FAMILY FARMED PET FOOD...REALLY?
Many ancient cultures regard their farmers as "living
Libraries". They continue to
cultivate a respect for the traditions associated with bringing forth life from
the soil and the vast knowledge required to do so. Under the ever changing and innumerable
conditions of weather, soil, saved seed quality etc., farmers hold the
centuries old knowledge of timing, flexibility, and ingenuity which few
professions can compare. They are the
keepers of the field of applied and practical survival.
In contrast modern society has chemically swept away
sustainability and centuries of applied knowledge, leaving in its wake an ever
increasing curve of top soil loss, erosion, and desertification. We have forced and encouraged our farmers to
replace the care of local peoples with commodities and cash accumulation. A "let them eat Cake" approach to
nutrition, ignoring cellular health, replacing it with Franken-foods diet devoid
of micronutrients but with plenty of GMO's.
In so doing, we are cultivating the failing health of our people. And
as we push our farmers further down the road of destruction (for who can eat
cash? It has little nutritional value
after all...) we see failed farms financially, failed communities socially and
failed health for us all. For what? Cheaper....as our lives become cheaper we
must ask..who will make a living wage in this decline and what in the end will
have any real value?
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| Cattle in feedlot |
It is commodities markets that largely decide the farming
fate of the nation, not cost of production. We are cultivating cheap GMO based
infertile seed that can produce nothing wholesome, not even reproduce
itself. Infertile, sterile, and
financially unviable. Fat cats making
cash, not sensible, long term planning that creates a real Homeland security in
knowing we will all be able to eat from the soils we inhabit. Taking from the bank of the soil we give back
nothing and demand more, cheaper, faster and tastier than ever! Armed with chemical weapons stock piled from
the ongoing wars today's "modern" farmer makes war on all that is
healthy. Spray it and it will
grow....for a little while anyway. Then
what when the soil surrenders?
There is no backtracking on quality in life. Health is happiness and cannot be bought back
no matter the price. No price we could
pay would also buy back the dignity of a nation whose priorities are focused on
the unsustainable and non life giving technologies we embrace, while heaping scorn upon those who keep us
alive. Modern media is ripe with
sarcastic images of the hillbilly farmer, absent of knowledge, replete with
scorned local swagger. Ignorant,
uncouth, and unsophisticated? Not today's
family farmer.
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| Pasture fed cattle on a family farm |
Hip, holistic, and remembering the knowledge that kept us
all alive for centuries beyond count many farmers are recapturing the wealth of
fertility, sustained and viable. They
farm the soil! So finally...PET
FOOD? Yes. Clean healthy and whole. Provide economic
support for those who do right, protect our fertility (the community's true
bank of resources) and maintain a form of true survival. Apart from the health giving properties of
real food farmed from healthy environments there are huge social and financial
repercussions to supporting good wholesome farms. Pets are what they eat just like the rest of
us! We breathe the same polluted air and
drink the same compromised waters.
Buying family farmed pet foods supports clean environments, local
economies of livable wages and creates a circle of health that goes well beyond
the obvious.
Put your money where your mouth is! Support clean environments as health = wealth!
