Just Say No to GMO's! Shop Local and Grow Your Own!!

   

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          I am passionate about getting the right information out about GMOs and sustainable farming. There is a lot of misinformation out there because the big ag (Agricultural), companies spend billions to convince consumers they are safe. It's a very contentious issue. I'm a small scale farmer and have many small scale farming friends. There are several big reasons for us to decry GMOs.

Just a few:
1. Monsanto doesn't want to feed the world, they want to own and control the world's food supply.  

They are there for profit...create a need, and 

 fill it. This means wiping out all competition, controlling everything from seed to fertilizer. They went into India promising big yields and then the yields weren't there and they jacked up the price of the seed. They make it illegal to save seed. This is the essence of farming from the beginning of time. They create dependent farmers instead of self sufficient ones. Every 30 minutes an Indian farmer commits suicide as a result of Monsanto's GMO crops. In the last decade, more than 250,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves because of Monsanto's costly seeds and pesticides.



   2. Do you know what "Roundup Ready" means? Many people are now becoming "gluten intolerant," 

               not because of gluten but because of the glysophate. 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/04/15/glyphosate-health-effects.aspx

Glyphosate May Be a Key Factor in the Development of Chronic Disease

Autism	Gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea, colitis, and Crohn's disease	Obesity
Allergies	Cardiovascular disease	Depression
Cancer	Infertility	Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease	Multiple sclerosis	ALS and more

They have manufactured a seed that won't die when doused with a chemical that kills everything... we can't get away from it... Millions of pounds are dumped every year and

                                                         it kills your gut bacteria. 

Many weeds are now resistant to roundup and more and more chemicals are needed. 


3. BT corn might not need as many pesticides (still sprayed with roundup) but that is because the pesticide is actually IN the corn. BT is considered an organic pesticide. It's basically a bacteria that gets into the guts of worms and causes them to explode. It washes off in the rain...but, when spliced into the dna it's there and 

       you consume a very large dose of this gut exploding bacteria. 

   

    Those are just the main three. I don't want them. Sustainable farmers don't use them. People who want to build up their soil won't go near them. 

         Countries are banning them. 

Politicians are in the big ag companies 

pockets... both Republican and 

Democrat. 


    It's is patently false that GMOs bring in more yields

...unless you have raped your soil to the point that you need incredible amounts of fertilizer.
I have a great friend who I get my hay from. He said he personally stays away from gmos because of the chemicals needed to grow them. One day a  vat of chemicals spilled and 

 he stepped in it and his boot melted, 
he said, "I will never grow GMOs..." 




   

I have Amish friends who gets greater yields with non gmos but you can't get those yields if you run a monoculture crop of 1,000's of acres of just one crop...corn or soybeans





          To say GMOs feed the world is false. 

   Most corn is grown for fuel or for animal feed. Most animals (pigs, cows, chickens) can be grown successfully and healthier on pasture. 
   The world should not be eating corn as a main substance anyway.... 

I could go on, but my point is that the GMO 

culture has transformed farming in 

America, polluting waterways, and 

depleted the soils to the point that 

most soils are dead and are living on 

mined life support. 



   

     Healthy soil is built through compost and manure and so are healthy plants.

     If your soil isn't healthy, bringing up nutrients naturally from the ground, we will be sick. And it's true. 

     We are sicker than we've ever been, need more supplements like vitamins and minerals, and eat 2x as much just to TRY to get the vitamins and nutrients of just 60 years ago. 

And small farmers can't afford 

to lobby Congress. We are too 

busy actually working to pay full time smoozers.... 

I leave you with an example:

 

  A Kushi Institute analysis of nutrient data from 1975 to 1997 found that average calcium levels in 12 fresh vegetables dropped 27 percent; iron levels 37 percent; vitamin A levels 21 percent, and vitamin C levels 30 percent. A similar study of British nutrient data from 1930 to 1980, published in the British Food Journal,found that in 20 vegetables the average calcium content had declined 19 percent; iron 22 percent; and potassium 14 percent. Yet another study concluded that one would have to eat eight oranges today to derive the same amount of Vitamin A as our grandparents would have gotten from one.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/

   

Domestic livestock overdose on cereal-based feed and have historically been fed everything from animal droppings to other animals 

2001 review study, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, showing that nutrient levels, including vitamin C, are lower in crops grown with chemical fertilizers. Organic spinach, lettuce, cabbage and potatoes showed relatively high levels.

'Studies show that organic food has 15 per cent more dry matter than non-organic food,' she says, 'so for each kilo of organic fruit or veg you are getting 15 per cent more nutrition. Some of the high yield in conventional farmed crops is just water. By using a lot of NPK [nitrogen phosphorous potassium] fertilizers, the plant is forced to grow faster - and our measure of growth is just the weight at the end. 

There is no focus on what growth really means in plants and animals. 

With livestock, too, you are giving them unnaturally high-energy diets to force them to grow a lot faster.
'https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/15/foodanddrink.shopping3


      So we literally HAVE to eat more in order to have the proper nutrients we need... 


http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5339
http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/food/how-much-roundup-are-you-eating       :)

America is awash in gmos and their health is suffering greatly as a result..." This is a quote I heard recently from someone in England. The GMO issue is highly contentious, mostly because farming has changed so drastically in the last half century and most modern farms are consolidations of many small farms. The mantra is "bigger, better, faster..." One of my favorite lines from Jurrasic Park goes something like "We got so caught up things we could do, we didn't stop to ask should we do it..." This is the case with gmos... Should we splice the dna of one organism into another,and more importantly, should we ingest them? How will the growing of them affect small farmers? How will it affect the environment? GMOs have literally reshaped the world, but not for the better. Good news, people are waking up!! Things are changing!!




Genesis 2:15  Then the LORD God took the man 

and put him in the                                      Garden of Eden

            to farm the land and to take care of it.

http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Tilling-The-Soil

Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land will have plenty of food, But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

Genesis 2:15

Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

Genesis 3:23

therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2

Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 3:17-19

Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who pursues worthless things lacks sense.

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Property Values Verses "Home Value"....and Wonderful Visiting Neighbors.

Recently we've had an extraordinary flow of new, random visitors to God's Little Acre! Whew! Night and day wonderful little people, old(ish) people, teenage people, 20 something folk... have overwhelmingly blessed us with visits full questions asking (and sometimes giving!:) advice about a wide range of

Visits from young farmers Kath, a local new friend  and Chris, who recently completed his appreticeship at Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm

farming/homesteading endeavors!!! From chicken coops, blacksmithing, greenhouses...to homemade whole wheat bread, kombucha, keifer, yummy diy chocolate... Praise the Lord! And yet, in the midst of the 90 and 9 that stop by with good intentions and cheerful exciting encouragement to join in our endeavors...there lurks that nasty ongoing burden...it's not even the governmental bodies that have set themselves against natural living... there are those who wish to use and abuse our government to trump the law of nature... So, here we begin our inquiry:

"I say men, for in a state of nature no man can take away my property from me, without my consent. If he does, he deprives me of my liberty, and makes me a slave. If such a proceeding is a breach of the law of nature, no law of society can make it just..." James Otis

Property Values...Home Is Where the Heart Is  

This is kind of a commentary about Property Values but not in the way we traditionally view them in modern America. You see, a home is first a home... a roof over your head, a place of safety, a place to eat and sleep. Home is where people live out their lives. It gets used!  Or, it should!

As you can imagine, (if you've been following along with our saga).... our internal radar is up all the time now. It seems someone is always checking out the window, watching the road for trespassers. We watch to see if the government is driving by with telescopic cameras trying to catch us doing something. If I leave a shovel or rake out past dark my first thought is "am I going to be sited if I don't put it in the shed overnight?" Ugh... Nuisance laws mean they "arbitrarily" think something is wrong in their eyes or someone else's eyes with no moral, ethical, or higher standard or authority other than themselves. 

What is Right or Wrong? For everyone to be treated equally we must have a standard, morals, ethics that we have all agreed upon like the Constitution. It is a covenant between men before God which keeps the peace.

John lock explains "how" the "arbitrary law" *enforcer* is "at war" with the other. It's a hassle having to guard your own home from government or neighbor intruders, trespassers invading your privacy without any legal right to do so! We have a lot of people just stop by who sincerely compliment what we are doing and have lots of question on "how to". We love these spur of the moment visitors, they are very welcome. 

vig·i·lan·te

ˌvijəˈlan(t)ē/

noun

plural noun: vigilantes

1. a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.

It's the visit by vigilantes with violence in their hearts, using aggressiveness, holding clubs with their hands raised high that we have to protect ourselves from.

This is a commentary about Property Values verses "Home Value". A home is first a home. A roof over your head, a place of safety, a place to eat and sleep. Home is where people live.

Home noun

1.the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.

noun

1.a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.

2.the place in which one's domestic affections are centered.

In the last century government forgot it's place. The desire for wealth and money has driven men completely insane. Men will do anything, anything for money, riches. Being wealthy and lusting for money is an individual choice to sin, it is not a "right".

We have a new administrator for our twp. In his acceptance speech or interview with the home town paper he boasted and was proud that he was going to bring in businesses and, in turn, bring in tax revenue!

In America we have homeowners associations, neighborhoods with "laws" to protect property values. But this is an obsession not a "right". It borders on insane. Governments are not in place to protect the value of something. The free market does that. Trends come an go. 

A mansion in the inter city that once was the most expensive house now sells for $19,000. It's letting nature takes its course. No one is guaranteed the value of what they have will remain. Most things lose value. Cars, a radio, equipment, they get old.

Government's rightful place is to protect a citizen's right to live in peace in their homes. Sound minded individuals pass their homes on to the next generation. A home isn't about being an investment but a place to love each other, raise children, live in peace and safety from storms, inclement weather. I do not have to live and be concerned that hanging my cloths out to dry or that if I painted my house purple it is going to lower my neighbors property value. Men do not live to be "people pleasers." Or to be abused and walked all over by the whim of someone else. God calls all men to live their lives pleasing God.

I don't place my time, effort and industry on or into the "value of my home."

I have a different set of Values: I value my life, my happiness, my privacy and my personal freedom, (especially to choose what I value), that owning a house gives me. My home is where I live and love my family. My home protects my most priceless possession: myself and my family.  

My land provides my food. It is a working machine, always busy. It's a place that keeps working while my family and I sleep; it protects us, gives us a feeling of peace and safety.

I value my health and my family's health above all things. What good is money or wealth if you are sick, or get sick and die of cancer from poisonous food. A home is a place where you can be yourself and you don't have to pretend to be someone you're not. A home can provide all that a human being needs to live a happy, successful life with "love" at the heart of everyone's priorities. What good is living if you have no one to love? What good is life if there is no one who loves you?

Government's, like the township's, first priority is to make sure the people feel safe in their community. To make sure the people are healthy and can live in peace.

Governments were never formed or created to "bring" in revenue. The Exception is when tyrants and kings are in power. Governments were never formed to protect a citizen's greed or lust for increasing their wealth, interest, capital gains, etc. Governments were not formed to make sure there are good schools, good roads, salted roads in the winter time, etc. Example: When realtors and homeowners put a home on the market, they work on "curb appeal" to make sure the property looks good to bring insiders in to sell homes etc. Government might have turned into an interior/exterior designer for homeowners to follow but it's not supposed to do that. It's wrong!

Governments are formed to protect people and their families from criminals: from thieves, murderers, cons, violent abusive people, etc. It is designed to bring justice when a crime is committed. The Government and the people are simply lost today. Through God it can all be brought back to serve the needs of happy, healthy, (not wealthy) but abundantly supplied families.

I end with a common theme preached in every New England pulpit before the Revolution... Reverend Stephan Johnson was one such preacher... Referring directly to John Locke, he said that any attempt to take away their natural rights constituted a state of war where the people are free to assume their rights and defend them. "May we not ask," he told his congregation, "who is the aggressor, he that invades the right of free people, or they that defend what is only their own?" --- thanks to Mary Elaine Swanson for her book on John Locke