I had an interesting experience last night as I went to a business seminar last night, while I was there I met a man who had recently been put out a job due to the slow down in the automotive industry. This is something we're seeing more and more however this is not the purpose of this post.
This man had gone into selling bulk food to people, which is not an issue, however the way that he was marketing it was disgraceful to me... used words like
"ALMOST ORGANIC"
I was astonished, how can something be almost organic, if its not then that word should not even be associated with the product, he had very little knowledge of how it was raised and where it came from, using the word "local" but having no idea why or how its local or what they define as local.
Now I know it may seem like Im gripping at my competition, but really it makes me sad that people are out there, direct marketing food that they have zero knowledge about and what do you think it is that started this over consumption issue in North America, an over consumption and under nutrition epidemic!
I would just encourage people to look very closely, do you know exactly the farm it came from, do you know the farmer that will stand behind his work, how does he farm, whats in the meat, the vegitables, whats the health of the soil, basically WHAT is in your FOOD!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Genetically Modified Mystery
GMO, GMO, GMO free,
what is it other than three letters that is becoming a marketing tool?
well it stands for Genetically Modified Organisms
But what does that REALLY mean and how does it affect you?
well I would love to tell you that Im an expert on that as well but unfortunately its a whole ball game that Im continuously learning about as well
I've found a guy Jeffery Smith who has dedicated his LIFE to this cause and responsible technology development
he's written a book and Im reading it now... it literally BLOWS ones mind!!
the link to his website is http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/Home/index.cfm
It has links to free downloads of his lectures as well as CDs at cost for spreading the word!
I hope you find it educational and informative
what is it other than three letters that is becoming a marketing tool?
well it stands for Genetically Modified Organisms
But what does that REALLY mean and how does it affect you?
well I would love to tell you that Im an expert on that as well but unfortunately its a whole ball game that Im continuously learning about as well
I've found a guy Jeffery Smith who has dedicated his LIFE to this cause and responsible technology development
he's written a book and Im reading it now... it literally BLOWS ones mind!!
the link to his website is http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/Home/index.cfm
It has links to free downloads of his lectures as well as CDs at cost for spreading the word!
I hope you find it educational and informative
crop rotation
What is it? and WHY do you care
think about it this way, the reason that there are pesticides and fertilizers that end up having harmful effects on crops and the earth in the long run is because farmers are pumping out as MUCH of one crop as they can, corn farmers or wheat farmers etc, what happens is every crop takes from the soil something and also gives back to the soil, if you continue to farm one crop (mono culture) then the soil always gives and receives the same thing, and is therefore out of balance!!
What organic farmers do to build nutrients in soil is ROTATE the crops and farm various cultures (types of crops) for example, corn sucks the nitrogen from the soil, while red clover and even soy beans take nitrogen from the air and feed it back into the soil. So by rotating the crops you keep the soil nutrients high, take from it one year and give back the next!!!
Im sure you've heard it said its ALL about BALANCE!
well here is a new take on balance - one that will help you understand why there is significantly less nutrients in our food today!!!
have a healthy and prosperous day!
think about it this way, the reason that there are pesticides and fertilizers that end up having harmful effects on crops and the earth in the long run is because farmers are pumping out as MUCH of one crop as they can, corn farmers or wheat farmers etc, what happens is every crop takes from the soil something and also gives back to the soil, if you continue to farm one crop (mono culture) then the soil always gives and receives the same thing, and is therefore out of balance!!
What organic farmers do to build nutrients in soil is ROTATE the crops and farm various cultures (types of crops) for example, corn sucks the nitrogen from the soil, while red clover and even soy beans take nitrogen from the air and feed it back into the soil. So by rotating the crops you keep the soil nutrients high, take from it one year and give back the next!!!
Im sure you've heard it said its ALL about BALANCE!
well here is a new take on balance - one that will help you understand why there is significantly less nutrients in our food today!!!
have a healthy and prosperous day!
Friday, July 25, 2008
The health Confusion...
What is it...
what is healthy?
these amoung many other questions are things people ask themselves on a daily basis, and with all this marketing being THRUST at us TELLING us what is and isnt healthy for us, not to mention our whole medical system is about someone else telling us what is best for our bodies.
Think about this - your walking down the cereal isle and you see "organic corn flakes" so you think, well MUST be good for me....
Lets break it down, organic means that there are no pesticides, hormones, drugs, and sometimes no genetically modified ingredients. It doesnt mean no sugar, no fat etc.
So you can have organic CAKE but its still going to have all those calories of fat in it. Its that distinction that needs to be made.
Organics has become so much of a marketing tool - I URGE consumers to really look beyond it, a common rule my dad always said if its more than 5 ingredients, you might think twice, if you cant read the ingredients or dont know what they are then dont think twice cuz it wont be nice!
Best of luck!
what is healthy?
these amoung many other questions are things people ask themselves on a daily basis, and with all this marketing being THRUST at us TELLING us what is and isnt healthy for us, not to mention our whole medical system is about someone else telling us what is best for our bodies.
Think about this - your walking down the cereal isle and you see "organic corn flakes" so you think, well MUST be good for me....
Lets break it down, organic means that there are no pesticides, hormones, drugs, and sometimes no genetically modified ingredients. It doesnt mean no sugar, no fat etc.
So you can have organic CAKE but its still going to have all those calories of fat in it. Its that distinction that needs to be made.
Organics has become so much of a marketing tool - I URGE consumers to really look beyond it, a common rule my dad always said if its more than 5 ingredients, you might think twice, if you cant read the ingredients or dont know what they are then dont think twice cuz it wont be nice!
Best of luck!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
This organic WAVE...
well as many of you have seen its sort of a growing trend to have organic sections of grocery stores. Many people are unaware of what it actually means and have merely been marketed to, Im developing at product that aims to educate, and inform consumers about buying local and buying quality product. As organic (the brand) becomes more and more mainstream, and people start to realize that the standards are only regionally specific, and that organic here may not mean organic in even the next province or state or country. So unless your overly educated about various regions specifications its all just a game of trust. We're aiming to make a product that is able to be tested for nutritional superiority and gives you the nutrients FROM your food, where it was intended to come originally! But due to all the soil degredation and GMO processes, nutrients in food have dropped significantly, hence all the obesity, and malnutrition diseases.
Our company aims to teach farmers how to farm sustainably and to market locally, and still to maintain standards across various regions, just like Mcdonalds, you know what your going to get whether your in Canada or Japan you know whats in your meat and where it comes from!
Its a very exciting future, there is truly a shift in how people think about their food and more and more responsability is being taken to ensure people eat what is not only good for them but what is GREAT for them!!!
Our company aims to teach farmers how to farm sustainably and to market locally, and still to maintain standards across various regions, just like Mcdonalds, you know what your going to get whether your in Canada or Japan you know whats in your meat and where it comes from!
Its a very exciting future, there is truly a shift in how people think about their food and more and more responsability is being taken to ensure people eat what is not only good for them but what is GREAT for them!!!
Friday, June 13, 2008
FOOD for thought...
I was just thinking about this the other day... there seems to be a lot more dis-ease and sickness these days, with things like cancer, chronic fatique syndrome, depression, OCD, ADHD, arthritis... the list goes on and on!! With new ones seeming to pop up each and every day!
If we take a look back a couple years (decades) we have always had disease, thats not a question, and perhaps the rare cases back then were arguably worse than the cases these days which are easily treated with a plethora of medicines. However if I look at the trend of food, when food started to be processed, when anti-biotics where introduced, there seems to be more dis-ease (I spell it like that on purpose to enforce the meaning of the word) and sickness today in America and North America and all around the world. Why is it, if we are becoming so "advanced" in treatements of disease and illness that there is still new diseases popping up all the time!!!!
In my humble opinion the system is backwards is a whole different way of thinking.... to have the courage when nothing is seemingly wrong to look at your health and ask what can I do better, to increase your ZEST for life, by giving your body the nutrients it needs. Someone once explained it to me this way - your body is a bank account, when your young you generally are debiting from it, through lack of sleep, more than average drinking, asking of your body more than it is prepare to give you, and subsequently it delves into its mineral and nutrient stores to provide you with what you ask of it. As we get older, (and we are neglecting our bodies - or just have no idea what to do) we start so show signs of "aging" we are tired faster, we dont have the energy, the passion is lost..... this unfortunately is the description of many peoples retirement!!! But when your body is healthy and you continue to feed it the things it needs, the enzymes, the minerals, the nutrients and build up bone marrow stores (where the nutrients are held for your blood) THATS when we begin to experience VITALITY and VIBRANCE when life is no longer about the absense of dis-ease but the presence of LIFE, of LOVE, of VITALITY and of EASE......
Its truly a shame that the way people have come to think of growing old is that we become feeble, and can no longer do the things we used to, my father is case and point, he is 50 years old, still works the same amount of hours as when I was a kid 20 years ago, and actually LOVES what he does more now than hes ever before, he also has the energy after a 12 hour day to go dancing with the love of his life. And although hes thinking about retiring within the coming years, his definition of retirment is a LITTLE different than the average persons, he wants to have a place where he can live quitely with his sweetheart, and I bet you he'll be here (on the farm) more days than not, that he'll be running around playing some sport, dancing till his hearts content and still raising the animals! now THATS what I call a "vibrant LIFE"
What kind of life do you want to live? what is your standard that you wont settle for less than?
What are you willing to do to have the life of your dreams?!?!?
Just some "food" for thought!
Melissa
If we take a look back a couple years (decades) we have always had disease, thats not a question, and perhaps the rare cases back then were arguably worse than the cases these days which are easily treated with a plethora of medicines. However if I look at the trend of food, when food started to be processed, when anti-biotics where introduced, there seems to be more dis-ease (I spell it like that on purpose to enforce the meaning of the word) and sickness today in America and North America and all around the world. Why is it, if we are becoming so "advanced" in treatements of disease and illness that there is still new diseases popping up all the time!!!!
In my humble opinion the system is backwards is a whole different way of thinking.... to have the courage when nothing is seemingly wrong to look at your health and ask what can I do better, to increase your ZEST for life, by giving your body the nutrients it needs. Someone once explained it to me this way - your body is a bank account, when your young you generally are debiting from it, through lack of sleep, more than average drinking, asking of your body more than it is prepare to give you, and subsequently it delves into its mineral and nutrient stores to provide you with what you ask of it. As we get older, (and we are neglecting our bodies - or just have no idea what to do) we start so show signs of "aging" we are tired faster, we dont have the energy, the passion is lost..... this unfortunately is the description of many peoples retirement!!! But when your body is healthy and you continue to feed it the things it needs, the enzymes, the minerals, the nutrients and build up bone marrow stores (where the nutrients are held for your blood) THATS when we begin to experience VITALITY and VIBRANCE when life is no longer about the absense of dis-ease but the presence of LIFE, of LOVE, of VITALITY and of EASE......
Its truly a shame that the way people have come to think of growing old is that we become feeble, and can no longer do the things we used to, my father is case and point, he is 50 years old, still works the same amount of hours as when I was a kid 20 years ago, and actually LOVES what he does more now than hes ever before, he also has the energy after a 12 hour day to go dancing with the love of his life. And although hes thinking about retiring within the coming years, his definition of retirment is a LITTLE different than the average persons, he wants to have a place where he can live quitely with his sweetheart, and I bet you he'll be here (on the farm) more days than not, that he'll be running around playing some sport, dancing till his hearts content and still raising the animals! now THATS what I call a "vibrant LIFE"
What kind of life do you want to live? what is your standard that you wont settle for less than?
What are you willing to do to have the life of your dreams?!?!?
Just some "food" for thought!
Melissa
Monday, June 9, 2008
The CRAZY standards for Organics!!
Well... Ive learned more information on the American standards for organic meat,
from my understanding an animal can be called organic as long as it hasnt been injected with steroids 30 days before slaughter!!!
This is insanity!!! anyone with a couple brain cells can see that the steroids are still being injected and 30 days isnt going to stop them from having an effect on the animals body and subsequently our bodies!
What do steroids in meat do to us? Well think of it this way whatever steroids do to people thats what its doing to the animal, breaking down tissue, creating a whole lot of meat that has no nutritional value in terms of minerals etc, so the quality is bad to begin with and secondly its like taking second hand steroids!
My main concern is that these standards are out there, and people who do not educate themselves about this are being fooled by the whole system, even though it says organic its not the ultimate test for food health. You can still have cornflakes that say organic and that could be totally true, the sugar is organic, the corn is organic, it still doesnt mean that you should be eating that much sugar!!!
DO YOUR RESEARCH - I will do my best to post provoking questions and thoughts so that people have questions to ask and outlets to find the information, if you are concerned,
Ask a farmer about his process, what he puts in the animals, what he doesnt put in the animals, what he does when they are sick, and make sure hes treating them humanely!
Its not easy to be totally organic, there is alot of care and effort put into it, and so there now are a LOT of major corporations out there who are realizing the buzz that is created around the "organic" buzz word, on top of this, governments cant afford to put any major grocery chain out of business, or major food producers so the standards will change in a way that suites them.
- make sense? see how it all fits together?
Until Next time
Melissa
from my understanding an animal can be called organic as long as it hasnt been injected with steroids 30 days before slaughter!!!
This is insanity!!! anyone with a couple brain cells can see that the steroids are still being injected and 30 days isnt going to stop them from having an effect on the animals body and subsequently our bodies!
What do steroids in meat do to us? Well think of it this way whatever steroids do to people thats what its doing to the animal, breaking down tissue, creating a whole lot of meat that has no nutritional value in terms of minerals etc, so the quality is bad to begin with and secondly its like taking second hand steroids!
My main concern is that these standards are out there, and people who do not educate themselves about this are being fooled by the whole system, even though it says organic its not the ultimate test for food health. You can still have cornflakes that say organic and that could be totally true, the sugar is organic, the corn is organic, it still doesnt mean that you should be eating that much sugar!!!
DO YOUR RESEARCH - I will do my best to post provoking questions and thoughts so that people have questions to ask and outlets to find the information, if you are concerned,
Ask a farmer about his process, what he puts in the animals, what he doesnt put in the animals, what he does when they are sick, and make sure hes treating them humanely!
Its not easy to be totally organic, there is alot of care and effort put into it, and so there now are a LOT of major corporations out there who are realizing the buzz that is created around the "organic" buzz word, on top of this, governments cant afford to put any major grocery chain out of business, or major food producers so the standards will change in a way that suites them.
- make sense? see how it all fits together?
Until Next time
Melissa
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
HELLO!!
There is a TON of information out there, sorting through all of it can be quite a task, there are some basic concepts to keep in mind, I have access to several articles which may blow your mind in terms of health and healing and caring for yourself. There has also been alot changing in certification of organics in Canada and various regions, I will have more updates on what is happening so everyone can stay informed and educated so that you can educatedly make decisions about your food choices.
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