U.S. Farm Bureau Declares War on Sustainable Food

[wifezilla]

I read about those too. They are a smaller pig more suited for a small homestead.

 

[boggybranch]

When I was young, I couldn't wait for school to start, for one reason and one reason ONLY....dove season was right around the corner. Farmers would gather their peanut crop, hotwire the field and turn the hogs "in", and the doves followed, in droves. THEN, colesterol studies reared it's HUGH, UGLY head and farmers were fined for bringing, to market, hogs that were "put" on peanuts.....thus, that practice was abandoned as was hog "farming" (pretty much) in our area....and GREAT dove hunts all but ceased to exist in numbers.
Mighty funny to me....all our kinfolk for eons ate peanut fattened pork and lived long healthy lives (course they weren't 'couch potatoes', either). I believe more health problems can be, truely, traced to manipulated, steroid-feed meats......course, THAT will NEVER be admitted to.

 

[wifezilla]

The whole cholesterol scare is another topic all together!
(Cholesterol does not cause heart disease. It never did. Saturated fat isn't dangerous to the body, it is protective.}

 

[ducks4you]

If reasonable Americans--LIKE US!!!--continue to logically argue WHY food manipulation is bad for all of us, everybody will start to understand this.
Think of the very effective ad in the 1970's against littering. It had a Native American who watched people throwing trash out of their cars--which they DID...I saw it happen growing up--and he turns to the camera with one tear rolling down his cheek. Americans KNEW it was wrong, and people in this country changed their ways even before it became illegal with a fine.
Even if people JUST start buying fresh produce from the grocery store, their food bill will be less than buying/eating processed foods, and it's at least a little bit healthier. Sometimes it's a lot healther because of local produce bought/sold by grocers.
We MUST be making an impression if the big food corporations are paying SO much attention to small, innocuous food growers who cannot possibly compete with their market share. They must have some dirty little secrets to hide. I also know about dirty little secrets. I live in Illinois. Our past Governor, Blogovich has lots of dirty little secrets. I'm surprised he's still alive!!

 

[boggybranch]

Not intending to side track this thread, but I gotta tell you....my doctor had been wanting to "check my cholesterol" for several trips to see him, but I always told him I had ate something (even though, most times, I hadn't). I had to go into the hospital and when I went to his office, for the follow up, he told me that, while I was in the hospital, he had a cholesterol test done (had wondered why they had starved me)....he said, and I quote..."Your cholesterol was a bit on the high side, but I can't remember WHICH one of them it was.....here I want you to start taking this medication for it"
Reckon what I did with that written perscription.......

Look up "con game" in the dictionary.....it says, 'HIGH CHOLESTEROL"

 

[wifezilla]

Just an FYI, unless they measure particle size, a cholesterol test isn't worth much. Your triglyceride levels and A1c levels WILL give you very valuable information. It is possible to have a high LDL and not have any risk because they are LARGE particle LDL. It is also possible to have a low LDL and have a BIG health risk because they are SMALL particle LDL.

What usually happens when you go on statins is your LDL drops and your doctor tells you "Fantastic!" but you are only left with VLDL (very low density...the small dangerous LDL). For more info on statins and cholesterol...

www.spacedoc.net
http://weeksmd.com/?p=485

 

[boggybranch]

Just an FYI, unless they measure particle size, a cholesterol test isn't worth much. Your triglyceride levels and A1c levels WILL give you very valuable information. It is possible to have a high LDL and not have any risk because they are LARGE particle LDL. It is also possible to have a low LDL and have a BIG health risk because they are SMALL particle LDL.

What usually happens when you go on statins is your LDL drops and your doctor tells you "Fantastic!" but you are only left with VLDL (very low density...the small dangerous LDL). For more info on statins and cholesterol...

www.spacedoc.net
http://weeksmd.com/?p=485

You're just tryin' to make my head hurt...LOL

My way to measure is better (to me)....if my feet hit the floor, in the morning, and I can stand up.....my cholestrol is good.

 

[lesa]

Monsanto is trying to pass legislation to start GMO alfalfa. If this happens it could be the end to organic dairy farming. If you would like to read more about this, or sign a petition, check out this website. credoaction.com

Can you hear me growling???

 

[ducks4you]

signed the petition--T.axed E.nough A.lready,

T.ired O.f B.eing E.xperimented oN.!!!!!!!

 

[dntd]

I had a home visiter come in yesterday and she asked why chickens, well why not they taste good and they produce eggs at a reasonable cost(eggs are over $3 in ontario!) and bove all I know what goes in them. I also do my own canning with produce from a farmers maket so I know how it's grown and started soap making for the same reasons, my garden this year is going to take up most of my back yard, all spaces that can be used will be used. I haven't eatan much meat since I watched food inc. We have been lied too.