I hope everyone celebrating had a relaxing day, I am certainly thankful for each of you! When the food coma wears off, I'd like your input. I saw the article below on FOX News and both the TODAY Show video they highlight, as well as their criticism of it, rubbed me the wrong way. The TODAY video seems to say, "don't worry about the system, just give up what doesn't work in it" while the FOX criticism seems to say, "the system is fine, just too expensive right now because of Biden et al." The video I'm hoping to make is one that gives a solution: "create a new system." I want to use our relationship with our local turkey farmers as an example, so Lynn asked them a few questions when he picked up the bird. Basically, I left corporate news, I left corporate food, and I am finding great value on the "other side" of centralization. I am just having trouble making a clear connection between the news analysis and my farmers. What pattern or bridge do you see? https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-thanksgiving-turkey-inflation
We just sold homemade superfood chocolate at our first farmer's market. Here's a look at what it was like - and what we learned for successful sales!
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The call every farmer dreads but knows will come someday: your cows are in the road.
I got a few “cholesterol is bad for you” comments on my coconut oil homemade chocolate, so I figured I’d repost this interview with Dr. Makary. When people get a high cholesterol diagnosis, the doctor often says “stay away from high cholesterol foods like eggs.” This doctor is uniformed due to massive corporate food & pharmaceutical spending. When someone has high cholesterol, it is almost always due to eating processed carbs/sugars and other inflammatory items like processed seed oils or glyphosate. The body’s natural healing response to this inflammation is to produce cholesterol. Stress can also cause this reaction. Dietary cholesterol is almost 0% of that # you get from the lab. Our bodies, especially our brains, need cholesterol. The bad medical advice is how we got a country where 1/3 of the entire population is on statins and almost 50% of men over 75 take the drug. According to a study done by UCLA, patients studied with early mild cognitive impairment taking ...
Thankfully my dad loves chocolate. Plus he gave me the recipe so we know he likes this kind! I had 34 bars leftover from the farmer’s market. Time to make some more!
I used to work for ABC Action News. I read this article about raw milk, now as a farmer who produces and drinks it. I’ll let you share your opinions of the reporting before I share mine. Does anyone have a suggestion for a raw milk doctor interview?
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/its-crestfallen-experts-alarmed-by-raw-milk-illnesses-in-florida
The Church is the cover job for big business to move in and gut the place. History repeats itself. But this time, Evangelicals are playing the role Jesuits used to play in the operation.
Deep in the Amazon, the Gospel Arrives by Boat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deep-in-the-amazon-the-gospel-arrives-by-boat/ar-AA1KdpXy
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The spiritual battle in the Amazon is also reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest, environmentalists and indigenous leaders say. Brazil’s evangelicals have forged alliances with right-wing agribusiness groups and landowners who have thwarted moves in Congress to protect the forest.
Missionary activity could accelerate the erasure of indigenous culture, threatening communities that environmentalists say safeguard the Amazon. Deforestation rates in indigenous lands are more than 80% lower than elsewhere in the Amazon, a 2024 study by U.K. and Brazilian researchers showed.
“We’re facing extinction,” said Eládio Curico, a leader of the Kokama people.
He ...
