Raising Chickens

Gardening has been an interesting experience for me, as I am a newbie gardener.  I almost can't imagine raising livestock, but I'm still excited about the idea.

There are many things that need to be considered when raising chickens; predator protection, climate protection, feed, drink, housing, etc...   The following video is good for people like me who are considering raising chickens.  I have much. much more research to do before I even attempt to make something like this work, but this video gave me some things to think about. and some ideas to keep in mind.

7 Ways To Kill Poison Ivy Without Using Roundup | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information

The less we use R**nd*p herbicide the better.  I understand that poison ivy is NOT something that you would want to mess around with; for I certainly don't want this nasty stuff in MY backyard.  So when I came across the article below I knew I had to post it.  This will give you seven different strategies to kill poison ivy none of which suggests the use of R**nd*p.

Happy gardening!

7 Ways To Kill Poison Ivy Without Using Roundup | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information

Branding Obesity as a Disease: Who Benefits from It?

According to all that I have read and learned, obesity is as much of an illness as smoking or substance abuse.  Once one is addicted to drugs or food (and I need to make it clear that most addictions to food are addictions specifically to sugar), there are often necessary skills required to quit.  Most Americans don't know what food is because they are accustomed to eating "food-like" products; this is part of the reason for our 60% obesity rate.

Let it be known, however that there ARE problems with mainstream health care declaring obesity to be a disease/illness.  First, that's more taxpayer money that's going to health care.  Second, there is too much room for more propaganda about nutrition; and third, (and most disturbing of all) am I to understand that there is a vaccine being made for obesity???  Obesity is not caused by a virus, so what in the world could Big Pharma be up to?

Dr. Mercola has more to say about this in his article below.  (Please click on link to see article)

Branding Obesity as a Disease: Who Benefits from It?

How They Get'cha

I wanted to talk about how fast food companies get'cha.  It's almost like fishing.  They have bait and a hook but the difference is that the catch will reel itself in... happily!

Americans by now know that if something is going to be on television, it has to be "adorned" and then tweaked to look absolutely perfect.  This is the bait that the food industry uses.  This is what will attract the prey (aka YOU) to the fast food restaurant.  Then when you actually buy the food it looks nothing like what it does on TV, but you eat it because you're hungry and you've already spent your money on it.  The genius of the hook is that it is hidden.  Many fast foods are plastered with sugar (the addictive deadly substance that I've written about many, many times).  The moment that you take a bite, you're hooked.  A part of the brain that experiences pleasure is triggered so you keep going back again and again to repeat the experience.

I wanted to show this video just to show how the seduction starts because when you REALLY think about what you're looking at, it's kind of gross.  Truth can be quite liberating, huh?



 

Mealworms

I can perfectly understand why some would find mealworms gross.  Five years ago, I wouldn't even be watching this video.  I just knew that if I want to learn more about raising livestock, it's necessary to learn about mealworms; especially since I'm considering raising geese and chickens and these birds LOVE mealworms.

If I do raise these birds, I would want to raise pastured birds as opposed to this crazy grain feeding nonsense that we do today.  There is a way to dry mealworms to preserve them for the winter when pastured birds don't have many bugs to eat.  This is one important reason why mealworms are so important to a farmer who raises pastured birds.

I hope you learn from this video, but if you are a farmer who raises pastured birds and you have more information, your comments would be most valued!

The Danger of Food Supplements is VASTLY Overstated

When the government tries to become responsible for things like health, it makes me SO nervous.  Thank God for the power of the internet so that we could share real information with one another.  We can also alert one another to threats; like politicians like Senator Dick Durbin who try so desperately hard to take our rights away.


The Danger of Food Supplements is VASTLY Overstated

The Truth About Soy Foods

Soy could actually be a good food.  The problem is, there are SO many problems with it especially in the US, that it is almost best to just avoid it.  Dr. Tori Hudson gives the good, bad and ugly on soy in her article "Soy Meets Girl" and Dr. Joseph Mercola gave some specifics in his article (see the link below) on soy products that we can benefit from and soy products that is best to stay far away from.

The way that we process soy in the US is what makes most soy products unnatural and unhealthy.  It is, in fact, so bad that even our tofu tastes funny (or so said a friend of mine from Japan who ate tofu very often in her country but had to cook it in the US to avoid the bad taste).  Now with the further insult of GMOs, soy became something that many of us choose to just avoid all together.  Occasionally, I would enjoy a bowl of organic miso, but now even that is something that I would almost never eat.

It is so sad what we have done to food in the last hundred years but even more so in the last twenty to thirty years.  Please read Dr. Mercola's article to get some info on soy foods that would benefit health.

The Truth About Soy Foods