Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
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Showing posts with label organic farms. Show all posts
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Demand organic foods and support your local organic farms...and read Maria Rodale's book, ORGANIC MANIFESTO.
Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
Monday, April 30, 2007
Yet another reason to grow, and eat, organic foods
Mornin’ earthly gardeners,
Some of you who also read my cat blog know that I’ve been talking about the whole pet food recall issue. It’s scary stuff, folks. More and more foods are being added to the list. For a link to the FDA website, CLICK HERE. You’ll find a link to a list of all the recalled foods there.
In addition, the contaminated substances have just been found in pig urine on a farm in California. These are pigs that are destined to be HUMAN FOOD. This sounds like somebody’s idea of a sick joke, but believe me, it’s no joke.
Organic farms don’t use industrial chemicals like these on their crops! With the discovery of the melamine in the pig’s urine, that means that the contamination has entered the human food chain, and that’s really, really, bad news.
So I’d encourage you even more strongly to do several things. One, if you can, grow as much of your own foods as possible! Two, seek out local small organic farms or perhaps even individual gardeners who can share their produce with you. Eat local produce. If you must buy canned or frozen foods (yes, we all do that!), then buy organic.
I’ll be watching this news story carefully, and will report back with any further developments.
On a lighter note, go out and buy something from a small business this weekend…spend your money supporting a small farm or indie artisan, shop at a local farm stand, buy a bouquet of flowers or a packet of organic seed.
Until later,
dig it!
bobbi c.
http://www.bobbichukran.com
copyright ©2007 bobbi a. chukran
Some of you who also read my cat blog know that I’ve been talking about the whole pet food recall issue. It’s scary stuff, folks. More and more foods are being added to the list. For a link to the FDA website, CLICK HERE. You’ll find a link to a list of all the recalled foods there.
In addition, the contaminated substances have just been found in pig urine on a farm in California. These are pigs that are destined to be HUMAN FOOD. This sounds like somebody’s idea of a sick joke, but believe me, it’s no joke.
Organic farms don’t use industrial chemicals like these on their crops! With the discovery of the melamine in the pig’s urine, that means that the contamination has entered the human food chain, and that’s really, really, bad news.
So I’d encourage you even more strongly to do several things. One, if you can, grow as much of your own foods as possible! Two, seek out local small organic farms or perhaps even individual gardeners who can share their produce with you. Eat local produce. If you must buy canned or frozen foods (yes, we all do that!), then buy organic.
I’ll be watching this news story carefully, and will report back with any further developments.
On a lighter note, go out and buy something from a small business this weekend…spend your money supporting a small farm or indie artisan, shop at a local farm stand, buy a bouquet of flowers or a packet of organic seed.
Until later,
dig it!
bobbi c.
http://www.bobbichukran.com
copyright ©2007 bobbi a. chukran
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