I grew up in Manitoba, on the prairies. In the sixties when I was going to school, we were taught about the dust bowl of the thirties and it affected the northern prairies as much as the southern ones in the US. The great minds of the time decided that to best combat future dust bowls, the land had to be planted with windbreaks of local shrubs and trees around the perimeters of the fields, and the government also supplied free caragana shrubs to help start the process, caragana being able to stand the northern climate and being of the legume family, also helped supply nitrogen. The windbreaks stopped the wind and once they reached the right size, they stopped the soil erosion. Snirt is a combination of snow and dirt, and farm dirt would blow away and deposit as snirt on farms miles away if you didn’t have the windbreaks. This, and crop rotation on a three-year cycle proved to be the answer to keeping the prairies as prime agricultural land.
Then came the big Agricultural outfits with the big machines which promised to make it easy to plant and harvest your crops. That meant that in the eighties, the windbreaks came down as they made it difficult to use the big machines. The snirt came back. I taught at a country school and the dust storms in winter turned everything black. Shiny big machines, but land without much topsoil became the norm. The Luciferian lure of bigger and better and more of it became a false promise.
At the end of the eighties we bought a 15 acre piece of property in the country. Our property was bounded on one side by a windbreak of various tough shrubs that ran the full half mile of the property. I loved it for many reasons. It had chokecherries and saskatoons, wild roses, Russian olives, shrub oak, and other plants. I would walk along it and enjoy it and the robins and other migratory birds who fed on the fruit in the fall. It provided cover for the grouse and prairie chickens and it was one of the joys of the property. My husband rented out the back ten acres to a neighbor. The neighbor didn’t ask, but came along one day and set fire to my windbreak. Luckily I saw him do it and was able to stop him before he had done too much damage. Shall we say he knew I was livid. He thought he could make one big field with his own land to make it easier for his machinery.
Easier is not better. But that is the sales pitch that is destroying our food and our planet.
The same story can be told of where I grew up in Kansas. After Nixon signed a grain trade deal with China, Earl Butz, Secretary of Ag under Nixon, told farmers to plant wheat "fence row to fence row". Those who still remembered the dust bowl thought Butz was a fool and ignored him. Others decided to sell their soul to devil for 30 pieces of silver and tore out their shelter belts. Today they regret having done so.
It's extra sad because those shelter belts generate a lot of healthy wild game food. No tractors, combines, fertilizers, pesticides, plows needed. Shelter belts are a great example of how humans can work WITH nature (vs against it with Big Tech) to work hand in hand with the Creator to produce free food.
Wonderful article on point with the cause of our larger health issues. Obesity and starvation are both caused by malnutrition. Our modern societies' reliance on processed or ultra processed foods developed to be hyperpalatable, very inexpensive and utterly devoid of nutritional value. Single ingredient, whole foods are the foundation of a superior nutrition strategy. A superior nutrition strategy leads to better overall health, metabolic health and immune health. How I wish we spent $5 trillion on achieving this rather than the foolish public health response, societal lock downs and non-sterilizing pseudovaccines.
The problem is the profitability of the 'health' business pales in comparison to the profitability of the 'disease' business. There is a demand for meds and surgery to deal with the results of decades of consumption of empty foods. It is the public that must change what they ask for from industry. Until then, we are on a downward trajectory hastened most recently by an added assault on health, the quackcines.
My wife and I went carnivore a couple of years back; both of us dropped veg from our diet completely (leptins and oxylates, no thanks). Whilst I like a bowl of porridge with raw honey in the morning, otherwise we live on animal produce solely, cooking wIth lard or dripping or goose fat or butter as appropriate. This has not only made us both drop weight without effort (visceral fat be gone!), massively improved our gut health, but almost all our food is locally produced, and we eat meat only that is grass fed. Happily our part of rural Somerset is full of farmers farming the right way, with grass fed livestock and arable and livestock rotation - carbon free, and the best food in the world - and minimal food miles. The only supermarket food I buy is goat milk, butter and coffee. And that's it. Going shopping means - I'm off to the butchers.,
Here ya go people... someone who truly understands food and the connection between it, the soil and our health. The 'fat of the land' may very well be the most rounded diet there is for the human race. This is why I call my farm fatpharm.
I'm not completely carnivore, but I would say I eat a meat and fat centric diet. Except for a fruit about one a week, I eat almost no carbs. What few veggies I eat are for bulk in the gut.
It's deffo the way to go. And yup, if we go out and order steak, we'll have the chips as well! Not big on dogma, more concerned with what works, and I'm damn sure my gut microbiome is way way healthier than it was even two years back.
Always love your posts, Kyle. Thanks for bringing this perspective I hadn't really considered, that the microbiome instructs the DNA, rather than the other way round. Yet there's an interconnectedness within the body that can't just be a one way mechanism of this does that to this, which is of course the mechanistic view exploited by technocrats. That interconnectedness extends from our bodies to the soil and what grows from it which we consume. What we eat speaks to us, informs us, as we inform it in return. Extend that out into all organic life and we have the music you so beautifully put, not just singing from our DNA but from the entire world which we belong, a symbiotic symphony. This crosses the realm of biology into spirituality (for want of a better word) where that music takes a divine quality of oneness. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I just wanted to add this to your remarkable piece.
I was wondering if someone would bring this up. Thanks for doing so Jimmy.
In my 10/5/21 interview with Dr. Tom Cowan - https://rumble.com/c/c-1219704 - he brought up this same topic. I think I'm safe in saying he would agree with Dr. Martin. I've come across this line of thinking quite a bit since the Cowan interview and I have to say I'm beginning to see what they're saying. I tried to word the above essay such that this door was left open. The techmeds would like us to believe our DNA is the be all and end all to our being because they think they can manipulate it, and hence, us.
I've been contemplating doing a piece on this topic and your comment has just lit a fire under me to do so.
And WAPF is one of MY heroes. Thanks to Sally Fallon Morell, president of WAPF, the priceless scientific findings of Dr. Price have not disappeared into the locked vault of forgotten history.
Serendipitously, I found a book review written by Sally in the Summer 2013 WAPF journal on the subject of "our most precious resource, the soil." The book reviewed is Cows Save The Planet by Judith Schwartz. Although it's likely I now know some of what I paid no attention to in 2013, the subject of how to grow nutrient dense food and regenerate soil teeming with microbes, soil that retains water - another precious resource - is now of such absorbing interest that I'm going to read this book that Sally highly recommends.
Hey! Nobody's perfect! And that includes Sally Fallon Morell. But Sally is a lot closer to the Holy Grail of Healthy Living than I am. And Sally - co-author with Dr. Tom Cowan of The Contagion Myth - was among the FIRST in 2020 to challenge the theory that the 'Wuhan virus' was the cause of what is called Covid.
Some years ago, I stopped evaluating info on a 'perfection' scale - which mostly meant how close the info came to reinforcing what I already believed. In this imperfect world, the perfect man, cat, political leader, doctor, scholar, friend, soul mate - the perfect anything or anybody - doesn't exist. Only in the world we enter after we leave this one does perfection exist.
In my journey to good health, I credit the Weston A Price Foundation. Thanks to WAPF, I make bone broth, sauerkraut, take fermented cold liver oil daily for Vits A & D, avoid fractionated vitamin/mineral supplements, buy organic produce and grass fed meats, use epsom salt soaks for magnesium and sulfur, and so on and so forth.
What's not to like (and financially support) about WAPFs efforts to make raw milk and raw dairy products legal and available in all 50 states. And, through the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, WAPF aids small regenerative dairy farms targeted by Big Ag and the FDA for closure because they're providing healthy dairy products to their customers. Pasteurization of raw milk is to dairy products what industrial fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides and fungicides are to farm crops. Both destroy the good microbes that both cows (and pigs, goats, chickens etc) and humans need to be healthy.
I grew up in Manitoba, on the prairies. In the sixties when I was going to school, we were taught about the dust bowl of the thirties and it affected the northern prairies as much as the southern ones in the US. The great minds of the time decided that to best combat future dust bowls, the land had to be planted with windbreaks of local shrubs and trees around the perimeters of the fields, and the government also supplied free caragana shrubs to help start the process, caragana being able to stand the northern climate and being of the legume family, also helped supply nitrogen. The windbreaks stopped the wind and once they reached the right size, they stopped the soil erosion. Snirt is a combination of snow and dirt, and farm dirt would blow away and deposit as snirt on farms miles away if you didn’t have the windbreaks. This, and crop rotation on a three-year cycle proved to be the answer to keeping the prairies as prime agricultural land.
Then came the big Agricultural outfits with the big machines which promised to make it easy to plant and harvest your crops. That meant that in the eighties, the windbreaks came down as they made it difficult to use the big machines. The snirt came back. I taught at a country school and the dust storms in winter turned everything black. Shiny big machines, but land without much topsoil became the norm. The Luciferian lure of bigger and better and more of it became a false promise.
At the end of the eighties we bought a 15 acre piece of property in the country. Our property was bounded on one side by a windbreak of various tough shrubs that ran the full half mile of the property. I loved it for many reasons. It had chokecherries and saskatoons, wild roses, Russian olives, shrub oak, and other plants. I would walk along it and enjoy it and the robins and other migratory birds who fed on the fruit in the fall. It provided cover for the grouse and prairie chickens and it was one of the joys of the property. My husband rented out the back ten acres to a neighbor. The neighbor didn’t ask, but came along one day and set fire to my windbreak. Luckily I saw him do it and was able to stop him before he had done too much damage. Shall we say he knew I was livid. He thought he could make one big field with his own land to make it easier for his machinery.
Easier is not better. But that is the sales pitch that is destroying our food and our planet.
The same story can be told of where I grew up in Kansas. After Nixon signed a grain trade deal with China, Earl Butz, Secretary of Ag under Nixon, told farmers to plant wheat "fence row to fence row". Those who still remembered the dust bowl thought Butz was a fool and ignored him. Others decided to sell their soul to devil for 30 pieces of silver and tore out their shelter belts. Today they regret having done so.
It's extra sad because those shelter belts generate a lot of healthy wild game food. No tractors, combines, fertilizers, pesticides, plows needed. Shelter belts are a great example of how humans can work WITH nature (vs against it with Big Tech) to work hand in hand with the Creator to produce free food.
Wonderful article on point with the cause of our larger health issues. Obesity and starvation are both caused by malnutrition. Our modern societies' reliance on processed or ultra processed foods developed to be hyperpalatable, very inexpensive and utterly devoid of nutritional value. Single ingredient, whole foods are the foundation of a superior nutrition strategy. A superior nutrition strategy leads to better overall health, metabolic health and immune health. How I wish we spent $5 trillion on achieving this rather than the foolish public health response, societal lock downs and non-sterilizing pseudovaccines.
The problem is the profitability of the 'health' business pales in comparison to the profitability of the 'disease' business. There is a demand for meds and surgery to deal with the results of decades of consumption of empty foods. It is the public that must change what they ask for from industry. Until then, we are on a downward trajectory hastened most recently by an added assault on health, the quackcines.
I hope use of the term goes viral :) , as I think it aptly describes the response of mainstream medical care and the harm it is causing.
Agreed. To bad the stink in DC keeps that from happening.
Your essays are always high quality Kyle.
Thank you.
My wife and I went carnivore a couple of years back; both of us dropped veg from our diet completely (leptins and oxylates, no thanks). Whilst I like a bowl of porridge with raw honey in the morning, otherwise we live on animal produce solely, cooking wIth lard or dripping or goose fat or butter as appropriate. This has not only made us both drop weight without effort (visceral fat be gone!), massively improved our gut health, but almost all our food is locally produced, and we eat meat only that is grass fed. Happily our part of rural Somerset is full of farmers farming the right way, with grass fed livestock and arable and livestock rotation - carbon free, and the best food in the world - and minimal food miles. The only supermarket food I buy is goat milk, butter and coffee. And that's it. Going shopping means - I'm off to the butchers.,
Here ya go people... someone who truly understands food and the connection between it, the soil and our health. The 'fat of the land' may very well be the most rounded diet there is for the human race. This is why I call my farm fatpharm.
I'm not completely carnivore, but I would say I eat a meat and fat centric diet. Except for a fruit about one a week, I eat almost no carbs. What few veggies I eat are for bulk in the gut.
It's deffo the way to go. And yup, if we go out and order steak, we'll have the chips as well! Not big on dogma, more concerned with what works, and I'm damn sure my gut microbiome is way way healthier than it was even two years back.
"As above, so below." Amen, biome brother.
Always love your posts, Kyle. Thanks for bringing this perspective I hadn't really considered, that the microbiome instructs the DNA, rather than the other way round. Yet there's an interconnectedness within the body that can't just be a one way mechanism of this does that to this, which is of course the mechanistic view exploited by technocrats. That interconnectedness extends from our bodies to the soil and what grows from it which we consume. What we eat speaks to us, informs us, as we inform it in return. Extend that out into all organic life and we have the music you so beautifully put, not just singing from our DNA but from the entire world which we belong, a symbiotic symphony. This crosses the realm of biology into spirituality (for want of a better word) where that music takes a divine quality of oneness. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I just wanted to add this to your remarkable piece.
Well said Navyo.
I was wondering if someone would bring this up. Thanks for doing so Jimmy.
In my 10/5/21 interview with Dr. Tom Cowan - https://rumble.com/c/c-1219704 - he brought up this same topic. I think I'm safe in saying he would agree with Dr. Martin. I've come across this line of thinking quite a bit since the Cowan interview and I have to say I'm beginning to see what they're saying. I tried to word the above essay such that this door was left open. The techmeds would like us to believe our DNA is the be all and end all to our being because they think they can manipulate it, and hence, us.
I've been contemplating doing a piece on this topic and your comment has just lit a fire under me to do so.
This inquiring mind wants to know - did you do a piece on this topic?
Sadly, no. So many topics, so little time. It's still on the list.
You sound like a bona fide, free thinking heretic!
W. Price is one of my heroes. Those not familiar with him can go here - https://www.westonaprice.org/
And WAPF is one of MY heroes. Thanks to Sally Fallon Morell, president of WAPF, the priceless scientific findings of Dr. Price have not disappeared into the locked vault of forgotten history.
Serendipitously, I found a book review written by Sally in the Summer 2013 WAPF journal on the subject of "our most precious resource, the soil." The book reviewed is Cows Save The Planet by Judith Schwartz. Although it's likely I now know some of what I paid no attention to in 2013, the subject of how to grow nutrient dense food and regenerate soil teeming with microbes, soil that retains water - another precious resource - is now of such absorbing interest that I'm going to read this book that Sally highly recommends.
Here's link to book review: https://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/cows-save-the-planet-by-judith-d-schwartz/#gsc.tab=0
Hey! Nobody's perfect! And that includes Sally Fallon Morell. But Sally is a lot closer to the Holy Grail of Healthy Living than I am. And Sally - co-author with Dr. Tom Cowan of The Contagion Myth - was among the FIRST in 2020 to challenge the theory that the 'Wuhan virus' was the cause of what is called Covid.
Some years ago, I stopped evaluating info on a 'perfection' scale - which mostly meant how close the info came to reinforcing what I already believed. In this imperfect world, the perfect man, cat, political leader, doctor, scholar, friend, soul mate - the perfect anything or anybody - doesn't exist. Only in the world we enter after we leave this one does perfection exist.
In my journey to good health, I credit the Weston A Price Foundation. Thanks to WAPF, I make bone broth, sauerkraut, take fermented cold liver oil daily for Vits A & D, avoid fractionated vitamin/mineral supplements, buy organic produce and grass fed meats, use epsom salt soaks for magnesium and sulfur, and so on and so forth.
What's not to like (and financially support) about WAPFs efforts to make raw milk and raw dairy products legal and available in all 50 states. And, through the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, WAPF aids small regenerative dairy farms targeted by Big Ag and the FDA for closure because they're providing healthy dairy products to their customers. Pasteurization of raw milk is to dairy products what industrial fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides and fungicides are to farm crops. Both destroy the good microbes that both cows (and pigs, goats, chickens etc) and humans need to be healthy.
So I've heard. Understood. Thanks for the tip.