wow....chicken, soil and farming

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(apologies to beyondpricers for the duplicate posts!)

i just ate the BEST chicken i've ever tasted. my taste buds are still in

shock...i got it from the same farm where i get my pastured eggs. when i was

eating it, i was reminded of a passage from " Digestive Wellness " by

Lipski. She writes:

" The life force in foods gives us vitality and life. If you photograph foods

with Kirlian photography, living foods have large energy fields, while

processed foods have little or none. I recently had an opportunity to watch

Hunt's videotape on using Kirlian photography to show the effects of

various activities on the human aura: First a man was videotaped sitting and

eating denatured junk food. Both the food's aura and his aura were nil --

about 2 inches. Then the same man was videotaped eating fresh fruits, fresh

vegetables, and natural foods. His aura and the food's aura were bright,

extended out about 2 feet in every direction, and were intertwined. Although

I have always believed that natural foods have more vital energy, to see

this documented was a thrill. " (p.27)

I don't know much about Kirlian photography, nor how valid it is, but this

passage popped into my mind when i ate the chicken because i felt the

chicken had a 'je ne sais que' (spelled wrong, i know) quality to it -

'vitality' would describe it well. it was slaughtered two days ago, so i

guess it just doesn't get better than pastured_fresh_local chicken...i feel

so fortunate. if nothing else, eating more traditional foods has rekindled

my love for food - food has just never tasted better than this - only the

food i ate in europe some 20 years ago rivals some of the local foods i'm

now eating in terms of flavorfulness.

anyway, the farmers i got the chicken from, belong to the local WAPF chapter

and they hosted a WAPF picnic last night. these are the same chickens that

produce the orange yolks i'm always talking about. my friend and i watched

them scratch about in their fields before dinner. watching some of them

scratch and peck at the dirt made me also realize that these guys are

probably eating a heck of a lot of soil based micro-organisms, which i

imagine enhances their health and vitality as much as the fresh air, grass

and bugs.

for the second time, i watched the first half of the documentary " World

Banquet " which was about how current global trade policies grossly favor

large agri-businesses and factory farms and is literally putting small

family farmers out of business all over the globe. basically the subsidized

large corporate agribusinesse products (most or all from n. america, i

think) are undercutting the prices of local produce in many developing

countries so that the local small (unsubsidized) farmers simply cannot

compete, and often give up (and in some cases commit suicide). unfortunately

for all of us, it is these small farms that are taking good care of the soil

and producing more nutritious foods than the large corporate 'farms' that

are engaging in monocultural production and its inherent soil depletion and

chemical fertilizer and pesticide use. interestingly, according to the

documentary, among the many other advantages of small family farms is that

they actually are far more efficient than factory farms/agri-business

because they produce a much higher yield of food per acre and do it

*sustainably.* it was some ridiculously high number as compared to corporate

farms, but i don't remember the exact figure given.

back to microbes...the narrator, an organic farmer from ND (i think) was

talking about how soil is a live organism, and said that there are 2

*billion* micro-organisms in a teaspoonful of soil...i have no idea how

accurate that number is, but i imagine the number is really high. i just

found that fascinating!

Suze Fisher

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