Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Liz" <liz@allslash.org>]

I heard an interesting interview on Sunday, with the author of "Kosher 
Nation," Sue Fishkoff. Her remarks about why more and more Americans seek 
out kosher-certified food were eye-opening and encouraging. Apparently many 
people believe kosher food is more "pure" (which doesn't necessarily mean 
it's better for you--Honey Nut Cheerios are kosher, for pete's sake). She 
spoke of factories in China that are overseen by kosher inspectors, and the 
work necessary to clean a US factory after non-kosher food was processed, in 
order to make it acceptable for a run of kosher food.

I don't think buying kosher food is any guarantee of food safety, because it 
doesn't protect you against GMO foods or added chemicals. And it doesn't 
provide any incentive for buying local. But I was encouraged to hear that 
Americans in general are giving any weight to the notion of "pure." Maybe we 
are grinding slowly but inevitably toward a better understanding of 
nutrition and food safety. I want to think so, anyway.

Liz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] 2050 in America, Food and Farms of the Future


> No, seriously, long as they don't care if they poison their kids and the 
> corporations promote it and the law allows it, I can't stop them and won't 
> try. But if someone shows an interest in the problem I like to encourage 
> them to learn more. Today we conversed with other customers in the Vitamin 
> Cottage and I had a good exchange with a lady at AAA auto ins.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 2/4/2011 at 7:00 PM Tradingpost wrote:
>
> > The correct reply to them would be like, of course you're not elitist,
> > you're eating out of the garbage can, and if you cared about your children
> > you'd do the research and find out the truth. You're poisoning your
> > children.
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> >
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> >
> > On 2/4/2011 at 7:57 PM Liz wrote:
> >
> > > All good, except his belief that we're anywhere near a "tipping point."
> > > The
> > > only thing that will bring us there is for this to be repeated over and
> > > over
> > > and over on the mainstream news, morning and night, and we can all
> > imagine
> > > how soon that's likely to happen.
> > >
> > > Recently one of the meterologists on the Weather Channel asked people on
> > > her
> > > Facebook page to tell her what cereal they liked best. Out of the hundred
> > > and some responses, I think only two people mentioned oatmeal. For
> > > everyone
> > > else it was Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, Raisin Bran, Cheerios, etc.,
> > > etc.
> > > These are relatively well-educated people, and they had no clue? Heaven
> > > help
> > > the rest of the general population.
> > >
> > > Sigh, I feel so negative about this. But every time I ask someone, "Do
> > you
> > > actually know what's in that?" I get answers like, "Oh, I'm not one of
> > > those
> > > elitist foodies! I eat what tastes good." Or "Maybe it's not perfect, but
> > > I
> > > can't afford organic." Or my all time favorite: "It must be okay or the
> > > government wouldn't let them sell it."
> > >
> > > But keep posting quotes like this--makes me feel better to know that
> > > someone
> > > is paying attention.
> > >
> > > Liz
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> > > To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:03 PM
> > > Subject: [Livingontheland] 2050 in America, Food and Farms of the Future
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Similar to Winona's lecture, Ikerd sums it all up for me. See his
> > > mountains
> > > of papers at the other link there.
> > >
> > > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> > >
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