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"Help Small Farmers Most organic farms are small, independently-owned family farms. It's estimated that North America has lost more than 650,000 family farms in the past decade. Organic farming could be one of the few survival tactics left for family farms. 8. Support a True Economy Although organic foods might seem expensive, conventional food prices don't reflect hidden costs, including federal subsidies, pesticide regulation and testing, and hazardous waste disposal and cleanup. 9." - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Larger dairies farms use it more often; 54 percent of farms with at least 500 cows compared to about 9 percent of farms with less than 100 cows. But since dairies typically mix milk from many farms, milk from hormone treated cows is in almost all U.S. dairy products. The drug is more popular among farms in the West, and its use is rising nationwide.40 Monsanto reported an 8 percent increase in sales in 2002. Settepani says the FDA's "failures have become a scientific breakdown that threatens the safety of America's food supply generally, and dairy products in particular. ..." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.)

"Many organic farms also raise organic chickens, turkeys, and larger livestock. You can buy eggs from these farms and butcher your own meat. APPENDIX B The Right Vitamin D Tests If you decide to get tested, work with your physician on your game plan. For the most exact dosing, you may want to have three blood tests; vitamin D3, intact PTH (parathyroid hormone), and calcium." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In addition, these chemically-laden farms are devastating surrounding sea life, causing deadly water pollution and ruining the land on which the seafood farms are set up, with the consequent ruination of fishermen and farmers who depended on these areas for their livelihood.14 When we eat these animal and seafood products, antibiotics, and growth hormones and chemicals, end up in our body systems. Over time, bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Larger dairies farms use it more often; 54 percent of farms with at least 500 cows compared to about 9 percent of farms with less than 100 cows. But since dairies typically mix milk from many farms, milk from hormone treated cows is in almost all U.S. dairy products. The drug is more popular among farms in the West, and its use is rising nationwide.40 Monsanto reported an 8 percent increase in sales in 2002. Settepani says the FDA's "failures have become a scientific breakdown that threatens the safety of America's food supply generally, and dairy products in particular. ..." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.)

"And worst of all, the farms destroy the old mangrove forests that until now have held together the Indian coastline and protected it from floods and typhoons. All this, according to the critics, offsets any gains commercial prawn farms bring the economy in terms of foreign reserves and employment.1 216 Critics are not a pleasing lot, dear reader. They carp and they complain when we would prefer a little good cheer, a more Fried-manesque delight in the way things are. Instead, the Gloomy Guses grumble tastelessly about dying fish-erfolk and drying wells." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Americans are eating more soy products than ever before, thanks largely to the ingenuity of an industry eager to process and sell the vast amounts of subsidized soy coming off American and South American farms." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Doing so benefits not only your health (by, among other things, reducing your exposure to pesticides and pharmaceuticals), but also the health of the people who grow the food as well as the people who live downstream and downwind of the farms where it is grown. Another important benefit of paying more for better-quality food is that you're apt to eat less of it. "Eat less" is the most unwelcome advice of all, but in fact the scientific case for eating a lot less than we presently do is compelling, whether or not you are overweight." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "America began around 1980, exactly when a flood of cheap calories started coming off American farms, prompted by the Nixon-era changes in agricultural policy. American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans) dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Because plants living on organic farms aren't sprayed with synthetic pesticides, they're forced to defend themselves, with the result that they tend to produce between 10 percent and 50 percent more of these valuable secondary compounds than conventionally grown plants. Some combination of these environmental factors probably accounts for at least part of the decline in the nutritional quality of conventional crops, but genetics likely plays just as important a role." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Apple-gate farms sells a very nice variety of tasty turkey slices and Honeysuckle White brand has a fat-free sliced turkey available at deli counters. Salmon and its sidekicks are top chokes but unless you're relying on frozen fish, you'll be buying it the day or the day before you prepare it. Canned salmon, on the other hand, can always be available in your pantry. Most canned salmon is wild. Look for low or no-sodium-added varieties. Vital Choice brand offers a good selection." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Applegate farms www.applegatefarms.com 1(866)587-5858 Blackwing Quality Meats www.blackwing.com 330 1 (800) 326-7874 z o c u Z NorthStar Bison www.northstarbison.com 1 (888) 295-6332 \ Milk and Dairy (Organic Replacements) Replace cow's milk with rice milk, fermented soymilk, raw goat's milk, or ^ hemp, almond, cashew, sunflower, or hazelnut milk. Living Harvest™ www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/livingharvest/home.d2w/report 1 (888) 690-3958 Manitoba Harvest™ www.manitobaharvest.com 1 (800)665-4367 Notmilk www.notmilk.com 1 (201) 871-5871 Nutivo® www.nutiva." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"With a history remarkably similar to that of Marge Jetton, she grew up on farms, worked in a cannery, and became a nurse as a young woman. When I visited, she was frail and hard of hearing, but when I asked what she enjoyed most during her days on the dairy farm, she blurted out the word "shneckens," a German pastry her daughter (now 80) said she always used to make. Ethel passed away less than a month after my last visit to Loma Linda, on July 1, 2007." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Applegate farms www.applegatefarms.com (866) 587-5858 Diestel Family Turkey Ranch www.diestelturkey.com (209) 532-4950 NorthStar Bison www.northstarbison.com (888) 295-6332 Earthbound Farm www.earthboundfarm.com (800) 690-3200 Newman's Own Organics www.newmansownorganics.com Eden Foods www.edenfoods.com (888) 424-3336 SunOrganic Farm www.sunorganic.com (888) 269-9888 Grain and Salt Society www.celticseasalt.com (800) 867-7258 Gold Mine Natural Food Co. www.goldminenaturalfood.com (800) 475-3663 South River Miso Company www.southrivermiso.com (413) 369-4057 Corporate Watch www." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"He believes that organic should be about diversity—not monocrop farms that still use sprays. The Zebroffs rarely buy anything other than farm equipment, gas and other essentials. They do sometimes shop for food, but only for items they cannot produce themselves. Anna admits to periodically indulging in bananas, but only because they don't grow in this climate. The Zebroffs say they have no idea if others are living like them; they're too busy looking after the farm to go find out." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Other farms look like Versailles. Here we have weeds around the trees—we leave them be. Our farm is about animals, plants and insects all together." As she speaks, a fly lands on her eyelid and rests there. She's so in tune with nature that she doesn't even seem to notice it. When he finishes with the jam, George Zebroff comes out to greet us. At first, he's taciturn, almost stern. His wild gray hair is matched by a gnarled beard. He's very tall. Shaking hands with him is like greeting the Colossus of Rhodes. He regards me with suspicion, and asks me again what my book is about." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Agribusiness farms have been trying for years to replace human pickers with robots. Newton Research Labs have developed machine vision systems that can detect different shapes and colors. New Zealand's kiwis are now being sorted, graded and even pollinated by robots that work twenty-four hours a day. These automatons, which are overseen by 1.5 humans per eight-hour shift, "also collect data that will enable coolstore operators to decide which fruit to market and at what time," explains designer Dr. Rory Flemmer. The goal is to have fruit-picking drones whizzing through orchards day and night." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Home site of Cascadian farms and Muir Glen, organic frozen and canned vegetables and fruits Maine Coast Sea Vegetables www.seaveg.com Variety of sea vegetables, including some organically certified types Meat, Poultry, Eggs, and Dairy Eat Wild www.eatwild.com Information and ordering site for grass-fed meat and dairy products Organic Valley www.organicvalley.com Organic meats, dairy, eggs, and produce from more than 600 member-owned organic farms Peaceful Pastures www.peacefulpastures.com Grass-fed and grass-finished meat, poultry, and dairy products Raised Right Poultry www.raisedright." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Egypt was the imperial granary for five centuries not merely because of its farms' productivity, but their location; none of its cultivated land was far from either the Nile or a canal. In the year 540, at the terminus of the ancient world's greatest riverine complex, the delta of the Nile awaited the arrival of a conqueror greater than Alexander himself. CHAPTER NINE "The Fury of the Wrath of God" 540-542 IN 1883, THE Victorian naturalist and writer Thomas Henry Huxley?"Darwin's bulldog" and the world's first self-declared agnostic?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"It is generally considered that the purest colostrum comes from New Zealand, where farms are organic or near-organic, meaning cows graze on live grass in healthy pastures free of insecticides, herbicides, and antibiotics. Colostrum was designed by nature as the first kind of food we should consume after birth. It is possibly the one supplement that can help everyone who takes it. Flax Seeds Flax seeds are a high quality food with many benefits. Mahatma Gandhi once stated that: "Wherever flax seed becomes a regular food item among the people, there will be better health." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In addition, it has less fat, cholesterol, and calories. farms that specialize in grass-fed cattle are also better for the environment. Cattle allowed to graze on large areas of land are easier on the land and pollute less than do factory farm animals." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Most of these chemicals come directly from common consumer goods and food—not field trips to farms or accidents in a college chem lab. Whether we like it or not, we have to accept this fact and do what we can to address it. On a positive note, this will ultimately get us to where we want to be: a state of optimum physical, mental, and emotional health. In this chapter I want to take more time to describe and detail some of the chemical connections between toxins and our bodies that will interest those who want more information." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "There is reason to believe (and hope) that ultimately, the "pest" problem on farms may be solved not through the use of more potent pesticides but through restoration of optimal mineral balance to the soil in which crops are grown. (As an aside, I want to share what Keith S. Delaplane, a professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, says about "pests": "In nature, there are no pests. Humans label as 'pests' any plants or animals that endanger our food supply, health or comfort." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"As immigrants and other Americans left their farms and began living and working in cities, their diets began to change. Then the mechanization of the food industry compounded these dietary changes: canned and frozen produce replaced fresh fruits and vegetables. Free-range cattle gave way to feedlots. Fresh, lean meat was replaced by processed and canned meats. Foods such as canned ham—high in salt, saturated fat, and sugar—became popular, and the population explosion increased the demand for these inexpensive, well-preserved, tasty, and convenient foods." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "You can buy eggs from these farms and butcher your own meat. APPENDIX B The Right Vitamin D Tests If you decide to get tested, work with your physician on your game plan. For the most exact dosing, you may want to have three blood tests; vitamin D3, intact PTH (parathyroid hormone), and calcium. The only way to know your vitamin D status definitively is to measure a blood level of 25-hydroxy-vitamin Dy Your blood maintains activated vitamin D (also known as 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3) at a relatively constant level even when you're deficient in vitamin D." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Meats: Morningstar farms?Sausage Patties 1 patty 10 Boca?Breakfast Links 1 link 8 Gardenburger?Chik'n Grill 1 patty 13 Boca Burger?Original 1 burger 13 Boca?Ground Burger 2 ounces 13 Boca?Chicken Patties 1 patty 11 Smart Dogs?1 dog 9 Boca?Chili 1 serving 20 Cheeses: Veggie Shreds?(Cheese) 2 ounces 6 Boca?Pizza 1 slice 13 Tofu with Added Isolates: Lite Tofu?3 ounces 5 Flour: Benesoy?High Protein Soy Flour 1 ounce 15 John McDougall, The McDougallNewsletter, April 2005, 4(4), www.drmcdougall.com." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Given the fact that soybeans are grown on farms that use toxic, cancer-producing pesticides and herbicides—and many are from genetically engineered plants —increasing evidence suggests soy is a major health hazard. With a few exceptions, such as miso, tempeh and other carefully fermented soy products, soy is not suitable for human consumption. Eating soy, soy milk, and regular tofu increases risks of serious health conditions. In addition, soy is a common food allergen." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Morningstar farms Grillers Original: 140 calories, 6 g fat, 15 g protein, 2 g fiber Amy's Kitchen All American Veggie Burger: 120 calories, 3 g fat, 10 g protein, 3 g fiber Whole Foods 365 Organic: Classic Veggie Burger: 100 calories, 2.7 g fat, 14 g protein, 4 g fiber A vegetarian diet is linked to weight loss. What's this? A recent scientific review compiling data from 87 observational and clinical studies on vegetarian diets noted weight loss of up to a pound a week, and it didn't appear to depend on exercise or calorie count? Sign me up! What's behind this?" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Mail order high-quality organic produce and raw foods Earthbound farms www. earthboundfarm. com Fresh packaged organic produce Small Planet Foods www.cfarm.com Home site of Cascadian farms and Muir Glen, organic frozen and canned vegetables and fruits Maine Coast Sea Vegetables www.seaveg.com Variety of sea vegetables, including some organically certified types Meat, Poultry, Eggs, and Dairy Eat Wild www.eatwild.com Information and ordering site for grass-fed meat and dairy products Organic Valley www.organicvalley." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

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