Dr Bob the Health Builder
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Report from TOFGA conference
I always like getting out and meeting likeminded people who have my same interests. TOFGA - Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association - www.tofga.org - is just such an organization. As a group we are not trying to make everyone into farmers, but everyone needs to know where their food comes from and how the soil is treated - for both crops and meat.
Large multi-national chemical & seed corporations - Monsanto, DuPont, etc, industrial food corporations - Cargill, ADM, etc., and land grant colleges (every state has one of these) do not want you to know how your food is grown or what toxic chemicals are used to make their products. They have told us for years that all plants are the same and the plants can't tell the difference between chemical agriculture or healthy regenerative agriculture. They tell us that both kinds of food have the same nutrition, but regenerative healthy agriculture can't be profitable or feed the world.
This is a lot of bunk. Plants grown in healthy soil make healthy food, and plants that are grown in toxic chemicals - fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides - produce unhealthy food. The evidence of this comes from the past.
One hundred years ago the cancer rate was 3% of the deaths in North America, type II Diabetes did not exist, and there were almost no heart attacks (first documented MI - Myocardial Infarction - heart attack was reported in 1921).
Today cancer will affect 40 % of the US population; type II diabetes is rampant with kidney dialysis about to break the US budget, and about a million deaths are due to heart attacks.
All of the above is from unhealthy soil producing unhealthy plants and protein which causes unhealthy people.
Back to the conference and how similar organizations can help your health.
The speakers were wonderful. Will Winters, DVM, spoke about homeopathy and how to prevent animals from becoming sick so that we are not eating toxic chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics that cause us to become affected. He also explained how homeopathy can help people. (I will try to do more on homeopathy in the future)
Jeffery Smith, who wrote the book "Seeds of Deception", was the keynote speaker on Saturday night. He explained how the people of the world were made into guinea pigs by Monsanto and other companies that invented GM - genetically modified - (also called Franken foods from Frankenstein) foods. They wanted us to believe they made products that were safe, healthy, and productive.
The truth is that we are developing allergies and disease problems that never existed before because gene modification is a sloppy scientific procedure. The corporations want you to think that when they splice a new gene (soy had petunia genes spliced so the soy plant will tolerate extra herbicide) into a plant that it is only one gene, but in reality multiple genes go into the new plant; they have no idea what is in the plant but we know production goes down, super weeds develop that don't die due to the herbicide resistance, extra herbicides are present that contribute to cancer, and the plant has less nutrition.
Jeffery's goal is to spread the word to as many people as possible and in about 2 years the public will demand GM free plants in our food supply.
This has already happened with Starbucks. They have agreed to use only milk products that don't have bovine growth hormones from Monsanto. You can go to www.seedsofdeception.com
Sally Fallon from the Weston A Price Foundation spoke about healthy foods like saturated fats from healthy cows - meat and dairy. As a tip, if you have digestion problems or intestinal cancer, the best treatment is plenty of real butter, cream, and fermented vegetables (preferably done at home - not from an industrialized food company). We have been lied to by the diet dictocrats - medicine, drug companies, dieticians - who want you to believe that saturated fats cause heart disease. This is not true; if you don't eat healthy fats it will affect your brain, contributing to Alzheimer's, dementia, and other diseases. Remember that medicine, drug companies and food manufacturers recommend things that keep you sick - not healthy.
For more information on Sally Fallon, her books, and the foundation, go to www.westonaprice.org - this organization is on the forefront with lawyers to regain our right to buy grass fed, non-chemical, non-pasteurized milk.
Another great speaker was Jerry Burnetti. Jerry's career is in agriculture - both plant and animal. Jerry is well known for having cancer and, through healthy food, completely recovered.
The last featured speaker on Sunday evening was Jim Hightower. Jim was the agriculture commissioner elected in Texas in the early 80's. He served two terms and was instrumental in helping Organic agriculture get started in Texas. This was against the wishes of Texas A & M University, Monsanto, DuPont, county extension agents (in fact, if a Texas A & M professor even mentioned organic, he or she was censored with the threat of losing his or her job). These people wanted chemical agriculture for irreverent profits at our health expense.
Jim has a new book that I just preordered (out March 3rd) from www.amazon.com called "Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow". This is about people who are unaware that they can't do something and they defy what they have been told.
We all need to swim upstream and take our lives back from corporations that have no integrity when it comes to their profits and our misfortune.
I have given you some sites to help you live and eat better. I hope this helps. To Your Good Health
Dr Bob the Health Builder
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