Re: the price of Truly nutritious food

February 19, 2006

the way to support those growing true food - as opposed to the ersatz

" image " of food - is to pay them what their labours deserve. This means

high prices. There is a two-tier food system going on, whether you like

it or not. Since I came on this forum, silver has gone from $4.50 per

troy ounce to almost $10. Thus my judgment about what inflation is

doing has been borne out. And it's going to get a lot worse, soon. You

get what you pay for. _______________________

>

> If you read up on commercial growing practices, you'll find that

> citrus fruits are also often sprayed with numerous chemicals,

> including artificial sweeteners.

>

> In One Straw Revolution, by fukuoka, there's mention of how the

> Japanese want their foods to look a certain way -- there's ONE

> perfect size of this that or the other vegetable or fruit and thus

> the commercial growers use lots of chemicals to get what they

> consider the perfect 'look' in the crop. Fukuoka didn't spray and

> didn't have perfect fruit, but he marketed it to those who cared

> about their health and the taste.

>

> We had some guests come through town recently who live in thailand

> and the neighboring farms are growing fruits for the market in

> japan. They told us that those farm laborers are living severely

> shortened lives from the chemicals (the woman told us reports of the

> farm workers actually dying within 3 years of working on these

> polluted farms) and that they can't drink their water because of the

> run-off. They have to haul in their drinking water.

>

> Our food supply is really contaminated, but we can choose to support

> those who are growing safe food and grow more of our own foods. the

> learning curve is steep, but well worth it!

>

> Blessings,

>

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