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Barbara Charis's avatar

The crops the government promotes are not health-promoting foods that people need in order to maintain or promote health. Our government has not done the right research in order to get Americans healthy. It has depended on corporations that make their big bucks selling foods that need to be processed. I studied healthy people... their foods and lifestyles. I have been into personal health research for 65 years...It took a long time to learn, because of all the misinformation that exists, but I am healthier today at 92 thn I was in my thirties, when I was fat and lethargic following the Standard American Diet (SAD).

Raymond Kordonowy MD's avatar

I’m reading Luis Bromfield’s Malabar farm and learning that he announced to the world in the 40’s how to properly farm.

Additionally, his book explains that nutrient deficiency was already recognized and he linked the Appalachia population and poverty to poor soil and nutrient deficiency farming obvious in the 40’s.

My wife Margaret and I are embarking on regenerative pasture development for animal production in Tennessee.

As Dr. Malone points out - 40 BILLION in corn subsidies that maximizes commercial/chemical farming is current policy.

Bromfield pointed out monoculture and in his time corn and cotton cropping had depleted our US farmland.

If we pulled incentives to grow ethanol and instead learned high nutrition density farming, our nation would transform its health and national average IQ.

https://www.amazon.com/Malabar-Farm-Louis-Bromfield/dp/164837204X

Thomas Wedge's avatar

The USDA passed the Organic Food Production Act in 1990. In 2000 they published the final National Organic Program rule establishing national standards. It was not perfect, but I have seen it form, expand and finally work. Successful Certified USDA Organic Markets were created as a result. I have watched the USDA operate for 50 years as a conventional now fully non GMO /USDA Organic Farm Seed Company, 100 years old and the largest in North America. My brag. I actually believe the NOP is one of the best programs ever created vs programs like Payment in Kind,Farmer Owned Reserve, Set Aside Program. If you are a small to medium size crop or grain farmer in 2026 you diversify or move to town. This program could help, but it will take a while.

The Great Santini's avatar

The Government has a lot of inertia and is difficult to redirect. This is a necessary but not sufficient step in the change agenda. If we want to maintain the momentum time to elect people to Congress who will see this through. That’s the only way it happens. The President can’t rewrite the laws or fund the change. The Congress can.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

When the farmer can't use his own seeds, when drift poisons the soil and the corporate farmer is subsidized and the small farmer has to comply with unnecessary regulations, it is a uphill battle. You are right only Congress can fix and they listen to those with deep pockets. Similar scenario in medicine.

D D's avatar
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That is why these various offshoots of "Project Biome" are so important. connect@projectbiome.org A system that is not dependent on the government. (A non profit) Zach Bush M.D. is a powerful visionary with action beside, in front and behind him.

The Great Santini's avatar

We must change this.

James Schwartz's avatar

Ain’t it always the way things go? This money may entice some more farms to adopt these methods and principles but Big Ag is Big Ag for a reason. This leads back to how we should all build our own homesteads. Relying on anyone else to do for you is a fools errand. Growing and raising what you eat is the only way to insure you know what’s in your food. The small advantage to this program is you will possibly have a choice to buy the foods born through this method which no doubt will come with higher cost like organic does already. Still, it will be a choice. Which is still a minor victory.

Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

A good, pertinent article but not often mentioned in this type of analysis is the food imported from outside the US. We in Texas derive many of our vegetables and,fruits from Mexico.

Paula Mitchell's avatar

Change takes time. I really appreciate the Drs. Malone articles on homesteading, information and education are very important for our healthier future. We all should share our individual farming/growing success with others interested in growing healthier food. I feel this is an important step in helping to change our world, baby steps before walking and then running. We all need to do our part.

D D's avatar

Paula, This is where connect@projectbiome.org comes in. Farmers Footprint connects all the dots you mention. A non profit to donate to, to make a difference. I would trust the leadership of zachbushmd.com over most organizations.

D D's avatar
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Have you heard of "Farmers Footprint"? It is a piece of another focus of "Project Biome" with Zach Bush M.D. as the board chair and many other (mostly woman) people in positions of importance. There is a tax deductible donation system and "Rewild. Regenerate. Reconnect." as a slogan. connect@projectbiome.org (A non profit) There is a beautiful multi-faceted website, truly important information.

Brandy's avatar

Do Americans really want health? Many still buy 'snacks' and 'desserts'. If people really wanted health, they would greatly reduce their consumption of junk food. Organic fruits/foods are more expensive, but they taste better and if you eat a normal amount and don't gorge, they can be affordable. Organic is also cheaper at a local farmers market. Your body is an engine, put in good fuel and it performs better. People need to practice self control.

David Merrill's avatar

IMAGINE - (hum to) John LENNON

Imagine there's no seasons....

Just afternoon rain,

Sunny skies all morning,

No more spraying.

Imagine all the soil,

Communicating with the Sun - whoah-ho

A stable earth axis

On Golden Dome...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZaEROtKpQOGbtjQ1jB7MhchScJ8bgrU0

The energy to stabilize the earth's axis is already right there in the Project. If we force it, we will tear the fragile ecosystem apart with tectonic shearing. As Golden Dome proceeds, we just let the rotational axis stabilize according to the math. Good old Newtonian physics. We will discover that deciduous is a symptom.

https://davidmerrill.substack.com/p/on-golden-dome

https://davidmerrill.substack.com/p/ogd-on-golden-dome-conjunction

Plant anytime the soil is ready - harvest when it is ready. Keep the harvesting equipment ready with radial farm road layout. Spray monatomic ORME only, and according to the crop that will carry it best into the nervous system and blood. New distribution strategies managed by the AI Data Centers, now cooled by being near the North Pole - https://youtu.be/40JSKvdlF70

This will actually simplify things greatly.

D D's avatar

If I don't get "likes"on my post it can only be due to lack of knowledge about projectbiome.com Why else would a non profit, not affiliated with the government, educational program not be recognized as a valuable part of this discussion?