http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/eat-em-to-save-em-3585/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/eat-em-to-save-em-3585/#comment-506 David Bennett Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:46:15 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/15/we-gotta-eat-em-to-save-em/#comment-506 I fear that because of the tremendous ($$$) clout of the few gigantic corporations that control worldwide food production that we are doomed. I am doing my part as best I can by making my voice heard as often as possible in Washington D.C. and anywhere that I can on the internet. I support the Organic Consumers Association. I post to as many sites like this one as often as time allows too. I adjusted my priorities to better afford buying as much organically raised food as I can which is now around 90% of what I consume. I have also become a partner in an organic farming enterprise. Even though it is a small operation it is something I can be proud of being a part of besides producing as much of what I consume myself. We are a diverse operation focusing on the production of organic poultry products that include pastured chickens for both eggs and meat. The goats are also primarily forage fed as are the cows. We also have a growing area of raised gardening beds that are completely fertilized with compost and worm castings from our rabbit operation. The red worms are kept sequestered lest they escape and damage the native forests in our area. The chickens eat the red worms. That is almost free organic protein for our chickens since most of the feed for our rabbits comes from our own production of Timothy hay. We also grow alfalfa for feeding the sheep in the winter but when pasture is available our Icelandic sheep spend their days foraging there. What are you doing to help? We all need to do this together or we are doomed as a species. Surely some will survive but in the future when real famine is a worldwide problem the "Food Wars" will be particularly ugly and devastating. Maybe that is the only way that man will survive to see the 22nd century. Hopefully some lessons will have been learned regarding biodiversity and the need for sustainable farming techniques but I think eventually it will cycle again into the need for some to have more than others and it will be off to the races in mans quest for money. I fear that because of the tremendous ($$$) clout of the few gigantic corporations that control worldwide food production that we are doomed. I am doing my part as best I can by making my voice heard as often as possible in Washington D.C. and anywhere that I can on the internet. I support the Organic Consumers Association. I post to as many sites like this one as often as time allows too. I adjusted my priorities to better afford buying as much organically raised food as I can which is now around 90% of what I consume. I have also become a partner in an organic farming enterprise. Even though it is a small operation it is something I can be proud of being a part of besides producing as much of what I consume myself. We are a diverse operation focusing on the production of organic poultry products that include pastured chickens for both eggs and meat. The goats are also primarily forage fed as are the cows. We also have a growing area of raised gardening beds that are completely fertilized with compost and worm castings from our rabbit operation. The red worms are kept sequestered lest they escape and damage the native forests in our area. The chickens eat the red worms. That is almost free organic protein for our chickens since most of the feed for our rabbits comes from our own production of Timothy hay. We also grow alfalfa for feeding the sheep in the winter but when pasture is available our Icelandic sheep spend their days foraging there. What are you doing to help? We all need to do this together or we are doomed as a species. Surely some will survive but in the future when real famine is a worldwide problem the “Food Wars” will be particularly ugly and devastating. Maybe that is the only way that man will survive to see the 22nd century. Hopefully some lessons will have been learned regarding biodiversity and the need for sustainable farming techniques but I think eventually it will cycle again into the need for some to have more than others and it will be off to the races in mans quest for money.

]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/eat-em-to-save-em-3585/#comment-497 Anonymous User Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:29:15 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/15/we-gotta-eat-em-to-save-em/#comment-497 Another cautionary tale from the news today: A fungus related to the blight that caused the Irish Potato Famine is now threatening tomato crops all over the country. According to today's New York Times story, "the outbreak spread in part from the hundreds of thousands of tomato plants bought by home gardeners at Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Home Depot and Kmart stores starting in April."http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/nyregion/18tomatoes.html?hp-- Emily Another cautionary tale from the news today: A fungus related to the blight that caused the Irish Potato Famine is now threatening tomato crops all over the country. According to today’s New York Times story, “the outbreak spread in part from the hundreds of thousands of tomato plants bought by home gardeners at Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Home Depot and Kmart stores starting in April.”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/nyregion/18tomatoes.html?hp– Emily

]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/science-environment/eat-em-to-save-em-3585/#comment-494 Poppy Tooker Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:44:59 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/07/15/we-gotta-eat-em-to-save-em/#comment-494 As former chair of the US ARK, it thrills me to see the phrase my great grandmother coined "Eat It To Save It" used in the way I have promoted it to mean over the last decade! Although her original intent was synonymous with "Clean your plate" Mamman would love knowing that today it helps preserve the delicious foods of generations past. To learn more, visit eatittosaveit.com or poppytooker.com. As former chair of the US ARK, it thrills me to see the phrase my great grandmother coined “Eat It To Save It” used in the way I have promoted it to mean over the last decade! Although her original intent was synonymous with “Clean your plate” Mamman would love knowing that today it helps preserve the delicious foods of generations past. To learn more, visit eatittosaveit.com or poppytooker.com.

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