The New Plague: Genetically Modified Foods – Episode 051
Jun 3rd, 2011 | By Off The Grid Radio | Category: Radio | Print This Article
How is it that 50 to 100 million head of buffalo could roam the Great Plains area several centuries ago, with no loss of topsoil, with no requirement for fertilizer, and no pesticides to keep the grasslands going, yet on that same acreage today, with only about 45 million head of cattle, we’ve got topsoil erosion that is taking all the chemicals that farmers and ranchers are spraying onto their pastures and crops, running them down the great Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, and creating a dead zone the size of Massachusetts? What has happened to our agriculture?
What has happened to our health?
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View Text TranscriptionPlease join Bill Heid, Brian Brawdy, and Jerry Brunetti for a wonderful episode on this week’s Off the Grid Radio! Jerry Brunetti is an international lecturer and speaker on topics that include soil fertility, animal nutrition, and livestock health. In addition, he’s the author of the book Cancer, Nutrition, and Healing, a book he wrote describing his diagnosis of cancer and how, using holistic modalities, Jerry was able to overcome the disease.
In this episode:
- The new DDT – genetically-modified crops
- An 80% loss in family farms – outsourcing our farmers
- The modern chemical holocaust against our dirt
- Healing through nutrition
And more…
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Hi,
That was a really excellent hour of great information and I intend to order the DVD Top notch
Thanks for the great info1
You and your quacks are nuts,
I am one of the remaining 20% of the family frarmers. We also raise cattle and your quacks say the cattel are a major contibator to the green house gasses,to which I say bull shit!!! what about the millions of bison we wiped out, I guess they didn’t shit??? how was the green house gas with millions of bison running around?
GET A LIFE!!!
The million buffalo didn’t have 50 million cars down the road spewing carbon.
Farmers are the most honorable of professionals. My hat’s off to all of you. My complaints are with factory farming. Breeding animals to kill, poisoning water supply, shit to choke the air & land, using more water than ANY industry, pumping animals full of antibiotics & hormones, using more grain per pound of meat than could feed more people and no compassion of how they treat the animals. They are not farmers but meat producers for greed.
Red Ralph,
It’s a shame that you are so defensive when the support you will end up receiving is from the “quacks”. You are missing the entire point as people want to eat clean, wholesome, food, produced by the minority family farmer. What happened to the days when corporations did not run our farms and pollute our food with garbage? Well gee wizz, I know– the corporations lobby those in our government who are receiving legal bribes at the cost of greed. More money, more money more money.
Do you think they care about you or the American people? Thankfully those who are working on their own time to defend farmers like yourself are looking for human justice. Something that our politicians have been bought out by the almighty dollar. Even Haiti denied genetically modified seed in their country from the Grand Monsanto–I think hunger is a problem there the last time I checked, but they have more honor than to poison there friends, family and comrades. Open your eyes and don’t get brain washed by those who want the “quacks” to remain looking like “quacks” at your expense.
I agree with Red Ralph about the issue of green house gas.
I have been on farms and around them all my life and in that time the farmers have been blamed for every thing from death of political parties to greenhouse gasses. Come on! Without the manure these animals produce the land would be barren! The Amish can take a totally burned out farm and in five years have it producing. The “miracle” product? MANURE!
And by the way… anyone want to figure the amount of “greenhouse gases” that were released in the 1820′s when Krakatoa cut loose? There isn’t a damn thing man could have done to change that! Instead of worrying about how much methane farm animals produce let throw Congress out – ever time they open their mouths it’s a flood of hot air !!!
Farmers that produce vegetables, grains, fruits, beans, along with a few cows, pigs & chickens with their manure is great. The most honorable profession, anybody will agree. But these “factory farms” that produce only meat – cows, pigs or chickens, are the ones produceing the tons of methane, poisoning water supplies, polluting the air, earth & water, using too many antibiotics, steroids & hormones, breeding to kill and offering absolutely no creature comforts or protections to the animals. It’s business from greed, un-like a real farmer.
That is the business the complaints are about.
this is one smart guy IMHO. And I like smart, knowledgeable people…
WHY has this happened? Is there a conspiracy to ruin the land and sterilize the population? People with lots of money have made those wishes known. (The mother Earth cannot sustain sooo many people. I pledge my resources to reducing the no of people on the planet.) See Bill Gates and Ted Turner.
Grow an heirloom garden, folks! Use lots of natural compost and manure too. It sounds like our bodies will benefit, not just from the vitimin D from b eing outside in the sun, but also from the robust way the minerals are absorbed into what you grow, and that is what will really boost your immune system…sounds cool!
I said it before and I’ll say it agin. What I’m about to say, I want you to think about it. When they put HORMONES , steriods,or a lot of antibiotics, in any cow, pig ,chicken or any farm animal, where do you think it goes. I’ll tell you where it goes. IT goes into the blood then into the meat that you eat. Yes some comes out in the manure. But a lot stays in the meat that you eat. What do you do you think it does to our body’s?So if you can eat more organic meat, vegetables and fruit where they don’t use any hormones, steriods, antibiotics, chemicals, pesticides, or genetically- modified crops or seeds we would be alot better off health wise. Not All Farmers Use Hormones and Chemicals and stuff.But alot do and I understand Why They use Them because They have large payment s on their farm or cattle or machinery so they have to make there animals grow faster to get to market to make their payments. Its not easy being a farmer to make aliving. FAMERS are about the lowest paid for what ever they produse. So the Goverment should protect The FARMERS , Make it a little easier on the farmer to pay their payments on cattle, farm,machinery,etc.so they can make a living. So they don’t have to use all that stuff. Because it’s not good for them to breath in those chemicals. A lot of the farmers have gone out of farming because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of every thing going up and their pricing staying the same on there products, Beef,Pork, Chickens,Eggs, Milk, When every thing went up The FARMERS tried stick out but they could not keep up. And we LOST A LOT OF GOOD FARMERS ALSO A LOT OF GOOD FARM LAND. WHITH OUT THE FARMERS WHERE IS THE FOOD AND THE MEAT, VEGETABLE, FRUIT COMING FROM? THinka bout it. OUR GOVERMENT COULD AND SHOULD ( HELP) THE FARMER TO STAY IN FARMING WITHOUT ALL THE HORMONES AND CHEMICALS,etc WITH OUT THE FARMERS (WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO NATION) THE NATION WE LOVE AND LIVE IN, THINK ABOUT IT>
There has been a lot of questions asked about the bee population declining. Seems logical to me that if GMO fruit and vegetables can harm ie: make us less fertile….is that not what is happening to the bees?
My family pioneered the High Country in sth eastern Australia. The original High Country cattlemen. Of this I am proud. But that does not prevent me from facing the fact that much of our methods and treatment of the country has been and remains appalling. If the hat fits wear it I say. Put that precious ego aside and get on with the changes required.
Cattle are scapegoats for a non-problem. The Earth’s climate goes through cycles, and we happen to be able to take notice of even subtle changes right now. Politicians and corporate bigheads are pros at playing the Blame Game. That being said, IMHO, every one of us can do more to support our local farmers. Every one of us can make concious decisions when we shop to buy locally and organically grown produce. Most areas even have a dairy farm not too far away. Will it costs more for you? Probably. I substitute at least one more item every week from my grocery list and make the choice to buy from either a local producer or an organic farm. I can hardly wait till my own garden comes in!
What episode number was the interview with Dr. Arden Andersen? I know it will be great!