[CitizensTruth] Speaking of SH**y stuff going on with corporateagriculture: National Animal Identification System

[Geri Perry]

Hi all,

Amazing that I was momentarily able to access my Citizens truth folder 
(which has again disappeared). Anyway, at least I can (hopefully) add 
some extremely important information re: diet choices and creating a 
better world, not to mention a healthier body.

Most importantly, we MUST separate myth from fact here, and that 
includes the criminally inexcusable mistreatment of commercial (or "feed 
lot" animals) vs the importance of animals to our environment, local 
economies, our health, and to small family farmers - as well as what it 
REALLY takes to maintain optimal health vs what we have been led to 
believe by the "information controllers" who run rampant through our 
educational institutions, government agencies, various "charitable" 
organizations and more.

FIRST, in 1939 Weston A. Price proved CONCLUSIVELY that animal foods and 
animals fats are an ESSENTIAL component to anyone concerned with 
maintaining health. Although he discovered levels of health among the 
healthy groups he studied according to amounts of animal foods contained 
in their diets - he also showed that those relying on vegetarian-type 
diets could maintain vibrant health by consuming diets composed 
primarily of properly grown and prepared plant food - so long as they 
also included some form of animal protein and fat.

This biological reality is verified through other research both present 
and past, and it is actually still taught in high school physiology and 
biochemistry courses (albeit it is true that human nutrition courses 
presented in colleges across this great land oddly avoid this reality).

For this and MUCH more on health, nutrition and farming, please 
carefully read through my slide 
presentation:http://westonaprice-elgin.org/files/dietwars.pdf and follow 
up with some of the books mentioned, starting with Weston Price's 
classic 1939 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

The slide presentation also introduces the idea that plant-based farming 
is what is ruining the soil and local economies, while it encourages the 
use of petrochemicals, including nitrogen that must be used even for 
organic operations. Plant-based farming, especially grains (and now soy) 
also destroys fertile land which is how wars got started in the first 
place. Read Chapter 11 of my book Two Faces of Money.

Please also read this page called Myths and Facts about Vegetarianism: 
http://thehealthadvantage.com/vegetarians.html

Make sure to read carefully this segment on farm production as it 
relates to conservation of energy, reduced reliance on petrochemicals, 
mistreatment of animals (sanctioned by the exclusion clause of the 
Animal Welfare Law), and the world food supply.

<SNIP>
e, many people commit to vegetarian style diets not so much on health 
principles as the notion that vegetarianism will help conserve energy 
resources, reduce the need for chemicals, end cruelty to animals, and 
increase world food supplies. Internationally respected organic farming 
expert Mark Purdy helps dispell some of these myths in an article 
accessible at http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/wasteland.html

Here is an excerpt, from internationally respected organic farming 
expert Mark Purdy:

    "Whilst [these things] are true in consideration of the intensive, 
grain fed livestock units, the traditional mixed farming unit raises 
livestock for meat and milk off extensively managed, low input grassland 
systems; and each acre of well-managed grassland can produce four 
harvests a season of high protein forage utilising its all-inclusive 
clover plants as a green manure for fixing free atmospheric nitrogen 
into the soil. Whereas, an arable cropping system will only yield one or 
two crops per season, and will remain largely reliant on the inputs of 
artificial fertiliser for its nitrogen source; one ton of which requires 
ten tons of crude oil in manufacturing process. [This is important 
because 40% of all grain is fed to commercial livestock. . . 
Furthermore] Well managed grassland is rarely sprayed with 
pesticide/fungicide/herbicide, not even on the most chemically oriented 
of farms. Yet virtually all vegetable and arable systems receive an 
average of ten chemical sprayings annually; through from the initial 
seed stage to the final storage of the produce. Vegetables are so 
heavily sprayed that the more perceptive elements of the medical 
establishment have actually linked the victims of a mystery, novel 
neurological syndrome . . .  to the fact that they are all vegetarians 
in common. One team led by Dr. David Ratner . . . blood tested several 
isolated cases of those suffering from this syndrome, and found that 
various organo-phosphate pesticide residues intensively present in their 
vegetarian diet were responsible. Once the victims were convinced that 
they should return to a diet including meat and milk products, their 
symptoms and abnormal blood enzyme levels normalised rapidly.. . ."

Mark Purdy has also done extensive research into the possible causes of 
Mad Cow disease, and has linked it to the use of chemicals to which 
commercial livestock are subjected, together with an excess of certain 
minerals contained in "scientific" feeds and the use of organophosphates 
and other chemicals on livestock. He points to his own organic, 
pasture-fed herd in England as evidence that healthy, humanely treated 
animals do not succumb to Mad Cow. (However, tainted meat may not be the 
only source of the human form of Mad Cow, as there have been 
little-publicized reports of long time vegetarians contracting the human 
form of Mad Cow.)

<END SNIP>

Animal products are the way to keep the small, non-subsidized, 
environmentally responsible family farmer in business. See Economics of 
dairy farming portion of this brochure: 
http://westonaprice.org/brochures/Trifold-CowShare-20JUN2008.pdf and 
when you get the chance, this longer, but very well presented article: 
http://westonaprice.org/farming/poleconfoods.html

gerip




Kat wrote:

> True.  But would there be huge feed lots if there were no demand for the final product?  

>

> I'm not saying kill all the cattle today.  I'm saying reduce demand until eco-friendly farms can supply consumers who still want to eat meat no matter how bad it may be for them.  

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> Much like the cigarette debate.  Don't blame the manufacturer...

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> Kat

> KatDoyleForPeace (@gmail.com)

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Jay Becker <futurenotwritten at yahoo.com>

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> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:38:51 

> To:KatDoyleForPeace at gmail.com, Kris Knight <welaware at merr.com>

> Cc:citizenstruth-bounces at six.pairlist.net, Citizen's Truth <CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net>

> Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Speaking of SH**y stuff going on with corporateagriculture: National Animal Identification System

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> While I agree with the point that we'll all be a lot healthier when we cut meat out of our diet, I still think how agriculture is controlled and 'regulated' in this country should be of concern to all of us. Daniel's message about strangling small farmers with regulations (and subsidizing corporate farming at the same time) impacts all of us since we're all threatened by the huge amounts of pesticides, for instance, that corporate farming relies on, polluting the land, water, etc. We can eat the best diet available but we're all still living in the same world and it all 'comes home to roost' eventually, if you'll pardon the expression.

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> Jay

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>  Declare It Now! Wear Orange!

> Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes

> & Crimes against Humanity!

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> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, Kris Knight <welaware at merr.com> wrote:

> From: Kris Knight <welaware at merr.com>

> Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Speaking of SH**y stuff going on with corporateagriculture: National Animal Identification System

> To: KatDoyleForPeace at gmail.com

> Cc: citizenstruth-bounces at six.pairlist.net, "Citizen's Truth" <CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net>

> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 10:10 AM

>

> There's lots that would rectify itself if there was way, way less 

> meat, poultry and fish eaten. Seems to me I recall that we have now 

> destroyed/depleted about 90% of the life in the ocean...is that a 

> stunner or what? You'd never know it, to go into restaurants. it 

> doesn't look like anything has changed at all. And the amazing 

> stories of the floodwaters first killing thousands and thousands of 

> pigs and piglets just left to die, merged with the huge pits of their 

> excrement, etc., etc. Now with the hot weather, must be incredibly 

> toxic down south. What does one do with thousands of rotting pig 

> carcasses, anyway? Does the smell ever, ever go away?

> Enjoy your next pork chop, folks...

>

> On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Kat wrote:

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>> If people stopped eating animals, it would effectively lessen the 

>> program to the point where it would have little impact.

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>> Vegans are not particularly concerned about NAIS.

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>> Kat

>> KatDoyleForPeace (@gmail.com)

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