Tired of not being able to trust your food? Tired of all the food deserts in this country, where there’s no choice other than which nasty fast-food place to drive-thru? Tired of federal regulators banning nutrient-dense foods, like raw milk from pasture-raised cows? Tired of not knowing what’s genetically modified and what’s not? Tired of things being labeled “natural” when they’re not? Tired of being sick and tired?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then it’s time to rise up off of your couch, grab a pitchfork, and join the worldwide March Against Monsanto, May 25.
The milk Gestapo is at it again, this time in Wisconsin. Vernon Hershberger, an Amish farmer, has been providing people in the cheese state with fresh, raw, unadulterated milk. One would
A 4-month-old baby suffocated recently after too much “tummy time” at a government-run childcare facility in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The last people anyone wants to blame in this situation is the grieving parents, and I am placing the least amount of blame on them, but parents are the most effective people at preventing these kinds of tragedies.
No I am not talking about a woman’s “right” to kill her unborn child. I am talking about a woman’s right to choose how to best parent her child, and parenting begins with birth. By making it illegal for midwives – without government-approved educations – to assist women in home birth, many of the American states have made it practically impossible to give birth in any place other than a hospital. [...]
If consumers knew how the majority of American chicken is raised – in concentrated animal feeding operations, or “CAFOs” – they probably wouldn’t eat it. A North Carolina chicken farmer – who calls herself an indentured servant to a cartel of poultry processors – tells Food Riot Radio she wouldn’t touch her CAFO chickens with a ten-foot pole. She raises her own heirloom breed chickens on the side, for her family’s consumption. She’s working to enlighten consumers about what their demand for cheap chicken – along with the industry’s government-enforced secrecy about how the chickens are raised – has done to the quality of their food.
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