Occupy Monsanto in Boston MA

The biotechnology industry is having a convention June 18-21 in Boston, Massachusetts. In order to attend the sessions you must register for the conference, which costs thousands of dollars. Occupy Monsanto, Millions Against Monsanto, and other food democracy groups will be staging their own "Sidewalk Session" on the first day of the convention outside of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. They hope you can join them.

WHO: Occupy Monsanto, Millions Against Monsanto, & food democracy activists
WHAT: A Sidewalk Session - An open mic for activists to share & expose the dangers of the biotechnology industry
WHERE: Sidewalk in front of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
WHEN: Monday, June 18th, at 8am until 10am
WHY: The biotechnology industry is conspiring to unleash more GMOs into the environment along with more toxic pesticides.

Click Here: to RSVP on Facebook

Or via e-mail: 

GCU@Occupy-Monsanto.com

How to Stop Your Local Farms From Growing GMOs

Some of you have an interest in banning all farming of genetically modified food in your county. I do myself. Luckily Jackson county in Oregon is paving the way for all of us. Go to this website to see how they are doing it. It is easier for all of us to ban GMOs in our individual counties than to try to get a federal law passed. It is also harder for Monsanto to fight all the counties in the United States. Check out Jackson counties proposed county ordinance that was just posted on the below website. Use it as a guide to put something similar on your county ballot.

http://www.gmofreejacksoncounty.org/initiative.html

Eating Like We Breath

This was a line I read in the book series called “The Ringing Cedar Series”. I highly recommend you read this series of books. Everyone I have given it to or recommend read it has found it enriching to their lives. The first one is called Anastasia which you can get at Amazon. 

Eating Like We Breath: I relate to this statement on two levels.

Inhaling nourishment: When I walk through my gardens and smell the air, it feels as if I am getting nourishment from the mere act of breathing in the odors that the plants are emitting. In the early summer when all the plants are blooming and exhaling their wondrous oxygen and voluptuous vapors into the air, I feel heady with glee. As I breath in their vapors I am  filled with a boundless happiness. My emotional being is nourished. I don’t need to ingest these plants to have their constituents become part of my body and effect my brain. The mere act of breathing in the plant vapors affects my brain, my mind, and goes directly to the heart of my soul. I feel filled with nourishment and my being is completely satiated by the act of breathing deeply.

Eating without effort: Additionally, this statement means my eating should be as effortless as my breathing. It should be something my body does as second nature. This comes back to the act of browsing I mentioned in a prior blog. When I browse in the gardens, I am not thinking of what I want to eat or what I need to eat. My body is drawn to an exceptional looking fruit or a beautiful looking bean beckons me to nibble on it. This type of eating is very much as effortless as breathing. I believe this is the way we were meant to eat. We were meant to eat like we breath.