One acre of rice produces 16 times more methane than one acre of beef on pasture - Dale Strickland, “Managing Pasture”. Keep fighting the good fight!!! Responsibility deferred is tyranny guaranteed. Our freedom will come from taking back our responsibility, to feed ourselves, to nourish ourselves and to provide our loved ones with stability and community. This is only going to happen from meat (and other animal products) raised on pasture. Thank you for your message and important work!!
Thanks for the encouragement. There indeed are only two kinds of people in the world---those who get the food dependency crisis looming, and the oblivious. Thanks for being one of the former. Spread the word!
The Lord has been speaking to me about the verse in Genesis 47:15, “And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.” We are soon coming upon a time when money won’t be able to buy what is needed for human flourishing. We must take responsibility for ourselves, our families and our communities if we are going to persist into the future. We are worshipping false idols and putting all our attention at the feet of Marduk instead of focusing on the Creator Thank you for your message. Power and freedom comes from the land, and the land comes from the Creator.
I heard an interview from a prominent Republican from the early 70s. Cannot remember who it was, but definitely remember the essence of a response he made to a reporter asking if conservatives cared about the environment. He quipped, conserve is part of the word conservative right? When I was a kid my liberal Dem parents and I thought nothing of tossing out food and buying everything from the store. Down the street, the sole Republicans in the area had a garden, composted, and never threw away food unless it was truly bad. I thought they were odd then. I didn't realize they were just hippies who voted Republican.
I also think this quote from Wendell Berry is apropos,
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
One acre of rice produces 16 times more methane than one acre of beef on pasture - Dale Strickland, “Managing Pasture”. Keep fighting the good fight!!! Responsibility deferred is tyranny guaranteed. Our freedom will come from taking back our responsibility, to feed ourselves, to nourish ourselves and to provide our loved ones with stability and community. This is only going to happen from meat (and other animal products) raised on pasture. Thank you for your message and important work!!
Thanks for the encouragement. There indeed are only two kinds of people in the world---those who get the food dependency crisis looming, and the oblivious. Thanks for being one of the former. Spread the word!
The Lord has been speaking to me about the verse in Genesis 47:15, “And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.” We are soon coming upon a time when money won’t be able to buy what is needed for human flourishing. We must take responsibility for ourselves, our families and our communities if we are going to persist into the future. We are worshipping false idols and putting all our attention at the feet of Marduk instead of focusing on the Creator Thank you for your message. Power and freedom comes from the land, and the land comes from the Creator.
I heard an interview from a prominent Republican from the early 70s. Cannot remember who it was, but definitely remember the essence of a response he made to a reporter asking if conservatives cared about the environment. He quipped, conserve is part of the word conservative right? When I was a kid my liberal Dem parents and I thought nothing of tossing out food and buying everything from the store. Down the street, the sole Republicans in the area had a garden, composted, and never threw away food unless it was truly bad. I thought they were odd then. I didn't realize they were just hippies who voted Republican.
I also think this quote from Wendell Berry is apropos,
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”