Farming, Food & Health; There is a link

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Cathy Silver

My heart was singing this morning as I awoke. I must take a drive to Southwest Georgia and meet this “radical” farmer and his new ideas, now pushing 25 years in the making. It is simply that, his ideas, foresight and intuition about farming and cattle ranching+ are a return to the way things are meant to be—in my mind and thought process. We have a long way to go, like in many facets of modern life, but the shift is here and visible for those awakened souls seeking evidence.  But, his story reminds me of many other things that have captured the American people and the world by big money and those bent on domination and control.

I preordered the book, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn and just finished it an hour ago, now a week later.  I suggest you get a hold of a copy and read it for yourself. Will Harris, a Southwest Georgia farmer, is the story of a very brave and bold, awakened old soul returning to work with the natural cycles of the earth and its complexity, which few seem understand or care about. Rather than seeing Nature as the enemy, he nows sees Nature, his land and all his animals as something that works in a symbiosis or harmony for our benefit and Mother Earth’s as well. 

It was his association with what he calls “the holistic farm” that I book marked. Admirably, he had the courage and chutzpah to step away from the industrialization of his farming operation, which he realized one fine day, was making him beholden to the big corporations and inhumane treatment of his cattle. This new found awareness sparked one afternoon while watching his cattle loaded onto the semi parked on his farm, that he realized he was only a cog in the wheel of our industrialized, captured food industry.  His ah ha moment?  That by participating as a cog in the mechanized wheel of BigAg was to prop up and hold the corporate bottom line while they gave us, the unsuspecting American public, an inferior, chemical laden product for grocery store cases to sell. Nothing else seemed to matter to the investors, Wall Street, the regulators and legislators who were bought and paid for by lobbyist and political donations.

Something had that familiar ring—it was the sick care policies that kept so many trapped in a system of its own giant mechanized wheel, where one way of thinking is pushed on everyone. And, you are threatened if you don’t comply. I don’t have to explain that, if you know what I mean! But, so many have no clue!

Our “Health care” system had been corrupted by the same forces. They benefited from selling the bad food, and benefit from polluted water, sprayed chem trails, processed food and the expensive bandaids that keep folks just well enough to keep working their 9 to 5 jobs. What a business model—making money on both ends and not giving a damn—just keep the money rolling in! Think about it, our “Healthcare” system has fallen down a deep dark hole. And, I don’t believe it is individual doctors and nurses per say, I believe it is the corporate money supporting grants and educating future providers into the funnel that brings big returns in the self-perpetuating cycle of chronic illness, drugs, surgery, etc..

Harris writes, “We put our attention on a single goal: making the whole process of producing food more efficient. And the way we did that was through the use of reductionist science, which broke down the holistic and complex systems of the natural world into smaller and smaller isolated parts that could be studied and mastered and improved by technology. This reductive approach was applied to everything—to the way we treat health and sickness for one thing—and it completely changed agriculture.”

This captured and normalized American way of life doesn’t allow for much diversion. One is seen as a rebel, an outlier or a trouble maker for not going along and embracing what the system of mechanized sick care allows for. One stop at the lab. After waiting—another quick visit at the doctors office—and 90% of the time, out the door with another prescription. My Mother-in-law had 19 different pills. Another friend of mine has even more! The system needs a good overhaul or a total makeover!

Many have lost touch or haven’t realized the intimate relationship with the Mother Earth. The Earth is its own soul group, a sentient consciousness of the planet and it is interwoven with our beingness as well. The core of the consciousness was created by the Pleiadians. It’s about the way we live. And, we must incorporate a greater understanding and belief that we are entangled. There is no separation between us and Mother Earth. Every indigenous tribe understands this sacred relationship.

So, what’s the difference between a healthy holistic farm and a healthy holistic human body? Not much. Probably only the chemicals we consciously or unconsciously (by mal-intented forces) consume. Every chemical, drug or fake food we eat creates a reaction in our body. It is our own cycle of birth, life and death. Isn’t it time to research what the ancients and indigenous knew and believed as truth?

Every antibiotic we take throws off the health of our gut—and makes the “bug” we’re trying to rid of more resistant next time around or for someone else. There is much overuse. Even what we generally think of as benign over the counter medications have their downside usually warning of kidney or liver damage if taken too often or for too many years. Every side effect, is an effect—and something else is usually added to combat those effects and unintended consequences. It’s a catch 22 in the allopathic—germ warfare, chronic winner take all view of the world.

Harris continued his reflection, “What I failed to understand, however, was that the technologies of reductionist science has an ugly underbelly. For each industrial tool I used, there was always a consequence—one that without fail was bad, always unintended, and always unnoticed until tomorrow or next week or next year or even next decade. I failed to see that the unnatural grain I fed the animals, trucked in from industrialized monocultural farms, required substantial amounts of petrochemicals to cultivate and transport, using up nonrenewable resources—and also created painful acidosis in the animals, unnecessarily causing suffering”. 

But, haven’t we used the same reductionists theory—tearing things apart that should be kept together? In heath and wellness, the food, water and air are major players, but so are stress, childhood traumas, and the separation of our physical body’s ills from our mind and spirit. We are living in an unbalanced state. As T. Harv Eckart used to say, “How we do anything, is how we do everything.” Modern life seems to be a series of pieces torn from our ancestral heritage twisting in the wind as the “experts” portend to tell us what we need and what we must do to be healthy. Yet, many, many of those so-called experts have missed the mark because they too are driven by corporate interests, big grants or a hefty paycheck. We don’t need to look very far back to see that at one time cocaine, tobacco and DDT were considered harmless. What about glyphosate today? We rarely get the truth anymore.

It’s time we discern for ourselves and use our god-given wisdom to decide what’s best for us. It’s time to back out of our destructive ways, and lean into the barrier of energy that breaks the old paradigm of consciousness and moves us toward a more enlightened era. By bringing the pieces of the puzzle in WHOLENESS, working with our smart bodies natural intelligence,—correcting what has led us astray from what we inherently already know. 

Did you know that according to Kryon, “Children on small farms aren’t allergic to milk? But children in urban areas often are? “The children in the areas that you call home are often allergic to many things.” Why the difference? “If you don’t honor the animals, you’re not going to get the nutrition! But this fact hasn’t been put together yet by those who are responsible for producing your food. In fact it sounds really silly to them. Here’s the premise: Those who want efficiency and try to create a factory-farm approach to food will put the cows so close together that they touch all the time—all their lives. They’re strapped in containers or small spaces and are milked and fed . . . and you wonder why you’re allergic to milk? But the farm that has one or two cows that are cared for correctly will create milk that your body see differently. This requires an inter dimensional realization that you and the earth and the cows are very connected. Your cellular structure knows the difference and reacts.” “The new energy is going to accelerate certain things like allergies to foods, unless you decide to change how foods are developed and collected and preserved.” But, it’s not just milk, it’s every processed food we consume.

The tie between what we eat, how it’s handled and raised and what chemicals it contains are critical for our well being. There are many levels to our food supply chain. Our modern way of thinking does not include this wisdom. We must become aware and revaluate our current way of doing things if we are to break the ties to what we’ve been led to believe is a healthy sustainable way to grow food and maintain our health and well being. We’ve got to dig ourselves out of the ditch that we’ve landed in. It seems only then, we will be have a truly healthy population that will be able to live twice or three times the lifespan we currently have now. And, one that will include vitality, passion and a zest we don’t see or have currently. Our food system is broken and it must be fixed or reworked with integrity for animals and humans alike.

As Carolyn Baker writes:With the mass movement of people from the land to cities, the sanctity of food was eclipsed by fascination with artificial, synthetic, and technologically-produced forms of food. No longer was it necessary to hunt or grow food because now it was delivered from short or long distances to nearby markets, and thus it seems that the sacredness of food decreased in proportion to the energy required to obtain it. 

Chief Seattle simply said it this way: “The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

~Michael Pollan~

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