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It is almost impossible to lose weight by starving yourself. Reducing your weight is easiest when you satisfy your cravings with nutritious food.This does not mean becoming a vegetarian or going on ...
by nailkeg
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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As some of you know, i am posting chapters of my book, ”How the food Industry is Killing us ”, one chapter at a time. In between postings, I have been posting articles that fill in much of what ...
by nailkeg
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 06:24 AM PST
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I have been working over several years to create a raised bed garden accessible from my kitchen door. The herbs went in first, just in little short enclosures, mostly just tilled compost into the ...
by strawbale
184 comments
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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UNESCO chose eight Frank Lloyd Wright sites for World Heritage status, and I visited them all this year by EV as part of my travels to raise awareness of the Climate Crisis. (There’s a photo of each site via the links to my ad-free, unsponsored,...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 05:16 AM PDT
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The University of MO has an article called �“ Mineral Supplements for Beef Cattle” � that when I copied it into my database posted as 45 pages. Between charts,
by nailkeg
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on Tue Jan 03, 2023 at 06:18 AM PST
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This is a personal experience, not a scientific experiment. If you are interested in eating healthier, hopefully, this may encourage you to consider organic foods, but your results�may be different.��
by nailkeg
15 comments
on Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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“Our food is less nutritious than ever. It doesn’t have to stay that way. Conventional farming’s narrow focus on yields has led to a decline in the nutritional quality of many crops, making our food less healthy than it was just 50 years ago. Yields...
by nailkeg
7 comments
on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 02:07 AM PDT
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I have heard of cover crops for a long time, but didn’t know anything about them until recently.� They have become so important that the USDA now gives farmers enough money to not only pay for ...
by nailkeg
205 comments
on Sat Mar 12, 2022 at 06:00 AM PST
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From Yale E 360 “Growing up in rural Iowa in the 1990s, Isaac Larsen remembers a unique herald of springtime. The snowbanks piled along roads, once white or gray, would ...
by nailkeg
20 comments
on Thu May 27, 2021 at 01:00 PM PDT
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I started planting my garden, this year, on March 5th, 2021. Normally in the Kansas City area, zone 6-A), we expect the last frost around April 15th. Most gardeners of our area will begin acquiring seeds and plants, so that, beginning on or around...
by nailkeg
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on Sun Apr 18, 2021 at 09:06 AM PDT
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This is my best-ever chicken dish (but it's only the third one I've made starting with raw, as opposed to canned, chicken). You can try these either singly or in combination. (If you use the pesto jasmine rice as a bed for the chicken, it won't be...
by DrBobOpEd
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on Sun Aug 02, 2020 at 03:04 PM PDT
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Anthropocene: "the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment." In December 2018, I posted on LinkedIN Climate Change: Sustainability Framework for Carbon...
by geo3
57 comments
on Mon Jan 20, 2020 at 11:57 AM PST
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Most progressives are supportive of family size farmers, but I’ve learned from a recent blog here and a few other forums some of you have a real ax to grind against farmers. Farmers are a minority like most ethnic and racial minority groups, having...
by SassyDemocrat
74 comments
on Tue Oct 22, 2019 at 01:14 PM PDT
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After hearing that Sugar Cane was one of the crops that causes Brazil to burn down the Amazon Rain Forest, I decided to look at my organic sugar from Costco. Guess what I discovered: it’s a product of Brazil! I have sent “feedback” to Costco asking...
by leftinhamlet
26 comments
on Fri Aug 30, 2019 at 01:23 AM PDT
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“The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan… Half measures will not work… The time for slow and incremental efforts has long past [sic].”- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...
by Ronnie Cummins
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on Tue Jan 15, 2019 at 03:39 AM PST
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Vegans, Ranchers and Regenerators Unite: Why Fake Meat and Eliminating Livestock Are Really Bad Idea “This process of returning atmospheric carbon to the soil works even better when ruminants are added to the mix. Every time a calf or lamb shears a blade of grass, that plant, seeking to rebalance its “root-shoot ratio,” sheds some of its roots. These...
by Ronnie Cummins
40 comments
on Fri Oct 12, 2018 at 10:21 AM PDT
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One of the architects of the Bush-Cheney torture regime has just been nominated to head up the CIA, so it should not be any surprise that the Trump administration is gung-ho to allow animal torture again. The Obama rule-setting new standards for animal...
by Joan McCarter
4 comments
on Tue Mar 13, 2018 at 09:04 AM PDT
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The Trump administration continues its efforts to create a world where the worst impulses of humankind are rewarded. The Hill reports that Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it will be rolling back an Obama-era rule that benefits one...
by Walter Einenkel
78 comments
on Mon Mar 12, 2018 at 11:44 AM PDT
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A large study of almost 35,000 people reports that environmental sustainability could be greatly enriched if we all began taking on more plant-based organic, healthier diets.
Many organizations, including the UN's Food and Agriculture...
by Walter Einenkel
97 comments
on Fri Feb 23, 2018 at 01:47 PM PST
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If nutritional quality and animal welfare issues factor into your egg-buying decisions, get ready for more bad news out of the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA plans to ditch rules, finalized under the Obama...
by Katherine Paul
11 comments
on Sat Jan 13, 2018 at 10:40 AM PST
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