10 things we should do to fix our broken food system-

** BAN GMO – as it is BANNED GLOBALLY!

• Where have all the flours gone –Time Passes Slowly Pete Seeger

Where Have All the Flours Gone (Unaltered & Non-GMO Plant protein))

Where has all the Protein gone

Where has all the Brain Healthy oils & fat gone?

Where have all the flours gone? Long time passing Pete Seeger

& ORGANIC LABELS – UNREGULATED~Inspired By Tamar Haspel Columnist, Food December 28, 2015 Email the author – tamarhaspel@gmail.com

THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS-TO REDUCE THE STRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ‘FACTORY’ FARMING – CREATING  A CORTISOL FACORY!

For us to consume in their GMO (alfalfa, soy , corn or wheat) feed – GMO magnifying food (making it no-longer Bioavailable – but also Magnifying the Gluten (vital but Disease-causing when magnified

& Lectins in the Peel – Vital – bitter to ward off predators – Disease-causing (obesity) when magnified!

Over the past couple of years – US last hold out to Ban GMO & the world rejects our GMO grains – they know that it caused Obesity & most other modern Disease –  I’ve gotten ideas about food from a lot of people who grow it, regulate it, supply it, cook it, study it and just think about it. 

And the list of potential improvements, from farm to table, is long. 

** But making the changes necessary to fix the problems in both our agriculture (pollution, greenhouse gases, soil erosion) 

& in our diets (too few vegetables, too many calories) requires a fundamental shift in attitude.

** We all have to pay attention to things that haven’t been on our radar – Because some problems began decades ago, with government incentives that rewarded production of just a few commodity GMO crops, I’ll begin with what government can do and follow with ideas for manufacturers, consumers and farmers.

Food stamps subsidize recipients’ purchases of food — almost all foods, even unhealthful ones. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

The government too big – too many lobbyist for the ‘BIGS’ Small Farmers – left out ~

** Develop a best-practices standard. Right now, the only USDA-certified standard defines organic crops. And while that’s an important way for producers with a focus on naturalness to find customers, every agricultural expert I’ve spoken with says it’s not an optimal standard for environmental health. Farmers are experimenting with cover cropping, no-till, precision agriculture and lots of other strategies to reduce runoff, conserve water and cut greenhouse gas emissions. If we can codify best practices and certify the crops of farmers who use them, those farmers can attract customers willing to pay more for foods grown that way.

**What we need is a standard beyond ‘ORGANIC‘–

** that can be ENFORCED –

– IF NOT – THE ‘ORGANIC’ LABEL IS MEANINGLESS!

** Move to crop-neutral insurance. We are disproportionately subsidizing crops that form the backbone of what public-health experts are telling us to eat less of: processed foods and meats. We should continue to help farmers reduce risk through insurance-premium help, but eliminate the supplemental programs that support commodity crops, primarily corn and soy

– SHOULD GMO CROPS BE INSURED?

[A rallying cry for a crop program that could change everything]

** Overhaul SNAP.

If we want to move away from subsidizing farmers for growing what’s not healthful, (the same idea at the consumer level as well-

** Scrap the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (a.k.a. food stamps), which is a cash subsidy for buying foods — almost any foods, even unhealthful (GMO, HEAT-ATERED INFLAMMATORY OILS (OMEGA 6) & OVER-MILLED (Refined flours with on 2-4 grams of protein) ones — and reinvent it as a program that ensures Americans have access to healthful – UNALTERED INSTEAD OF ‘PROCESSED REFINED CARBS’) foods in their time of need. (That’s how the Women, Infants and Children program — WIC — works). And, along with it, perhaps recruit some food people — lots of us either write about or cook food for a living — to volunteer to teach classes. Let government food assistance be a ticket not just to the healthful foods we all should be eating more of but also to help with figuring out what to do with them. That would also create demand in some “food deserts,” where wholesome foods are less available — an important step in righting that imbalance.

** Teach THE ‘DANGERS OF FACTORY Processed Food’ & their Over-Milling – creating ‘Disease-Causing- Refined Carbs & Over-Heating of Omega 3 to Inflammatory Omega 6 – (Altering – FOR SHELF LIFE- of the Plant Protein – the Support of the CNS, Prefrontal brain & immune system – Plus – The benefits of Non-GMO & Pasture-raised’ food in schools. Over and over, I’ve heard that it’s very hard to change adults’ habits but not quite as hard to change kids’. Start ’em young, learning what’s good and what isn’t. Consider bringing back home ec, which helped generations of kids (mostly girls) learn to cook. How about making farm visits a standard part of the curriculum? And a slaughterhouse visit a standard class trip for high school seniors?

Consumers can make more-informed choices if food manufacturers and vendors help with clear labeling. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)

Food manufacturers

Teach THE DANGERS OF FACTORY PROCESSED GMO & their Over-Milling, Over-Heating

** Food manufacturers do a lot of things I take issue with. I’d like to see more-healthful products on the market. I’d like to see kids exposed to less advertising and less nutrition-free food. I’d like to see fewer products marketed as healthful when they aren’t; the new Cheerios Protein, with 18 percent more protein but seven times the sugar, stuck in my craw.

But consumers have an obligation, too. At the end of the day, someone has to buy it. If we all buy what’s bad for us and balk at what’s better, it’s tough for even well-intentioned manufacturers to change. And so I’ll confine my wish list to two:

Use sourcing as a selling point. This is beginning to happen, as more companies ask farmers to reduce antibiotic use, let chickens out of cages and eliminate gestation crates, so they can give concerned consumers a way to support those practices. Unilever is one of many companies going further, looking to source from farmers who comply with a more rigorous set of standards; it hasn’t been easy, and it won’t be easy for other companies. If there’s a best-practices standard (see above), though, and companies aren’t left to develop their own, perhaps it’ll get easier. Consumers can’t vote with their wallets unless there are better choices to be had.

Label everything. The only way consumers can vote for those better choices is if they know what goes into products. How was the broccoli grown? How was the pig treated?

The Grocery Manufacturers Association recently announced an initiative that would put QR Codes with hundreds of product attributes on tens of thousands of products, and I’m cautiously optimistic. I also hope the QR solution will put the ongoing debate about GMO labeling — something I’ve long supported — to bed. Knowing that something is genetically modified isn’t particularly helpful unless you know how it’s genetically modified. Disease-resistant or herbicide-tolerant? Boilerplate language on the box can’t get into such detail, but information accessed via QR Codes can. And codes can be made accessible by putting scanners in stores.

** Simple Guide to Unaltered Plant based Protein

Read the Back labels ~

More than 7 grams – the Gold Standard!

6-8 grams an ordinary expected  amount  (Run of the Mill)

4-5 grams – taking more that the prescribed amount (Money changers & tax colllectors) 

2 grams (Modern all purpose-less flours products)  (00) disease-causing – Refined

0- 1 grams  of Protein ~ CRIMINAL ~  (Plant & nut MILKS – EXPENSIVE FLAVORED WATER – WHERE HAS ALL THE PROTEIN GONE?)

[Is the fight over GMO labeling worth it?]

The Lies of Factory Food Processed ~ DESTROYING LIFE! 

READ MORE –

In exchanger for Shelf life ~ Death!

Trying to Feed the World with ‘Magnifying the Food’

but also magnifying the Vital Glutens & Helpful Lectins in the Peels … 

@ the same rate Makes GMO Toxic Synthetic 

& Not Fit for Human Consumption 

**Over-milled’ Refined Carbs – The practice of OVER-MILLING – Removing up to 50% of the Plant Protein & Fiber Doubling the amount of ‘REFINED CARBS’…

REMOVING PLANT PROTEIN from Grains & Alternative Milks (CHECK THE BACK PROTEIN LABEL IN PLANT MILKS

– MOST HAVE ZERO PROTEIN

The ‘PRINCIPAL FUEL’ for the Prefrontal ‘Thinking’ Brain…

Leaving only enough‘BRAIN POWER”…

To ‘Kick-the-Homeless-Can’ – DOWN THE ROAD!

& GMO – (Synthetic food) 

**Over-Heating – Changing Omega 3 (brain food) to Omega 6 ‘motor-like’ oil INFLAMMATORY &Modern Dairy… loaded with ‘Dead Bacteria’ from Pasteurization 

&Industrial ‘muscle meat’- Both SATURATED with Cortisol’ (stress hormone) Which is produced by’Inhumane Farming Practices’…

Science & Religion –  May have found a COMMON GROUND….

HOMELESS & DISEASE WILL END – WHEN ‘GMO IS BANNED IN USA’ (CAFO Will Implode) & Global Warming will drastically slow-

Global Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totaled 4.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) equivalent, up 13 percent over 1990.

One way consumers can get closer to food:

You and I, the consumers

** Vote with your wallet. Look for those labels and buy the products that align with your priorities. Create a demand for products grown with best practices. Food companies respond to consumer demand. Farmers respond to food companies’ buying practices. We have the power to spark change in the entire chain.

Get closer to food. Grow something. Anything-BUT NOT GMO SEEDS OR CHEMICAL FERTILIZER – (HERITAGE SEEDS – NOT GMO) – Plant some herbs in a window box or a tomato plant in a pot. It’s particularly important if you have kids. We all need a reminder that food begins with a plant that turns sunlight into energy. I don’t have a scintilla of evidence to support this, only my own experience, but I’ve found that spending time with those plants makes the bright-colored boxes in the center aisles of the market seem less like food. Spend time with animals, and you end up giving more thought to the lives they lead. Raising (and killing) my own livestock has also forever cured me of wasting any part of an animal.

Cook. Non-GMO & eliminate Over-Milled & Over-Heated Factory Processed ‘Disease-Causing’ – You’ve heard it so many times that I won’t elaborate

Many farmers need to make changes that will benefit the planet & some will need help to make that happen. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Small Farmers – overwhelmed by Big Government & Big Agri-business-

Farmers are the interface between planet and people – No matter what the rest of us do, the environmental impact of farming is in the hands of the people who are actually doing it. 

It is a breathtaking responsibility & the farmers I’ve talked to take it very seriously. 

Everyone agrees that reducing pollution, safeguarding soil and sequestering carbon are important, but no one knows how to do that on any particular farm, or particular field, better than the farmer.

 I’m sure not going to be the one to tell her what to do.

My list is, instead, a way to give farmers the help they might need to make changes. 

Create a market for crops and animals raised with attention to the rights of farmworkers, 

THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS – TO REDUCE THE STRESS OF INDUSTRIAL FARMING – CREATING  A CORTISOL FACORY- 

For us to consume in their GMO (alfalfa, soy , corn or wheat) feed..

GMO magnifying food (making it non-bioavailable &

‘Disease-Causing’) – but also Magnifying the Gluten & Lectins in the Peel – It is banned globally – because of this~

Make what benefits all of us benefit farmers, too, by creating a standard that allows them to charge a little bit more for products raised according to higher standards – BAN GMO & go back to Ancient Grains & Heritage seeds~

And, on the flip side, stop creating incentives to grow a few commodity crops at as high a capacity as possible, with insufficient attention to environmental repercussions.

Farmers have to grow what people will buy, and the cost of improvements that benefit the environment have to be shared among us all.

Everyone

Come to the table. Just about every food person I’ve talked to, from every perspective, wants a more inclusive, constructive conversation. Over and over, the people most engaged in our food system have told me some variation on what Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told me: “Food should be uniting.”

What has been most interesting and eye-opening to me in the two-plus years I’ve been writing Unearthed is spending time with people who disagree with me. It has made me acutely aware of my own biases (we all have them) and impatient with the tenor of the public conversation. So, to have a better conversation in 2016, consider spending more time with people you disagree with. Surely, if you’re a GMO proponent, you know an opponent you could have lunch with. Organic advocate? Spend time with a conventional farmer. Expand your social media circle to include “them.” Mute anyone who routinely calls names or hurls insults.

If you’re part of the food industry and a member of an organization that gathers people together to talk about food at conferences and events, invite some outsiders. When everyone in the room sees the world in the same way, progress is unlikely. It’s harder to believe people are greedy or duplicitous or anti-science when you sit down together with a beer and discover you both like fishing or Portugal or “Zoolander.”

That last one’s particularly important because it doesn’t cost anything to implement. It requires no particular expertise. It has no downside.

Which brings me to an important point about lists like this. Just as Gerald McGrew doesn’t have to worry about exactly how he’s going to get to Ka-Troo to capture his Proo, or how he’s going to feed it, or what kind of climate control it’s going to need, journalists playing “If I Ran the Zoo” don’t have to worry about what it’ll take to implement these changes, and they don’t have to live with the consequences.

I don’t run the zoo. And although I’m not short on hubris, mine doesn’t extend to believing I can sit at my desk and give the people who do run the zoo a definitive guide to doing their jobs better. They are ideas, some of which have originated with people in a zoo-running capacity and all of which have some mainstream buy-in. They are a starting point.

Here’s hoping that the new year brings us more constructive public debate, and progress on improving what and how we grow and eat.

Dee Wagner-Hinkle

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