terms, though what form the “breakdown” might take or when it might happen has never been certain. Would the aquifers run dry? The pesticides stop working? The soil loses its fertility? All [...]