Farm Fodder

FDA Panel OK’s Statins in Healthy People – ABC News.

Once again, the federal government, under the guise of the FDA, is telling the “heatlhy people” (men over 50 =, women over 60 that do not have a history of heart disease) to take Statins – and not just any statin – but Crestor – to prevent heart attacks.

It’s bad enough that many people have to take medications due to the inability of doctors to tell their patients “No, don’t eat that” or “no don’t drink or smoke that”.  It’s even worse when none of the doctors have any background or education in nutrition. But the worst thing that they could do is put healthy people on serious medications.

Read the article and weep…

–Pat

Personally, my family and I are not affected by the “eggo shortage”.

I can, however,  sympathize with those that are locked into an industrialized food system that they must rely upon for their daily sustenance.

We choose not to be – as much as possible. We do have to purchase things, but we try to purchase our wheat berries in bulk and always replenish while we still have ample supply on hand.
Please note that anyone can make waffles with a few staple ingredients – they do need a waffle iron, but there are many types available – one could probably purchase one for the price of 1 month’s supply of Eggo waffles. After that the basic flour, salt, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder is about all you need for a “basic” waffle recipe.

I find it shocking that the country that celebrates “Independence Day” every July is the most “dependent” country in the world.

–Pat

Read about the shortage below.

Kellogg Plant Flood Triggers Eggo Waffle Shortage Correct – Bloomberg.com.

So, E.coli is still leaking into the food system due to poor (or maybe no) processing plant inspections.

Read the article (link below) and take note that the young lady that had been a dance instructor by trade is now paralyzed from the waist down.All from eating a hamburger.

Also note that the processing plant in South Dakota “treats” the meat filler they make with Ammonia to kill E.coli.

Did you get that??? Ammonia!!! They will poison us with ammonia and still say that the food is “safe” because they took “steps” to prevent E.coli…

And the FDA and USDA think that this is an ok process.

Eat fresh, eat local. Vote with your dollars – buy from a local farmer that you know and trust.

Read the full article here.

Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws – NYTimes.com.

We were at Sam’s Club last night picking up a few items.
As we were heading for the register, we saw a display of “organic” ultra-pasteurized chocolate milk on display… in the aisle! Not in a refrigerated case, but stacked at the end of one of the aisles.

Now if that won’t turn your head, nothing will. Milk that does NOT have to be stored in a refrigerator. And of course, the milk industry would try to tell you that it is still good for you. What, may I ask, is still in it that would be GOOD for you???

We used this as an object lesson for our boys.
“See that chocolate milk?”
“Yes.”
“Is it refrigerated?”
“No.”
“What do we do with the milk after we milk the goats?”
“Put it in the freezer to chill it, then in the fridge.”
“Do you think that chocolate milk is healthful, or has anything good for you in it?”
“No”.
“Why not?”
“they had to kill everything in it, if it can be stored on the shelf, or it would go bad.”

‘Nuff said

– Pat

A recent CNN article states that a company called “New Harvest” plans to take eggs harvested from animals killed in slaughterhouses, fertilize them, place them in test tubes with nutrient solution and grow “meat” in huge steel vats from the embryos.

“Cultured meat would have a lot of advantages,” said Jason Matheny of New Harvest. “We could precisely control the amount of fat in meat. We could make ground beef with an ideal fatty acid ratio — a hamburger that prevents heart attacks instead of causing them.”

So, instead of raising chickens, pigs and cattle in a conventional way, this company recommends using test tubes for a more “controlled environment”.

Environmentalists are happy, thinking that there would be no need to rip out rain forest to grow more food, and no more chickens in pens and the elimination of inhumane conditions for all animals – but one environmental scientist is looking at it a bit more critically – he says “”Animal cells do not manufacture protein out of wishes and moonbeams. There will be a feedstock, likely based mostly on soy and corn to balance the protein content just like animal feed today. It will be heavily chemically processed to break it down into a form muscle cells can use. There will be waste from this process which will be chemically similar to the waste produced by animal digestion. The metabolic processes of the tank meat will also produce waste which will be essentially identical to the waste produced by metabolism in an intact animal.”

So, there will still need to be food grown, waste to deal with, and the whole “laboratory-sterile” concept goes out the window! And don’t think they will use organic feed – the chemical revolution made grain production so much easier, so science will continue to use science as opposed to a natural solution.

Should we really be messing with the way the natural system works? Isn’t that how we got the tainted food system that is killing people in the first place?

– Pat

With the potential implementation of government mandated health care, will your treatments be rejected by the health czar as depicted in the article below about rationed health care?

How can we fight this, if it is passed?

By eating fresh, healthful, locally produced, nutritious foods grown and raised by a local farmer that you know.

I have had different reactions from people about eating healthy, and knowing where our food supply comes from.  Responses such as “I prefer to buy my meat in styrofoam packages at the store” or “I don’t want to know where it comes from” are not only silly, they are downright illogical, from a health-perspective.

Logically speaking, we are, in a sense, what we eat. Should we get our food from someone we know, and have relationship with? Someone that cares enough about what they eat, to go to the great length and effort to grow it themselves? Or, should we get our foods from the supermarket that has the produce trucked in from out of state, or out of the country, saving money on the wholesale pricing that comes about on the backs of illegal aliens working the fields, and as a result of farmers spraying chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides on the foods? Or animals standing knee-deep in their own waste, being shot with antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to get through the slaughter house, finally, to wind up on your table?  How are we saving money when we have to go to the doctor because our immune systems are weakened by the constant bombardment of our bodies by those same chemicals, hormones, antibiotics and eating meat from sick animals? And how much nutritional value will we get from fruits and vegetables picked before they are ripe, and in some cases, gassed to promote “fast ripening”?

I think we should all reconsider the logic behind knowing where our food comes from – before the big ag industry swallows up all of the small farmers producing real foods – and we are forced into a health care that would prefer to euthanize us before spending money on c0stly treatments that are “unjustified” based on the Health Czar’s calculations?

It’s time we woke up from the “American dream” as purported by the infomercials and took “health care” into our own hands – by feeding our bodies as God had intended in the garden – with nutritious, fresh, untainted foods.

Read this article on the health care that YOUR government wants for YOU!

Martin Feldstein: ObamaCare Is All About Rationing – WSJ.com.

It seems that the advocates for stricter regulations of Diet Supplements wants Congress to  pass legislation that will stop these kinds of issues.

Hydroxycut has been found to cause liver damage, and in one case, death. Evidently Hydroxycut was a very popular ingredient found in various dietary supplements used to aid in weight loss.
The FDA finally forced a recall to have it removed from shelves. 

Quite honestly, If people would eat a mostly-raw diet, consisting of fruits and vegetables, and the FDA would ban MSG - and the ingredients that are added to those processed "foods" that make MSG when added, then the public would not need weight-loss "supplements". MSG is a killer, too, and it causes cravings. But the FDA hasn't seen fit to "cut off the hands that feed them", and tell those that make processed food-replacements to stop using those ingredients.

Read the entire article at the link below

Medical News: Groups Call for Review of DSHEA in Light of Hydroxycut – in Primary Care, Diet & Nutrition from MedPage Today.

Again, we need to eat smart and eat healthy – Read those labels!!!!

–Pat