I hope this "food freedom" amendment will be added to every state constitution. Family farms are constantly threatened by unsustainable financial pressures. They must be encouraged and supported. Thanks for this informative article.
This article by John Klar was amazing. My friend (John Murphy) and I in Northern Arizona are starting again "Victory Gardens" from WW2. We are hiring young people to help old people with their gardens. We call this the "God Squad". We could use help. Who can we contact to help us? This is our podcast how to make 100 healthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTH-vdxFaaU This is our golf tournament to raise money for the God Squad. https://www.prescottfoodforest.com/
Hearing something positive for a change is so much appreciated and needed. I'm hoping that now RFKJ will delve into the important task of dismantling the CHEMTRAIL horror show and HAARP and DEWS by extension. Our food can only be as healthy/clean as by the soil, water and air which they have been hell bent on destroying for years now.
I so agree with you Letsrock about the chemtrails and geoengineering that’s blocking our sun and putting God only knows what kind of chemicals into our atmosphere and rain/snow! I listened to a podcast by Jimmy Dore who interviewed a man that has been studying this for years. He showed a map of the states that showed the impact of what it would look like if a heavy load was dumped into the atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. then I was watching the national weather and saw the map of the states and low and behold it was the same map!!
I talked to a friend who lives in Mt Shasta, Ca and she said they really haven’t seen much of anything snow wise and temps were above normal. I live on the East Coast in CT and we are having a prolonged frigid cold spell-close to 2 weeks now!
A podcast I listen to out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, mentions that they have had no snow this year! He acknowledges that the highest mountains around them have snow, but their normal snowfall this current winter season is absent!
What needs to be added is restrictions on state and local laws regarding raising chickens. Here you can't have a coop within 150 feet of a dwelling. So most households can't raise chickens. Im ok with no roos due to crowing. But a flock of 6 chickens is no messier or noisy than a couple of dogs. And homegrown eggs beat anything you can buy from the store.
It's important to consider the soil, air, and water as a commons. It's not meant to be monopolized by transnational corporations destroying our ecology, our health, and our economy. That is why I proposed the Food Accountability and Transparency Act (FATA), Reclaiming the Soil & Water Commons, and the Policy to Establish the Separation of the Corporatocracy and the State on Policies for the People. It's also why I've joined with @drandreaphd and the CEO of Food Forest Abundance to form the non-profit, Origins Reclaimed (https://www.orginsreclaimed.org), to champion food sovereignty, to shift our culture from poison laden lawn monocropping and centralized industrialized food production, to decentralized organic, biodynamic, regenerative, syntropic food forests. No one should have the right to tell people they can't grow gardens on their own properties like HOA's presently do. It's time for a resurgence in Victory gardens like Jacqueline Capriotti @healthrevolutionusa advocates for with the Victory Garden Alliance @victorygardenalliance (https://victorygardenalliance.com/). It's time to divest from poisons, from genetically modified seed patents, and invest in organic local community supported agriculture (CSA's), and converting lawns to food throughout the United States of America.
Good. Ukraine and most European countries have been doing this for decades. Grow local. Grow organic. support local farmers and everyone with land should be growing own food!!! Teach the children to do it as well. I spent my childhood picking and planting potatoes in a small farm in Ukraine... I grew up eating tomatoes and cucumbers in the garden. When I came to America, I didn't even look twice at the junk food and fast food because I wasn't raised this way. The fact that HERE in California there are schools that serve Doritos and Cup O Noodle to children disgusts me!!! We shouldn't be feeding MSG to children!!! Each child should be taught how food is grown and what is healthy vs. not healthy!!! Thank you Mr. Kennedy for turning this boat around. I have been waiting for this for over 20 years.
The Next thing that needs to happen: to completely OVERTURN the food at the gas stations. If you go to a gas station in Ukraine or Austria or Switzerland they have fresh juices, salads, and like 20 different versions of sparkling water. In America: msg chips and 20 different types of Sodas... HUGE difference. American gas station stores serve 90% junk versus Europeans are 80% healthy... time tO STOP SELLING JUNK AT THE GAS STATIONS!
Gas stations in Switzerland even BAKE THEIR OWN bread and have yoghurt available... all we have is chocolate bars mostly and if lucky, some bananas... no wonder our nation is sick. We are feeding mostly junk and most kids don't even know how food is grown :(
I'm a 66 yr old 'transplant' from California living in Washington state for 23 years. Driving past most grade schools in my county, I've seen the raised bed gardens in each school yard. Here, they are encouraging the children to grow the food of their choosing, and though I'm not involved, am assuming that they are teaching about composting and anything else that helps put nutrients back into the soil. Little by little our young humans are changing the way their generation brings about a healthier way to eat. I applaud their determination 👏
The bipartisan cooperation angle here is exactly what's needed for food policy reform. When a Democratic senator and Republican rep can find common ground on something as fundamental as food sovereignty, it shows how disconnected current regulations are from what people actualy want. The constitutional amendment approach is smart too since it creates a more durable protection than just statutory changes that can get reversed easily.
The plus sides to all this are obvious; a boon to those who want independence from "the system". And of course they deserve it. Anything less in a supposed 'free country' would be a disgrace. But that is a tiny proportion of Americans. Does MAHA envision a future of extremely decentralized food sovereignty? Sounds nice, but there might be downsides, and we won't get there anytime soon (barring a Carrington event or something colossal like that). What I'm getting at, is that I can see all this food liberty language giving carte blanche to our corporate overlords to put all manner of filth in our food. Freedom is important, sure, but the bigger issues harming food quality are a lack of options and a lack of disclosure - the way 'big food' lies by omission. e.g. "Natural flavor"? Ok, so you don't want to say what it really is. Wait, the oil in these potato chips was made how!? etc. etc.
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I would like MAHA to be bi-partisan. Rs nor Ds should "own" our health. To have the idea that either the Rs or the Ds is only for healthy food is against the "commons".
I hope this "food freedom" amendment will be added to every state constitution. Family farms are constantly threatened by unsustainable financial pressures. They must be encouraged and supported. Thanks for this informative article.
This article by John Klar was amazing. My friend (John Murphy) and I in Northern Arizona are starting again "Victory Gardens" from WW2. We are hiring young people to help old people with their gardens. We call this the "God Squad". We could use help. Who can we contact to help us? This is our podcast how to make 100 healthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTH-vdxFaaU This is our golf tournament to raise money for the God Squad. https://www.prescottfoodforest.com/
Wonderful!
Thank you Letsrock. I hope you have a sunshine day. Sending you hugs from Arizona.
Thank you! You as well!
Hearing something positive for a change is so much appreciated and needed. I'm hoping that now RFKJ will delve into the important task of dismantling the CHEMTRAIL horror show and HAARP and DEWS by extension. Our food can only be as healthy/clean as by the soil, water and air which they have been hell bent on destroying for years now.
I so agree with you Letsrock about the chemtrails and geoengineering that’s blocking our sun and putting God only knows what kind of chemicals into our atmosphere and rain/snow! I listened to a podcast by Jimmy Dore who interviewed a man that has been studying this for years. He showed a map of the states that showed the impact of what it would look like if a heavy load was dumped into the atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. then I was watching the national weather and saw the map of the states and low and behold it was the same map!!
I talked to a friend who lives in Mt Shasta, Ca and she said they really haven’t seen much of anything snow wise and temps were above normal. I live on the East Coast in CT and we are having a prolonged frigid cold spell-close to 2 weeks now!
A podcast I listen to out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, mentions that they have had no snow this year! He acknowledges that the highest mountains around them have snow, but their normal snowfall this current winter season is absent!
We are heading into our third week of this freeze 🥶
Minus 2 this morning at 6:30
What needs to be added is restrictions on state and local laws regarding raising chickens. Here you can't have a coop within 150 feet of a dwelling. So most households can't raise chickens. Im ok with no roos due to crowing. But a flock of 6 chickens is no messier or noisy than a couple of dogs. And homegrown eggs beat anything you can buy from the store.
Courts can, and often do come up with absurd rulings of course, but the language in Maine is broad. It would cover this.
More affordable, and the ability to sell the surplus, too, after providing to friends and extended family!
It's important to consider the soil, air, and water as a commons. It's not meant to be monopolized by transnational corporations destroying our ecology, our health, and our economy. That is why I proposed the Food Accountability and Transparency Act (FATA), Reclaiming the Soil & Water Commons, and the Policy to Establish the Separation of the Corporatocracy and the State on Policies for the People. It's also why I've joined with @drandreaphd and the CEO of Food Forest Abundance to form the non-profit, Origins Reclaimed (https://www.orginsreclaimed.org), to champion food sovereignty, to shift our culture from poison laden lawn monocropping and centralized industrialized food production, to decentralized organic, biodynamic, regenerative, syntropic food forests. No one should have the right to tell people they can't grow gardens on their own properties like HOA's presently do. It's time for a resurgence in Victory gardens like Jacqueline Capriotti @healthrevolutionusa advocates for with the Victory Garden Alliance @victorygardenalliance (https://victorygardenalliance.com/). It's time to divest from poisons, from genetically modified seed patents, and invest in organic local community supported agriculture (CSA's), and converting lawns to food throughout the United States of America.
It's nice to see someone using the term 'commons'. It's a critical concept, absent from most everyone's imaginings/headspace. Please keep doing so!
No doubt you've heard the centuries-old poem:
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
Amazing! Bipartisan! For WE THE PEOPLE.
This is definitely what I voted for.
MAHA will be a mid-term force!
Thank you Maine for getting this done.
MAHA should not be partisan. Big Corps are the problem. Not the R or the D
Good. Ukraine and most European countries have been doing this for decades. Grow local. Grow organic. support local farmers and everyone with land should be growing own food!!! Teach the children to do it as well. I spent my childhood picking and planting potatoes in a small farm in Ukraine... I grew up eating tomatoes and cucumbers in the garden. When I came to America, I didn't even look twice at the junk food and fast food because I wasn't raised this way. The fact that HERE in California there are schools that serve Doritos and Cup O Noodle to children disgusts me!!! We shouldn't be feeding MSG to children!!! Each child should be taught how food is grown and what is healthy vs. not healthy!!! Thank you Mr. Kennedy for turning this boat around. I have been waiting for this for over 20 years.
The Next thing that needs to happen: to completely OVERTURN the food at the gas stations. If you go to a gas station in Ukraine or Austria or Switzerland they have fresh juices, salads, and like 20 different versions of sparkling water. In America: msg chips and 20 different types of Sodas... HUGE difference. American gas station stores serve 90% junk versus Europeans are 80% healthy... time tO STOP SELLING JUNK AT THE GAS STATIONS!
Gas stations in Switzerland even BAKE THEIR OWN bread and have yoghurt available... all we have is chocolate bars mostly and if lucky, some bananas... no wonder our nation is sick. We are feeding mostly junk and most kids don't even know how food is grown :(
I'm a 66 yr old 'transplant' from California living in Washington state for 23 years. Driving past most grade schools in my county, I've seen the raised bed gardens in each school yard. Here, they are encouraging the children to grow the food of their choosing, and though I'm not involved, am assuming that they are teaching about composting and anything else that helps put nutrients back into the soil. Little by little our young humans are changing the way their generation brings about a healthier way to eat. I applaud their determination 👏
The bipartisan cooperation angle here is exactly what's needed for food policy reform. When a Democratic senator and Republican rep can find common ground on something as fundamental as food sovereignty, it shows how disconnected current regulations are from what people actualy want. The constitutional amendment approach is smart too since it creates a more durable protection than just statutory changes that can get reversed easily.
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The plus sides to all this are obvious; a boon to those who want independence from "the system". And of course they deserve it. Anything less in a supposed 'free country' would be a disgrace. But that is a tiny proportion of Americans. Does MAHA envision a future of extremely decentralized food sovereignty? Sounds nice, but there might be downsides, and we won't get there anytime soon (barring a Carrington event or something colossal like that). What I'm getting at, is that I can see all this food liberty language giving carte blanche to our corporate overlords to put all manner of filth in our food. Freedom is important, sure, but the bigger issues harming food quality are a lack of options and a lack of disclosure - the way 'big food' lies by omission. e.g. "Natural flavor"? Ok, so you don't want to say what it really is. Wait, the oil in these potato chips was made how!? etc. etc.
This is inspiring. We see through this type of action, what can happen when we see each other as people rather than the opposition party.
the WV constitutional amendment you cite here is from 2023. There is not a current effort in the state to do this, but there should be!
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Thank You, John. I will incorporate this into my next blog post.
I would like MAHA to be bi-partisan. Rs nor Ds should "own" our health. To have the idea that either the Rs or the Ds is only for healthy food is against the "commons".