Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because radical weather patterns caused by global warming will disrupt food production, causing droughts in some areas and floods in others. As food production plummets, famine will become widespread. We are, after all, in a "food bubble" right now.
Why infectious disease? Because only balanced, healthy ecosystems keep infectious disease at bay. When ecosystems are disrupted, they become breeding grounds for infectious pathogens. Those pathogens spread quickly through non-natural animal production facilities (bird farms, cattle ranches, fish farming ponds, etc. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Organic food production plays a very important role in healing our world. Its focus is getting toxic chemicals out of agriculture. Organic farmers are performing an incredibly valuable service to society through their efforts to reform food production methods to better conform to Nature and to protect the environment and human health.
Authentic Food
Going beyond the focus of getting chemicals and GMOs out of our food, authentic food production focuses on enhancing the biological quality of food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Because radical weather patterns caused by global warming will disrupt food production, causing droughts in some areas and floods in others. As food production plummets, famine will become widespread. We are, after all, in a "food bubble" right now.
Why infectious disease? Because only balanced, healthy ecosystems keep infectious disease at bay. When ecosystems are disrupted, they become breeding grounds for infectious pathogens. Those pathogens spread quickly through non-natural animal production facilities (bird farms, cattle ranches, fish farming ponds, etc. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The pressure to produce more food intensified because population growth kept pace with increasing food production. This, in turn, increased pressure to extract more food from the land. Not long after the first communities settled into an agricultural lifestyle, the impact of top-soil erosion and degraded soil fertility—caused by intensive agriculture and goat grazing—began to undermine crop yields. As a direct result, around 6000 bc whole villages in central Jordan were abandoned. |
| About the time the whole floodplain came under cultivation, the plow appeared on the Sumerian plains near the Petsian Gulf: it allowed greater food production from land already farmed.
Towns began to coalesce into cities. The town of Uruk (Erech) absorbed the surrounding villages and grew to about 50,000 people by 3000 bc. Construction of huge temples attests to the ability of teligious leaders to marshal labor. |
| The regional population began to grow dramatically as domestication of wheat and legumes increased food production. By about 7000 bc small farming villages were scattered throughout the region. Communities became increasingly sedentary as intensive exploitation of small areas discouraged continuing the annual cycle of moving among hunting camps scattered around a large territory. By about 6500 bc large towns of up to several thousand people became common. The seasonal thythm of an annual trek to follow resources was over in the Middle East. |
| Greater food production didn't mean that the poor had more to eat. It usually meant more people to feed.
Geographer Walter Mallory found no shortage of ideas for addressing China's famines in the early 1920s. Civil engineers proposed controlling rivers to alleviate crop-damaging floods. Agricultural engineers suggested irrigation and land teclamation to increase cultivated acreage. Economists proposed new banking methods to encourage investment of urban capital in rural areas. |
| These shortcomings led many to discredit Malthus because he treated food production and food demand as independent factors. He also neglected to consider the time required for agriculturally accelerated erosion to strip topsoil off a landscape or for intensive cultivation to deplete soil fertility. Although his views seemed increasingly naive as England's popu-larion kept growing, political interests seeking to rationalize exploitation of Europe's new working class embraced them.
Malthus's ideas challenged prevalent views of human impact on nature in general and on the soil in particular. |
| A potato blight that arrived from America in 1844-45 showed just how insecure food production had become. When Phytophthora infestans wiped out the Irish potato harvest in the summer of 1845 and the next year's crop failed too, it left the poor—who could not afford to buy food at market rates from the indifferent British government—with literally nothing to eat. Completely dependent on potatoes, the Irish population crashed. About a million people died from starvation or associated diseases. Another million emigrated during the famine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Before long, food production falls and you end up with skyrocketing prices at the grocery store. And while some areas are inundated with rain, others suffer severe droughts (like Australia right now).
The global warming deniers, however (the same group of people who still think the Earth is flat), insist these weather patterns are just random and have no correlation whatsoever with the fact that human beings are severely disrupting the natural climate balance on this planet. If you run into one of these people, try not to shove them into the fast-moving waters flowing down Main Street. |
Mike Adams
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 The answer, as always, is found in the economics of food production and storage. By hydrogenating cheap oils like soybean oil (that's the one most commonly used), food producers can create a nice-tasting, creamy, solid oil substance that won't leak out of foods sitting on the shelves.
Better yet (from the point of view of food manufacturers), hydrogenated oils have an extended shelf life. Products made with this toxic substance can sit around for months - even years! - without going rancid. Shelf life is extremely important to the economic equation for food production and distribution. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The end result of all this is not in question by any serious thinker: Widespread bankruptcy, disease pandemics, environmental collapse and a bursting of the food production bubble.
Papua New Guinea may ultimatey emerge as one of the few successful, sustainable nations in the world. If you're not sure why, I urge you to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and then study the history of human civilization from a geographic viewpoint. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The argument for genetic engineering of food is that while the world population continues to expand, the area of land available for food production is finite. If the world's population increases, food production must be increased. So proponents of GM foods argue that without its use there will not be enough food to meet the demands of future populations. This argument has some validity, but current techniques are not capable of expanding production that significantly, and the reality is that the primary reason for GM foods is to generate profits for large corporations seeking greater revenues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There still may be some industrial runoff or some kind of post-production chemicals that need to be dealt with after creating artificial meat, but undoubtedly these would be far less harmful to the planet than the clear-cutting of rain forest, injecting cows with hormones and antibiotics and raising crops with pesticides so that cows can be fed in a very inefficient food production system.
So artificial meat, even though it may sound strange, could actually be better for the planet if people continue to consume meat. |
Andreas Moritz
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 MSG—The Obesity Factor
As a nation we are becoming increasingly dependent on processed foods, and each year the FDA approves more and more chemicals as additives in food production. While some of these chemicals increase shelf life of foods, others kill bacteria, improve taste, and replace fats and carbohydrates, enhance flavor and color of foods, and much more. Although adding chemicals to natural foods is not really necessary, it certainly increases profits many times. |
| Instead of food being our best medicine, modern food production has turned our best foods into man's most harmful poisons. Many among the younger generations have almost completely lost touch with the simple truth that they are what they eat. Even educated doctors tell their patients that their heart attacks, cancers and arthritic pains have nothing to do with the foods they eat. Well, not too long ago, doctors told their patients that smoking was good for them. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic
Program defines organic food production as "... products produced under the authority of the Organic Foods Production Act. The principal guidelines for organic production are to use materials and practices that enhance the ecological balance of natural systems and that integrate the parts of the farming system into an ecological whole. Organic agriculture practices cannot ensure that products are completely free of residues; however, methods are used to minimize pollution from air, soil and water. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In the name of progress and improvement of food production, the plan is to make every nation dependent on using the genetically engineered seeds that the world's leading food industries have produced and for which they own the patent rights. The agricultural products manufacturer Monsanto is doing exactly that. In January 2005, Monsanto announced it will buy the commercial fruit and vegetable seed company Seminis. The deal is said to be worth $1.4 billion. |
| Thanks to genetic research and food production, we are now on the verge of creating new diseases against which we have no natural or unnatural way of defending ourselves.
As more and more foods are grown that include foreign genes to make them resistant to certain pests, pesticides, herbicides or antibiotics, the more of these gene transporters or vectors will end up lodging in our intestinal tract, infecting the bacteria in our gut. The infected gut microbes will not only become antibiotic-resistant, but resistant to any kind of treatment.
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| Food producers have free reign over food production, and there is nobody out there that is going to make sure our children don't get fed with another sweet tasting poison.
But the common practice of producing food synthetically and making it "healthier" by adding synthetically derived vitamins and minerals is at the root of many health problems afflicting both children and adults in the developed world.
To determine whether a cereal is healthful or harmful for you and your family, try using the simple muscle test described in chapter 1. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| But this elaborate system of food production through waste management has evolved into a recycling nightmare. Rendering plants are unavoidably processing toxic waste...
[As you read, the meat you reject from your store shelf may be "recycled" into this rendering slop and fed to other animals. That's right—the food you rejected because it was spoiled (or just looked bad) might eventually wind up on your plate anyway! |
Michael Pollan
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 Words such as these are one good way to foster a more deliberate kind of eating, but perhaps an even better way (as Berry himself has suggested) is for eaters to involve themselves in food production to whatever extent they can, even if that only means planting a few herbs on a sunny windowsill or foraging for edible greens and wild mushrooms in the park. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 This fact plus the observation that current surveillance has not detected any decrease in body weight [35] or energy intake (see Figure 6, middle panel) suggests that the prevalence of overweight and obesity cannot be expected to decrease in the near future.
The food production data are remarkably consistent with the majority of laboratory and epidemiological studies indicating that the amount of calories consumed is directly related to the fat content of the foods humans consume. |
Mark Sircus
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 The end result of our domestic food production has been 'quantity' rather than 'quality'. The human body can thrive on fruits and vegetables that are grown on vital rich soil but not on soil that is artificially pumped up with chemicals." Thus today hardly anyone can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his or her body with the mineral salts required for good health.
It is crucial that doctors and parents recognize that from poor soil comes poor food, deficient in minerals and vitamins
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Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Gardening allows learners of all ages to learn about natural cycles, food production, and the enjoyment of natural settings. In The Intergenerational School, we are demonstrating that a different model of public education can not only provide better learning for children, but can also create opportunities for older adults to contribute in a purposeful way to the future of their communities, share their collective wisdom, and stay cognitively vital in the process. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 In fact, food production outpaced population growth over the last forty years, and about 90 percent of the money that Americans spend on food is used to buy processed food. Whether you live in a sprawling metropolis or a small town in the middle of America, you probably don't have to go too far to find a fast food restaurant, or at least a convenience store that sells mostly processed foods. We also have entered an era of genetically modified foods, which are just that—genetically mutated foods that are not necessarily better for you. |
Charles Barber
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 Merck's profits that year exceeded the combined profits of the Fortune 500-listed semiconductor, pipeline, food production, crude oil production, hotel, casino, and resort industries.4 The compensation given to the top executives is equally transcendent. Wlliam C. Steere Jr., Pfizer's chairman, made $40 million in 2000 as Pfizer's chairman. But that paled in comparisin to his unexercised stock options of $130 million. Which was nothing compared to the stock options held by the CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, which amounted to $227 million. |
Michael Pollan
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| At the same time, modern food production practices have further diminished the omega-3s in our diet. Omega-3s, being less stable than omega-6s, spoil more readily, so the food industry, focused on store food, has been strongly disposed against omega-3s long before we even knew what they were. (Omega-3s weren't recognized as essential to the human diet until the 1980s—some time after nutrition-ism's blanket hostility to fat had already taken hold.) For years plant breeders have been unwittingly selecting for plants that produce fewer omega-3s, because such crops don't spoil as quickly. |
Mark Lynas
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 Before anyone makes plans to move large-scale food production to the central Sahara, a note of caution needs to be sounded. During the early Holocene, an additional monsoon driver was the difference in the distribution of solar heat between the two hemispheres. This time the whole globe is heating up, so the past is not a perfect analogue for the future. |
| Farming and food production will tip into irreversible decline. Salt water will creep up the stricken river systems, poisoning groundwater supplies. Higher temperatures mean greater evaporation, further drying out vegetation and soils, and leading to huge losses from dwindling reservoirs stored behind dams.
At the very least, these changes mean big disruptions in everyday life for the average Australian, major economic losses and strict rationing of water. |
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