Landscape with Cows, Anthonie van Borssom; 1649

A MICHIGAN dairy co-op was forced to throw out 248 gallons of milk, 100 dozen eggs, and “an undisclosed amount of fresh cream, butter and cheese.” The co-op was selling food without a license, according to the Michigan Department of Agriculture, which ordered the farm to dispose of the food. The Organic Prepper has the story.

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Casey T. writes:

I’m pleased to see you posting about agricultural issues. This story is not new; a farmer in Texas was forced to dump 700 gallons of raw milk (and shared a video of the outrage). There’s a similar theme against an organic winemaker in France, apparently “the third-highest user of pesticides in the world” (!). And where I am now, in Canada, there is essentially a cartel controlling production in such a way that it is extremely difficult to find pastured eggs, i.e., eggs from hens who actually roam outside in grass, eat worms, and so on. I miss the beauty of golden yolks.

I’ve become very aware of what I’m putting in my body for the past year and have found the Weston A. Price Foundation most helpful. Pastured meats, always organic (preferably raw) dairy, wild-caught seafood, and as much organics as possible; I try to afford organic produce, some having more priority than others, but regardless I use vegetable wash on everything since I learned that the “organic” label refers only to the soil. (Yes, buying good food, the kind our ancestors ate, is expensive, but it’s almost certainly less expensive than the medical costs the alternative road eventually bills us, and it’s much more rewarding. A tip: organ meat is less expensive and much healthier.) Going into this I arrogantly thought that buying organic bananas was absurd and pretentious, until I read about the the amount of pesticides Dole and Chiquita use on their plantations (some banned in the US), that are not only harmful to us (and, I believe, even affect the inside fruit’s texture and taste) but are horrifyingly toxic to the communities in the area (birth defects, infertility, male sterility, et. al). We are so helplessly separated from the food we consume, and the “convenience” is killing us.

I hope that traditionalists wake up to this aspect of modernity. The health of our children and priests especially needs to be upheld. I witnessed the opposite taking place (out of ignorance) this past weekend at the SSPX headquarters in New France. While assisting a nun in the kitchen by baking cakes, I mixed margarine, refined sugar and white flour together, feeling utterly terrible about the process but understanding that the nun could not be expected to understand what the industrialization of agriculture has meant for the average kitchen. The “Green Revolution” is just as it sounds, another revolution. With my little knowledge of French I tried to enlighten her about the dangers of soy (which, along with canola oil — again, bad!, was the first ingredient in the margarine) by saying, “Les femmes qui mangent beaucoup de soya ne peuvent pas avoir des enfants.” The women who eat a lot of soy cannot have children. Fortunately, she understood and reacted sanely (unfortunately, my stomach pained me throughout the whole visit). Again, the Weston A. Price Foundation provides an abundance of information on this subject. For conciseness, unless it’s fermented, avoid soy at all costs, everyone. 

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