TREADING HAZARDOUS TURF

OUR ENDANGERED FOOD SUPPLY
Motivated by The Diane Rehm Show, 07.08.09 @10:00 AM
Concerning outbreaks of Salmonella & E-coli contamination
from eggs, nuts, processed cookie dough - Need Tougher F. S. Standards.

Persons invited for comments included Michael Taylor, Senior Advisor to FDA (strong previous ties to MONSANTO, (for details see http:/www.politicalfriendster.com), New York Times writer, Gardner Harris, and Caroline Smith DeWaal, Director of Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The discussion made it evident that FDA and USDA have been unable to provide the number of inspections and laboratory services needed to warn about widespread food contaminations that have caused serious illnesses and deaths. Increased surveillance, a step in the right direction, but is that enough?

THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM

Harris's NY Times June 12, 2009 article, "A federal study identified chicken as the most common source of food poisoning in the United States in 2006", based on a Center for Disease Control and Prevention report issued a few days before, and also implicating leafy vegetables, fruits and nuts.

Tim O'Brian in the ECOLOGIST, June 1, 2002, Factory Farming and Human Health, stated that "In the range of areas, from feeding regimes, to animal housing, to the use of drugs in pursuit of productivity, human health may be threatened by factory farming. Imposing industrial standards on farm animals may quite literally be producing fatal flaws in the end product - OUR FOOD.

And what about growing crops? Disease-loaded waste products from these poultry and animal farms are polluting the atmosphere, our water supply, and farm land. Even our gardens are threatened by the wrong choice of manures.

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WILDEGEEST! - synonym for - EXCELSIOR!

The inspirational basis for the ever-onward battle-cry, WILDEGEEST!
is Longfellow's poem, EXCELSIOR! (1843); Latin/Greek phrases - "Higher, more elevated".

Our introductory statement as a foundation : "GREETINGS! I hope you're aboard as seekers for a longer, better life, for those past fifty, and for those isolated, lonely, and victimized by the hard place, both determined to remain a vital part of society, unthreatened by
age-based segregation ."

Dr. Lawrence Hanks, Ph. D., Dept. Political Science, Indiana University stated, "The miraculous advancement of modern medicine has created a cohort of older Americans who are more energetic and vibrant than their predecessors. Much of their energy has been channeled into the protection of their interest. Thus, issues of mandatory retirement, Medicare, and Medicaid, are issues of vital importance to American politicians.

Such "issues" are only part of the complexities and attitude readustments needed to achieve equal rights, equal treatment for all U. S. citizens - a new stage in our history! Alan Pope of Duquest University, in "The Elderly in Modern Society, A Cultural Phychological Reading" stated that "History has demonstrated a dramatic reduction in respect and veneration for the elderly members of Western Societies. According to David Hackett Fisher and David Cowgill, historical sources located this decline in industrial and economic factors."

Recent Articles : ECONOMICS

THE ECONOMIST, June 27th-July 3rd 2009, p.13. American health care. This is going to hurt; p. 18. Ageing in the rich world. The end of retirement; After page 52,
Special Report : Aging Populations.
A slow-burning fuse.

FORBES, July 13, 2009, P.22. New Age Thinker - It's high time says this economist, to rethink
aging, retirement and government benefits.

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LOCAVORE

Word of the Year 2007 - Oxford/American Dictionary

"Should you be a locavore?" asks U. of Cal. at Berkeley, Wellness Letter, July, 2009.
"One of the hot issues in food shopping these days is locally grown food ...
a locavore is one who eats only food grown within a radius of 100 miles."

Sorry Folks, the lower U. S. 48 states' regions are too varied and complex for a 100 mile
limitation, unless it applies only to the "garden spots". The lower 48 states contain about
340 million acres of "cropland", which includes "harvested, crop failure, and cultivated
summer fallow". "Total agricultural land" is 1171 million acres, while "Total non-ag. land"
is 723 million acres - ( Year-2003 statistics). There's lots of room for "home grown",
but the "radius definition" requires regional and logistical adjustments.

The article mentions the inconsistencies of Locavore. "Locally grown fruits and vegetables picked just before you eat them will almost certainly taste better than those shipped 2000 miles. and if you buy only local, variety will be limited most of the year..Frozen and even canned fruits and vegetables are nutritious too. In conclusion, a "Word to the Wise - One sure way to cut carbon emissions while improving your health : Eat less red meat. Beef is the most
environmentally expensive food of all. According to Scientific American, "producing the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driving more than 1,800 miles."

Wildegeest Foundation's EarthWise Farm, located on Bogue Sound within a mile of the Atlantic Ocean, can readily exceed the expectations of LOCAVORES. When the "one hundred mile radius is swung full circle, one-half of the encompassed area to the south is a prolific source of nutritious seafoods, and the coastal land to the north grows a wide variety of vegetables. Soon we will issue an Email bulletin regarding the farm's 2009 season, and how its production can help provide a meaningful life for persons past fifty.

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NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE**PRACTITIONERS*

* Practitioner - One who practices an art or profession.

** Science - Knowledge, as of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate causes,
gained and verified by exact observation, organized experiment, and correct thinking.

HARK! Two skilled, observant writers are on the bandwagon again! As if
Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" (2001) and Michael Pollen's
"The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) carried insufficient warnings
that the American consumer is seriously endangered by an
UNNATURAL FOOD SUPPLY - A burden to our Health System.

And now there's a documentary of these journalistic warnings. MOVIES,
EATER'S DIGEST, Food, Inc. as described in Time Magazine, 06.22.09, P. 104.

Let there be credit where credit is due - These PRACTITIONERS excell
at telling Americans the score.

But where are the university-trained NUTRITIONAL SCIENTISTS?

There was a time when "land grant colleges" were completely involved
in the practicalities of farm management and safe food supply.
Your narrator witnessed a loyalty shift at a U. of MD. Nutrition Conference
in the late sixties. The AGENDA was over-loaded with pharmaceutical representatives
and invitations to corporate-hospitality-suites.

After a mind-boggling series of introductions to medicated feeds, the audience
respectfully stood up and greeted Dr. F. D. Morrison (Cornell), author of the classic,
Feeds and Feeding, 22nd and final edition, 1958.

Dr. Morrison was visibly upset with the presentations, and emphasized the critical
importance of range land for safe and sane animal husbandry.
The tide was obviously running against this nationally respected animal scientist.
Undoubtedly, one of the turning points, when land grant colleges
abandoned their historical mission, and slipped into corporate hands.

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TheVITALCHOICEWAY

TheVITALCHOICEWAY

(www.vitalchoice.com)
to Improve the Health Benefits of Seafoods

American Heart Association (AHA) Recommendation:
Eat a Seafood Meal Twice Weekly - A wise suggestion.
SEAFOODS - fresh, frozen, preserved, contain
essential nutrients, not always available in other foods.

But Fish and Shellfish Vary
in content of Marine Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids,
needed to Maximize the Health Benefits
predicted by reliable research.

GIVE SEAFOOD DINNERS A BOOST!
(Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Oil to the Rescue)

We urge you to rely on competent medical advice, if available, or to
carefully follow dosage directions recommended by reliable fish oil producers.
On seafood dinner days, the recommended daily number of capsules
should be swallowed for each portion, just before mealtime.

Two portions of seafood/per week, supplemented with fish oil,
may satisfy much of the weekly omega-3 requirement,
since the substances that occur naturally in all seafoods
may boost the biological availability of the added oil.
WAIT AND SEE!!

WILDEGEEST FOUNDATION - Fish Oil Therapy Project
(www.WildegeestFoundation.org)

TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS SIX?

Proverb - 2:2-6

More benefits of Wisdom, for the upright will live in the land, and the blameless
Will live in it.
But the Wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful
Will be torn from it.

Q. - "Hey Narrator - Why no Email Bulletins recently?
A.- Resistand clutch peddle, power takeoff on tractor - Caused painful sprain.
As you know, the leg bone is connected to the head bone.

But in no way did this reduce my concern that the endemic shortage of
Essential long chain omega-3 fatty acids supplied by seafoods
in the average American diet, is causing much pain and suffering.

"Eat fish twice a week", or "Supplement with Fish Oils". Empty words when applied
to unidentified fishery products (species, freshness, processing method, quality).
The consumer needs to know "suitability" in every instance.

The key word may be "Bioavailability".
Low-fat fish, and shelllfish, are not usually considered suitable for the
fish twice weekly recommendation, although even the low-fat varieties contribute
beneficial levels of omega-3 fatty acids, excellent nutrition, and substances likely
to improve the bioavailability of fish oil supplements if taken just before a seafood dinner.

Example : Krill Oil, extracted from tiny shrimp-like creatures, includes substances
other than triglycerides, that greatly improve bioavailability.

Tom Steer, an English nutritionist, said, "While you may have a certain amount of nutrient
within a food, what is actually absorbed may be less. Bioavailability means how much
of that nutrient within a food is usefully absorbed."

SO LET'S PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER
AND AIM FOR SIX.

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