Why I'm a food activist....
Because I'm a daughter, mother, sister, cousin...Because I eat, breathe and live on planet earth!
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| Save the Bee's Buy Blue |
Do you know about GMO's what they are and why they are in almost all the food in the grocery store now days? Please watch these two short videos to help explain why it's so important. Above are photos from our March and day of learning in Eugene at the annual March Against Monsanto event on May 25, 2014. I also was featured in the local news story that was carried nationally.
I'm a mom, my daughter has asthma, my husband has asthma, my brother has asthma, my baby has food allergies, my brother has food allergies and I have an auto immune disease... I'm sick of being sick and my family being sick and I want the choice to direct my own health!
The connection between Glyphosate and our gut bacteria is the Shikimate Pathway (Entropy vol.15, issue 4) Google it!
I'll be marching in Corvallis this year (if it's really crappy I'll be in Yachats parade) It's so important to know what is in our food. More important how to keep our children and families safe from harmful pesticides and additives.
In my child care setting along with my family I serve roughly 90% organic scratch cooked foods. Why would I pay that expense one would ask...well for starters this beach cottage only has room for so many ingredients in it's kitchen and downstairs in the pantry, it would be too hard to separate it out, and well I just can't risk exposing my children to them. So we all get to learn how to bake, try new foods, make all our dressings from scratch and have the occasional store bought treat, but it's rather rare. I also participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program thru Nutrition First in Salem. While it only reimburses a very small fraction of our food costs in a whole, any little bit helps. I've also found Raw Milk from the Yachats River Road Farmstand and own a Cow Share with Triple D Ranch so my family can drink raw milk (with the exception of FB who is sensitive to milk)
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| My Free Farm Fresh Flowers from Yachats |
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| Yachat's River Road Farm stand |
Once Upon a Time all food was Organic! To Find a Farm in your neck of Oregon check out http://myoregonfarm.org/ nothing is better than farm fresh veggies, meat and dairy. Oregon has some of the highest percentages of small family farms in the nation and our GMO fight is to protect that way of life. You can read more about it here: Let's hope we've collected enough signatures for the Right to Know GMO labeling campaign that is wrapping up this month. I was trained as a signature collector in Eugene last month and have been trying to get out as much as I can to collect registered voters signatures. Find your Moms Across America information here:
www.momsacrossamerica.com and more on social media here https://www.facebook.com/MomsAcrossAmerica
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| I'll be marching in Corvallis this year! |
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