It may seem strange for me to say this, but the terrible scourge of E-Coli may do us all a favour, in that it has all the potential to halt factory farming altogether; with all the positive implications that would have for animal welfare and organic food production.
The recent news that one third of eggs in the UK, contain the deadly bug, which is constantly mutating to overcome farm use of antibiotics, perhaps means that we are reaching a tipping point. Factory farming has a limited sale by date, given the exhaustion of minerals from the soil and increasing threats from bugs and pests. In short, this method of farming is presenting a huge risk to public health; no doubt about it. Of course, when the so called 'Green Revolution' began, soils were still relatively healthy, but after years of virtual reality chemical farming, the soils are exhausted and starved of micro-bacteria and minerals.
The result is that the world is on a collision course with potential starvation and disease, unless a radical rethink is undertaken to put Mother Nature back in the driving seat.
Salmonella in eggs is of course a serious issue, as Edwina Currie pointed out many years ago (in 1988), but E-Coli is far more serious. Without immediate medical attention, it can cause kidney failure and sepsis, requiring a large dose of antibiotics to cure it, with all the attendant risks that the bug may eventually overcome such medication.
Why take the risk ?
All we have to do, is put the muck and mystery back into our soils and give our livestock a decent healthy lifestyle which should dignify any living being. The soils would take some time to recover, but at least it would result in increased production of healthier food which would revitalise the health of the world.
The alternative does not bear thinking about.............
Monday, 5 September 2016
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Hanza tribe eat the animal gut first
In two recent BBC Food Programme broadcasts, devoted to fermented foods, Part 2 was a fascinating study into the hunter gatherer tribe of the Hanza in Tanzania in the Great African rift Valley. It was noted that when these hunters killed an antelope or similar animal, the very first part of the body they ate was the contents of the colon. This is highly significant, because they are consuming the micro-bacteria and fermented green food that are found in that area of the gut, which means that they are partaking of the same micro-bacteria from the very animal with the same flesh and meat.
That this practise is not purely a cultural phenomenon unique to the Hanza, appears to be indicated by the way that big cats do exactly the same thing. It seems that lions and other big cats kill their prey and immediately open the carcase and begin by devouring the colon.
Whether that is consistent among all carnivore species is an unknown, but this surely points towards the Hanza simply following a practise which had been around long before humans existed. It also reveals just how important the consumption of fermented foods and the development of a healthy gut flora, is essential for human health and well being.
Any organic food, will by its very nature have more mineral content because of the healthy alive micro bacteria in the soil and the animals that graze in ancient flower filled meadows and forest clearings, will have a more natural gut flora as a result; more disease resistant and of course, a better taste, especially if one treats our fellow plants and creatures with the care and compassion they deserve. The reader may have noticed, just how hypnotic an owl's eyes are, as are other carnivores and this is the kindness and compassion of Mother Earth; because when the owl flies above its prey, the powerful eyes hypnotise the prey, to the benefit of any pain it may feel at death. This was replicated by hunter tribes when they would perform sacred ceremonies before the hunt. For these dancers, the prey was sacred, given to them by Mother Earth and consequently to be hypnotised by the repeated ancestral motions of the dance and its chant; ancestral because the ancestors of the tribe in the realm of death, were guiding the animal's soul into the beyond.
The hunt was considered so sacred, sacred beyond measure, that in the shamanic rites of passage, young people were initiated into the out of this world nature of the hunt. Pictish art reveals how goggle eyed and trippy the hunters became and I once had a dream that involved a youthful Neolithic hunt to the west of Avebury Stone Circle, that has lived with me for years as being part of the essential nature of the ceremonies at these ancient sacred centres. This survived in the sacred animal offerings given by the keepers of Epping Forest to the Cathedral of St Pauls in London; again similar to the wondrous autumn first fruits offerings in our ancient churches.
As the old saying goes; 'The body is a temple' and it is filled with the chemical tripped out consciousness of God's almighty creation on Mother Earth. The closer we can imagine that cosmic state of affairs, the greater the well being we will receive.
That this practise is not purely a cultural phenomenon unique to the Hanza, appears to be indicated by the way that big cats do exactly the same thing. It seems that lions and other big cats kill their prey and immediately open the carcase and begin by devouring the colon.
Whether that is consistent among all carnivore species is an unknown, but this surely points towards the Hanza simply following a practise which had been around long before humans existed. It also reveals just how important the consumption of fermented foods and the development of a healthy gut flora, is essential for human health and well being.
Any organic food, will by its very nature have more mineral content because of the healthy alive micro bacteria in the soil and the animals that graze in ancient flower filled meadows and forest clearings, will have a more natural gut flora as a result; more disease resistant and of course, a better taste, especially if one treats our fellow plants and creatures with the care and compassion they deserve. The reader may have noticed, just how hypnotic an owl's eyes are, as are other carnivores and this is the kindness and compassion of Mother Earth; because when the owl flies above its prey, the powerful eyes hypnotise the prey, to the benefit of any pain it may feel at death. This was replicated by hunter tribes when they would perform sacred ceremonies before the hunt. For these dancers, the prey was sacred, given to them by Mother Earth and consequently to be hypnotised by the repeated ancestral motions of the dance and its chant; ancestral because the ancestors of the tribe in the realm of death, were guiding the animal's soul into the beyond.
The hunt was considered so sacred, sacred beyond measure, that in the shamanic rites of passage, young people were initiated into the out of this world nature of the hunt. Pictish art reveals how goggle eyed and trippy the hunters became and I once had a dream that involved a youthful Neolithic hunt to the west of Avebury Stone Circle, that has lived with me for years as being part of the essential nature of the ceremonies at these ancient sacred centres. This survived in the sacred animal offerings given by the keepers of Epping Forest to the Cathedral of St Pauls in London; again similar to the wondrous autumn first fruits offerings in our ancient churches.
As the old saying goes; 'The body is a temple' and it is filled with the chemical tripped out consciousness of God's almighty creation on Mother Earth. The closer we can imagine that cosmic state of affairs, the greater the well being we will receive.
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Organic food 5% increase sales in 2015
The Soil Association has produced figures, in their Organic Market Report 2016, showing that organic products sales have increased 4.9 % in 2015. During the same period, non organic groceries have reduced by 9 %.
The largest growth sector was in organic health and beauty, up 21.6 % to £54.2 million.
Total organic sales are now £1.95 billion. The total food and drink sector in the UK is worth over £92 billion, which is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. The organic market is therefore, just over 2 % of this total, but it is expanding fast, in contrast to the rest of the sector, which is declining. A younger age group is increasingly demanding organic products.
According to Organic Farming, Wikipedia, world organic farmland has grown in area by 8.9 % per annum from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, there was 37 million hectares (91 million acres) of organic farmland in the world, representing 0.9 % of the total.
In the UK, the area of organic farmland increased until 2010, when it has since declined somewhat to stand at 548,000 hectares in 2014 (Organic farming statistics 2014 - Gov.uk). 84 % of this organic land was under pasture, with the largest amount devoted to sheep, so perhaps this recent decline is due to other factors of the financial viability of such land rather than whether there is a clearly increased demand for such food. The cost of conversion is clearly an important factor in this.
It is clear from these figures that demand for organic products is outstripping supply, because the costs and declining yields during conversion of the land, can deter producers. It is therefore imperative that more research is undertaken to help defray the costs of conversion and to sustain yields.
One problem has been the damage top ancient woodlands in the UK, which harbour mycelium, or fungal threads, that sustain plant life in and around woods. Along with the vast quantity of microbes and life within each square metre of soil that has not been contaminated by chemicals, clearly it takes some time to regain such healthy soil condition where mycellium and microbes are fully functioning.
The largest growth sector was in organic health and beauty, up 21.6 % to £54.2 million.
Total organic sales are now £1.95 billion. The total food and drink sector in the UK is worth over £92 billion, which is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. The organic market is therefore, just over 2 % of this total, but it is expanding fast, in contrast to the rest of the sector, which is declining. A younger age group is increasingly demanding organic products.
According to Organic Farming, Wikipedia, world organic farmland has grown in area by 8.9 % per annum from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, there was 37 million hectares (91 million acres) of organic farmland in the world, representing 0.9 % of the total.
In the UK, the area of organic farmland increased until 2010, when it has since declined somewhat to stand at 548,000 hectares in 2014 (Organic farming statistics 2014 - Gov.uk). 84 % of this organic land was under pasture, with the largest amount devoted to sheep, so perhaps this recent decline is due to other factors of the financial viability of such land rather than whether there is a clearly increased demand for such food. The cost of conversion is clearly an important factor in this.
It is clear from these figures that demand for organic products is outstripping supply, because the costs and declining yields during conversion of the land, can deter producers. It is therefore imperative that more research is undertaken to help defray the costs of conversion and to sustain yields.
One problem has been the damage top ancient woodlands in the UK, which harbour mycelium, or fungal threads, that sustain plant life in and around woods. Along with the vast quantity of microbes and life within each square metre of soil that has not been contaminated by chemicals, clearly it takes some time to regain such healthy soil condition where mycellium and microbes are fully functioning.
Friday, 22 April 2016
Glyphosphate weedkillers
The EU have been ready to continue the use of Glyphosphate weedkillers, which represents some 20% pf Monsanto's profits, but a petition organised by AVAAZ online with some 2 million signatories, has influenced them to continue discussing a ban. In September this year, the EU, to their credit, will finally ban the most toxic slug pellets, having now acknowledged that it has been killing our thrushes and sparrows. I have been looking forward to such a ban for decades, as I have fruitlessly tried to persuade people how dangerous these were to wildlife. In any case, the most effective slug repellent is to remove them by hand and throw them somewhere the birds can feed on them,, as they are a vital part of the food chain. Wasps eat aphids, surprise surprise, and everything has a place in natures wondrous scheme of things, so please stop treating such creatures as enemies.
Friday, 15 April 2016
Can organic food feed the world ?
For so many years, we have been informed by the so called 'experts', that organic food yields were insufficient to feed a growing world population.
This series of blogs have completely disproved this biased viewpoint. The facts are, as explained in the companion blogs in this series, that chemically produced food has a decreasing nutritional value, a decrease in disease resistance and leads eventually to a drop in yields over the long term, due to soil erosion and soil exhaustion.
Farmers used to be called 'husbands' to the land of Mother Earth, because their good husbandry increased the fertility of their land and animals. In ancient times, if the king became unjust and corrupt, then the Earth, who was in sacred marriage to the ruler, would withdraw her benefice; the land would lose its fertility, milk yields would fall away and the weather worsen.
Well the sorry state of the current world and its many corrupt leaders, has produced a similar scenario; so that TB in cattle is rife and the bulk matter and nutritional content in food has reduced considerably since figures were first compiled about 1950.
We learn that a mother's breast milk will kill 40 different types of cancer cell and that it is pro-biotic, in that a sugar in this milk is not to feed the baby as such, but instead creates the food for the microbes which will grow and inhabit the child's gut. So right from the creation of a new born baby, Mother Nature provides all the protection from illness and disease that a healthy child will require.
The same is true for the soil, which if left to its own devices with the minimum of interference beyond the normal planting and tilling procedures, will be perfectly capable of resisting disease. Even on a large scale, as with Leontino Balbo's enormous organic sugar acreage in Brazil, he found that he alone produced sugar cane that was resistant to yellow virus on land that had once been severely depleted by chemical usage. Doubtless, the jaguar droppings that he benefits from, as they roam within his sugar crops, give that resistance extra feline poke, with all the microbes and worms and insects responding in kind !
With his yields, on his 16,000 hectares, defying all expectations as they have surged to one third more than chemically produced sugar, he has single handedly proven that we can have large scale production of quality organic food, alongside a resumption of native wildlife both supporting each other, as his forest meditation had promised when he despaired from an initial drop in yields.
If we were to analyse the mineral content in his produce, doubtless it would reveal a degree of quality because Mother Earth had shone her guiding light on his good husbandry.
Today, I had the good fortune to meet a farmers wife on a small tenant farm, who told me that they had always farmed the same way. The cows would reach an age of 16 instead of the more normal 6 years and the chickens, glowing with health would live to a ripe old age, rather than the commercial chickens who live only a year or two at best.
All was at peace amongst the animals on her farm as they lived out their natural lifespan. In the high Himalayas, it is normal for such livestock to live long lives and are then consumed when they naturally die. A BBC visitor tasted the meat and confirmed that although the meat was slightly tough, due to the age of the animals as one would expect: it was still the best meat he had ever tasted. Of course, the animals had enjoyed their lives and not had to endure the horrors of the slaughterhouse, which would taint the meat with their fear and panic.
Another respondent on the BBC mentioned a National Park in Southern Africa, where the large animals had reduced to 1000 in total, but by protecting them and leaving them to their own devices, their numbers had increased in a few years to the present figure of 70,000.
Nature abhors a vacuum, they say and is extraordinarily abundant,, provided we trust it to do what it does best; provide us with all our food and materials to create a revitalised healthy world. It now behoves us all to listen to the wise words of King Solomon in Ecclesiastices:
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever."
One more thing; the alchemists of old used to rave on about the extraordinary and potentially unique nature of the mineral content on this Earth which certainly the Sun and the planets do not share. Mother Earth has all the various elements in the periodic table up to and including plutonium.
Ask yourself how this can be ? What strange history did our Earth pass from before it came to rest by the sun ?
As yet, I have found no physicist who can explain how uranium and plutonium could exist on this planet, because the forces necessary to create it are so huge, that perhaps only the Big Bang was sufficient to begin their existence. Certainly our Sun has only hydrogen and helium, although its interior may have heavier nuclear elements. The old Inca legend that once the Earth was alone, before the Sun and Moon appeared, is thus an extraordinary memory of the complexity of the Earth's component of elements, which we so depend on and where the Earth came from. From these basic minerals, life on earth has grown and thrived; that is until the overpopulation of mankind has caused desert to spread and since the 1840s, with the use of chemical fertilisers and later herbicides on farmland, soil erosion and depletion.
We really urgently need to take stock and reverse these policies of believing that artificial chemical agriculture can feed a growing world population. With the increasing desert land area in places like Spain, this is even more apparent. The rapid growth in the market for organic food reveals that demand is outstripping supply, precisely because consumers wish to be healthier and ensure that animals are treated compassionately. It behoves us all to view our relationship with the Earth, as our ancestors once did, as of total dependence of us, as children, to our ever productive mother. The complexity of life in our soils is best left to nature alone, because all the minerals and vitamins are naturally present within the land using organic means of production.
Or as they used to call it; muck and mystery !
This series of blogs have completely disproved this biased viewpoint. The facts are, as explained in the companion blogs in this series, that chemically produced food has a decreasing nutritional value, a decrease in disease resistance and leads eventually to a drop in yields over the long term, due to soil erosion and soil exhaustion.
Farmers used to be called 'husbands' to the land of Mother Earth, because their good husbandry increased the fertility of their land and animals. In ancient times, if the king became unjust and corrupt, then the Earth, who was in sacred marriage to the ruler, would withdraw her benefice; the land would lose its fertility, milk yields would fall away and the weather worsen.
Well the sorry state of the current world and its many corrupt leaders, has produced a similar scenario; so that TB in cattle is rife and the bulk matter and nutritional content in food has reduced considerably since figures were first compiled about 1950.
We learn that a mother's breast milk will kill 40 different types of cancer cell and that it is pro-biotic, in that a sugar in this milk is not to feed the baby as such, but instead creates the food for the microbes which will grow and inhabit the child's gut. So right from the creation of a new born baby, Mother Nature provides all the protection from illness and disease that a healthy child will require.
The same is true for the soil, which if left to its own devices with the minimum of interference beyond the normal planting and tilling procedures, will be perfectly capable of resisting disease. Even on a large scale, as with Leontino Balbo's enormous organic sugar acreage in Brazil, he found that he alone produced sugar cane that was resistant to yellow virus on land that had once been severely depleted by chemical usage. Doubtless, the jaguar droppings that he benefits from, as they roam within his sugar crops, give that resistance extra feline poke, with all the microbes and worms and insects responding in kind !
With his yields, on his 16,000 hectares, defying all expectations as they have surged to one third more than chemically produced sugar, he has single handedly proven that we can have large scale production of quality organic food, alongside a resumption of native wildlife both supporting each other, as his forest meditation had promised when he despaired from an initial drop in yields.
If we were to analyse the mineral content in his produce, doubtless it would reveal a degree of quality because Mother Earth had shone her guiding light on his good husbandry.
Today, I had the good fortune to meet a farmers wife on a small tenant farm, who told me that they had always farmed the same way. The cows would reach an age of 16 instead of the more normal 6 years and the chickens, glowing with health would live to a ripe old age, rather than the commercial chickens who live only a year or two at best.
All was at peace amongst the animals on her farm as they lived out their natural lifespan. In the high Himalayas, it is normal for such livestock to live long lives and are then consumed when they naturally die. A BBC visitor tasted the meat and confirmed that although the meat was slightly tough, due to the age of the animals as one would expect: it was still the best meat he had ever tasted. Of course, the animals had enjoyed their lives and not had to endure the horrors of the slaughterhouse, which would taint the meat with their fear and panic.
Another respondent on the BBC mentioned a National Park in Southern Africa, where the large animals had reduced to 1000 in total, but by protecting them and leaving them to their own devices, their numbers had increased in a few years to the present figure of 70,000.
Nature abhors a vacuum, they say and is extraordinarily abundant,, provided we trust it to do what it does best; provide us with all our food and materials to create a revitalised healthy world. It now behoves us all to listen to the wise words of King Solomon in Ecclesiastices:
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever."
One more thing; the alchemists of old used to rave on about the extraordinary and potentially unique nature of the mineral content on this Earth which certainly the Sun and the planets do not share. Mother Earth has all the various elements in the periodic table up to and including plutonium.
Ask yourself how this can be ? What strange history did our Earth pass from before it came to rest by the sun ?
As yet, I have found no physicist who can explain how uranium and plutonium could exist on this planet, because the forces necessary to create it are so huge, that perhaps only the Big Bang was sufficient to begin their existence. Certainly our Sun has only hydrogen and helium, although its interior may have heavier nuclear elements. The old Inca legend that once the Earth was alone, before the Sun and Moon appeared, is thus an extraordinary memory of the complexity of the Earth's component of elements, which we so depend on and where the Earth came from. From these basic minerals, life on earth has grown and thrived; that is until the overpopulation of mankind has caused desert to spread and since the 1840s, with the use of chemical fertilisers and later herbicides on farmland, soil erosion and depletion.
We really urgently need to take stock and reverse these policies of believing that artificial chemical agriculture can feed a growing world population. With the increasing desert land area in places like Spain, this is even more apparent. The rapid growth in the market for organic food reveals that demand is outstripping supply, precisely because consumers wish to be healthier and ensure that animals are treated compassionately. It behoves us all to view our relationship with the Earth, as our ancestors once did, as of total dependence of us, as children, to our ever productive mother. The complexity of life in our soils is best left to nature alone, because all the minerals and vitamins are naturally present within the land using organic means of production.
Or as they used to call it; muck and mystery !
Taste in organic food
The other crucial factor in determining choosing organic food is taste. Unfortunately, most people are so addicted to salt and sugar and white fats, as opposed to brown fats, that they often find they cannot really taste the difference between organic and non organic food.
This is akin to the problem of soil exhaustion, where chemically reduced soils can be compared to our digestive systems, which can get exhausted.
Anyone who produces organic peas in their garden, can tell you that when freshly picked off the pod, the taste is heavenly; provided of course your taste buds are addicted to chemical laden foods. Leeks in the shops taste like mouthwash, compared to my own leeks, which taste soft and creamy. People rave about my potatoes, but it has to be said that organic farms cannot always manage the same degree of taste quality as a small organic garden or allotment.
There are 2000 different compounds in milk, but how much damage is made to these in normal commercial production and through pasteurisation ? Of course, pasteurisation is necessary for the current urban population, but anyone who has tasted fresh milk from a cow will tell you that it tastes like nothing else on this goodly Mother Earth of ours and perhaps in time, we may find organic ways to prevent brucolis in cattle, just as organic food is often far more immune to various diseases over time.
So taste depends on good husbandry of organic soils, its high mineral content and the micro-biology which it supports, so akin to the enormous microbe content of our digestive systems. Taste is therefore, our major guide to the quality of our food and therefore our health. It just amazes me, as it would have my dear late organic gardening grandmother, that anyone could believe otherwise; but the money always finances the most effective distorted propaganda.
This is akin to the problem of soil exhaustion, where chemically reduced soils can be compared to our digestive systems, which can get exhausted.
Anyone who produces organic peas in their garden, can tell you that when freshly picked off the pod, the taste is heavenly; provided of course your taste buds are addicted to chemical laden foods. Leeks in the shops taste like mouthwash, compared to my own leeks, which taste soft and creamy. People rave about my potatoes, but it has to be said that organic farms cannot always manage the same degree of taste quality as a small organic garden or allotment.
There are 2000 different compounds in milk, but how much damage is made to these in normal commercial production and through pasteurisation ? Of course, pasteurisation is necessary for the current urban population, but anyone who has tasted fresh milk from a cow will tell you that it tastes like nothing else on this goodly Mother Earth of ours and perhaps in time, we may find organic ways to prevent brucolis in cattle, just as organic food is often far more immune to various diseases over time.
So taste depends on good husbandry of organic soils, its high mineral content and the micro-biology which it supports, so akin to the enormous microbe content of our digestive systems. Taste is therefore, our major guide to the quality of our food and therefore our health. It just amazes me, as it would have my dear late organic gardening grandmother, that anyone could believe otherwise; but the money always finances the most effective distorted propaganda.
The price of Organic food, can come down in time
Organic food is relatively expensive for hard pressed family finances, but in time it can get cheaper.
In terms of mineral content, as shown by companion blogs in this series, organic food is actually way cheaper than non organic food, so depleted in iron and cobalt, as to be virtually valueless.
As organic demand rises each year, demand can outstrip supply, which causes prices to rise. The answer to this is to increase the supply, so that massive increased production would produce economies of scale leading to cheaper organic food.
If as much research money was poured into restoring our severely depleted soils and micro-biology, bees, worms and so on, as in damaging those soils, so the health of the land and its people, which includes our educational establishments, old people, NHS, prisons etc, will all benefit from a vast increase in the mineral content of their food. Imagine if Macdonalds and KFC began to source organic food, then even Fast Foods would begin to restore some endorphins to our kids, with all the benefits that would bring ?
In Central India, thousands of small scale farmers have rejected GM and chemical food production, as it reduced their income and their yields, so they have gone back to being organic.
The problem in Britain, is that people have been fed the lie that the so called 'Green Revolution' would feed the world; but that has led to a massive crisis in ill health and mental instability in our society. All of us suffer from the use of chemicals, as auto immune diseases rocket and the bees die off. Rachel Carson's classic work, Silent Spring, published back in 1962, has become a sad reality as our thrushes and starlings have disappeared and bees now have to be imported into California; so expensive are the hives now there, that bee keepers steal each others hives which 90% of all the world's almond production in California is solely dependent on.
So what price, chemically produced GM food ? It may appear cheaper, but in reality it is costing us all a hidden fortune in our health, in Mother Nature's health and above all, in our wallets.
In terms of mineral content, as shown by companion blogs in this series, organic food is actually way cheaper than non organic food, so depleted in iron and cobalt, as to be virtually valueless.
As organic demand rises each year, demand can outstrip supply, which causes prices to rise. The answer to this is to increase the supply, so that massive increased production would produce economies of scale leading to cheaper organic food.
If as much research money was poured into restoring our severely depleted soils and micro-biology, bees, worms and so on, as in damaging those soils, so the health of the land and its people, which includes our educational establishments, old people, NHS, prisons etc, will all benefit from a vast increase in the mineral content of their food. Imagine if Macdonalds and KFC began to source organic food, then even Fast Foods would begin to restore some endorphins to our kids, with all the benefits that would bring ?
In Central India, thousands of small scale farmers have rejected GM and chemical food production, as it reduced their income and their yields, so they have gone back to being organic.
The problem in Britain, is that people have been fed the lie that the so called 'Green Revolution' would feed the world; but that has led to a massive crisis in ill health and mental instability in our society. All of us suffer from the use of chemicals, as auto immune diseases rocket and the bees die off. Rachel Carson's classic work, Silent Spring, published back in 1962, has become a sad reality as our thrushes and starlings have disappeared and bees now have to be imported into California; so expensive are the hives now there, that bee keepers steal each others hives which 90% of all the world's almond production in California is solely dependent on.
So what price, chemically produced GM food ? It may appear cheaper, but in reality it is costing us all a hidden fortune in our health, in Mother Nature's health and above all, in our wallets.
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