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What should you look for in healthy foods?
Pasture-Based
Meat
Check out the Eat
Wild website on the benefits of eating pasture-based
animals – for health, the environment, the animals, and the farmer.
Locally
Grown Food
12
Reasons to Eat Local and Organic
Why Buy Sustainable? - reasons why you should buy sustainable food from independent family farms.
Do you want fresh, locally grown, organic food, but don't know where to find it? The Local Harvest Web site (http://www.localharvest.org/) makes it easy to find family farms, farmers markets and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area. Another helpful Web site is the Eat Well Guide, http://www.eatwellguide.org/search.cfm
Real
(Raw) Milk
What's Happening?
"Back in the 20s, Americans could buy fresh raw whole
milk, real clabber and buttermilk, luscious naturally yellow butter, fresh farm
cheeses and cream in various colors and thicknesses. Today’s milk is accused
of causing everything from allergies
to heart disease to
cancer, but when Americans could buy Real Milk, these diseases were rare. In
fact, a supply of high quality dairy products was considered vital to American
security and the economic well being of the nation.
"What’s needed today is a return to humane, non-toxic, pasture-based dairying and small-scale traditional processing, in short . . ."
Other information about Raw Milk
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