Posts Tagged ‘ activism ’

Death of the Lakes: The Spreading of Toxic and Infectious Wastes and Disease

August 27, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Death of the Lakes: The Spreading of Toxic and Infectious Wastes and Disease

Today I am sharing an important story of toxic waste spreading through our water from factory farming from The Journal of Food and Natural Healing, a site managed by my good friend, David (Augie) Augenstein. David Michael has posted this expose on the appalling situation at Ohio’s largest inland lake, Grand Lake-St. Mary’s. David...
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Food Recalls – Why They Could Mean The End Of Real Food As We Know It

August 24, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Food Recalls – Why They Could Mean The End Of Real Food As We Know It

For a long time I believed that with every food recall story in the media, we’d see more and more people start taking notice of what’s going on in the food system – that food produced in factory environments is harming our health because everything is completely backward and geared toward the reign of...
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Is Cheap Food Really Cheap? The Hidden Costs of Industrial Food

August 18, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Is Cheap Food Really Cheap? The Hidden Costs of Industrial Food

Do you pay attention to where your food comes from? Do you go to the grocery store and purchase whatever is on the shelf, or do you think about what’s in the food you eat and how it is produced? Do you spend any time considering the preventative side of taking care of your...
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The Time To Act Is Now – Oppose Bill S.510 – The Food Safety Modernization Act

August 13, 2010
By Raine Saunders
The Time To Act Is Now – Oppose Bill S.510 – The Food Safety Modernization Act

Please take a few moments to read the information below regarding S.510 Food Safety Modernization Act. I received this bulletin in my Inbox today, and the time to act is definitely now. Congress is in recess until September 10th, 2010 and it is urgent that you contact your local representatives and senators to keep...
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Can You Afford Not To Eat Healthy?

June 24, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Can You Afford Not To Eat Healthy?

Many of the posts I write on this web site are devoted to the subject of eating real food and eating healthy. But I feel like the point of moving from supporting a conventional farming system that pumps out massed produced, nutritionally empty foods to a healthy, more sustainable one simply cannot be pressed...
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Learn from the Nourished Kitchen – an eCourse on Traditional Cooking!

May 17, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Learn from the Nourished Kitchen – an eCourse on Traditional Cooking!

Want to learn how to cook traditional food from the ground up? Introducing a new eCourse designed to guide you through the basics and fundamentals of traditional food preparation and how to select real food. This course is based on the components of traditional food preparation methods, as found in cookbooks like Sally Fallon-Morell’s...
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Earth Day Sensibility

April 23, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Earth Day Sensibility

On this Earth Day weekend, everyone is sharpening their recycling skills and seeking words of wisdom for living a greener life. Hopefully the habits people think about today carry on throughout the remainder of our days, and not just at this time of year where you can find many written topics, books, articles, and...
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Can The Government Be Trusted To Fix The Safety Of Our Food?

April 21, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Can The Government Be Trusted To Fix The Safety Of Our Food?

The safety infrastructure for food in this country is failing. It’s regulated by about a dozen federal agencies implementing about 35 laws. You would think that with that much oversight and checking, something would be working right. The public is most certainly aware of the problem, as is evident by regular media coverage of...
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Support Max Kane – Raw Milk Issues and Our Rights To Clean Food!

April 19, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Support Max Kane – Raw Milk Issues and Our Rights To Clean Food!

Please take a moment and watch the following video (from December of 2009), detailing the deposition of Max Kane in Wisconsin, and then read the information regarding the Max Kane case in Viroqua, WI. The state government has requested he surrender information about the identities of the farmers selling the raw milk in the...
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Huge FDA Food Recall of 10,000 Products – Another Wakeup Call To Avoid Processed Foods!

March 18, 2010
By Raine Saunders
Huge FDA Food Recall of 10,000 Products – Another Wakeup Call To Avoid Processed Foods!

I received this urgent message in my Inbox today from one of the lists I belong to, and I think it’s so important to pass this information along to people you care about. Processed foods are everywhere and there is really no telling where you might find contaminated foods. One thing I know for...
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