If you care about your health you need to be aware of toxins in your food.  As we grow older, these poisons build up and slow the body’s cleansing process.  It’s critical to our health that we be aware of what goes on in American agriculture today.  Denying the facts may give us impaired immune systems, sore joints, and extra weight around the middle, and definitely not a flat stomach!

SO WHAT’S THE ANSWER TO GREAT HEALTH WHEN WE’RE LIVING IN A SEA OF CHEMICALS?

John and I live in high desert country between Reno, NV, and Salt Lake, and we grow great sagebrush, but not many vegetables!

It’s high here, elevation wise.  It freezes and snows, sometimes even in summer.  It’s usually dry.  The sun is strong and harsh, making lettuce, and spinach bolt in early spring, and peas quit producing, even though they just began.  Gardening is tough.

We get most of our summer vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture program, CSA, in Fallon, to the west of us on the way to Reno.  The vegetables are grown without toxic chemicals (pesticides fungicides, pre-emergents) and fertilized with natural manure and local compost.

Produce the farmer brings us is high in vitamins and minerals and low in toxins.  It’s picked the morning he comes.   Chickens have free-run of the farm, doing what chickens naturally do.

For a contrast: Many fields and produce grown in the U.S. are blanketed in toxic chemicals, chemicals that build up and effectively “sterilize” soil.  These conventionally grown vegetables are lower in vitamins and minerals since they’re grown in depleted soil.

This video shows the contrast between much of American’s agriculture and the small family farm, especially an organic farm.  You’ll also see Will Allen of Growing Power, in Milwaukee’s urban agriculture project which grows vegetables and fruit in its greenhouses, raises goats, ducks, bees, turkeys, and tilapia and Great lakes Perch in the center of the city. 

There you have it.  You saw in this video rows of vegetables covered in spray, unsanitary conditions for our food animals, and toxins that stress our bodies. You also saw inspiring scenes of healthy agriculture, a new paradigm.  What can each of us do?

• First step is to become educated about America’s food.
• Second step might be to support healthy agriculture, perhaps buy organic.
• Third could be to give your body a break from toxin overload by becoming educated about the food supply. 
• Supporting your body’s cleansing function, keeping your immune system and liver healthy.

WHAT’S YOUR EXPERIENCE?  SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW:

• How do you find time to cook food from scratch?  Does it matter to you?
• Do you buy organic produce?  Is it more expensive? The movie pointed out that not all costs, such as environmental degradation, higher sickness rates, are figured into conventional agriculture.
• What time-saving ideas do you have for preparing food from scratch?
• Do you shop at Farmers Markets?
• How do you keep your immune system strong?  Your liver?

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