Will Mr. Potato save the day?
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The latest “crisis” spreading throughout the world, the food crisis, may actually backfire on the giant capitalists reaping great profits from all they have sown without mercy for nearly a century. The US food crisis is in part being experienced because during the past 80 years, our government slowly formed partnerships with huge, profit-seeking corporations. Local food production was taken away from small family farmers who could not compete with big industry. The critical responsibility of providing food for the masses then fell into the profit-seeking hands of conglomerates that were heavily armed with chemicals, plastics, pesticides, fossil fuels, and topsoil-destroying machinery.
With the food supply lying in the hands of a few corporations, manipulation and price gouging have apparently been made easy, but these tactics would have little impact on any of us if we began independently growing our food locally as it should be grown. According to the Washington Post, global food prices rose 83% during the last three years. For those of us who have grown tired (sick and tired) of supporting the pseudo and synthetic food industry, there is a simple way out of this giant mess. Anyone who has access to a little dirt can reclaim the responsibility of growing at least a portion of our foods right in our own yards, and we can begin today and start out very simply.
One of the easiest and most nutritious homegrown foods is the potato. The potato has long been the victim of curious false advertising. The truth is that fresh, organically grown potatoes can be viewed as one of the top three most nutrient-dense foods in the green kingdom. Freshly harvested potatoes taste great and have generous amounts of natural vitamin C, B complex vitamins (the real ones rather than dubious synthetic Bs), amino acids, and outstanding mineral and trace nutrients, including iodine. They are so “complete” in nutrition that humans living on diets consisting primarily of potatoes appear to have an excellent state of health that surpasses American health at this time.
US Department of State- Trading down.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/17606.htm
Smoot-Hawley.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/17606.htm
Cornell history
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/facts-slides-self/facts/mod-ag-grw85.html
Agricultural collapse in the 1930s
http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/ag_trade.htm
Fertilizer history
http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farm_tech.htm
Food prices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041901601.html
Potato facts.
http://www.all-creatures.org/mfz/health-potatoes.html
Wikipedia (how to succeed in never growing a potato)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
“Dirt,” by David Montgomery
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6782
Haiti 3rd most dependent country in the world.
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2004/HeinlTestimony040310.pdf
Haiti toxic dump of American sludge from Philadelphia.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/259.html
Haiti The hungry are eating mud pies.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080130-AP-haiti-eatin_2.html
Video: Healing cancer with marijuana: “Run from the cure The Rick Simpson Story.” (Part 1 of 7).
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Author: Obama nation
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