| Weston A. Price Foundation
Have you folks seen Sally Fallon's awesome cookbook, Nourishing Traditions. She's with the Weston A. Price Foundation, which is listed on the promotional page for the film, "Fresh," here: http://www.freshthemovie.com/m...
The book has recipes and the margins are filled with fascinating food facts and quizzes. The front has a powerful summary of research based nutritional information.
This group has done a great job of demonstrating shared interests between the food movement and farmers. (See Joel Salatin's endorsement of Sally Fallon's work here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Their research data emphasizes nutritionally dense foods. They're great at overcoming corporate myths for vegetable transfats and hydrogenated oils and against saturated fats from eggs, dairy/milk, pork, and poultry, which they show to be crucial to our health. They're leading in the fight for raw milk and against soy. Got Silk? Oooops. You better check out what the Weston A. Price foundation has found out about it. (Have yo seen the bumper sticker: Babies need milk, not beans!) |
On a lighter note
Here's a great link to a related recipe for an alternative to breakfast cereals made from grain: http://hartkeisonline.com/2010... ( Janice is my sister.) It's also a nice short introduction to the Weston A. Price foundation's work.
Tough Issues, like eating meat
Ok, behind some of what I said in the introduction are some tough issues for the food movement, issues that divide our power. Still, they need to be faced and discussed. These include issues of science, of diet, of food culture, of corporate exploitation, and of farm production. Like about every other food and farm issue, they involve the resolution of dilemmas, which is never perfect.
I've presented some detail on farmer perspectives and understandings on raising and eating meat (on the dilemmas) in some comments elsewhere, perspectives that I find are often missing, partial, or poorly understood in the food movement. In so doing I list some key sources which are not available online, but which come from the publications of nonprofit organizations of past years. These links also illustrate how quick online discussions can get contentious. But note also that my way of resolving the dilemmas would put the food movement much more with (US and world) farmers in general, bringing them into the movement rather than driving them away.
Ok, I forgot how long this discussion was at common dreams. It includes some key offline sources which I have. Scroll down to comments and find my name and the opposing comments here: http://www.commondreams.org/he...
Here's a similar debate at ZSpace: http://www.zcommunications.org...
If you've never heard/read the farmers' perspectives on these issues, from both family farm (ie. nffc, which includes some organic orgs) and sustainable agriculture (ie. SAC, NCSA, SAWGs, NSAC) movements, then these are must reads, and you won't understand the issues without them.
Good eating! |
