just got back from sally fallon talk

[Guest guest]

Hey folks,

Just got back from the Beverly Farms, MA, seminar with Sally Fallon. It was

cool, it was seven hours with an hour lunch break. If I were her I would've

collapsed at the end! lol...

There was a good amount of people, upwards of forty I think (I'm horrible at

estimating crowd sizes), and two third or so of the people that were there

weren't at the 2 hour lecture the night before, which apparently had a

similar amount of people. The bulk of the talk was stuff I already knew, but

it was still really cool anyway, especially since she had a bunch of slides

to show and some info I didn't know and she's pretty funny too.

Some points of interest:

We've talked recently about " industry standards " where if all the big

industrial producers do something, they get exempt from putting it on the

label. The yogurt industry now has industry standard exemption to put

NUTRISWEET in yogurt... and... the ice cream industry has exemption to,

without labelling put... drumroll... ANTI-FREEZE into the ice cream!

She talked about a study where there were three or four groups of rats, one

or two fed some sort of normal rat diet, one fed a diet of 100% corn flakes,

and the other eating the _cardboard box_ the corn flakes came in. The ones

eating the corn flakes actually died quicker than the one eating the

cardboard box! The cardboard box group died of malnutrition, whereas the

corn flakes group seemed to go crazy from the neurotoxins in the corn flakes,

and the last one died on the same die the first one died from the cardboard

box group.

she also made an interesting point that our generation has 25% fertility

problems, and were the third generation on the pasteurized, hydrogenated,

etc, diet, which seems to be working towards pottengers fourth-generation

sterility scenario which is pretty scary.

Also, she mentioned a letter she got from someone who visited one of the

islands Price visited in the 50s and said it was exactly as he described it,

like paradise, and that the babies never cried and the children never fought

with each other and everyone seemed incredibly happy and optimistic. She

went back in the 70s and couldn't get off the boat first, and they said it

was becuase they had to unload the Sara Lee coffee cakes first. Not a good

sign. They got off the boat and were in tears to see the people had been

modernized and there were babies all over the place crying and the kids were

fighting and everyone looked unhappy :-/ Human progress is wonderful.

Suze, I forgot to email your friend! I was going to yell out " hey does

anyone here know suze fisher? " at the end but we went into the q & a period

pretty fast so i didn't ;-) lol

Chris

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" What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a

heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of

them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense

compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to

bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature.

Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the

truth, and for those who do them wrong. "

--Saint Isaac the Syrian