You know you are onto something when the system takes notice and attacks you. That is what we are seeing now as Local Food Producers are being attacked by regulators.
Paleo - eating what we are design to eat will unleash a new food and health system. Big Ag and Big Pharma will do anythign they can to stop this.
The outcome if Paleo is successful is that:
- You will be much healthier and less dependent on Big Pharma
- There will be millions more jobs as food production becomes a network of small operations
- You will be able to amke a good living from this
- Our animals will live better lives
- Our local watersheds will be more healthy
- We will be ready for peak oil
- We will be so much more free
This is indeed a revolution - an opportunity to change the social order as well - for agriculture has set in place a dominating culture where most of us are serfs and peons and where Nature is only a thing to be exploited.
What is on the table is a new culture where we work WITH nature. And so restore our old relationship with her. Nothing could be more threatening to the system owners.
Here is how we got here - this is the story that we have to change
What a Way to Go - Part 7 from VisionQuest Pictures on Vimeo.
So here is what is ahead: (Source Gnolls.org)
In summary:
- Expect more hatchet jobs against “paleo” in the media.
- Expect more statistical manipulation marketed as “science”.
- Expect outright scientific fraud in support of “hearthealthywholegrains” and in opposition to meat and eggs—particularly grass-fed, pastured, and local meats.
- Expect more breathless news articles that purposely misinterpret archaeological evidence of a few specks of root starches to imply that Paleolithic humans ate a diet based on cereal grains.
- Expect subtle attempts to subvert “paleo” by packaging ancestral varieties of grain (e.g. kamut, spelt, amaranth) and obscure fruit extracts (mostly made of apple and grape juice), and selling them back to us in colorful packaging.
- Expect even more regulations and restrictions that destroy local, sustainable farming by forcing their nutritionally superior products into the commodity system, instead of allowing us as individuals to buy them directly—which, in the case of meat, we already can’t. (The regulations have got even worse since Joel Salatin wrote this woefully true article, “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal.”)
- Expect bogus scare stories in the media about the dangers of local meat, eggs, cheese, and produce from small farmers. Expect bogus salmonella scares and fraudulent inspections that claim meaningless or nonexistent bacterial contamination.
- Expect school lunches to become even more disgusting and empty of nutrition. If you want your child to grow up healthy, expect to help them pack a lunch every day. Expect to be grilled by suspicious administrators who think you’re damaging your child by feeding them real food.
- Expect friends and co-workers to see and believe this propaganda. Expect that you will have to defend your dietary choices against a steadily increasing chorus of suspicion and hostility.
None of this should discourage any of us from continuing to do what’s right for ourselves, our families, our children, and the Earth. We are healthy, we are happy, we are strong, and we will win because everyone else wants to be as healthy as we are.
Be proud of your health and how you’ve attained it. Do not be pushy, but do not apologize for how you eat and live. And, most importantly, be prepared for the storm.
Live in freedom, live in beauty.
