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reduce your food miles!

80% of the energy used in the U.S. food system is spent on processing, transporting, storing and preparing food.

http://attra.ncat.org/farm_energy/food_miles.html

YAY! the USDA is subsidizing something useful!

hoop houses! the beginnings of the USDA supporting small scale farmers and the local food movement????!!!

i can totally get behind baby steps…

http://www.rocfund.org/panels/panels/using-the-white-house-garden-to-promote-farmer-production-of-year-round-local-and-regional-food

sexiest damn bowl of greens i ever did see…

or maybe it was the farmer waxing poetic about how much of a joke USDA certified organic is. i couldn’t have said it better myself.

2x radish sprouts, micro mesclun, buckwheat sprouts, kabu, cilantro.

Say NO to GMO…

Wondering if your food is genetically modified? Here are your statistics:

Soy 91%
Corn 85%
Cotton 85%
Canola 80-85% (Canada)

If you think your food is in it’s natural, raw state, think again.

It was probably irradiated.

Irradiating food involves exposing it to ionizing radiation to kill off things like bacteria and bugs. It also kills the food, ie stopping it from sprouting and ripening, and you can say goodbye to the enzymes.

Foods that are irradiated include fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, sprout seeds, flour, potatoes.

Oh, but don’t worry, all irradiated foods are required to be labeled as such to the first purchaser. HOLD UP, unless you are buying direct from a farmer, you are NOT the first purchaser. Also, these labels could be on the box the individual pieces came in, something the consumer rarely sees.

Symbol for irradiated foods:

Symbol for ionizing radiation, used to irradiate said foods:

Enough said.

(see here for more information)

Next up… why are all the “raw” almonds at Whole Foods pasteurized?

i would rather have a cockroach in my ear than eat GMO beans…

yeah, apparently monsanto is slated to release GMO legumes embedded with cholesterol and diabetes drugs… also they are patenting pigs. they are going to own our whole food supply soon. the WORLD’S food supply. so scary. more scary than having a cockroach in your ear.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19665.cfm

do you want to be able to light your tap water on fire?

the correct answer to that question is NO.

so very much NO. hydrofracking is not precise! the process wastes oodles of fresh water and risks oodles more when it doesn’t go as planned. all this for a few more years of gas?

watch tap water in Pennsylvania ignite

read more about this HORRIBLE practice and sign the petition to keep it out of ny state

Is our need for oil more important than our need for fresh water?

watch this

and this.