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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ was Compost tea
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:06:00 -0400

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:20:39 -0600, you wrote:

>
>Interesting, Mark. I saw a special on Arctic Russian family groups herding
>reindeer. They live where the reindeer feed on lichen beneath the snow, and
>all they eat and use come from their herds. It occurred to me that their
>meat is so different from the meat we get. Consider what goes into the
>beef and poultry marketed in this country, hormones, vaccines, excessive
>oils or fats from grains, and pesticides concentrated in fatty tissue. Is
>this good for us? So avoiding it may be the healthiest thing for us to do.
>
>I'd question how healthy those Arctic peoples would be if they had to eat
>the stuff in our stores. They're actually living on the land. We're living
>on the Machine.
>

You got that right. And The Machine runs on petroleum.

Pat
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Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.

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