2008 WAPF Wise Traditions Conference

November 11, 2008

I just got back last night from the WAPF conference in San Francisco. It

was fantastic!

I gave two lectures, a smaller Friday-night one called " The Life of the

Cell " and one in the big room on Saturday morning called " Fat-Soluble

Vitamins and Mental Health. " I got a lot of positive feedback on both. The

former will be available on audio and the latter on audio as well as DVD.

In the legal issues series, Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Freedom

Alliance discussed the many moves to make NAIS mandatory (including a new

USDA memo demanding states force registration if farmers don't register

voluntarily) as well as victories along the way (including four states that

have enacted legislation *prohibiting* the implementation of NAIS). One

anti-NAIS piece of legislation her group sponsored got over eighty different

groups signed on, as disparate and non-agricultural as the ACLU and Gun

Owners of America. A number of others involved in raw milk and farming

freedom also spoke in that track.

I attended a number of lectures in the iodine track on Sunday as well, which

were also great. Brownstein's lecture was hilarious. It's only available

on audio, so if you can recover one of his lectures from somewhere else on

video you'd get the full effect. In any case, he effectively argued that

hypothyroidism is a LOT more common than the statistics indicate, and that

treating it gives you really nice hair.

The highlight of the whole conference was Jeffry 's keynote address.

He predicts the demise of GE foods by the end of 2009. I'll write more in

another thread.

Mark Kastel's www.cornucopia.org is also very interesting, promoting more

meaningful information about pseudo- " organic " megafarms vs. real organic.

He gave the closing remarks.

There were 77 kids in the daycare. They learned two songs they performed

for us including some cute physical performance that went along with it and

made Sally a black apron with their handprints in different bright colors on

it.

Chris

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