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Why Are We Seeing So Many Bare Shelves at Grocery Stores Across the Country?
Why Are We Seeing So Many Bare Shelves at Grocery Stores Across the Country? Over the past few months, my husband and I have kept an eye on the store shelves in our area. We don’t shop daily or even weekly, but the trend of increasingly bare shelves has been incredibly disturbing. This made me […]
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet Dr. D: Eat less meat to save the planet – report (1)The new diet that could save the planet (2)What to eat to save the planet: Report urges ‘radical changes’ to world’s diet – less meat, more veggies (3) These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from “The Lancet” (4) are a regular feature of our time, in […]
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk Potatoes on the wing – and thin pickings for all as UK crops wilt. Image: By Lucas Sankey on Unsplash Britons’ familiar and well-loved fish and chips could become scarcer as politics and climate change imperil UK vegetable and fruit supplies. LONDON, 5 February, 2019 − A combination of Brexit − Britain’s move to […]
Eating Clean, Green and Anthropocene
Eating Clean, Green and Anthropocene Scientists say our diets must evolve. Canada could lead the way. Adding a vice to a culture is always easier than removing it. Consider, as examples, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and the hamburger. Despite all we know about the harm we do to ourselves and others by indulging in these vices, […]
Monsanto/Bayer Giant Moving to “Genome Edit” Fruits and More
Monsanto/Bayer Giant Moving to “Genome Edit” Fruits and More Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent genetically modified or GMO varieties of fruits using controversial gene-editing. The “beauty” of this for Monsanto/Bayer […]
Workout Like the Pros: How Pre-Loading Meals Get You the Best Workouts
Workout Like the Pros: How Pre-Loading Meals Get You the Best Workouts Ready Nutrition guys and gals, let it never be said that I under-emphasize weight training and physical conditioning. I believe it to be the centerpiece of keeping yourself in good health both physically and mentally. That being said, you need to give yourself […]
How to Feed a Family for a Month from Your Stockpile
How to Feed a Family for a Month from Your Stockpile There are all sorts of situations that can have you eating from your stockpile for a month or so. Maybe you have an unexpected expense that means a weekly trip to the store is out of the question. Maybe there’s a problem with the […]
My Top 10 Books That Inspired Our Project
MY TOP 10 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED OUR PROJECT At the beginning of 2017 Permanent Publications sent us an email expressing an interest to publish a book on our polyculture trials and experiences. I’d been thinking about writing this book for some time and responded with gleeful enthusiasm. I’m happy to announce that we have signed the publishing […]
Why Permaculture Puts Food First
Why Permaculture Puts Food First “Had we heeded Malthus’s warning and kept the human population to less than one billion, we would not now be facing a torrid future.“ There are seven popular food crops in this picture When I teach permaculture, and now having done more than 50 full design courses, I try to […]
Total Planetary Collapse: The World’s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970
Total Planetary Collapse: The World’s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970 The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen. The truth is that we are literally running out of […]
19 Foods That Eat the Stress Away
19 Foods That Eat the Stress Away At best, stress can interfere with your happiness and productivity. At worst, stress can be a slow killer: It can adversely affect your immune, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and central nervous systems, especially when it is experienced chronically. Avoiding stress entirely is impossible. Many of the ups and downs of everyday […]
5 (More) Foods That Last Forever
5 (More) Foods That Last Forever When planning and storing food for emergencies or survival situations, we have long advocated incorporating foods that will last forever (or at least longer than you will). By doing so, this does double duty by boosting your emergency supplies. panties, and your bartering power, as well as ensuring you […]
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying […]
Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food?
rganicconsumers.org/ Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food? An update on the situation with glyphosate In November 2016, a very concerning report — Glyphosate: Unsafe On Any Plate — was released by The Detox Project and Food Democracy Now!, raising the alarm of the high levels of glyphosate in the US food supply and the […]
3 Ways to Make Food Go Further That Will Help You Now (AND When the SHTF)
3 Ways to Make Food Go Further That Will Help You Now (AND When the SHTF) A lot of folks think those Depression Era techniques for stretching food are only for a worst case, SHTF scenario. But in truth, those ideas are good for every day, because the price of food just keeps going up, […]
