Michael Taylor's FDA Appointment

Dear Commissioner Hamburg,

What a shock this is to those of us who understand the devious, national health threatening acts these revolving door appointments create.

I'm sorry to say, but I imagine your good family name will be caught up in a big national scandal down the road about this.

This is a Health Ponzi scheme of huge proportions.

The edible oil industry revolving door guys are about to get their comeuppance, as more of us understand just what we sacrificed when they manufactured data, manipulated regulations and placed Crisco, Corn & Soil Oils, Margarines in our pantries, in the place of the food that humanity has been eating for centuries...butter, cream, lard etc.

Actually, these folks should be tried for treason....their actions are not in the interest of our national health...which IS our national security.

We are only as strong as our weakest link. Inhalers, allergy shots, cardiovascular disease...these are signs of maladies, created by machinations of self-interested industrial ag.

Have you heard Sally Fallon Morell's "The Oiling of America" presentation?

I hope you take some time to call her, or find out more about this, for your own personal use, and to help inform your future decisions.

If the industrial ag model that Taylor represents was such a boon for mankind, we wouldn't be seeing these food safety problems, would we now?

The pendulum is swinging the other way. Local, sustainable, safe and fresh is the direction we are going. I do not understand why you would appoint someone who will lead us in the opposite direction and mire us in the same-old-same-old thinking.

Like the banking bailout, It will take us generations to recover from the maladies of industrial ag.

We will also recover from your short-sighted appointment of Michael Taylor in the drivers seat.

Please reverse your decision. Turn this Titanic Around.

Write your own letter - commissioner@fda.hhs.gov

Living Off the Fat of the Land

Tim Wightman is researching a lecture now, with information about how small farms saved the national economy in the Depression.

If his information is right on - local sales fuel not only farm economy but "prime" the engine of the national economy as well.

It makes sense to me when I think of Tom Cowan's "The Heart is Not a Pump".  Where the true pump is in every cell of the body, not the heart.

So, what if true economic recovery is in every purchase WE make, not the government (stimulus etc.)

Then, it is not only ethically and environmentally sound but also economically sound to purchase fresh and local.

Here's a first attempt at a comparison of circulation (blood and national economy)

CIRCULATION OF BLOOD

(from "Fourfold Path to Healing" by Tom Cowan, M.D. page. 145)

• Consumption of 10 grams of protein releases 4 grams water into circulation (VERY SLUGGISH CIRCULATION)
• Consumption of 10 grams of carbs releases 6 grams of water into circulation (SLUGGISH CIRCULATION)
• Consumption of 10 grams of FATS releases 10 grams of water into circulation (VERY HEALTHY CIRCULATION)

CIRCULATION OF ECONOMIC BLOOD (MONEY) 

(the numbers used below are invented for the sake of meta comparison only)

• Consumption of 10 dollars of imported (even organic) foods releases only 4 dollars into our economic circulation. (VERY SLUGGISH  ECONOMY)
  
• Consumption of 10 dollars of factory farmed food (even organic) releases only 6 dollars into our economic circulation. (SLUGGISH ECONOMY)
  
• Consumption of 10 dollars of local-direct from farmer food releases 10 full dollars back into our economic circulation. (HEALTHY ECONOMY)
  

Think about it - imports (even organic) - the money goes outward - most of it leaves our country. 

In factory farming (even organic) - the money goes upward  - to investors and stockholders.  

In small family farms - the money gets completely used (ask any farmer) and stays in circulation in the community.

Actually Tim proposes that the circulation effect for the family farm is more $10 consumed and $70 circulated for local-direct sales.

So, we "live off the fat of the land" metaphorically when we eat the "fat of the land" practically.

"Fat of the land" - living well, fed by abundant crops. The "fat" being the richest, choicest part.