January 30th, 2012 | Additives, Food Security, Our Food, almonds, California, FDA, feature, GAPS, grain-free, health, nuts, organic, pesticide, raw, SCD
All the good stuff is under attack. Being on the GAPS diet we eat a lot of almonds, in fact I just finished making almond-cashew and honey cookies tonight. If anyone has a good source of almonds please let me know!
By Michael Doyle
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has again upheld U.S. Agriculture Department rules requiring treatment of raw almonds, in the latest blow to organic farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The mandatory pasteurization or chemical treatments protect consumers from salmonella. The requirement to apply them is also well within the Agriculture Department’s power, a federal judge ruled this week.
January 26th, 2012
One of my favorite things about the GAPS / SCD diets are that you are also boycotting refined sugar when on them. I have long hated sugar, it is a drug more insidious and harder to kick than tobacco. I have kicked both the tobacco and the sugar habit so I can say this with experience. I love the ...
January 25th, 2012
The following is the third installment of a three part investigation by Nelle Maxey into the wide-ranging environmental and socio-political implications for Canada of the recently signed US-Canada cross border security deal and ancillary agreements related to the Regulatory Cooperation Commissio ...
January 24th, 2012
The following article is reposted from www.gaia-health.com and details this latest attack on food freedoms under the name of Codex Alimentarius. Sign the petition here to put a stop to this insanity. In the latest update on this issue from www.nzfoodsecurity.org an analysis of the food bill is given ...
January 23rd, 2012
I am reposting this summary of Bruce Fife's article on the health benefits of coconut water here because we have had to take them down from the Cocospure website since the FDA is getting even more crazy than it previously was, they don't even allow you to say that coconut water is hydrating, in ...
January 19th, 2012
There is a rage going on in the probiotic world which originates from Donna Gates, creator of The Body Ecology Diet. After discovering the healing abilities of kefir on the digestive tract and mucous membranes in general, Gates was gifted a kefir culture on a retreat in Japan. Regular consumptio ...
January 18th, 2012
ETC Group News Release 17 January 2012
Big Agribusiness Influence Threatens to Override Public Interest in Greed Revolution
A new 30-page report that documents the growing influence of agribusiness on the multilateral food system and the lack of transparency in research funding has been re ...
January 18th, 2012
In 1994 when Canada, US and Mexico first signed NAFTA into being, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas rose up to defend the little they had left. They have been fighting ever since. In my book Subcommandante Marcos is the original Anon. Slowly, but more rapidly now, the rest of us are waking up ...
January 16th, 2012
Michael Larsen is the father of twins, one of whom was diagnosed with Autism in 2008. After implementing the Body Ecology diet along with plenty of young coconut water kefir their daughter, Tula, is now fully recovered and living a full and healthy life. Michael and his wife, Holly, founded the ...
December 31st, 2011
I've had kombucha on the brain for a while now, but things have been so nutty I haven't been able to keep up with posting lately at all, please forgive me. I have had a rather kombucha-filled Christmas and the New Year looks to be full of kombucha cheer as well with Kombucha Kamp's annual Kombucha R ...
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