Food solutions, it's in our hands now
Historians warn of government genocide
The concentration of political power in the hands of a few or that of one ideology is a dangerous thing. Governments, paid for by corporations and banks, exterminate more humans than all wars and plagues combined.
World Resource Institute says. . .
How to sustainably feed 10 billion people; from the above link-
2. Shift to healthier, more sustainable diets.
“Consumption of ruminant meat (beef, lamb and goat) is projected to rise 88 percent between 2010 and 2050. Beef, the most commonly consumed ruminant meat, is resource-intensive to produce, requiring 20 times more land and emitting 20 times more GHGs (greenhouse gas) per gram of edible protein than common plant proteins, such as beans, peas and lentils. Limiting ruminant meat consumption to 52 calories per person per day by 2050—about 1.5 hamburgers per week—would reduce the GHG mitigation gap by half and nearly close the land gap. In North America this would require reducing current beef and lamb consumption by nearly half. Actions to take include improving the marketing of plant-based foods, improving meat substitutes and implementing policies that favor consumption of plant-based foods.” In other words, pounding sand up your sphincter and taking away your choices.
And this is just the beginning, by now I’m sure you are aware of their plan to micromanage every aspect of human food consumption and your every activity. Remember the Covid lockdowns? The only store that you were allowed to frequent was big box, corporate stores. In Michigan we weren’t even allowed to buy seeds at the big box store. Lingering around the seed display in our governors demented view would transmit Covid to others.
Right now we are fighting bird flu, high egg prices and chicken farm fires. Now the want us to believe that eggs cause heart attacks and blood clots all of a sudden this year. Pssst, ok.
We are guaranteed that there won’t be 10 billion people on this planet by 2050 via information from the old CIA Deagle reports. If they are to be believed then micromanagement of every human on the planet by 2050 will be relatively easy thing.
So what can we do to ensure natural sustenance for our families and bypass that garbage they want to feed us. They seem to be driving us into a bottle neck of prepared bug nutrition and lab grown meat. See previous post, “It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature.” January 22, 2023
Below we offer just a few solutions, however, you will only be limited by your imagination and level of determination
Yes, there are things you can do. Trust me, if you are frequenting grocery stores to buy food, canned, bottled and boxed, or use fast food drive-throughs, it won’t be easy. It will only work if you are of the mindset and determination to give your family a chance at true natural health and survival of what is coming. Otherwise you will be standing in line at the powdered cricket dispensary for your daily ration.
First and foremost, stay out of McDonald’s!! I beg you. Fast food crap is killing you. That non-food eatable taste good stuff is purposely made addictive and is loaded with seed oils, heavy metals, and GMOs!
I actually overheard someone say they didn’t like the taste of farm fresh meat and veggies because they said it tastes different. Damn straight it does!! It is grown in natures best sunshine and rain. No guy in a white lab coat deciding what chemicals to mix up to make it taste just right.
You and your family will go through a withdrawal process when quitting junk food not unlike quitting cigarettes. It will be tough, fast food and frozen boxed or deli from the grocery store is quick and easy for those late and exhausting days when bringing home dinner is so much easier. Planning ahead will take do diligence and remember, your family will also be going through withdrawal and will put the bite on your ass to get you to buy them some junk food. It will take a strong determination to stay the course, but it will pay off in the long run. Natural health and weight, should return rather quickly, hopefully. A little exercise is good too. Eventually, you will save money by less and less visits to your family doctor. There just won’t be a need to go.
Here seems a good place to put this. I copied this little goody from Dr. Mercola; “Examples of seed oils high in omega-6 PUFAs include soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, rapeseed (canola), corn and safflower. These processed seed oils and vegetable oils get integrated in your cell and mitochondrial membranes, and once these membranes are damaged, it sets the stage for all sorts of health problems. With a half-life of 600 to 680 days, it can take years to clear them out of your body.
They also get incorporated into tissues such as your heart and brain. One result of this could be memory impairment and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. Canola oil, in particular, has been linked to Alzheimer's.”
Does Grandma eat French Fries?
When high carbohydrate foods such as potatoes are cooked at temperatures greater than 250 degrees, their natural sugars and the amino acid asparagine, undergo a chemical change that produces the chemical acrylamide. A known carcinogen. Hint- the herb rosemary added while cooking fried potatoes will offset/destroy the effects of the acrylamide.
Become a label reader. If you can’t pronounce its ingredients don’t put it into your body. Do you remember when “fat free” everything was all the rage and people got fatter? Chemicals to make fat free taste better lodged themselves into the body fat cells making the fat cells bigger, while artificial sweeteners make you hungry and want more. Today the mega marketing people are offering you diet and diet aids at a profit to them, think Weight Watchers, etl. (etl. “and others.”)
The body doesn’t know how to process these new strange chemical things so it does what it does best, stores them in your fat. Some of those taste good flavor enhancers, mold inhibitors, texture enhancer, preservative chemicals can double for industrial solvents and yoga mats. Subway and Pizza hut were sued because Subway bread and Pizza hut Cheese were using the same chemical components that they used to produce yoga mats. Someone discovered this cheap trick by food producers and people got irate. I suspect there could have been an allergen or two in there that needed investigating and that is how their little secret jumped out of the closet. Just a guess.
And too, did you know that carrots, for instance, grown next to an eight lane highway contain almost as many chemicals as if you would have put your mouth on the tailpipe of a running vehicle? Farmers often use carrots, potatoes, and other root vegetables to clean their field of unwanted chemicals in the soil. Mostly these crops go into animal feed, then we eat the animals, but sometimes they just plain make it into fancy bags and are shipped to the grocery store. A lot of people are generally surprised by that revolation and then get mad at me for giving them that information because now that they know they have to do something. Gurrr!
So please forgive me for what I’m about to tell you next. In Michigan farmers are allowed to use human waste on their fields for fertilizer. Of course, they process it first but ICK!!! Aren’t you glad you know all this now?
Number 2 on this list is to get to know your local farmer and gardening neighbors. Not all farmers use human excrement on their farm, which is good. But by making them a friend and offering to help on the farm occasionally will have great benefits. Works with gardening neighbors too, most of the time anyway.
Supporting local family farmers is a win/win situation for them, for you and for your community. Money and food stay local and rural. It is a tremendous help to family farms struggling to stay in business. They are becoming fewer and fewer to our detriment as big business and Mr. Money Bags Gates buys up all those bankrupt farms. ( As of January 2023, Bill Gates owns 275,000 acres of farmland across 19 states here in the U.S.)
If you had a mind to, you could offer to trade your labor for a learning potential and a welcome barter. Farmers love to trade, makes things easier. Clean his barn for a portion of the cow or horse manure for your own compost pile and garden. Help with chores, he will love you and most likely reward you well.
Join a CSA Community supported agriculture CSAs do sometimes sell meat as do farmers markets. We buy our grass fed meat from some great folks we met at our farmers market. It’s the best!
And please, help us keep the government out of our food. Don’t let them dictate what crap you are going to put into your body. There is power in numbers, stand guard over those that grow your natural food. Where you spend your time and money speaks volumes.
Michigan has some of the weirdest cottage food laws. Without going into some of the horrendous things overzealous bureaucrats have done to farmers, “in the name of justifying their job,” might I suggest that we get involved in helping change these draconian and ridiculous laws and regulations. Corporations pay big bucks to lobbyists to put the squeeze on legislators to come up with these laws. Michigan has a “right-to-farm” law that was meant to stop nuisance lawsuits against family farms for noise or smell. But what happened is this law ended up protecting and advancing large corporate and factory farms.
Wisconsin had a draconian cottage food law making it illegal to sell baked goods (It was called the cookie law) at farmers markets, church activities or yard sales. That law has since been repealed, thanks to a handful of ladies with grit and determination. Lobbyists protect their corporate sponsors, it’s where they get pay check so it was a tough fight but this time the ladies prevailed and showed the courts how ridiculous the corporate monopoly on baked goods is. These high paid lobbyist bullies have put a good many small food producers and family farms out of business. Corporations have money, they can pay big bucks to lobbyists and legislators so they can keep making more money. If enough of us are willing to stand up, we can win more of these cases and not let mega corporation dictate what we can eat and sell.
Amos Miller just wanted to sell food as clean as god intended it to be his story is outrageous. It should have never happened. Pro bono lawyers and a go-fund-me page saved this Amish guys hide and his farm. Regular people have a lot to say when push comes to shove.
In another case, an Amish farmer was attacked by a swat team at 5:30 in the morning as he entered his barn to milk his cows. His crime was selling milk from his grass fed cows to an undercover agent of the USDA. Selling fresh milk, organic, sunshine and fresh air raised cows is also illegal. Gods food is illegal! Swat team an old Amish guy, a ridiculous waste of our tax dollars.
This is why you need to get involved because the best, unadulterated food always starts local. A great place to step into your farm fresh adventure is your local farmers market. These folks take pride in what they offer and it will always be the very best anywhere. I know this first hand, I am getting ready for this seasons market. We can only do this with your support and I love the atmosphere of farmers markets. Friendly, happy people willing to talk to you about their wares, because they are proud of their dedication and hard work and are happy you asked. I can see a time when the world eventually falls apart and local is all there will be. Might as well get started, make sure it will be there for the next generation. I’d hate to see family farms and farmers markets go the away like the drive-in theaters.
We can’t leave out your organic food coop. You can trust what they sell as being the very best organic products because they take pride in their store, and the farmers that sell to them, too. The atmosphere or the vibes, in a food coop is wonderful, too. Everyone seems to love their job and are genuinely friendly and helpful.
Number 3 on the list is to learn what granny knew. Grannys are full of good information, just ask. With all the beautiful tomatoes, lettuce, and zucchini you just purchased from the farmers market, she could be a go to source of what to do with them. Ask her for real food recipes and any cookbooks she wants to pass on to you, I bet she will be so excited you asked you’ll get a wet, sloppy grandma kiss.
Did she do canning or other preserving methods? Take notes, with this information start a hardcopy library. The very best canning book I have found for beginners, is put out by Ball. “Ball Blue Book” It can be found at Walmart and on Amazon.
If you would like more book recommendations, leave me a comment in the comment section and I can throw a few your way.
I have fun going to yard sales, thrift stores like Good Will and dusty old used book stores looking for ancient cookbooks, they are not hard to find. I love the one’s from the 1920’s and 30’s but when I came across a civil war recipe book I snatched that baby up. It was written in the English of the day which made a little tough to decipher but that challenge made it all the more fun making the dishes. Civil war soldiers out at the edge of the battlefield often sustained themselves on “hardtack” and foraged tea it seems. Birch tree sap was used for sweetener and medicine.
Another of the things I love in these old cookbooks is their use of spices and herbs. Way back when, they used lots of salt for preserving meat so salt in the meals was not usually added but spices were. Why is Thai food so spicy? It was often close to being rotten. The spices mask the spoiled flavor of whatever they were cooking. Mexican culture uses lots of hot peppers and spicy sauces. Of course, I would push herbs and spices I’m an herb farmer. I know their flavor enhancing value. That being true there is nothing more nourishing and tasty than adding herbs and spices. Herbs and spices are loaded with lots of nutrition all their own.
Adopting new food solutions would mean learning to eat seasonal. Greens and spring foods in the spring, summer foods as in berries and early garden greens and produce from the kitchen garden, autumn harvest gets to the meat of things with root crops, pumpkins and apples. What you haven’t yet eaten gets preserved for winter. Winter foods consist of those stored pumpkins, squash, apples, dried and stored corn, grains etc.
Foraging is also a great seasonal to do. Burdock root in soups, amaranth seed for flour, white acorn roasted, makes into a good flour, stinging nettle cooks into a spinach like dish as well as wild rice, wild asparagus, chicory root, prickly pear cactus, there are so many seeds, nuts, and wild rice and weeds everywhere. Indians gathered these wild foods, dried and put into storage for the long, cold winter months.
Root Cellaring; natural cold storage
Do you live in an apartment, a condo or have no yard? Does your HOA prohibit in ground gardens? There is a few things you can do to help yourself become less reliant on the grocery store and that is buckets, baby!
Bucket container gardening There are many of these on youtube, too.
Do you know anyone from the LDS church. They are a good source of what needs to be or what can be stored.
Country Life Natural Foods- Pullman, Mich I love this place.
They used to deliver up to the U.P. if we had a $400.00+ order. Several of us would get together and put in an order. It would be delivered to one of the group members house and we would come collect what we had ordered. It was great! Sorry to say I have lost contact with this group, I know some moved away but I don’t know where the others are now.
Will Allen's greenhouse project
The above link is a sustainable greenhouse project from a guy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This 3 minute video is a must watch. Awesome, cool!
Solviva green light- Must have for your library
Cooking with the seasons, recipe
I hope you take the time to look through these links, this is only the beginning of fresh food eating. Once you find a good source of fresh food and grass fed meat, you are going to want to preserve the produce and meat. You will want to keep this number on speed dial. The winter months are a great time to learn to freeze, can, dry, ferment and brine your food for year round healthy eating.
Like I said at the beginning of this article, you are only limited by your imagination and your determination. Real food will come to an end if we don’t do our part and help each other. Help build your community and support your farmers before they are taken it away and you are told by big corporate stockholders and lobbyists what you WILL eat and LIKE it! If we let that happen, our children and definately their children, will never know how good robust, natural health feels. The crap that big money people offer up is without life, it has no Chi. It is sick and makes us sick, it changes our personal biochemistry and alters our DNA. Corporations are on line for lab grown meat and 3D printed eatables next because it makes them money.
“Those who control the food control the world,” Henry Kissinger.
Could “Hunger Games” be a look into our future if we let them win?
The future for our next generation is our hands. The time is now to decide how you want your children fed.
It’s snowing lightly outside, the temperature is a balmy 15 degrees. The house fills with the inviting aroma of warm soup and sourdough biscuits in the oven. Homemade blackberry jam is waiting for the biscuits. Real food, made the right way.
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Yooper Jan is a nutritional and herbal educator with a Bachelors in Nutritional Sciences. She is an author and herb grower living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.