Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
 Buying organic not only helps us avoid pesticide poisoning, but also supports the organic farmers who are rebuilding the soil. The more organic farmers there are, the less the organic produce will cost. According to a study at Tufts University, organic produce has a nutrient content approximately 88 percent higher than commercially grown produce. Other studies suggest organic food has even higher percentages of nutrients than commercially grown food. This means that, by buying organic produce, we actually get more for our money and for our health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 If you want to support organic farmers, buy organic! Vote with your dollars and you'll support those people and those organizations you want to see more of in 2008 and beyond.
These are the kind of ingredients that can bring you personal success in 2008 and beyond. Remember, if you want different results in 2008, you need to engage in different actions.
Your daily habits determine your year-end results.
So making your daily habits productive -- instead of destructive -- is the key to improving the results you actually get. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Ronnie: There are organic farmers all over the world - in about 100 countries - who are certified organic nowadays. Traditionally, organic has always meant that you raise crops without chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers and that you raise animals without drugging them up with hormones or antibiotics. You cannot take sewage sludge and put it on farmlands. You cannot feed animals things like blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure and municipal garbage, and you cannot use untested and hazardous technologies like genetic engineering or fruit irradiation. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |
 Crop rotation also fosters a thriving population of beneficial microorganisms in the soil, which in turn fortify the crops, to yield more nourishing vegetables and grains. organic farmers control pests by encouraging helpful predator insects and by shielding crops with protective, lightweight row covers. These techniques are nothing new; organic farmers are simply working with nature's systems instead of against them.
The sustainable in sustainable farming doesn't just refer to the pesticide-free produce that comes out of the farms' soil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| They have been doing this for four years, and there have been complaints from the Organic Consumers Association and organic farmers all over the country.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has completely ignored these complaints for four years. However, now this controversy has reached such a state, with the mass media covering it and retail stores across the country starting to drop Horizon and Aurora Organic, that the USDA is finally making noises that they will clear up this situation and promulgate federal regulations that actually require the animals to be pastured. |
| The good news is, almost all the organic farmers in the country are actually practicing real organic standards. The bad news is that the market leader, Horizon Organic, and their junior partner, Aurora Organic, are flagrantly violating organic standards to the point where we, the Organic Consumers Association, had to call for a boycott. We have never called for a boycott against an organic product before. |
| These are the large corporations trying to defraud consumers and put ethical organic farmers out of business by labeling factory farm production - and slave labor production, in the case of China - as organic.
Mike: I want to thank you, Ronnie, for taking the time to give us all of this shocking information today.
Ronnie: Thank you.
Related Resources
Organic Consumers Association – (www.organicconsumers.org)
The Cornucopia Institute – (www.cornucopia.org)
USDA's National Organic Program (http://www.ams.usda. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 The costs of the chemical and heat treatments, in addition to the costs of transporting and recording the new procedures, will be especially onerous on small-scale and organic farmers, and could force many out of business."
The only exemption to these new regulations will be organic "raw" almonds that will not be fumigated, but will undergo the steam-heat treatment, and small-scale growers who can sell truly raw almonds but only direct to the public from farm stands. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |
 Solutions containing the bacteria (including spores and protein crystals) are sprayed on plants as a method of insect control, used by organic farmers. Scientists altered the sequence of the gene that produces 5/-toxin and inserted it into plant DNA. Very few studies have assessed the health effects of Bt crops. Instead, justification for their approval is largely based on the argument that Bt sprays have a history of safe use and that the ifr-toxin does not react with mammals. Research contradicts both arguments. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |
 There are some organic farmers who do not remineralize their soil.
"Among the environmental contaminants at play when children have learning or behavior problems are insecticide and pesticide residues in our food and water and metal contamination, especially aluminum or lead toxicity. A holistic pediatrician in Florida says the lead toxicity he finds in children comes not from paint in older homes, but from piping and solder through which lead leaks into the water itself. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |
 In a state that is one of America's breadbaskets—Iowa grows one fifth of the corn grown in the United States—Krause is one of four hundred and fifty organic farmers. Normally in August, her patch of cornfields would be fallow, crackling with insects and awaiting the planting that begins in September. But that September there would be no planting, nor had there been the September before. Krause's fields were laying involuntarily fallow because of a fateful trip she made to a grain elevator back in the spring of 2002. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |
 Farmers who use synthetic pesticides, while creating a whole host of other problems, are essentially protecting plants from attack. organic farmers don't use synthetic pesticides. So that means organic celery farmers are leaving their growing stalks vulnerable to attack by insects and fungi—and when those stalks are inevitably munched on, they respond by producing massive amounts of psoralen. By keeping poison off the plant, the organic celery farmer is all but guaranteeing a biological process that will end with lots of poison in the plant.
Life: it's such a compromise. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 They can give you a slab of meat, a box of cookies or a bag of breakfast cereal more cheaply than organic farmers or small family farms can ever do, and they can probably have a prettier box and make it taste a little better with artificial flavors and more visually appealing with artificial colors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| These are the large corporations trying to defraud consumers and put ethical organic farmers out of business by labeling factory farm production -- and slave labor production, in the case of China -- as organic.
Mike: I want to thank you, Ronnie, for taking the time to give us all of this shocking information today.
Ronnie: Thank you. |
| The good news is, almost all the organic farmers in the country are actually practicing real organic standards. The bad news is that the market leader, Horizon Organic, and their junior partner, Aurora Organic, are flagrantly violating organic standards to the point where we, the Organic Consumers Association, had to call for a boycott. We have never called for a boycott against an organic product before. |
| They have been doing this for four years, and there have been complaints from the Organic Consumers Association and organic farmers all over the country.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has completely ignored these complaints for four years. However, now this controversy has reached such a state with the mass media covering it and retail stores across the country starting to drop Horizon and Aurora Organic, that the USDA is finally making noises that they will clear up this situation and promulgate federal regulations that actually require the animals to be pastured. |
| Ronnie: There are organic farmers all over the world -- in about 100 countries -- who are certified organic nowadays. Traditionally organic has always meant that you raise crops without chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and that you raise animals without drugging them up with hormones or antibiotics. You cannot take sewage sludge and put it on farmlands. You cannot feed animals things like blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure and municipal garbage, and you cannot use untested and hazardous technologies like genetic engineering or fruit irradiation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
 Do you know who some of those people are? organic farmers. These are people I greatly respect who are actually doing something useful for others. It is something difficult, something laborious, something a lot of people wouldn't want to do. There are people in society that are productive, and if we're going to succeed as an economy -- or even as a nation -- into the future, we're going to have to expand the number of people who are making a living doing something useful, not something that is just based on disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| When you purchase from these local organic farmers, you are supporting a way of life that is truly sacred; a way of life that, frankly, more of us would do well to emulate. That way of life includes farming organic produce from the earth in the local sustainable way that honors nature. That's a miracle in action, and every time you purchase those foods, you support those local community miracles. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |
| Well, first and foremost, you're buying a product that has not been grown using synthetic fertilizers or drenched in chemical pesticides. organic farmers use compost and "green" manure (crops that are tilled into the soil before they mature and help replace soil nutrients) to fertilize crops. They avoid exhausting the soil's nutrients in the first place through crop rotation (in contrast with the "monocropping" of industrial agriculture, in which the same crops are constantly replanted in the same fields, depleting the land). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |
| If you move your hand six inches to the right and pick up that organic beef, you are making a huge difference in the lives of organic farmers, in saving the planet from pesticides and reducing the revenues for companies that manufacture bovine growth hormones. You're also making the difference in the quality of life of the animal that has been sacrificed to provide you food. In my view, the only way to honor that animal is to choose the best possible existence for that animal. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |
| By applying for full certification with the California Certified organic farmers, the dining hall committed itself to serving 9 5 percent organic food at all times, and set a new standard for collegiate meal plans.
Farm-to-hospital: You're supposed to go to hospitals to get well, so why do most hospitals serve exactly the fare that makes so many of us ill? In the United States, 38 percent of hospitals have fast-food restaurants inside their cafeterias! In many cases, doctors and residents, some on twenty-hour shifts, can't get a healthy snack on the go. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |
 These toxins are so powerful that it even shows in the documentation that it is proven that regular farmers who use pesticides and herbicides, in contrast to organic farmers, have more depression as well as cancer, birth-damaged offspring, and lower sperm counts. These chemicals, even in small amounts, cause disease. Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts |
 This was shown in a group of organic farmers who ate a higher proportion of organic foods than did the general population and were found to have almost double the sperm count.
In order to reverse this situation, we first need to know which chemicals do the most damage to fertility, so we can devise ways of avoiding them or minimizing their toxicity. By understanding this problem, we are one step away from finding significant and effective ways of dealing with it. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |
| The more organic farmers there are, the less the organic produce will cost. According to a study at Tufts University, organic produce has a nutrient content approximately 88 percent higher than commercially grown produce. Other studies suggest organic food has even higher percentages of nutrients than commercially grown food. This means that, by buying organic produce, we actually get more for our money and for our health.
The good news is that many people are listening. |
| 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. So we are talking about a new set of concepts that do not dictate what one shouldn't do in order to be considered "organic. |
| A modern sattvic diet emphasizes foods grown in harmony with Nature by organic farmers, on good soils, ripened naturally, and prepared with an attitude of Love. Such foods carry the highest prana and consciousness. A modern sattvic diet does not include junk food, excessively spicy or salty foods, fried food, white flour, white sugar, and other forms of food that unnaturally stimulate your blood sugar or your mind. It avoids meat, fish, eggs, alcohol, highly caffeinated beverages, and often garlic and onion as well. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |
 Since synthetic input (chemicals) is prohibited, rotating crops and building soil must be done naturally, which is more labor-intensive. organic farmers seek to optimize land, plant, and animal interactions; preserve the soil; and overall, contribute to sustainable agriculture. In general, they use organic manure and mulches to improve soil structure and they employ natural pest controls. Mixed and relay crops give continuous ground cover and expose farmland to less sun, wind, and rain erosion. organic farmers are still learning the best ways to bring the soil back and maintain it. |
Carol Simontacchi
See book keywords and concepts |
 LENTILS AND GREENS
This recipe -was graciously provided by organic farmers Chris and Eva Worden of Worden Farms in Punta Gorda, Florida.
Serves 2
2 tablespoons olive oil 1 clove garlic, minced 1 cup lentils 4 cups water 6 cups shredded kale or collards 1 carrot, sliced into rounds 1 tablespoon ground cumin Salt to taste Pepper to taste
1. Heat the oil in a medium-sized pot over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute 1 or 2 minutes until fragrant and beginning to soften.
2. Stir the lentils and water into the pot, cover, and simmer gently for 15 minutes. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |
| Even worse, the prohibitive costs associated with obtaining USDA certification made it impossible for many small organic farmers to label their goods "organic."
Large corporate food manufacturers were in some ways granted a free pass, with the ability to dole out funds to create adjunct organic brand names without having to dramatically change their practices. Companies created organic lines that had the illusory appearance of products from small family-operated farms; these include Seeds of Change (M&M/Mars), Boca Foods (Philip Morris/Kraft), and Sunrise Organic (Kellogg). |
Email this page to a friend
