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Issues and Myths:
Agriculture
and Global Warming
The Earth Charter
The Green Revolution
Immigration
Air Quality
Commercial Meat
Bush
meat trade
Economic Justice
Ending Poverty
Food and Behavior
Food and Environment (UCS)
Genetic Engineering
Toxic L-Tryptophan
Mad Cow?
Organic
agriculture can feed the world!
Toxic Chemicals
Chlorine
Fluoride and
others
Detoxifcation
Urban Agriculture
God has given mankind a remarkable gift in God's amazing Creation. God has charged us to care for that Creation, that nourishes and sustains all of life. Yet we have used that Creation with little regard for the consequences of our actions. This page contains many links that illuminate these very complex Creation Care issues.
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The Earth
Charter
... is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just,
sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. http://www.earthcharter.org/
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On the evils of the
"Green Revolution":
2000 BBC Reith Lecture series – Respect for
the Earth
"Poverty & Globalization"
by Vandana Shiva
"Recently, I was visiting Bhatinda in Punjab because of an epidemic of farmers suicides. Punjab used to be the most prosperous agricultural region in India. Today every farmer is in debt and despair. Vast stretches of land have become water-logged desert. And as an old farmer pointed out, even the trees have stopped bearing fruit because heavy use of pesticides have killed the pollinators - the bees and butterflies. …"
Two
myths that keep the world poor
by Vandana Shiva
This article appeared in Ode
issue: Nov 2005
"Yet sustenance living, which the wealthy West perceives as poverty, does not necessarily mean a low quality of life. On the contrary, by their very nature economies based on sustenance ensure a high quality of life—when measured in terms of access to good food and water, opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, robust social and cultural identity, and a sense of meaning in people’s lives."
Democratizing the Global Economy www.globalexchange.org/campaigns
Colonizing
the immigrant dream: The agri-foods industry’s deadly cycle of
dispossession, appropriation and substitution
From Eric's blog at www.FoodFirst.org
On how immigration, the Green Revolution, and US farm policy are all
intertwined.
Food
and Environment
Union of
Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/
The
End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs (PDF
file)
We can banish extreme poverty in our generation--yet 8
million people die each year because they are too poor to
survive. The tragedy is that with a little help, they could
even thrive.
Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future New York Times
UN
Millennium Project
The UN Millennium Project is an independent
advisory body commissioned by the UN Secretary-General to
advise the UN on strategies for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, the set of internationally agreed
upon targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease,
illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination
against women by 2015.
MakePovertyHistory
www.makepovertyhistory.org
Toxic Chemicals
CHEMICAL EXPOSURES
LINKED TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. HARRISBURG,
Pennsylvania, May 12, 2000 (ENS)
For guidance in avoiding all the toxic chemicals used in gardening see
Gardening for Maximum
Nutrition and
SafeLawns.org
The
Green Guide - The Resource for Consuming Wisely
www.TheGreenGuide.com
Chlorine in water associated with heart disease
Fluoride
Action Network
“Over the past ten years a large body of
peer-reviewed science has raised concerns that fluoride may present
unreasonable health risks, particularly among children, at levels
routinely added to tap water in American cities.”
Fluoridation: The Fraud of the Century
See also http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate
Detoxification is an essential element in healing a host of degenerative diseases. These are some useful resources:
The Detox Book, by Bruce Fife, has a lot of good information on detoxifying your body.
Digestive Wellness, by Liz Lipski, has good information on detoxifying your body
Beating Cancer with Nutrition has info on detoxing
Internal Cleansing
www.blessedherbs.com
Chelorex - www.scienceformulas.com
for heavy metal detoxification
recommended in Summer 2008 Wise Traditions
Other everyday detoxifyiers - Bentonite
Clay
Food Grade
Diatomaceous Earth
MMS
Oil
Pulling op
See also Supplements
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OCTOBER 14, 2002. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a revolution has occurred. It’s taken place in the Central Alternative High School. The kids now behave. The hallways aren’t frantic. Even the teachers are happy.
MY FAVORITE CLASS IS LUNCH
Schools in California are coming up with ingenious ways of bringing
organic food to young students in an affordable and educational manner. At
Berkeley Unified School, a new program teaches kids how to grow and
harvest their own organic food, which is then served in the school's
cafeteria. Although the school must currently raise funds to pay for the
program, educators hope that after demonstrating that organic school
gardens result in improved childhood health, they will be entitled to
government funding. The U.S. spent $75 billion treating obesity related
health problems in 2003, according to the Center for Disease Control.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/school-lunch.cfm
"You Do What You Eat" by Marco Visscher http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4143
Urban Agriculture
Will Power - Former basketball player Will
Allen is growing young hearts and minds—and healthy food besides—in
low-income Milwaukee.
http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/review/vol49_1/willpower.html
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Genetic Engineering - a monster technology out of control
If you think Genetic Engineering is no big deal check out these stories:
Perry Schmeister's
fight with an agribusiness monster.
And an interview
with Perry about that fight - Facing Down Goliath.
Toxic L-Tryptophan http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/L-tryptophan/index.cfm
More links related to the theme of genetic engineering:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/AboutGMFoods/index.cfm
http://organicconsumers.org/monlink.html
Organic can't feed the world???Yes! Organic agriculture can feed the world!
"New Evidence Confirms the Nutritional
Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Foods," State of Science
Review, March 2008
http://www.organic-center.org/science.nutri.php?action=view&report_id=126
Institute
of Science in Society
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OrganicAgriculture.php
When someone claims that sustainable organic farming can’t feed the world, here’s
info to refute that claim
And here is a compelling and encouraging piece on this topic from Acres
U.S.A. January, 2004
Organic
Agriculture Can Feed the World
by Andre Leu
Organic Consumers Association - click on "Organic Food" and "Globalization." I cannot recommend their "Mad Cow" page which reveals an anti-animal, vegetarian bias.
Don't Panic, Eat Organic - the Organic Grower's homepage
Cuba: A
Successful Case Study of Sustainable Agriculture
by PETER M. ROSSET
http://www.foodfirst.org/cuba/success.html
"The Cuban experience illustrates that we can feed a nation's population well with a small- or medium-sized farm model based on appropriate ecological technology, and in doing so we can become more self-reliant in food production. Farmers must receive higher returns for their produce, and when they do they will be encouraged to produce. Capital intensive chemical inputs—most of which are unnecessary—be largely dispensed with. The important lessons from Cuba that we can apply elsewhere, then, are agro-ecology, fair prices, land reform, and local production, including urban agriculture."
More on the benefits of organic food
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Agriculture and Global Warming
Carbon Farmers of America -
The ultimate carbon sink
http://www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com/
See also Holistic Management International
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Cheap food - politically popular, but economically disastrous! High taxes, high debt, inflation, devitalized food, poverty can be related to our government's unwillingness to support fair prices for the goods farmers produce. It's time we understand this issue as we face sky-rocketing medical costs, an increasing gap between rich and poor in this country, and rising animosity around the world. Read more.
Mad Cow Disease
Mad Cow Disease has caused a great deal of concern, and the probably needless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animal. The detective work of Mark Purdey in teasing out the environmental causes of this disease had been an embarrassment to the authorities, who have sought to squelch his work. But thanks to the Internet you can make up your own mind.
Sadly Mark Purdey died 12/11/06 of a brain tumor, but his work lives on.
Exposing
the Lies: Prions, Organophosphates & Mad Cow Disease
Interview with Mark
Purdey - Acres U.S.A., December 2001
Educating
Rida: An Eco-Detective Journey
by Mark Purdey
Is the environment responsible for Mad Cow disease and its human counterpart? by Nicholas Regush
Mark
Purdey - 'Seeking
the truth through science'
The
Purdey Environmental Home Page
Mad
Cows or Mad Scientists?
THE
SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS
by David Crowe
Bush meat trade - a serious environment challenge in Africa, being addressed by the Jane Goodall Institute
The Earth is the Lord's,
and the fullness thereof -
Psalm 24:1
On
the Care of Creation
Please disregard the misinformation about animals fats on this
site.
17Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father who created all the lights in the heavens. He is always the same and never makes dark shadows by changing. 18He wanted us to be his own special people, and so he sent the true message to give us new birth.
19My dear friends, you should be quick to listen and slow to speak or to get angry. 20If you are angry, you cannot do any of the good things that God wants done.
James 1:17-20 (CEV)