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safe and nutritious source of food and get relaxing aerobic excerise
all
at once? Are you afraid organic gardening is too hard? Its not!
We use our organic garden beds to teach our children about
biodiversity, genetics,
microbiology... etc. We've learned, painlessly, about the same as we
optimize our garden, growling delicious and nutritious fruits and
vegetables.
We would like to share with you how easily we grow our food in organic
garden
beds that take up as little space as 7000 square feet and yet feed our
family of six. Follow my links to learn more about what we do.
Honestly, organic gardening is easy, relaxing and fun! And its a great
family activity, building character, family ties and bodies all at
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A
Rant about Chemical Corporations
We grow our own food. My husband, my
children and I are working on turning a yard full of rocks, clay and
chirt into a place where we can grow almost all of our own food.
We believe that using pesticides
and fertilizers is extremely detrimental to our environment and to our
health. We are convinced that organically raised food contains more
nutrients and is better for you.
Most studies that show pesticides, herbicides and
fertilizers
are SAFE are SPONSORED by the chemical companies that make profits from
these products. University agriculture grants are funded MAINLY by
these companies.
If someone spouts off a "study" to you, try to find where the funding
came for their "study".
A systematic campaign to disinform
consumers has been ongoing that claims that organic farming
is not only hazardous to consumers' health but also detrimental to the
environment! PURE BUNK
Why would we want to hand our hard
earned money over to such devious and deceitful companies? We know
their fertilizers are death to our soil and that their herbicides and
pesticides are killing people.
The proponents of this media blitz
of disinformation say
that the use of manure leads to bacterial contamination and posit that
organic farmers must use more land to grow their crops. Some even try
to report that organic food isn't as nutritous. They know what
they say is a blantant lie but they are at the point that they will say
anything because consumer pressure for safe food is finally coming to
bear on non-organic producers and hence, the market for their poisons
must diminish.
With billions of dollars to fund
their "research" and advertise these "studies", these desecraters of
Creation overwhelm the small voice of reason, the voice of organic
growers. They have paid-for mouthpieces in the news media to spread
their cabal.
I'd like to refute, quickly, claims
that organically grown food is hazardous. When the FDA proposed a new
"organic" label
that allowed the use of sewage sludge and genetically engineered foods
as well as other atrocities, the organic farming
community garnered huge support and led a very successful campaign to
raise the standards for the organic label. We are still
fighting. The mis-information being put out that organically grown food
is NOT good and NOT safe is being put out by corporate shills trying to
warp consumer information. Organic Farming should be about family
farms and not
about corporate interests. Corporations have money to corrupt but
the
organic community is large in numbers and ready and determined to
safegaurd our food.
Organic farmers do not use animal
manure that hasn't been aged, per national standards. Aged manure is
free of such pathogens as E.
Coli. MANY organic farmers do
not use animal manure at all; I don't!
Most organic farms produce MORE
food per square acre than non organic farmers and many follow practices
such as intensive and biodynamic farming that allows them to prouce
more
food per square acre by 400%.
Because recent studies have
shown that herbicides and pesticides have lead to an increase in cancer
rates,
chemical companies are on the defensive and will say anything to make
consumers feel their food is safe. The constant use of pesticides in
food and the increasing amount of herbicides used on our food (yes on
the food itself if its genetically engineered) leads to higher cancer
rates. Consumers are aware of the problem
but chemical companies will say
and do anything for their bottom line. YOu as consumers much chose.
Please read and become educated and please speak up for family
farms.
Write to me if you want to learn
more!
laurabrownmckenzie ["at" symbol] att.net
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