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Factory farming a Communist plot?

By Erik Curren | July 19, 2012

Communist USA flag

When you really look at it, America's agriculture system, with its preference for big centrally managed factory operations over small locally run family farms, looks kind of, well, Communist. And I'm not thinking about the kind of "socialism" that Fox News warns will descend on America if Obamacare isn't repealed or if the rich have to pay more taxes. No, I mean real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Communism, food freedom, Joseph Stalin, local food, Sally Fallon, USDA, Weston Price

The independence diet

By Erik Curren | July 3, 2012

steak

With July Fourth coming up, you can expect to hear lots of discussion on the left and in the green community about how bad "independence" really is -- no matter how cool you may think the Founding Fathers were. Instead of good old American values like independence, self-reliance and individualism, well meaning folks are sure to tell us that we should be embracing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: food freedom, Fourth of July, homesteading, raw milk, Sally Fallon, Weston Price

Lawyers for honest food

By Erik Curren | June 27, 2012

raw milk protest sign

Imagine a country where the government outlawed the food that people have eaten for thousands of years. Imagine that raw milk straight from cows couldn't be sold across state lines unless it was heated until most of its nutritional value was destroyed. Imagine that one small town that tried to allow its local farmers to sell directly to families couldn't protect those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: food freedom, raw milk, Weston Price

Local food for smart people

By Erik Curren | June 20, 2012

buy fresh buy local

If you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma or seen the documentaries Fresh! and Food, Inc. then you already know that the problem with food today is that most of it is produced less for the benefit of eaters than for the profit of agribusiness corporations. But going on about confinement chicken houses or lakes of pig manure at factory farms might be kind of a heavy message for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: factory farms, Jasia Steinmetz, Joel Salatin, local food, paleo diet, vegetarianism, Weston Price

Factory food is making us dumber and dumber

By Erik Curren | April 26, 2012

In the film Idiocracy, the decline of America comes not through an oil shock, a debt crisis or even the rise of China and India. Instead, a kind of reverse eugenics, where yuppies defer childbearing until it's too late while guys in wife-beater T shirts keep on multiplying themselves generation after generation, brings the nation to a sad place in the year 2505. The average … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Food Tagged With: caveman diet, dentistry, industrial food, nutrition, paleo diet, teeth, Weston Price

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