Comments for Agriculture Society http://agriculturesociety.com No Nutrition No Health. Know Nutrition Know Health Tue, 15 May 2012 13:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on The Amazing Health Benefits of Ghee and Recipes by Fats; Omega 3 VS Omega 6 « cancercompass http://agriculturesociety.com/alternative-medicine-and-treatment/the-amazing-health-benefits-of-ghee-and-recipes/#comment-13556 Fats; Omega 3 VS Omega 6 « cancercompass Tue, 15 May 2012 13:49:56 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=8090#comment-13556 [...] The health benefits of Ghee [...] [...] The health benefits of Ghee [...]

]]> Comment on Nutrient-Dense Foods I Don’t Buy Local by Raine Saunders http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/nutrient-dense-foods-i-dont-buy-local/#comment-13514 Raine Saunders Wed, 09 May 2012 19:57:46 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=7624#comment-13514 Cathy - it's great to hear testimonials from people eating Kerrygold, it's a superior product, and so delicious. I always thought local, raw butter would be better, but here in ID where our soils are very depleted from commercial farming, there's a lot lacking in minerals, and especially iodine. The Kerrygold butter is rich in iodine since it comes from a place that is close to the sea where this mineral is found in abundance. So in our case, I really do think the Kerrygold is better than local, which is why I buy it. I'm sure if we had great soil, the local raw butter would be in first place. Cathy – it’s great to hear testimonials from people eating Kerrygold, it’s a superior product, and so delicious. I always thought local, raw butter would be better, but here in ID where our soils are very depleted from commercial farming, there’s a lot lacking in minerals, and especially iodine. The Kerrygold butter is rich in iodine since it comes from a place that is close to the sea where this mineral is found in abundance. So in our case, I really do think the Kerrygold is better than local, which is why I buy it. I’m sure if we had great soil, the local raw butter would be in first place.

]]> Comment on Nutrient-Dense Foods I Don’t Buy Local by Cathy Maguire http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/nutrient-dense-foods-i-dont-buy-local/#comment-13507 Cathy Maguire Tue, 08 May 2012 19:01:23 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=7624#comment-13507 Raine, thanks for the great article. Being a native of Dublin, Ireland, I grew up on Kerrygold products and I'm lucky enough to be able to buy it locally at a Weis supermarket where I live in NEPA. Trader Joe's and Sams Club also sell Kerrygold butter and Cheeses in bulk for a good price. I highly recommend their Dubliner cheese. For a time I was making my own butter and occasionally I do for a treat when I can get raw cream in the Spring. Kerrygold will never outdo your own stuff but just like pastured eggs you can tell by the beautiful color that you are on to a good thing. Raine, thanks for the great article. Being a native of Dublin, Ireland, I grew up on Kerrygold products and I’m lucky enough to be able to buy it locally at a Weis supermarket where I live in NEPA. Trader Joe’s and Sams Club also sell Kerrygold butter and Cheeses in bulk for a good price. I highly recommend their Dubliner cheese. For a time I was making my own butter and occasionally I do for a treat when I can get raw cream in the Spring. Kerrygold will never outdo your own stuff but just like pastured eggs you can tell by the beautiful color that you are on to a good thing.

]]> Comment on The Grassfed Meat Challenge: Busting Myths About Meat by Raine Saunders http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/the-grassfed-meat-challenge-busting-myths-about-meat/#comment-13501 Raine Saunders Mon, 07 May 2012 18:39:11 +0000 http://www.agriculturesociety.com/?p=6232#comment-13501 Hi Rita - have you tried Local Harvest and the Eat Well Guide ? http://www.localharvest.org/ http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home These sites list farms and food producers all around the country. Also, have you tried asking around in your local community with anyone who farms, looking in the newspaper or on the Internet for local farms/food producers in your area? If you have a farmer's market, the newspaper ought to list it and how often it occurs. Most farmer's markets are at least once a week, some may happen bi-monthly. I do have to drive sometimes to get foods I've bought. In the past I had to drive 30 miles away to get raw milk and grassfed beef, but now most of the farmers I buy from sell at the farmer's markets or make deliveries to their customers. Please don't avoid red meat, red meat has gotten a bad reputation due to a lot of faulty science and research, most of which is there to benefit the pharmaceutical companies who justify producing more drugs for lowering cholesterol and "combatting" heart disease, obesity, etc. The type of meat makes a big difference for sure. Here's a good article for you from a cardiologist, which I just posted on my FB page to help people understand just how wrong the low-fat, avoid cholesterol mantra really is: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242516-Heart-Surgeon-Speaks-Out-On-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease Hi Rita – have you tried Local Harvest and the Eat Well Guide

? http://www.localharvest.org/

http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home

These sites list farms and food producers all around the country. Also, have you tried asking around in your local community with anyone who farms, looking in the newspaper or on the Internet for local farms/food producers in your area? If you have a farmer’s market, the newspaper ought to list it and how often it occurs. Most farmer’s markets are at least once a week, some may happen bi-monthly. I do have to drive sometimes to get foods I’ve bought. In the past I had to drive 30 miles away to get raw milk and grassfed beef, but now most of the farmers I buy from sell at the farmer’s markets or make deliveries to their customers.

Please don’t avoid red meat, red meat has gotten a bad reputation due to a lot of faulty science and research, most of which is there to benefit the pharmaceutical companies who justify producing more drugs for lowering cholesterol and “combatting” heart disease, obesity, etc. The type of meat makes a big difference for sure. Here’s a good article for you from a cardiologist, which I just posted on my FB page to help people understand just how wrong the low-fat, avoid cholesterol mantra really is:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242516-Heart-Surgeon-Speaks-Out-On-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease

]]> Comment on The Grassfed Meat Challenge: Busting Myths About Meat by Rita http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/the-grassfed-meat-challenge-busting-myths-about-meat/#comment-13500 Rita Mon, 07 May 2012 17:39:30 +0000 http://www.agriculturesociety.com/?p=6232#comment-13500 How does a person living in an area where health food stores, farmer's markets, etc. are unknown to me. How do I find naturally grown animals fed natural diets and natural and/or organic fruit and vegetables in my area? I have found one local farmer where I can order some natural/organic fruit and vegetables and pork online to pick up at a local business one day a week. However, I'd like more food options and want to try grass-fed beef. The doctor told me to try to keep my blood pressure down by avoiding red meat, eggs, butter, etc. which I have avoided since Jan (its now May). Any and all help and/or suggestions will be appreciated. Thank You, Rita How does a person living in an area where health food stores, farmer’s markets, etc. are unknown to me. How do I find naturally grown animals fed natural diets and natural and/or organic fruit and vegetables in my area? I have found one local farmer where I can order some natural/organic fruit and vegetables and pork online to pick up at a local business one day a week. However, I’d like more food options and want to try grass-fed beef. The doctor told me to try to keep my blood pressure down by avoiding red meat, eggs, butter, etc. which I have avoided since Jan (its now May). Any and all help and/or suggestions will be appreciated.

Thank You, Rita

]]> Comment on Health Blogger Under Fire: Defend Freedom of Health Information & Choices! by Cailin Callahan http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/health-blogger-under-fire-defend-freedom-of-health-information-choices/#comment-13499 Cailin Callahan Mon, 07 May 2012 15:26:27 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=9862#comment-13499 Leave our food alone. Get big corporations OUT of Washington. Corporations are NOT people and have NO right to "freedom of speach" by way of bribing our elected officials into favoring their corporate interests over the interests of the people. Leave our food alone. Get big corporations OUT of Washington. Corporations are NOT people and have NO right to “freedom of speach” by way of bribing our elected officials into favoring their corporate interests over the interests of the people.

]]> Comment on Health Blogger Under Fire: Defend Freedom of Health Information & Choices! by Heather H> http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/health-blogger-under-fire-defend-freedom-of-health-information-choices/#comment-13476 Heather H> Thu, 03 May 2012 13:21:13 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=9862#comment-13476 Sometimes it's hard to believe this crazy stuff is happening in America. Aren't we supposed to be free? First they slaughter heritage breed pigs in Michigan, choke GMO foods down our throats, and now this! I will be making my voice heard! Sometimes it’s hard to believe this crazy stuff is happening in America. Aren’t we supposed to be free? First they slaughter heritage breed pigs in Michigan, choke GMO foods down our throats, and now this! I will be making my voice heard!

]]> Comment on Health Blogger Under Fire: Defend Freedom of Health Information & Choices! by Stanley Fishman http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/health-blogger-under-fire-defend-freedom-of-health-information-choices/#comment-13471 Stanley Fishman Wed, 02 May 2012 19:09:44 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=9862#comment-13471 This is the definition of insanity - Getting nutritional advice from an organization that is being paid by the makers of the very foods that make America sick. And having the state mandate that no other nutritional advice can be given, because only the wrong advice, with a state issued license, is allowed. And what about the right of Free Speech? Totally ignored, not only by the state of North Carolina, but by the Federal government, which is supposed to protect it. Sick. This is the definition of insanity – Getting nutritional advice from an organization that is being paid by the makers of the very foods that make America sick. And having the state mandate that no other nutritional advice can be given, because only the wrong advice, with a state issued license, is allowed.

And what about the right of Free Speech? Totally ignored, not only by the state of North Carolina, but by the Federal government, which is supposed to protect it.

Sick.

]]> Comment on Health Blogger Under Fire: Defend Freedom of Health Information & Choices! by Raine Saunders http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/health-blogger-under-fire-defend-freedom-of-health-information-choices/#comment-13465 Raine Saunders Wed, 02 May 2012 06:04:23 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=9862#comment-13465 Marc - yes, I understand what you are saying. The picture is supposed to be representative of Steve Cooksey's blog, Diabetes Warrior, since this post is about his blog being under attack. It wasn't a mistake. I purposefully used this image from his page to show how the mainstream touts the high carb meal plans, as well as other poor advice by the ADA (such as recommending low-fat and lean meats, in addition to all their other poor information) as sound treatment for Diabetes and other health issues. Steve didn't take their advice and went on a high protein, low-carb diet, and this image represents that pretty well, especially since the state ADA of NC is now having issue with that. Marc – yes, I understand what you are saying. The picture is supposed to be representative of Steve Cooksey’s blog, Diabetes Warrior, since this post is about his blog being under attack. It wasn’t a mistake. I purposefully used this image from his page to show how the mainstream touts the high carb meal plans, as well as other poor advice by the ADA (such as recommending low-fat and lean meats, in addition to all their other poor information) as sound treatment for Diabetes and other health issues. Steve didn’t take their advice and went on a high protein, low-carb diet, and this image represents that pretty well, especially since the state ADA of NC is now having issue with that.

]]> Comment on Health Blogger Under Fire: Defend Freedom of Health Information & Choices! by Marc Zocher http://agriculturesociety.com/politics-and-food/health-blogger-under-fire-defend-freedom-of-health-information-choices/#comment-13462 Marc Zocher Wed, 02 May 2012 01:44:01 +0000 http://agriculturesociety.com/?p=9862#comment-13462 um.....good article, but the American Dietetics Association is not the American Diabetes Association. The logo with the red 'X' through it is the wrong one......... um…..good article, but the American Dietetics Association is not the American Diabetes Association. The logo with the red ‘X’ through it is the wrong one………

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