Alimentary Tuesdays Blog Carnival #2

 Alternative Medicine, Beef, Blog Hop, Cancer, Chiropractic, Exercise, Fat, Fruits, Glycemic Index, GMO, Grains, Grass fed, Herbs, Milk, News, Organic, Politics, Raw, Recipes, Spices, Vegetables, Video  2 Responses »
Nov 012011
 


Welcome to the Alimentary Tuesdays Blog Carnival!

Well it is that time of week again. The week has past so quickly. We had 9 participants in our very 1st blog hop. Thank you so much to all of the participants. We look forward to seeing their new posts.

I want to take a moment to share part of my weekend. It was Jacobs 7th birthday celebration. His b-day is today 11-01 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB! One of Jacobs birthday wishes was to have a Shockwave (one of the Decepticons from the Transformers cartoon and movie) cake. We always bake our own cakes to be sure the ingredients are organic. So this was a fun task (Shockwave is one of my favorites too). I will share my personalized cake making experience in a future post but here are some images to give you an idea. Continue reading »

Michael Schmidt is my Hero: A General in the Raw Milk War

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Oct 182011
 


The Incredible Story of Michael Schmidt and Dorothea Schmidt and Real Milk in Canada

by Sally Fallon

The city of Toronto spreads out from its center as an inundation of asphalt and grey rooftops, punctuated by soul-numbing high-rise apartments. Gradually the city gives way to farmland, dotted with small towns and pleasant farms, a land of richness and variety. The farms are attractive and well ordered, with old-fashioned barns and silos in good repair. The only jarring note is the occasional pile of old tires cluttered against the outbuildings. Follow the road northeast through the town of Durham and eventually you arrive at Glencolton Farms with its stone farmhouse, compact farmyard and painterly vistas.

The owners are Michael and Dorothea Schmidt who purchased Glencolton when they came to Canada from Germany in 1983. Michael Schmidt is an innovator and an activist. He grew up in the Waldorf education system and has a master’s degree in farming. His entire practical training took place on certified organic farms in Germany.

In 1978 Schmidt started a biodynamic organic dairy farm in southern Germany. This farm became the first certified organic farm with cheese processing facilities and today cheese from this farm is distributed throughout Germany. Three years later, Schmidt helped establish the first biodynamic organic farm in Egypt, supplying breeding stock for dairy cows. Today this Egyptian experiment is a flourishing research center and community farm. In recent years he has helped train Russian farmers in the principles of biodynamic farming and has participated in a research project in China. Continue reading »

Dump Monsanto super lobbyist and FDA Food Safety Czar Michael Taylor

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Sep 092011
 

I just took action, telling President Obama to dump Monsanto super lobbyist and FDA Food Safety Czar Michael Taylor.

Under President Obama, factory farm operators are getting away with serious food safety violations while raw milk dairy farmers and distributors across the country have been subjected to armed raids and hauled away in handcuffs.

When Barack Obama ran for President he promised to end the “revolving door” between agribusiness lobbyists and government and to “regulate” factory farms. Unfortunately his decision to break both these campaign promises has left America’s food supply more vulnerable to food safety outbreaks and allowed the highly consolidated industrial meat and factory farm industry off the hook despite growing problems. Continue reading »

Raw vs. Pasteurization

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Sep 092011
 
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Pasteurization is “a” way to prevent dangerous pathogens in milk; however it is not the only way. Raw milk producers are required to take several steps to ensure that the safety of the end product is equal to that of pasteurized milk. This is done without compromising the molecular structure or nutritional value of the milk.

pathogen is defined as a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease. Pasteurization is a cheap efficient way to make milk “safe” (in the short-term sense of the word). This allows farmers to mass-produce milk from 1000s of cows in unsanitary, inhumane conditions. It is done to lower the cost of production. Continue reading »

Dr. Mercola choosing his side in the war on raw milk

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Sep 062011
 

Here is a small excerpt from a GREAT article by Dr. Mercola. He is one of the leaders in natural health information and my idle. The full article offers great statics confirming what I already knew about raw milk to be true. find it at mercola.com

Story at-a-glance
According to the US government’s own data, you are about 35,000 times more likely to get sick from other foods than you are from raw milk.
Between 1999 and 2010, there were only an average of 42 cases of illness per year attributed to raw milk. Meanwhile, an estimated total of 48 million foodborne illnesses occur each year from all foods.
Pasteurization protects you from deadly pathogens contained in CAFO milk. However, milk from free-range grass-fed cows does not need to be pasteurized as it is inherently less prone to contamination to begin with. Continue reading »

Got (Raw) Milk?

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Aug 012011
 
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There is a lot of untrue information about raw milk from cows. But what do you really know about milk in general? Processed milk (pasteurized, homogenized and/or fortified) offers very little nutrition and causes health complications. Raw milk (unprocessed) is the opposite of this and can be used as medicine. I am going to clear up the differences between the milk you can get at the store and the milk directly from the cow. Continue reading »