"Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls 'growth' is really a form of theft from nature and people. . . . in agriculture as much as in forestry, the growth illusion hides theft from nature and the poor, masking the creation of scarcity as growth." So begins this extraordinary book, subtitled The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, on the conflict between local food production and global capital. In seven elegant chapters, Indian writer and activist Vandana Shiva delineates how "the resources of the Third World poor are being stolen to generate profits for giant corporations." MORE...
Archive for September, 2005
What a shock. When I read Mercola's blog about lead in vinyl lunch boxes, I couldn't believe I hadn't thought of vinyl lunchboxes as being a danger. It is obvious, but just like any other aspect of modern life, one has to be on the ball ... MORE...
If you ever wondered about homeschooling or even if you are doing it, this article by Anne Heerdt-Wingfield is just the ticket. Published recently in mothering magazine, Anne gives an encouraging voice for parents wishing to get more involved with their children's education, whether they are homeschooling or ... MORE...
Sally Fallon, Mary Enig and the Weston A Price Foundation have been saying it for years. Good old fashioned Cod Liver Oil is one of the most important whole food supplements. Mid 20th century, Dr Price found that the traditional diet of "primitive" groups of humans, no matter ... MORE...
In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can--and will--overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world--we ... MORE...
This is an exciting change from what is usually a very exploitive media - the teen magazine. The Tracking Way is a new magazine for young adults that fosters reverence for the environment, appreciation for cultural diversity, and connection to peers. It's readers are invited to contribute their writing, artwork ... MORE...
From Armchair Science, London (April 1938) There is no substitute for clean, raw milk as a food, so far as children are concerned. Science has not yet succeeded in providing, in the pasteurized variety, those essential qualities that are the only real foundation for a healthy child. MORE...