>There is a "war" with the likes of Archer-Daniels-Midland, Monsanto, >MacDonalds, etc.., that must, should and will be fought anywhere, >anyhow, and any time.
There is a war between those who say there is a war and those who say there isn't. -L. Cohen One of the major reasons that BD Now! exists is to help awaken those who have not become aware through their own efforts that there is a war. That sounds like a conspiracy theory -Source: unknown, but commonly heard in the feed lots Joel Salatin spoke at Sally Fallon's wonderful conference yesterday. Joel has evolved much politically over the years, but in very measured ways. As you probably know, Joel is from a very conservative background and received his formal education at a school for evengelists. Joel said yesterday that he is Right-to Life but that he cannot understand how other Right-to-Lifers can push for babies being born but have no concern that they are being fed substances that do not support life after they are born. He also said that agriculture, politics, economics and religion are totally intertwined and that we who are working to create a food system of quality for local neighborhoods must never forget that. To forget, or to overlook, how each of these area affects the others is to be guilty of the same sort of fractionaliation that the big agriculture people have already brought to agriculture. As natural farmers who care about our families, our neighbors, our land, our animals, and the earth we all live on and within, we must make every effort to remain holistic in our world view. It is only when we attempt to use biodynamics as strictly a set of tools towards an economic end that resentments about how big the considerations of biodynamics are become an issue. I, for one, do not feel that the techniques of biodynamic can be separated from biodynamics place in the world. That said, I have another consideration about many posts about the mid-east that have been dropped on BD Now! in recent weeks. Insightful analysts of the New World Order like Richard K. Moore have pointed out that what we know about anything outside of our immediate sensory experience is at the will of those in Power. The media is the bread and their circus of the governed. Be it O.J., Billy Blowjob, Israel and Palenstine, or Robert Blake, there will be a feisty show in the center ring while the boys in power are sneaking elephants out under the back wall of the tent. We have a government that has usurped an unbelievable amount of power in the past year. In the U.S. we really have to become conscious that we accepted a tastey little coup at the last election and just took it in stride. We have a government that has overrun soveriegn nations and is actually listing the next nations to be overrun. We have a government that just put a puppet into power in a South American country, only to have him displaced through an outbreak of democracy in that country. (Bless those people for their passion!) My prayer is that we do not let a tempest in a teapot take our eye off the ball, that we don't fall at each other's throats or threaten the life of this discussion list because of our emotions about events that do not have the relevance or the immediacy of other events that have and will affect us all more powerfully in the near future. (I most certainly am not making discussing Pam's new farm, for example, less important than saving the world from fascism. These efforts need to go hand-in-hand, or all is lost.) Mark Purdey spoke at Sally's conference. Mark's research into mad cow disease demonstrates, if anything, the incredible collusion there is between university science, big business, government and the media. A case in point: a scientist discovered an important correlation between prion problems and environmental conditions. The day he made his announcement, the British press did not carry that story, they instead carried a headline story in which someone without credentials put forward a thoery that mad cow disease had come from outerspace. The act in ring one was so strong that this elephant could sit in ring two, invisible. Joel Salatin pointed out that the big chicken companies who are dumping tons of diseased turkeys and chickens into landfills right now are pushing for illegalizing outdoor chicken flocks, like joel's, like mine, like yours. There is a similar movement underfoot to present barned beef as the only protection from BSE. (Making Pastured Beef a health hazard.) In japan mad cow disease has already been used to knock the wind from the sales of their budding organic farming industry: who wants to catch mad cow from a carrot grown in cow shit?? (My friends, I'd like to say that, thanks to a generous contribution from Curtis and Jane, I expect to have tapes of Joel, Mark Purdey, Tom Cowan and others (as well as Sally and Will Britton) published on the net as sound files in the near future. It w.b. really helpful if someone on the list had DSL and a CD-ROM reader and was willing to handle the uploads. Funding is also slowing this down, contributions can be made through paypal handle:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think getting these discussions out on the net is sort of a Radio Free Real America.) There is a conspiracy against knowing who we are. Knowing what we know about biodynamics and the predominant culture's willingness to deny it is proof enough of that. Without the forces that properly grown food contains, however, we will never have the Will or the way to perceive the illusion created by enculturation or perpetrated by propaganda and to grow to our full potential. Let's use the community that has come together here at BD Now! to awaken as many as we can and to shut nobody down. I thank Gil for bringing this conversation to the fore. -Allan
