In the first Daily Lipid Video Blog, Chris Masterjohn, PhD, discusses David Gumpert’s book, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Batt…
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Do Americans Have the Right to Eat Healthy Food?
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Thank you Chris for this important information. I have asked myself the
same question, and of course we know the answer. But we must also look on
the grocery shelves, where everyone is buying their food, and question if
most of it can even be legally called food. Begin with the irradiated
“foods” that have no evidence of life in them, no enzymes.And what about
all the chemicals in our food, that by themselves are “safe” according to
the FDA, but looking at a real world total load in most people is no longer
safe. Don’t even get me started on vegetable oils! I know about the ongoing
battle for GMO labeling, which I am watching with great interest, but this
is a different issue. Are there discussions somewhere? Is there research
being done to back these up? Are there proposed laws? I am admittedly a
neophyte in this arena, and I plan to read David Gumpert’s book, and
anything else I can find on this topic.
As far as raw dairy and the Feds, if the public knew the REAL TRUTH…Oh if
only! I do what I can as a nutritionist to talk to people every day,
whether formally or informally, about WAP and good fats, raw milk, etc.
Keep up your great work Chris!
Nice job. Reinforces my opinion that the food system and the health care
system are mirror images of one another. In both cases: A massive and
continuous movement toward commoditization has occurred since WW2.
Everything and everyone gradually becomes a commodity…every plant,
animal, worker, farmer, patient, doctor, disease, etc. Neither system has
true competition and neither system truly allows for consumer choice. And
both systems have facilitated our ranking of 17th place (i.e. last place
out of the the wealthy 17 nations) health ranking. But I too am hopeful as
it is an exciting time for both industries. Neither will collapse or fail
but both will go through huge metamorphoses. Cheers.
I’ve heard three problems with organic farming are cost, lack of
mineralization in soil, and pathogens. Because they don’t use pesticides on
soil insects leave their droppings which puts vitamin B12 in soil. Broken
down no longer living farming grade animals and manure may also be added to
organic soil for vitamin B12. The drawback with not using pesticides is
that pathogens form on the soil and 50% of Americans are considered
chronically ill by Center for Disease Control. This has to do with the SAD
(Standard American Diet) marketing system of this country in the food
establishment, psychology, psychiatry, and medical fields. For someone with
better health this isn’t a problem, but even those with good health develop
major short term and/or long term problems of pathogens from organic foods.
I’ve heard organic soils are mineral depleted. This is due to a couple
reasons. It can be lack of nitrogen added to soil and/or that the mineral
additives, even if they’re very expensive, aren’t properly broken down
through the right process so they don’t absorb into the soil when they’re
added. You can add certain nutrients to the soil so there’s not as much of
a nitrogen demand. http://www.sea-crop.com recommends a sea-crop and miracle-gro
combination for this with specific instructions to use them. You may want
to add other minerals too as I’m not sure what major minerals those two
have but miracle-gro adds nitrogen to soil and with the sea-crop nitrogen
demand is greatly lowered. You can ask the sea-crop company what other
nutrient sources and minerals to add to soil other than just sea-crop and
miracle-gro but those two combination of nutrients greatly lower the
overall demand for other nutrients plus they may have a lot of those
nutrients in them. There’s a greater overall combination of nutrition in
them to greatly lower the soil’s demand. The sea-crop/miracle-gro
combination makes farming much cheaper, much healthier, much more
efficient, makes soil care a lot less work, and makes the soil last
forever. By itself miracle-gro can sap soil, but with sea-crop used with
this it prevents that. Miracle-gro causes the plants to demand more
nutrients, so the right additional nutrients need to be added with it.
Composting is also a good method to use to mix in the right nutrients such
as minerals and properly break them down so that the soil can absorb the
nutrients. I wonder just how healthy most organic food actually is. I don’t
know what the Brix value tells you, or if it can measure the mineral and
trace mineral richness of the plants you purchase.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/09/09/composting.aspx