Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I generally agree with all you say Paul.Except that I think the so called food safety regulations are set up by the huge food producing companies and have the intention of killing off small competitors more than anything else. They also falsify scientific tests and they spend huge sums to manipulate the public.

One good example is that supplying raw milk is forbidden for "safety reasons" in most places in the US I think. People who want raw milk because they know better don't have it easy and the few who are prepared to risk all to supply it neither. When you look at the real data then raw milk is a thousand times safer than the pasteurised, homogenised rubbish that is legally protected.

 

Another is making it legally impossible to get some supplements like vitamins and this is several steps further along in Europe than in the US. We here in Ireland get so little sunshine that taking 5,000 IU/day of vitamin D3 is a very good idea if you want to stay healthy. Try and go looking for this locally. Almost all vitamin D sold is the D2 form and most contain no more than 400 units and this is supposedly only for our "safety".

 

Food companies should be regulated for safety but they are not. The biggest ones make and break the rules as they please.

John

Well, u don't miss much, John!  On food, I don't believe in regulating what people can eat, but I do believe in regulating food companies for safety. We can't tell if chicken or lettuce is going to kill us, just by looking at it. This whole push against all regulation in US is all about profit - follow the money.

4-way stops are an effective alternative to lights in many intersections. Our schools aren't ever going to let kids play in woods & debris due to insurance liability. And I'm certain we don't live in a democracy. It's 1 dollar 1 vote. Monsanto employees fill high spots in USDA & FDA. For proof of all this just look at the new farm bill passed. Or the pill pushers that call themselves doctors these days.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


On 2/5/2014 12:01 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

A few months ago I received a few videos on line about experiments with traffic lights. I think there was one from the Netherlands and one from one of the most dangerous 5 star cross roads in London, England. The lights were switched of for a day to see what chaos would follow.

Result : no accidents at all and most commuters got home a good bit faster than they usually did. Turned out that drivers were cautious and polite and more so because the cross roads was not regulated. This is anarchy in action.

 

Received a video yesterday about a boy school,in New Zealand where they had much trouble with bullying. The school directors decided to do away with rules during play time. Children could go in the woods or they could amuse themselves with piles of waste materials like old tires and planks.

Result : bullying completely stopped and there was more attention during the classes. This too is anarchy in action and it seems to work just fine.

 

Why it should be thought that is necessary to regulate from high above what people want to eat is completely beyond me. If a whole town decides that exchange of food should be freed from restrictions then that means that these people probably know what is safe to eat and what is not. They probably spend some time thinking about it at least. That is what it means to be human.

Of course it is much easier to stupidly believe what is declared safe by those far away politicians who got where they are through big corporations that make a better profit if they can sell toxic food.

 

And I also have my doubts that we all still live in a democracy. It are the super rich and the biggest corporations that write the laws and these being the "State" are per definition the only ones legally allowed to use violence to enforce their edicts.

 

Don't know whether you ever heard this joke? "How many voters does it take to change a light bulb?"

 

 

None at all, voters can't change anything is the answer.

 

Also, about milk. I have not touched a single drop of the fresh white stuff in over 50 years. But I do eat fermented milk products such as cheese. And there have been many civilisations that produced loads of centenarians exactly because they ate fermented milk products.

I have also never seen a 1,000 Lb calf, not unless this is pumped up with chemical growth promoters. Calves on just milk and nothing else don't grow at all very fast. You can see them putting on weight as soon they are grazing beside their mothers though. So it is fermenting grass that makes them grow and not just milk.

 

John

 

 

In our system federal law, including courts, trumps state & local of course. Whether the feds want to enforce it may depend on popular opinion, like with pot legalizing etc. Certain powers are given to each level of government and interpreted by the courts. Controversial of course. Democracy is basically majority rule. I believe Churchill said it's the worst system except for all the others.

In practice, a patchwork of conflicting local laws can also be too confusing and impractical. Where laws don't apply we can do as we please, but we can't be free to ignore every law we disagree with. That's a definition of anarchy where raw power rules. For example commerce and industry can't exist without the Uniform Commercial Code and courts to settle differences.

As for any kind of milk, I don't think milk made for growing 1,000 lb calves is good for people in the first place. My view is if you don't like something then opt out if it's feasible. YMMV

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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