This whole situation with the usda involved in this process has become a
nightmare of huge proportions. Though there were people wrongfully calling
organic food production organic, it should have been more thoughtfully
investigated before inviting in the usda, the original cause of the decline
of agriculture in the first place. So now the damage is done, we are dealing
with folks who do not have an incling of how to restore health and diversity
to a biological system. Ask them to kill someone and there is billions
available, ask them for healthcare and it can't be done. They can have the
word organic, I have it printed on my toilet paper. What we need to get very
busy doing is creating a new standard and level of certification that touches
all phases of the human experience.
A new paradigm that includes not only nutrition and land stewardship, but how
we spend our profits. A profitable enterprise that radiates into the
community through education, healthcare [for men, woman, young woman,
children, infants...all humanity].
We need to raise from the ashes of our civilization a new higher standard
that will carry humanity far into the future. The current system simply does
not work. It cannot work if the people that have the knowledge and the
ability to create life out of their love for it are in a struggle to exist in
a paradigm that not only does not give them credit for their ability but
places them in a low level within their matrix. In the appendix of the new
Ag lectures there is a reference of a conversation that RS had. It alluded
the fact that if as farmers for these current times, taking up all our tasks
in a spiritual and scientific manner, that we will become priests as farmers.
The time is now. The work laid out before us is not about money and profit,
or rescueing something, but about creating a new social-cultural-economic
paradigm that all humans can thrive in. No more can there be the haves and
the have nots. "Everyone gets on the lifeboat this time" [Jane Parker
2002]...SStorch, God, I love rainy days
