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Will Stout's avatar

Thanks for bringing this to everyones attention. The chemical companies and the USDA are killing us. My wife who we though was gluten intolerant has discovered that she can enjoy organic non-GMO breads and pastries without the ensuing migraine. She now buys organic wheat berries and grinds our flour and its is delicious. I also agree with another reader who commented that our situation is worse that one thinks. Here in the Upper Cumberland area of Tennessee there are thousands of acres in soybean and corn (mostly for ethanol) under production. These crops are all managed using what has come to be known as "no-till" practices where chemicals rather than working/tilling the soil is used to manage weeds and insects. Usually Round-Up , glyphosate, is sprayed, sometimes twice. Then the insecticides are applied and what you get is sterile soil. On our small farm you can actually see the difference in land that has been cropped using no-till and land that has not been so abused. I relate the difference in production to micro nutrients, soil enzymes and worms and grubs that are destroyed using no till methods. These farming methods are recommended by the USDA. It would not surprise me if USDA is not as compromised by the chemical companies as much as the FDA is by big pharma. Then think of the connections between energy policy, the green new deal and poison food. Fuel cost which effects the cost to till then fosters the use of chemicals. And, if ethanol produced from corn was not required to be added to gas how much more food could be grown for the worlds hungry.

As these chemicals are applied they not only get into the plants and soil... they leach into the groundwater and small streams, which lead to larger rivers, which lead to the TVA lakes from which we get our drinking water.

There are bright spots a few of us are returning to basics and using regenerative farming methods that over time will restore the soil.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Doubt there is such a thing as an uncompromised gov. agency. Congress truly abrogated their legislative duty creating these monsters then letting them run free range. And the courts, all of them, complicit in the havoc they are causing

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Paula R.'s avatar

Like your wife, I also suffered from severe migraines that were thought to result from gluten intolerance. I gave up wheat and the migraines disappeared. Commercial gluten-free bakery products are pretty awful, however, and my hunger for real and nutritious bread put me on the trail of organic heritage grains. My discovery of Sunrise Flour Mill products from Minnesota has been a godsend. I purchase their flour and other products online, bake my own bread, and reap the flavor and health rewards. And no migraines!

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Connie L's avatar

As many have questioned, is it the gluten that we are sensitive to or what is sprayed on the gluten? Glad that you found relief!

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D D's avatar

Will, I assume you know of Zach Bush M.D.? He says more about the farming practices used and is educating farmers all over the world. Farmers Footprint.

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Will Stout's avatar

I just looked him up and joined the distribution list. Thank you DD

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Shelley's avatar

I took a quick look at all the tabs sometime back and my antenna went up. This happens on occasion and I avoid what I think is suspicious. The powers that be are much too good at weaving a narrative and getting people on board...it's the feel-good phrases they pack around everything. I rarely provide feedback to the source of the link based on my 'feelings' because others have their own gut instincts. I am a firm believer that there are more than two sides to many things - gray areas, like those around Glyphosate.

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Diane Weber's avatar

I completely agree. If you're a homeowner with a small (say 3 acre) farm, you can't do without Roundup or you would be overgrown with weeds that cannot be eliminated any other way. I keep wondering if this crusade against Roundup in particular has some other angle, like Big Ag trying to get rid of small farm holders. There are a LOT of herbicides that they can revert to, some of them even worse, if Roundup is banned, and they will lobby hard to keep using their herbicides, while we have lost ours.

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Shelley's avatar

Interesting angle Diane. I was assuming a couple of things: Gates behind it - invested in so many things with farm land in the US for sure, and labs that grow fake meat and then there is the WEF agenda 30 which wants non-traditional food sources, nothing that produces nitrogen, etc. Fertilizers and weed killer are important to food production so eliminating these things in the hands of the unworthy….

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Connie L's avatar

Oh wow! That is concerning, for sure.

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D D's avatar

Iam, can you show me this info? I have never seen Zach affiliate himself with any political persuasion.

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D D's avatar

Because he is on a panel discussion and so is Booker, that makes him affiliated with Booker's policies? Dr. Malone has been known to support both Dems and Pubs on certain issues.

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D D's avatar

Thanks for being open to looking and listening. Being that one of his triple board certifications is hospice, I don't think he needs to find Jesus. So far as "cult-like religious tone", that's not been my experience, and I'm very wary of cults, having been in one.

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Ed megill's avatar

BINGO!!!

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