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Seeing Through Propaganda

These days there is so much disinformation around that it is really hard to distinguish what is really going on most of the time. There is an excellent cartoon of Brave New World vs 1984 going around that depicts it all very well. Just click on the image to see the whole thing or go to www.recombinantrecords.net. This excerpt from Brave New World Revisited gives us guidelines for feeling what is authentic or not.

Local freedom and global cohesion

Local freedom and global cohesion

One of the websites I have followed ever since I started blogging is Dr. Mae-Wan Ho's www.i-sis.org.uk, so I was very excited when I found an article by her in the appendix of the notes in our Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Training a late last year. The seminar was on whole body dynamics and we we ...

Ai Wei Wei With Milk

Ai Wei Wei With Milk

On our trip to Portland we stopped in a couple book stores and I picked up the book Ai Wei Wei With Milk in one of them. Ai Wei Wei has recently been disappeared in China and there have been demonstrations around the world to find out where he is. After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ai Weiwei decided ...

Milk War Screening, Vancouver BC

Milk War Screening, Vancouver BC

Event to Support Local Community Dairies Milk War Written and directed by award winning journalist Kevin O'Keefe Produced by Declan O'Driscoll Gemini Award-winning actor Colm Feore narrates Please join us on February 6th, 2011 3-5 pm at the Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway @Commercial Drive) ...

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Constitutional Battle For Fresh Milk Expands To BC

Fresh Milk advocate Alice Jongerden filed an application today in the New Westminster courthouse in British Columbia to challenge the constitutionality of the prohibition against the production and distribution of Fresh Milk. Alice Jongerden, the founder and former operator of a 450-member Fresh ...

How To Blog and Twitter for Real Food

How To Blog and Twitter for Real Food

Many people have been saying this for a while--we have the tools to create a whole different world at our fingertips and we are still tied up with all sorts of outdated institutions that are causing more problems than they are solving. The US elections are a good example of how much time, energy and ...

Defend your Food Freedom

Defend your Food Freedom

Stop FDA Tyranny Against Dairy Farms. Lately the FDA has really stepped up its mission to close down small dairies. This is the final big push of the big industry--they are preparing for the S-510 bill to give them even more power. Our dairy here in BC is currently under fire from Fraser Health. ...

Quest for Raw Milk

Quest for Raw Milk

The community of real milk. I've been talking a lot about raw milk lately, but haven't really explained much of my own history and why I am so passionate about such a strange thing. While making my weekly journey to pick up my share of raw milk, the bright orange colors of the fall leaves stimula ...

Micro-organisms Against Big Dairy

Micro-organisms Against Big Dairy

Last night I had an amazing dream. It was about the current war between the small scale farming and the huge factory farm industry. In the dream it was clearly a war, with all the blood and gore, intrigue and propaganda we associate with Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think the dream really ...

BC Crushes Local Food Community

BC Crushes Local Food Community

The past few days have been very disturbing, with a judge who is obviously in the pocket of the Milk Industry, refusing to even enter into a discourse about the situation of our local Community Supported Dairy. At the end of the trial he ordered our local Agister, Alice to stop milking our cows (poo ...