Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[realfood@wonderfulfarm.com]

Since you are upping the ante here:o) - I disagree with their premise that meat and dairy is the cause of obesity in the US.  There is an issue with CAFO meats/dairy(as well as pasturization/homogonization) and their connection with the subsidies and thus the cheap pricing but eating  meat and dairy does not make you fat.  As a matter of fact, if you are eating pasture raised meats and raw dairy as well as lard, butter and other saturated fats (coconut oil included) you will likely loose weight especially if you stop eating grains and sugars.  Consensus is that our obesity rates are related to the food pyramid that tells us to eat large amounts of grains as well as all the HFCS that folks are eating and all the processed foods.  There is movement a foot to change the pyramid to have veggies on the bottom (biggest part), then meat/dairy/eggs, then fruits, then grains/sugars.  If followed this would substantially curb most health issues that are in the forefront today especially obesity.  More information on this type of eating can be found at www.westonaprice.org - weston price was a dentist that looked into the health of indiginous cultures around the world in the early 1900's. He compared dental/bone health and disease with diet patterns and found some pretty interesting generalizations about diet - including the fact that most healthy cultures that ate grains, ate them fermented.  Lots of good reading over there.

Blessings,

Aliza


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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] locavorism more expensive?
From: dan conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
Date: Tue, March 16, 2010 12:54 pm
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Here's some ammunition to throw into the fight:

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/11/shocking-graphic-reveals-why-a-big-mac-costs-less-than-a-salad/

You might have already posted it, Paul. I've only been reading the LOTL
digest sporadically lately.
I get a newsletter from the Farmers' Union that lists the farmer share
of the food dollar.
(scroll to bottom of this archived one)
http://nfu.org/wp-content/110909-e-newsletter.htm

When you consider that one of the points of the localization movement is
to circulate money locally, rather than sending it off to be 'processed'
by central banks and foreign exchanges, then both sides become
important: the farmer charging Wal-Mart prices gets more of the food
dollar, even though the food costs the same to the consumer, and when
the $3 tomato is produced and sold to Berkeley-ites, it encourages
competition for the best taste and better recipes at the high end. A
friend of mine gets exhorbitant prices for his organic produce in D.C.,
but he puts a LOT of effort into his produce to have only the best in
the market, and has to travel extra distance to get that price.
Personally, I would be glad to get 50 cents to a dollar per tomato if
people would pay it and not complain about the 'high price'. Cheap food
has never done us any good.

Dan C.
Belgium, WI

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