FDA, reckon that might be short hand for federal dumb ass?

So after years of denial somebody finally decided to admit the truth about arsenic accumulation in U.S. grown CFO chicken meat and yet won't admit that it's deadly because in all their grand naivity and all their presumptious pseudo scientific posturing (as well as, I am sure, a pat on the back and revolving back door deal with Pfizer) they won't admit just how carcinogenic and dangerous it is. Funny how they can ignore the effects of scientifically proven and studied effects of long term exposure to any carcinogen in small doses, known as chronic exposure, and the effects of a lifetime of consuming what amounts to "junk meat", poison meat at that.

And yet we don't have the liberty to drink raw milk or use nutritional supplements (even when clearly labeled with no medical claims) despite the clear fact that we are the sole owners of our bodies and sole decision makers when it comes down to what we put in them (and don't let any beurocratic asshat setting behind a desk tell you otherwise! Assert your liberty!)? I vote for the "you can kiss my ass and I'll consume what I want option" period.

Of course if they were really doing their job we'd have up to date stats on the Fukishima fallout over the midwest too, but that ain't happening any time soon, couldn't have the mass panic they and other alphabet agencies know is coming at some point in the future due to a simple reading (chronically) a few hundred to thousand times the background level now could we, least not until they get the fences built for those of us not so easily domesticated!

No, they'd much rather spend their time sending swat teams after Amish families and food co-ops, can't have the cattle feeding themselves and foraging for healthy items, it doesn't put money in their back pocket and they need someone to remind us they are always in control.

All of this after a commission says what those of us with half a brain have known all along; that roundup ready causes birth defects. I guess my regulatory friends it's a good thing that people are so tied up in fighting with each other over the petty things the shiny box in the corner of the room tells them makes them so different from one another that they don't much notice what your up to right? It is a shame though that so many are waking up all at once, and that even includes some of those voices your buddies in big ag likely thought they had in their pockets. Oh but of course all of these things must be coincidence right? No spider web to weave together here I suppose......

Unless you wonder what ever happened to Epicite corn announced way back in 2001 and just how that might relate to the fact that the U.S. birth rate has actually fallen to an all time low in recent years (sorry dear "the world is over populated and I hate humans" crowd, but the number is falling, happy now?)

All in all it don't take a telescope to see where were headed from here. I am fairly confident we all know we are living in unsustainable times, relying on regulatory agencies and trans national corporations, as well as incompitent government, all of which are tied up in money and bad decision making (as well as puppetry) social engineering, and the sound of war drums, terrorism, and "humanitarian efforts" including the spread of "democracy" via guns, bombs, and god (or whatever they think will get you "behind" them) funded by the same handful of powerful "smiling glad faces with hidden agendas", this only ends one way really, the logical way, back to the earth, grounded in reality.

Great High Mountain.......

No blogs for a while now, not on purpose and most certainly not set to the "ignore" function. Lots and lots of work to do right now, but soon enough I'll be back to my ever "ranty" self. Lot's of good stuff happening, lots of photos coming, lots of theories being formulated, and as ever lots of hard lessons learned which have taught me much.

Daily I am humbled by just how much I still don't know or understand about nature (or mankind for that matter) and yet even when things are not growing (or for that matter going) the way I wish them to, hope persists, though not paralyzing hope as it is not entangled in the web of faith.

Working hard on myself spiritual and investing that energy in the land and animals, it certainly is a tall mountain, but none shall conquer my existence.

I'll be home soon
-Alan

New Alan Kapuler Interview.

Dr. Kapuler recently sent me a link to this new interview with him. Be sure to check it out, as always filled with wonderful insights from the mind of a brilliant man who has made a real difference in the course of history.

Parts one and two are also available via youtube which I will embed below:

Indiana: Road to tyrany.

So it looks like my home state has forgotten just what rights and liberties "We The People" have been granted. Recently they passed the Endangered Nosey Pig Law

This law essentially protects the endemic "problem pig" population by allowing them to enter your home, root around a bit, and deficate anywhere they want without a warrant to do so or even probable cause. You know, if I remember right the Brittish crown tried something similar to this during the revolutionary war and we beat their ass all the way back to the isles, perhaps we will do the same in court to our own government or if necessary take it to the street.

To those cops drawn to drama (and many of you piggies are, not all some of you are truly great men, citizen servants in the true spirit) I would suggest taking a listen to Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" and by the way don't be suprised if things don't always go as planned when you poke a normally docille hornets next with a stick.....afterall "Pigs get what pigs desserve."

Another White Blackberry?

Recently Julia Cadenhead contacted me about another white blackberry (this time a dewberry) that I had previously researched here on the blog. This time one from Florida. Apparently her grandmother had cultivated this curiosity and provided plants in Northern Florida some time ago and she herself is now on the search for this valuable cultivar. She was kind enough to send along to me with her e-mail an article written about her grandmother and this rare cultivar.

If anyone knows where one might obtain these plants it would be worth a trade of a collection of rootlets of both burbank and nettletons to me.

Picture updates volume 3!

Snowfence; keeping gooseberries from becoming "turkey berries".

Gooseberries setting on

Snowbank, flower buds swelling, as of today they are open

Nettletons, curiously undergoing the blooming cycle at the same time, leading me to believe this was originally Iceberg quite possibly.

Raised tire garden.

Tom Wagners potatoes from TPS

Flying Dragon Trifoliate orange seedling, sorry for the poor picture quality

Runner and Pekin Ducklings in the new pond.

Dandelions being prepared for wine

This Week At Bishop's Homegrown

Grafted Apple trees for sale - 15.00 in a gallon pot Seedling apple trees- 3.00 in 4 inch pot. Turkey hatching eggs 12.00 a dozen. Tomato plants in 4 inch pots 3.00. Tomato slips 6 for 2.00, cabbage slips 6 for 2.00 Turkey Poults 6.00, tobacco seedlings in 4' pots 3.00, tobacco slips 6 for 2.00, Cultivators handbook of natural tobacco 20.00