Christmas, Food, Family, and Farmers
This week, Bill and Mike discuss what we are thankful for this Christmas season: holiday meals, family gatherings, & a farmer’s independent spirit.”
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Christmas, Food, Family, and Farmers
This week, Bill and Mike discuss what we are thankful for this Christmas season: holiday meals, family gatherings, & a farmer’s independent spirit.”
New USDA Guidelines Will Sicken Us
The USDA is revising its nutrition guidelines – some say in the wrong direction. Critics of past federal guidelines that favored high carbohydrate diets and were compromised by industrial food producers are closely scrutinizing the new regulations because they advocate “reducing focus on chronic disease risk reduction” and more on “improving the lifespan.” This oxymoronic … Read more
Big Farma – Making People Sick So Drug Companies Can Make More Money
I was reading the latest from a fellow Grok contributor, John Klar, about food. He has a great Substack I both recommend and follow here. The question is whether the USDAs new food guidelines – they are revamping them again – are going to make us fatter and sicker or heathier. It has often been argued that past “food … Read more
Control The Food, Control The MAHA
The transition of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Democrat to Independent to (gasp!) Republican was a popcorn-grabbing sideshow of the 2024 election season — until it became the main event. The defection of Bobby Kennedy to Team Trump was a seismic shift in an already bizarre presidential election, but it also formed a more perfect … Read more
Discussing the Positive Rewards of a Homesteading Life!
Amy Fewell has become an inspiring resource for existing or wannabe homesteaders around the world. Like me, Amy wasn’t raised homesteading but gravitated toward it for health and well-being. Amy summarizes our podcast chat this way: “Having conversations about uncertain times ahead can often leave us feeling fearful or full of despair, but this conversation … Read more
Will USDA Guidelines Make Americans Sicker and Fatter?
The USDA is revising its nutrition guidelines. Critics of past federal guidelines, which favored high carbohydrate diets and were compromised by industrial food producers, are closely scrutinizing the new regulations because they advocate “reducing focus on chronic disease risk reduction” and more on “improving the lifespan.” This oxymoronic shift from prevention to cure pervades many … Read more
The Contentious Path to Trump’s USDA Pick
Speculation is heating up over Donald Trump’s expected nominee to head the USDA. High-profile positions like secretary of state understandably attract the political spotlight, but the MAGA message has blended with MAHA and Team Kennedy. Appointments to health-related agencies are important bellwethers of how much influence Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will bring to bear in … Read more
Teaching Children to Avoid Toxic Foods
In this segment, I was asked about how to teach people effectively about food and how to make informed eating and buying choices.
Why Are Americans Dying Younger?
Expected lifespans are plateauing worldwide, suggesting that life-extending advances in medicine, food safety, and plumbing may have gone as far as they can to preserve humanity’s ability to prolong the inevitable. This news dampens techno-mystical fantasies of using science to achieve immortality and slip the surly bonds of death. Yet this is old news for … Read more
American Obesity Continues to Skyrocket
Obesity continues to skyrocket in the United States, according to a new CDC report on the prevalence of severe diabetes. The number of women with the condition is increasing at a faster rate than men; women are nearly twice as likely to be severely obese. Extreme obesity has been connected to numerous dangerous health conditions. … Read more
Government Can Fix neither Food nor Farm
With the national health crisis, food debauchery, and farm exploitation suddenly jumping to headlines via RFK, Jr., numerous people have offered solutions but nothing I’ve seen truly gets to the heart of the problem. Recently RFK, Jr. gave his recipe but in general, it’s yet another request for government intervention in these fields (pun intended). … Read more
True Cost Food Accounting: Adding Up the Ecological Cost of Groceries
There is a certain moral appeal to a system of pricing for consumer goods that incorporates the pollution costs involved in their production. Under such a system, in addition to the commercial “input costs” a producer paid to make a product, a fee for the toxins, water use, soil damage, or other environmental costs would … Read more
How the Federal Government Seeks to Control Our Food Supply
Food prices are climbing, but soon will soar — inflation is ensured due to recent massive spending. As Americans are pushed to consume artificial meat as a solution to the alleged environmental impact of cow farts, the government seeks to expand its techno-monitoring, in the name of “health and safety,” by requiring the RFID chipping of all livestock. The argument is … Read more
Vermont’s Public Health Busybodies Have Been Busy
The Vermont Department of Health is still promoting the CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule, suggesting a COVID-19 shot for children as early as six months. Children were neither at risk nor a vector and effectively immune until we started jabbing them. It says pregnant moms should get one, too, absent comprehensive or accurate and complete informed … Read more
Attack on Food and Farmers – And How to Fight Back!
I join many others in excited anticipation of the upcoming Attack on Food and Farmers online symposium. I will be joining many great speakers to educate people about the importance of local, regenerative agriculture. I will be presenting brief seminars on each of the two days, in addition to participating in the closing discussion. My … Read more
When Guano was Gold
Improvements in agriculture have economically and culturally nurtured some of the greatest leaps in human advancement: many of those have related to crop fertilizers, which humanity has long known improve crop yields by nurturing soils. It is vitally important to understand the central role of soil health in human well-being, for both the soil and … Read more
Online Event: Attack on Food and Farmers Symposium
I am excited to share an upcoming online panel presentation about food supplies, health, and various ways to stay informed and fight back against those who seek to control our food supplies. I will be speaking on both days as part of this broad discussion that includes informed perspectives from Joel Salatin, Robert F. Kennedy, … Read more
Is Apeel Safe?
In April of 2023, somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight, the internet did that thing it does. A Product Safety Datasheet for a cleaning product was associated with the new and mysterious Gates Industrial Complex food coating Apeel. I debunked it (or tried) because one of the services we like to think we provide … Read more
The Government is Counting Solar Arrays as Agricultural Land
Concerned that rapid development threatened critical agricultural resources, Indiana’s Legislature in 2023 commissioned a study to determine the status of the state’s farmland. Noting that most agricultural land loss neighbored cities and suburban areas, the study concluded that Indiana lost 345,682 acres of farmland between 2010 and 2022. As Bill Gates and China notoriously gobble up … Read more
Billy Butter: Gates Backs Synthetic Margarine Made Out of Thin Air
Bill Gates has a lot of money and free time, especially since his wife Melinda left him, but filling it has not been a problem. He has dedicated at least some of both to finding ways to make you offset his carbon footprint. Climate Change concerns him, and he thinks we would benefit from finding … Read more