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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

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“Freedom refers inwardly to our moral lives, and outwardly to choosing among alternatives that define our lives. Liberty, in contrast refers to the physical aspects of freedom.”
The War Against the Family by William Gairdner

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I want to thank local farmers Magi and Don Buchanan of China Valley Poultry Farm for the delicious pastured turkey.

This Thanksgiving I have much to be thankful for. I have a healthy family, a successful business, and a happy marriage.

But during holiday times, food is always on my mind. I want to especially thank local farmers Magi and Don Buchanan of China Valley Poultry Farm for the delicious pastured turkey that honored my family’s table. The organic squash from Ed and Daniela Basile of Sun River Organics made a fantastic pumpkin dessert.

But I found myself looking at the richness of my holiday table. I could not name all the faceless, nameless people that have worked to provide such a rich bounty. I found myself grateful for the spontaneous order of the market — that like magic — had brought this bounty to my home.

“The expression ‘the paradox of freedom’ means that whenever we exercise our freedom we limit ourselves, simple by choosing one alternative over another… The important point here is that to use our freedom is to limit our freedom in all sorts of ways.”

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A BIG thank you to all the faceless, nameless people that make up the spontaneous order of the market and provide my family will such a rich bounty.

I know not everyone would like pastured turkey for Thanksgiving. I then thanked the free market for providing moose, lamb, pork, goose, fish and tofurkey (tofu turkey) for those that would prefer these options. I found myself glad that people that preferred to eat Thanksgiving at McDonald’s could do so, while others would enjoy a five course offering at the Brownstone.

I found myself thankful for all the choices that the market brings to my community.

“The glory of our freedom is that by limiting it in one way, and not the other, we define ourselves by our actions. We live and feel our freedom by making positive decisions to say ‘no’ to specific alternatives. At bottom, freedom is the ability to say ‘no’.”

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I want to to thank organic farmers Ed and Daniela Basile of Sun River Organics for the fantastic squash that made a delicious pumpkin dessert. The recipes are below.

Happy Thanksgiving! May we continue to have food freedom. May we continue to have the personal liberty to celebrate the holiday as we see fit.

Holiday Dinner Menu
Onion Gravy
Crock Hot Peppers

Weston A Price Foundation ACTION ALERT for Polish Farmers

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I received this Action Alert from the Weston A Price Foundation. They are requesting all Weston A Price Foundation members and people interested in food freedom to commence a letter writing campaign to mobilize against government interference with private property rights and food freedom. This is an act of solidarity with Polish farmers that are facing increased government regulation from the European Union which will put them out of business.

International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) wants to raise “public awareness of the importance of the small family farm in creating an ecologically sensitive, long-term solution to the countryside, which avoids the destructive consequences of CAP policies. ICPPC is non-governmental organization and co-operates with all who want to promote and protect the Polish countryside’s natural and cultural biodiversity.”

Friends!

In Poland the battle to?save Polish farmland from corporate buy-outs’ continues. But that’s not all the Polish farmers are up against… See link to film. Tractors have been blockading government institutions from 14 January…

Regulations that the?Warsaw?government?has imposed over the years have?made?it?virtually impossible?to sell farm?processed foods to local shops, schools or private individuals. The only way farmers can conform with the hygiene and sanitary regulations imposed from above, is by carrying out their simple processing tasks in specially designed and equipped buildings that none can afford to build or to adapt… except the very large producers supplying the food industry and supermarkets. Yes, that’s right — it’s all about destroying the competition — which in this case is the small and medium sized independent family farms that produce the best foods!

There are still one and a half million such farms in Poland!

ICPPC is supporting the protesting farmers to highlight this grossly unfair treatment of all who wish to provide fine quality, flavorful and ‘real’ farmhouse-foods in their own localities.

You too can be part of this vital protest…

Join in by sending a brief letter in support of the farmers to Prime Minister Tusk urging him to change the regulations so that family farmers can sell their products locally! And send a copy of your letter to us here at ICPPC: biuro@icppc.pl. You can donate to ICPPC here.

Contact to Prime Minister:
Premier Rz?du RP Donald Tusk, Secretariat of the Prime Minister
Aleje Ujazdowskie 1/3, 00-583 Warszawa, Poland
F: +48 (22) 694 70 53
E: sprm@kprm.gov.pl

With greetings,
Jadwiga and Julian

Karen Selick: The State, Children and Freedom

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Karen Selick is a lawyer with the Canadian Constitution Foundation. If you love food freedom please donate to the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

For more information about raw milk and food freedom please see Food Freedom: The Politics of Food.

Happy Canada Day!

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“Fireweed removes anger and transmutes karma. It is the remedy of restoration. When life destroys us, Fireweed flower essence helps us to successfully start over. Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes of the fire, it helps you to connect to your Higher Self and encourage spiritual breakthroughs. With this comes renewed passion, discovering what your purpose in life is. What you are doing has importance and needs to be done.”
Wild Rose College of Natural Healing

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I just had to share my “health hazard” appetizer, topped with black-market cheese. The Fireweed is for transmuting my anger into a spiritual breakthrough. Think it’s working?

WARNING: This post is a piece of humorous fiction and should not be read as a statement of truth.

We enjoyed our Canada Day Feast beginning with a Black-Market Cheese Appetizer, followed by an illegally produced fermented meat called Sopressata. All washed down with black-market raw milk. The main course was uninspected beef ? killed without appropriate permits ? with a bone broth gravy made from industrial organic shiitakes. The vegetable medley was from unwashed garden vegetables grown in humanure! Dessert was wild strawberries collected by a Metis person without a harvesting licence and without the appropriate paperwork being filed!

We finished off our meal with a snort of moonshine, followed by an after-dinner smoke of medical marijuana?produced by a unregistered grower! The smoke helped with my depression over the fact that “everything I want to do is illegal.”

Every year that passes, it seems easier to find oneself on the wrong side of the law.

Happy Frickin’ Canada Day!

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In a free country, artisan foods should not be hard to get. Nor should growing or keeping animals for household use be illegal. Farmers shouldn’t be running scare from government enforcers.

If you love food freedom consider donating to the Canadian Constitution Foundation. You don’t even have to cut your hair. Just send the money!

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Enjoy with me a Freedom Salad made of unwashed permaculture lettuce with garden weeds, bugs and dirt. Don’t let the bureaucrats take away our access to nourishing traditional foods.

Fresh Milk, Food Politics in Vancouver, BC

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If you value the freedom to choose the kinds of foods on your table please come to Fresh Milk, Food Politics in Vancouver, BC.

When: April 6, 2013
Time: 8:30am-8:30pm
Where: Ukrainian Cathedral, 154 East 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 3E5
Cost: $99.00
Buy Tickets Here: Fresh Milk, Food Politics

Jackie Ingram and Alice Jongerden of Home On The Range invite you to Fresh Milk, Food Politics. “Please join us for a day of networking, activism and food politics. Dynamic speakers and food exhibits, followed by a wonderful local cheese and wine party to end the day!”

I will be running an information table for the Weston A Price Foundation. Please come and meet the people trying to ensure that you can have the food you want on your plate. If you would like to have some background history about raw milk and food freedom please read: Food Freedom: The Politics of Food.

Updated April 11, 2013: I wanted to share some pictures from Fresh Milk, Food Politics. Apparently, there will be videos of the lectures on the website soon. There were two lectures that I found particularly interesting. Karen Selick from the Canadian Constitution Foundation lectured on how the government uses children to restrict personal freedoms and Nadine Ijaz from the Pacific Rim College outlined the science behind the myths and truths around raw milk.

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From the left are Mark McAfee, Micheal Schmidt, Jason Grati and Alice Jongerden. These are the people who are fighting for your food freedom.

Mark McAfee from Organic Pastures runs the largest raw milk dairy in California. In California you can buy raw milk in stores. Micheal Schmidt is from Glencolton Farm in Ontario. Michael has been fighting the government for nearly twenty years for the right of herdshare owners to drink milk from their own herd. Jason Gratl is the lawyer for Alice Jongerden from Home on the Range. Alice runs Canada’s largest herdshare program.

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This is Raoul Bedi with the Canadian Consumer Raw Milk Advocacy Group getting signatures to petition the government for raw milk sales in Canada.

Canadian Consumer Raw Milk Advocacy Group

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Slow Food Vancouver was a supporter of Fresh Milk, Food Politics.

Slow Food Vancouver

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This is Kate Hutchinson from Whole Family Nutrition. She is a specialist on the GAPS program.

Whole Family Nutrition

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The Weston A Price Kamloops Chapter was an exhibitor. It was great to meet all the people working — and sacrificing — to keep nourishing traditional foods on everyone’s table.

Updated April 19, 2013: Here are just two short interviews with Karen Selick and Nadine Ijaz. There are many more interviews from Fresh Milk, Food Politics.