Why you should grow food, not lawns
I'll expand upon this topic in the next several months. Suffice to say that if you really want to participate in restoring America to greatness, you need to fight the food crisis. Doing so will solve health care, energy independence and climate change issues.
Eating locally grown organic food is not only the highest form of democracy that one can practice, it will clean your air, land and water quickly. And by doing that you can create health for you and your communities.
The following resources come from Michael Pollan's website:
Here are some key groups working on reforms of the Farm Bill. Many offer ways to sign up for emailed updates. Another great resource is the book Food Fight The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill by Dan Imhoff.
Public Health Action on the Farm Bill
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
Environmental Working Group
National Family Farm Coalition
Slow Food USA
Om Organics
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Community Food Security Coalition
Farm and Food Policy Project
American Farmland Trust
The following entries are from the following Food Fight categories: Organic, Industrial Agriculture, GMOs, and ReLocalize. These four broad areas are tightly interwoven with each other. One cannot analyze one aspect of our food system without running headlong into the the others. Omitted from this list is Legislation issues because those tend to support or reinforce industrial agricultural practices.
Our food system is collapsing due to two primary factors: its dependence on cheap oil, and industrial agricultural practices. There are two main symptoms: (1) the cost of food goes up relative to the cost of oil; (2) increasing numbers of recalls. It's the latter that is poorly communicated by traditional media. This collapse can best be described as a long, drawn out emergency. It's not going to happen overnight, and most importantly you will not notice it on your supermarket shelves because that isn't really food at all! It's fake, engineered nutritionally worthless 'something' designed in New Jersey. If it's in a box and has more than 5 ingredients, it's not what it claims to be and it's simply not food.
Peter Bockenthien » Friday, December 04 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Tuesday, November 17 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, October 29 2009
Because I admire the First Lady’s good example, I am shocked by the chemical agribusiness and biotech cheerleading of her husband’s administration. From USDA and FDA appointments of biotech and chemical industry insiders, to support for the preposterous idea that genetic engineering can feed the world, it is obvious that the Obama Administration is happy to assist agribusiness in its quest.
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, September 23 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, September 23 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, September 17 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, September 17 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, September 10 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, September 09 2009
Peter Bockenthien » Monday, July 13 2009
Do you really want someone who has no farming experience whatsoever to regulate your farm and the food you're allowed to buy? And all in the name of food safety?
Peter Bockenthien » Saturday, July 11 2009
The OTA does not believe in, support or advocate for organic foods. Nope. They believe in, support, and advocate for the integrity of the organic label. Big difference.
Peter Bockenthien » Sunday, June 28 2009
Here's a chance to give your two cents to Whole Foods and United Natural Foods Inc. Let them know your support organics but not their so called natural.
Peter Bockenthien » Friday, July 17 2009
"Increased competition" is a euphemism for racketeering. I'll assume that foreign organic soy bean producers are indeed organic. And I'll assume that they charge a lot less than their American counterparts. Basically it comes down to the buyer holding a loaded gun to the American farmers head and asking them to commit financial suicide.
Peter Bockenthien » Tuesday, June 16 2009
The next few weeks are going to be very interesting. We have a collision unfolding in center field, just past second base. And the Umpire, Mr. USDA is right on top of the action; he doesn't want anyone to know that he's been bought off.
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, June 11 2009
Kaboom! How about a little hexane in your soy chai this morning?
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, June 11 2009
BigAg is driving your local farm into the ground. What can you do about it?
Peter Bockenthien » Saturday, June 27 2009
This is a response that doesn't write me off, turn me off and actually encourages me to participate. Which makes Sen. Bennet's letter all the more unpalatable.
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, June 24 2009
Sen. Bennet sent me one of those form letters that have insincerity and patriarchy written all over it. Harsh? Yeah, but read it for yourself
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, June 11 2009
BigAg is driving your local farm into the ground. What can you do about it?
Peter Bockenthien » Saturday, May 23 2009
I hope it's clear now that the federal government isn't going to change, as they serve Them the Corporations, not We The People.
Peter Bockenthien » Thursday, May 21 2009
There is an association between areas of the United States where atrazine is heavily used and the prevalence of obesity
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, May 20 2009
Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry
Peter Bockenthien » Tuesday, May 12 2009
Meat is not the cause of global warming - irresponsible farming is.
Peter Bockenthien » Friday, May 08 2009
CAFOs are not natural and are prime breeding grounds for diseases.
Peter Bockenthien » Wednesday, May 06 2009
Eat, shit, fertilize, and eat again. For thousands of years, this arrangement worked just fine.
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Just as organic matter enables soils to hold more water through the enhanced formation of soil aggregates (structure), it also allows more spaces for air between soil granules.
