The good news is that more and more local communities have farms that are switching to organically grown crops. This way, we get the best of both worlds,,,organic and local.

Talk to your local farmers about going organic; make them understand that it is better for all in the long run---even their bottom line.

Best Regards

Dr Dave

I remember visiting my Grandmother in Kansas (1970s) and having to go out and help her pick veggies (yuk) from the garden for dinner. She taught me how to pick the green beans and ate one right there while she was picking. Of course I was polite when she offered me one....  and upon chewing, I thought it was one of the most amazing things I had ever tasted!!!!!  Islander is SO correct, kids would love their veggies if we only had the kind of soil and organic methods my Grandmother had.

Well it sounds as well as American arrogance.

Sounds a bit like American arrogance as well.

Mary, If you ever bother to do research of your own, on your own, you will find that a good amount of research comes from overseas.  I agree with all the replies.

Gudni Einarsson,

Careful not to confuse American corporations with the American public.  Huge numbers of us here are very aware of what's going on.  We are protesting, and it's either being restricted or not covered.  We are active, but the corporations have stolen the government.  People can be incarcerated indefinitely without reason, etc., etc.

I recently toured Germany, and one kind woman asked what it was like to be in the US right now.  She compared it to the beginnings of Nazi power where one knows there is something really awful going on, and one even tries to stop it, but we haven't figured out exactly how to get it to change.

Personally, I think if everyone here really stopped buying all but the absolute bare necessities such as organic food and decent shelter even for just a short period of time, the corporations would crumble and the power would come back to the people.  This could be one way of going about it without violence.

EQ - Thank you for defending those of us who do know the tragic consequences of ignorance....You have a perfect solution!  Let's keep trying to educate.

Scary about the correlation between Germany prior to WWII and the United States prior to .....(what's scarier, is it's true!)

Let every devious, corrupt and harmful corporation to the planet, to the animals and to humans die off as quickly as possible!

RE: correlation between Germany prior to WWII and the United States prior to .....

You guys think small.

Have you read George Orwell’s 1984?

We are driving straight at it. In a few generations, we will live to see some permutation of “Big Brother”.  We have the technology talked about in the book, we will have it more so in the future, and we have the biochemistry down now. There are some ideas in the book that are too radical to discuss here, but I can envision them coming true sooner than you might think. (and I am talking about the stuff at the back of the book.)

KT, that was Mary's point... her statement at the beginning of the sentence referred to what she thinks will be the reply of big business. It seems you made the mistake I always do, reading too fast, and not to the end. I still do it, you'd think I'd learn... but I read a bit and jump to conclusions instead of reading the whole shabang!

I've lived 25y in Denmark and 20y in the US.  I can tell you this, Americans are as smart as Danes, or any other group of people.  But by God, most Americans are ignorant to point it is embarrassing. But it's not their fault.  It's the fault of them being swallowed up by the American belief system, the brainwashing news and commercials, the American selfish value system and the worst of them all, the so-called American dream.  It's all focused on money, lies and self gratification.

My toes curl up when Bush mentions Gods name.  God is for society, caring and unselfishness.  Any God that I know of represents these fundamental traits.  America calls itself "God's own country".  I makes me wanna puke.  To succeed in this country, you "must" follow the money - you "must" adopt the American dream abc - you can't afford to be open minded - be ignorant and follow the crowd if you wanna make that first $1M.

Even my own wife, who's a highly educated and successful person, is ignorant.  Occasionally, I can reach her, though that is the exception.  Even when I do manage to make her see the light, it's only a matter of time before she relapses into robotic state.  She's been brainwashed - and I don't have the skills nor energy to reverse this.  She can not fathom that inorganic pasteurized milk might be bad for our kids or that giving them chocholate chip cookies before bedtime is a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

It's therefore no wonder to me that medical doctors, news casters, scientists,  our government, etc can not comprehend these things either.  It's not that they are not smart.  It's simply that there exists a mental block to even consider the possibility that the food we eat is no good.  It's too much for them...and of course they also won't believe it because it's bad for business and bad for their careers.

Michael