Health Facts: Winter 2022
A recent trip to the annual Acres USA conference was a big eye opener on the current health of this country. 1 out of every 6 children are now affected by some kind of ailment. Seriously, this is our next generation of people. This is our seed. I thought it was supposed to be the old people that got sick and died. Thirty years ago the number was something like 1 out of every 40. And you want to tell me all the GMOs, insecticides, herbicides, etc., that they came out with in the last 30 years are safe in our food? The word 'cide' as in herbicide, insecticide etc., means to kill. Now think about this: how many things are we using to grow food that kills?
The word' ‘food’ means something we eat to nourish our body and keep it alive and yet to grow it we're using something that means kill...and kill it does. They say we couldn't feed the world without them. Well, I don't know if we could or not, but I know the world isn't going to be as hard to feed if we kill a bunch of people with food. Not even to mention the vaccines, 5G wavelengths, and all the other stuff that's killing people legally.
It's also been proven by many that we can grow way more food per acre without using 'cides'. The only reason it's not a common practice is for the same reason a lot of the health care clinics in Mexico are not welcome in America. The pharmaceutical companies don't want to be out of a job, so they throw enough money around to get what they want and the dollar rules over our safety. The innocent children end up being the victims.
I'm just a country boy and most of the people around me are and seem healthy. We don't see what's really happening in a lot of cities. Although if we stop and think about it, more people are sicker than what used to be. It happens so gradually, we don't really realize what's happening and begin to think it's normal this way.
I would like to share a story about a man called Weston A. Price and yes, he was the founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He was actually a dentist and he noticed a lot of his patients, although quite young, had really bad teeth. He also discovered Americans had a higher rate of false teeth than most places in the world. So he set out on a journey and studied teeth from people all over the world. From the deserts, to the seas, to the rain forests, to the north pole. Anywhere he could find a native group of people, he studied their teeth. In every group he found very healthy teeth, even though these people ate completely different diets. From one group to the next, they all were very healthy and had one thing in common: they all ate a very diverse local diet high in animal fats and proteins. If these people were then put on an American diet of high carbs and sugar they soon had bad teeth and suppressed health.
My point in bringing this out is the importance of a local diet high in animal fats and proteins.
Although I constantly bash conventional farming and think grass fed organic, if sourced correctly, is the best choice, don't get overwhelmed. Think local first, think unprocessed, unpasteurized animal fats and proteins next. Butter for example is a super food and has a lot of nutrients in it like, h2 for example, that the supplement companies are promoting, but once pasteurized they are lost.
If you're currently using 'cides' to farm and can't get out of it, don't quit eating what you grow. Try to reduce them as much as possible but take a good look at what you are eating and not growing. Sugar and flour can almost be eliminated and can be sourced locally. Quit eating cereal and start eating eggs and bacon and replace donuts and cake with nuts and fruit.
Now you can really start to source your food. Once you start eating what is being grown locally, once you have all that in place and want to take it to an even safer level, start getting grass fed and organic.
Most people wait to make that step until someone in the family gets sick or has allergies and they have to. Don't wait that long. A good way to start is to make a list of all the food you buy.
Now you can think what could I replace this with or where can I buy it locally. Make a goal to eliminate one thing a month. DON'T LET IT BE OVERWHELMING, BUT TAKE ACTION. Remember, every time you buy something conventional out of the store you are helping Monsanto or whoever, get a little better at what they do. Every time you buy from your local farmer the same thing happens. Who do you trust? Who do you want to see succeed? Vote with your dollar. If everyone would quit buying from Monsanto they would go out of business, then we could really feed the world. It’s not Monsanto or Bayer or the pharmaceutical companies or the governments fault our food isn't safe to eat. It’s everyone that buys from them.
Remember the Weston A. Price Foundation is a great source of information. They have a product guide that has every food you need and a safe place to buy it. Their phone number is (202) 363-4394. It will be the best money you spent. Acres USA is also a very good source of info at (800) 355-5313. Also feel free to contact us with any questions. We would be happy to share what we have learned.
Thanks for your support, Dan and family
P.S. If for any reason you think any of this content is false or misleading, we would like to hear it as that is not our intent. Our intent is only to help people find a happier safer life and help spread the truth.
Editor’s Note:
It’s possible to grow crops without pesticides.
Recent studies have shown that plant resistance to insect and disease pests is linked to optimal physical, chemical, and—perhaps most importantly— biological properties of soil.
Healthy, vigorous plants that grow quickly are better able to withstand pest damage. However, over-fertilizing crops can actually increase pest problems. For example, increased nitrogen fertilizer rates have been associated with large increases in numbers of aphids and mites.
Healthy soils, in addition to supporting vigorous growth of plants better able to tolerate pest damage, also contain many natural enemies of insect pests, including insect predators, pathogenic fungi, and insect-parasitic nematodes.