A peer-reviewed study of pesticide levels in Mercer Island children, found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II.
When the same children ate organic fruits, vegetables and juices, signs of pesticides were not found.
It is an honest look at how our freedom to participate in traditional food growing and purchasing has been taken away. Every year the government tightens the noose and forces the American farmer to industrialize and centralize his or her operation and they force the consumers to purchase food products that fall within the realm of their total and complete control. We have little freedom to make our own food choices anymore and MANY people don’t even know it.
Starting with the not so new idea to "Make Waste Useful', Bangalore (India) based The Daily Dump offers not only Composting Tools but also a lot of practical advice and bits of simple wisdom reminding us that composting turns our waste into something useful, top soil, and as important rekindles our connection with the earth and how things grow?
Rethinking the monoculture ideas popular from the plantation era to the present, some South Eastern North Carolina counties are devising a plan to create a regional food system based on the needs of consumer counties and the assets of producer counties.
