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This Year's Farm Bill is "OUR FOOD BILL" and our Health for the next 5 years

I am very very concerned about the erosion of the quality of our food resources in the United States...As should you be for you and your family.
I just finished a program on Nutrition thru Columbia University, taught by the greatest nutritional minds in the world and they didn't agree on much except the following.... our food supply is dangerously nutritionally depleted, polluted and imported with a huge carbon cost (particularly the organic produce). All of which make our population chronically ill and environment toxic at tremendous cost financially and productivity wise, impacting us all...

These world class experts including Andrew Weil, Barry Sears, Dr. Mercola, Deepak Chopra and others, were all recommending the following:

1- eat locally grown produce or grow your own ( which many of them were doing).
2-eat organic if possible without the high carbon cost of shipping, (eat seasonally and with renewable farming practices)
3-Everyone must start and maintain a regular program of full body detoxification
4-Everyone must take high quality nutritional supplements (incl. High quality Omega 3's from fish, vitamins in an easily absorbed bio-available form, (preferably a gel capsule not a pressed pill), minerals and an antioxidant.) All of these must be taken together as a regular regimen...)
5-eat less animal protein overall (the resources spent in raising animals  are huge not to mention the pollution, the miss- treatment and inhumane conditions and the antibiotics, and steroids)
6-We need programs to subsidize safe sustainable farming practices...People in the know will support them
7-Our current Agricultural practices are killing off the bee populations. (Interestingly, the bees on or near organic farms are still fine)...Our current Government sponsored, big business Farming practices are causing a backlash effect.

We need more support from the consumers not more regulations from the Government.... Who wants to eat cloned protein or modified anything?  Don't you want to eat healthy nutritious food, that the cells of your body can actually use to create new cells?...

What you may not know, is that most of our modern diseases are as a result of poor nutrition and toxicity....Now is the time to DO something about this...This year while the Farm Bill is in play. This bill which will set our food policies for the next 5 years.... Talk to people let them know their purchasing habits will drive the market away from these destructive Farming practices...support the local farmers, eat by season and be aware of the quality of what you eat...As the Old saying goes YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!!!! So are you a donut or hot dog from the cart on the street or are you a ripe peach from New Jersey with some New York State Yogurt with it or a Jersey tomato and sprout sandwich on organic artisan whole grain oat  bread??? Eat seasonally and locally....and organic if you can get it within a reasonable distance. New Yorkers have a tremendous resource in the Green Market  at Union Square, make the effort and take advantage of all the regionally grown and produced food stuffs that they carry  there. Ask for these quality things at your favorite restaurants and grocery stores...put the pressure on....bring it up a notch....Demand clean water and not another new soda flavor...Demand fresh nutritious produce not irradiated empty produce covered in pesticides...Demand that the air quality become a bigger issue. Consider the carbon cost of the life you lead...Gas, oil....All of it comes into play...How do you live your life...Do You live a Virtuous Life????

Did  you know that if all the bees disappear from the US, five years is exactly the time frame the experts predict we will have before roughly half of our population starves to death? That is if we don't take positive action now....we can change the market demands and the flow of money by where we spend our money...That is where the real power is...buy from a place of knowledge and spend with two purposes first to feed your body with quality nutrition and second to save your world.

We don't have anymore time to fool around with this...money and business will only carry us so far and it isn't far anymore...The real basis of life is water, air and food....We are at the wall NOW!!!! This is  one of the biggest challenges facing humanity in history...This is bigger than global warming, medicare/medicaid or all the terrorists on the planet and it has snuck up on us....the world's breadbasket is soon to be empty....

It can be reversed but we are going to have to make our demands known....We want good quality food, clean water and clean air...This is a huge priority over anything else because without them we will not survive...People and jobs and economics will and always do take care of themselves, but we can't do anything if there is no food and the air isn't breathable and the water is so full of chemical toxins that you can't drink it...

Be positive that you can make a difference and be positive that this seemingly inevitable course can be turned around...Americans have done amazing things throughout history and we will again!!! 

Today could be the first day of the new Virtuous and Consciously Aware and Discerning You!!!! That version of you that is totally tuned in for every minute of your gloriously abundant life....the version that sees the BIG picture and rises to the challenge...who believes that we all really are One...BE that YOU!!!!

Lots of Love and Qi,

Glenys 

Posted on Monday, July 9, 2007 at 04:21PM by Registered CommenterGlenys Eldred | CommentsPost a Comment

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