you are what your food ate

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> Someone posted a saying recently that went something like this " you

are what

> your animals eat " . I can't find the message that this saying

related to.

> Does anyone remember it and if so what message it might be?

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I pasted the two posts below. This line has been one of my WAPF/NT

internal mantras for the past year... Big-time epiphany...

By the way, just in case anyone didn't catch this, the idea covers

soil fertility and plant foods too, not just animal diets, because we

can conceptualize the plants as " eating " the soil. The fact that

this idea has such an elegant and poetic generalization is what made

me so excited about it when it dawned on me. It recursively captures

this huge deep idea about the cycle of life... Much more than

just " quality of diet of animals we eat " ...

BTW, Allan, when you came up with your clever line (pretty crazy

effect when spoken! good for befuddling people!), did you have this

abstract meaning in mind?

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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From: Allan Balliett

Date: Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:50 pm

Subject: RE: " Grains Good as Gold "

>so it seems our first concern should be *soil fertility* and the

brix index

>of our foods rather than whether they are organic, fermented, raw or

>grass-fed. the rest should follow...

Suse - I loved your note, BUT, I don't think you can get truly

hi-brix food outside of an organic management system. I know that

many goose the brix with nutrient sprays, but if you are building

brix from the ground up, then you are going to need living soils. You

can't have living soils and poor poisons on them also, of course.

Lots of compost and Albrecht soil balancing is what works well for

'real' brix.

Just the same, I agree with everything you said, otherwise.

And it comes down to this: YOU ARE WHAT YOU ATE ATE

It's so easy to forget!!

Allan

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From: " Anton "

Date: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:43 pm

Subject: " you are what your food ate "

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> And it comes down to this: YOU ARE WHAT YOU ATE ATE

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> It's so easy to forget!!

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> Allan

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that's great! soon after connecting with the NT/WAPF worldview, this

idea hit me hard, and the phrasing I latched onto is " you are what

your food ate " . funny something this obvious isn't " out there " a

lot...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania