Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Compared notes with Barb again about this. She also mentioned Jamie's message 
isn't stressing that cooking with basic produce can be simple and easy as 
well as affordable. He did set up a storefront kitchen to show cooking, but 
without the complete message the rest of it isn't convincing enough. It 
leaves too many excuses - I can't afford good food, I don't have time to cook 
anything, and so on.

One other thing not so toxic in itself is red meat. Like everything else, we 
overdo it as a country, and we pay the price. Literally. Get rid of the 
feedlots and save 90% of the land and freshwater, and save a lot on 
groceries. It all adds up to a win-win solution from every angle.

I have more. Much of the fresh or stored produce we need can be produced for 
next to nothing by millions of people at home. Just living on the land.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/27/2010 at 9:23 PM Tradingpost wrote:

>[Barb and I have kicked this around, and great as it is Jamie does miss
>an essential connection. The snag as I see it:  Huntington and the whole
>country simply haven't seen the avalanche of evidence against the
>processed villains - high fructose corn syrup, transfats, MSG and all its
>disguises, refined flour and refined sugar. Without hearing this, all they
>hear from Jamie is how our food is crap (which it of course is). And to
>his great credit he does tie it to the cost of our degenerative diseases,
>and to lack of real cooking. All in all, a major breakthrough.]
>
>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Excerpts:
>
>Chef Jamie Oliver: Why the U.S. Is One of the Unhealthiest Countries in
>the World
>'My wish is for you to help a strong, sustainable movement to educate
>every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower
>people everywhere to fight obesity.'
>http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire
>
>   Sadly, in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat, four Americans who
>are alive, will be dead from the food that they eat. My name's Jamie
>Oliver. I'm 34 years old. I'm from Essex in England and for the last seven
>years I've worked fairly tirelessly to save lives in my own way. I'm not a
>doctor, I'm a chef. I don't have expensive equipment or medicine. I use
>information, education. I profoundly believe that the power of food has a
>primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. We have
>an awful, awful reality right now. America, you're at the top of your
>game. This is one of the most unhealthy countries in the world.
>
>   Right? The statistics of bad health are clear, very clear. We spend our
>lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide, you name it. It's on
>the front page of every paper, CNN. Look at homicide at the bottom, for
>God's sake. Right? Every single one of those in the red is a diet-related
>disease. Any doctor, any specialist will tell you that. Fact. Diet-related
>disease is the biggest killer in the United States, right now, here today.
>This is a global problem. It's a catastrophe. It's sweeping the world.
>England is right behind you, as usual.
>
>   I know they were close, but not that close. We need a revolution.
>Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of
>obesity and bad health. Think about smoking. It costs way less than
>obesity now. Obesity costs you Americans 10 percent of your health care
>bills. 150 billion dollars a year. In 10 years, it's set to double. 300
>billion dollars a year. And let's be honest, guys, you ain't got that cash.
>
>   I came here to start a food revolution that I so profoundly believe in.
>We need it. The time is now. We're in a tipping-point moment. I've been
>doing this for seven years. I've been trying in America for seven years.
>Now is the time when it's ripe -- ripe for the picking. I went to the eye
>of the storm. I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in
>America.
>
>   Let's start with the Main Street. Fast food has taken over the whole
>country. We know that. The big brands are some of the most important
>powers, powerful powers in this country. Supermarkets as well. Big
>companies. Big companies. Thirty years ago, most of the food was largely
>local and largely fresh. Now it's largely processed and full of all sorts
>of additives, extra ingredients, and you know the rest of the story.
>Portion size is obviously a massive, massive problem. Labeling is a
>massive problem.The labeling in this country is a disgrace. They want to
>be self ... They want to self-police themselves. The industry wants to
>self-police themselves. What, in this kind of climate? They don't deserve
>it. How can you say something is low-fat when it's full of so much sugar?
>
>   Watch the video:
>http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire
>
>
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