Sustainable – 2016 Documentary – We have become Disconnected from our Food Supply

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The narrative of the film focuses on Marty Travis, a seventh-generation farmer in central Illinois who watched his land and community fall victim to the pressures of big agribusiness. Determined to create a proud legacy for his son, Marty transforms his profitless wasteland and pioneers the sustainable food movement in Chicago.

Our land and water is being terribly mismanaged.

Conventional vs Organic – 30 years of studies indicate the yields are the SAME but conventional is using herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers that is destroying microorganisms in the soil and depleted the soil from Zinc.

Using Yields are the sole measuring stick is what got us in trouble in the first place.
Organic / Non-Conventional Farmers are TRADING short term GAIN for long-term stability. They are working for the long-haul of humanity.

Conventional Farmers have come to rely on the Industry and the Government.

What if the government goes broke and the industry can no longer provide the herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers? Will the soil be healthy enough to grow crops or will the nutrients be too depleted?

How long would it take to turn that dead soil back into live soil?

It is time to take a look at how disease began to go up when industrialized farming took off.

What is Local Food? If Tropicana imports Orange Juice Concentrate from Brazil and uses water from Florida and ships across the state border to Georgia to sell, is this local? Is this fresh? Is this considered natural? Is concentrate as healthy as fresh juice?

Is Uniformity ruining the land? Everyone is growing the same crops with the same fertilizers the same way. Is that nature's way?

Why does a loaf of bread have 50 ingredients? What’s up with that? Can that even be healthy? What is the purpose to all of these ingredients?

Breads can be made with grain and water alone and definitely under 6 ingredients with no fillers, no flavor additives, no preservatives and no artificial colors.

Did you know that 95% of the animals consumed in the USA are raised in confinement?

You have chickens that will never see light of day and never have a six-inch space to move around in without touching another chicken. Since they are so crowded their food contains “medicine” and antibiotics – treating illnesses before there is an illness. That medicine gets pushed down food chain to the consumers and our waste contains those chemicals to just add to the environmental toxicity.

The animals are literally SICK animals because of the type of foods they are fed. They are diseased animals. We are eating diseased meats.

The regulations by the 3 letter agencies give not only give permission to pollute the environment with wastes but encourages them to do so.

Natures way is that plants and animals work together, and diversity helps nature thrive. Constant replenishing occurs this way. The grounds remain alive, fertile and nutrient dense.

Healthy plants that get the proper nutrition are not attacked by insects. Insects have an innate sense to eat plants that are weak. The same goes with humans, viruses and pathogens will take advantage of a person who is malnourished.

Excess Potassium in the soil will inhibit calcium uptake. Manganese is a potassium regulator which allows the calcium to be absorbed into the plant.

Unfortunately, farmers are unaware of an plan that goes back to early 1900’s to when the Federal Reserve was put in – the plan includes to build America by making everyone dependent upon the government in some way, shape or form and then destroying it by removing those subsidies. In this process, uniformity was established in the farming industry and within this uniformity were GMO seeds, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers which in the beginning will lead to great profits and margins but in the end as we wake up, we learn that this road has only brought us disease and was the wrong road to take.

Farmers will be dependent on the CORPORATION to supply it with GMO seeds. The Corporation and it’s parent corporation, the Government, will control the fate of supplies.

What happens when the government goes rogue and decides to cut subsidies, raise taxes and have “events” that destroy the GMO seeds that farmers are dependent on?

Farmers will be left with soil that will take years to be replenished and they will have few to no seeds as most farmers do not save seeds.

Everything seems GREAT right now in the present time as commodities are high as well as margins. When you give a government corporation this much power and control – it is a BAD situation to be in when they decide to pull the plug everything.

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