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Pears, Greenhouse Gasses and Food Security
By Trey Arrow, Feb. 15th, 2007
Here I am in a cell at the Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre, eating soaked organic pumpkin seeds with an organic pear. My heart is filled with gratitude for the healthy food I am blessed with, despite my limited freedom. My heart is also filled with sadness and sympathy for those who go without healthy adequate food every day while we, in North America, this Turtle Island, daily dump into a landfill enough to feed the world.
It is now unequivocally and abundantly clear that humyns (sic) are in fact a huge contributing source to global warming through the mining of fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases. As I embrace the reality of this long-awaited, accepted truth, I ponder reactive thinking and subsequent policy making. I wonder about the concept of "organics", food safety, food security and how this is inextricably connected to, and therefore jeopardized by, the corporate takeover of the world’s food production. Is the right to healthy, pure and unadulterated food the next victim of "too little too late” and reactionary government policy, like the pressing global warming issue? Will we realize the importance of these fundamental humyn rights only after the air, soil, water and food supply have been thoroughly contaminated and overrun with corporate perversion?
Many children in North America can recognize dozens, even hundreds, of corporate logos, but are unable to identify any wild edibles from their backyard or nearby forest. We are what we eat! But do you know what you are eating? Are these pumpkin seeds and pear which are swirling around within my body truly organic according to the organic standards mandated by the government? Furthermore, are those standards sufficient for humyn and planetary health? And are they vigilantly enforced? Do you know where the food you ate last night came from and how it was produced? As you stand in the aisles or in front of the produce section in a grocery store, do you take into account, along with the price tag, the beings that may have suffered to make, plant, harvest, ship and package the food you consume?
There are countless distractions and a myriad of advertising strategies which pull us away, and keep us disconnected from the truth behind the price tag and "nice, clean" packaging. Monsanto and Archer Daniel Midland are feeding the world Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s). “McGarbage” provides "death on a bun" to parents while brainwashing their children that hamburgers grow in hamburger patches. You can order a mad cow from Wendy's or fried chicken from Kentucky Fried Cruelty flavored with avian flu! Elementary students are eating processed animal parts in their "lunchables" ... if you are not outraged, then you are not paying attention! Companies like Monsanto, corporate grocery chains like Safeway and fast food Restaurant corporations like MacDonald’s and the like would have us believe we need them to feed ourselves and survive. What will we do when the lights go out.? When we can't drive (or walk) to the nearest supermarket, how will we acquire our food?
The time is now for proactive, creative, thoughtful and peaceful solutions to this insidious takeover of our basic right to pure, healthy food! We have the undeniable right and power as humyns and citizens to demand healthy, safe food for everyone on the planet. One of the best ways to ensure your food is nutritious is to grow it yourself and/or harvest it in the wild. Community gardens, local farms and farmer's markets are another excellent source for high quality food. By educating ourselves with the knowledge of wild edibles and medicinals, permaculture, biodynamic farming, etc... We not only save money, we empower ourselves with priceless tools to sever our dependency on corporate enterprise. We have enormous power in the mere act of choosing where we spend our money and focus our energy. Careful, conscientious consumerism, supporting local and independently owned businesses, is something tangible and accessible to all of us. Patronizing businesses which are committed to fair trade (not "free trade"), organic / ethically harvested foods, food free from GMO’s, poisonous chemicals /preservatives / artificial fertilizers, etc. ensures not only health for us as humyns, but respect and sustainability for all beings worldwide!
We have the power to transform our lives and the world into a heaven on earth quite simply through our food choices and who or what we patronize!!!
Here's just a small list of some invaluable resources on the power of our food choices:
Some films to check out:
The Corporation ( www.thecorporation.com )
An Inconvenient Truth: ( www.climatecrisis.net/ )
Supersize Me (www.supersizeme.com/)
Books:
Tom Brown Jr.’s field guides to wild edibles and urban and rural survival
John Robbins:
The Food Revolution
A Diet for a New America
May We All Be Fed
Gabriel Cuttins
Conscious Eating
The Rainbow Food Diet
David Wolf:
The Sunfoods Diet Success System
Frances Moore Lappe
Diet For a Small Planet
Scott and Helen Nearing
The Good Life
websites:
Percy Schmeizer v. Monsanto: www.percyschmeiser.com/
Rawfoods dot com: www.rawfoods.com
Oxfam International: www.oxfam.org/
Lifecycles Food Tree Project in Victoria, BC www.lifecyclesproject.ca/initi..._tree/
By Trey Arrow, Feb. 15th, 2007
Here I am in a cell at the Vancouver Island Regional Corrections Centre, eating soaked organic pumpkin seeds with an organic pear. My heart is filled with gratitude for the healthy food I am blessed with, despite my limited freedom. My heart is also filled with sadness and sympathy for those who go without healthy adequate food every day while we, in North America, this Turtle Island, daily dump into a landfill enough to feed the world.
It is now unequivocally and abundantly clear that humyns (sic) are in fact a huge contributing source to global warming through the mining of fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases. As I embrace the reality of this long-awaited, accepted truth, I ponder reactive thinking and subsequent policy making. I wonder about the concept of "organics", food safety, food security and how this is inextricably connected to, and therefore jeopardized by, the corporate takeover of the world’s food production. Is the right to healthy, pure and unadulterated food the next victim of "too little too late” and reactionary government policy, like the pressing global warming issue? Will we realize the importance of these fundamental humyn rights only after the air, soil, water and food supply have been thoroughly contaminated and overrun with corporate perversion?
Many children in North America can recognize dozens, even hundreds, of corporate logos, but are unable to identify any wild edibles from their backyard or nearby forest. We are what we eat! But do you know what you are eating? Are these pumpkin seeds and pear which are swirling around within my body truly organic according to the organic standards mandated by the government? Furthermore, are those standards sufficient for humyn and planetary health? And are they vigilantly enforced? Do you know where the food you ate last night came from and how it was produced? As you stand in the aisles or in front of the produce section in a grocery store, do you take into account, along with the price tag, the beings that may have suffered to make, plant, harvest, ship and package the food you consume?
There are countless distractions and a myriad of advertising strategies which pull us away, and keep us disconnected from the truth behind the price tag and "nice, clean" packaging. Monsanto and Archer Daniel Midland are feeding the world Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s). “McGarbage” provides "death on a bun" to parents while brainwashing their children that hamburgers grow in hamburger patches. You can order a mad cow from Wendy's or fried chicken from Kentucky Fried Cruelty flavored with avian flu! Elementary students are eating processed animal parts in their "lunchables" ... if you are not outraged, then you are not paying attention! Companies like Monsanto, corporate grocery chains like Safeway and fast food Restaurant corporations like MacDonald’s and the like would have us believe we need them to feed ourselves and survive. What will we do when the lights go out.? When we can't drive (or walk) to the nearest supermarket, how will we acquire our food?
The time is now for proactive, creative, thoughtful and peaceful solutions to this insidious takeover of our basic right to pure, healthy food! We have the undeniable right and power as humyns and citizens to demand healthy, safe food for everyone on the planet. One of the best ways to ensure your food is nutritious is to grow it yourself and/or harvest it in the wild. Community gardens, local farms and farmer's markets are another excellent source for high quality food. By educating ourselves with the knowledge of wild edibles and medicinals, permaculture, biodynamic farming, etc... We not only save money, we empower ourselves with priceless tools to sever our dependency on corporate enterprise. We have enormous power in the mere act of choosing where we spend our money and focus our energy. Careful, conscientious consumerism, supporting local and independently owned businesses, is something tangible and accessible to all of us. Patronizing businesses which are committed to fair trade (not "free trade"), organic / ethically harvested foods, food free from GMO’s, poisonous chemicals /preservatives / artificial fertilizers, etc. ensures not only health for us as humyns, but respect and sustainability for all beings worldwide!
We have the power to transform our lives and the world into a heaven on earth quite simply through our food choices and who or what we patronize!!!
Here's just a small list of some invaluable resources on the power of our food choices:
Some films to check out:
The Corporation ( www.thecorporation.com )
An Inconvenient Truth: ( www.climatecrisis.net/ )
Supersize Me (www.supersizeme.com/)
Books:
Tom Brown Jr.’s field guides to wild edibles and urban and rural survival
John Robbins:
The Food Revolution
A Diet for a New America
May We All Be Fed
Gabriel Cuttins
Conscious Eating
The Rainbow Food Diet
David Wolf:
The Sunfoods Diet Success System
Frances Moore Lappe
Diet For a Small Planet
Scott and Helen Nearing
The Good Life
websites:
Percy Schmeizer v. Monsanto: www.percyschmeiser.com/
Rawfoods dot com: www.rawfoods.com
Oxfam International: www.oxfam.org/
Lifecycles Food Tree Project in Victoria, BC www.lifecyclesproject.ca/initi..._tree/
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