I have found myself thinking a lot about last weeks courtroom antics of Harold Martin, the Michigan assistant attorney general, which have been viewed more than 1,000 times already on YouTube. While its tempting to simply label Martin as unprofessional and less than competent, I think there was much more to it than that. I explore some of the less obvious messages in an Open Letter to Martin.
To Harold Martin
Assistant Attorney General, Michigan
There has been a fair amount of discussion on Facebook and on my blog as to whether your courtroom outbursts in advance of the judges appearance last Wednesday were spontaneous or planned, and whether your antics might cause you to lose your job. Ive been one of those who has suggested your Clint Eastwood imitation was planned, though I do allow for the fact it couldnt have been completely scripted, since you couldnt have known your outburst toward hog farmer Mark Baker and then toward the crowd would be video recorded. Im not sure it matterswhats important is your intent and the mindset you displayed in a public setting….a mindset that pervades the MI AG’s office and the DNR.
Here are three messages that came through loud and clear:
-This has become a grudge match. The fact that you, the defendant lawyer, directly approached Baker, the plaintiff, to scold him for posting messages criticizing Michigan officials, clearly reflected the depth of state resentment and upset by your agency and the MI Department of Natural Resources, which you were representing. You must know that it is borderline unethical for the defense lawyer to approach the plaintiff without the plaintiff lawyers knowledge and permission. In the courtroom last Wednesday, you ignored Bakers lawyer and directly challenged him about YouTube videos he has broadcast about the case over the last two years. You wanted to know why he broadcast his complaints about the DNR, why he had the gall to question your tactics that have effectively put him out of business and nearly put his family out on the streets. When Baker told you that you could have responded publicly, your response was gruff and threatening: You dont get it, do you? (You don’t get it, that we have absolute power over you–that is what you meant, right?)
My guess is you expected two years ago, when this whole matter came up about the states order banning all pigs it considered wild or feral that Baker would roll over like most Michigan farmers and simply obey the order. Baker surprised you by not caving. In suing the state, Baker did something you cant forgive him for: he kept the issue alive, defying your desire to satisfy your corporate sponsors and dispense with it.
When Judge William Fagerman last year ruled in favor of Bakers suit, seeking a trial to clarify the DNRs Invasive Species Order, (with the trial scheduled to begin next week) you, the MI AG and the DNR, suffered a huge defeat by being ordered to appear in a public court and explain the genetic purification orders represented by the ISO. There was no way you were going to try to present a losing case in an open court, and so you very reluctantly did the next worst thingyou gave Baker a victory, but reserved your options to go after other farmers as you see fit. But, of course, you hold a special grudge now against Baker, and as such feel it is important to humiliate him as a way of sending a message to other farmers who might gain inspiration from him.
-You have split loyalties. Last Wednesday in court, you refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Now, I sympathize with you on that one. Like most Americans going through public school, I recited the Pledge pretty much every day at the start of school. I could never understand why I had to say it every single day, and I still cant, any more than I can understand why I have to stand for the Star Spangled Banner before every Major League baseball game I attend. But I recognize these rituals for what they aresmall rituals that are part of our culture, and I resist the temptation to remain sitting and make a major issue out of something that is pretty minor in the general scheme of things. But you, a government employee on duty, couldnt resist the temptation to refuse on the Pledge. Why? For a very simple reason: You cant entirely pledge allegiance to the U.S. and its flag when you also have an allegiance to the large corporate pork producers that call the shots for the DNR and the AG .much like food corporations call the shots in any number of other areas, like genetically-modified seeds and food, feeding antibiotics on a routine basis to farm animals, and raw milk.
In the courtroom, when a spectator asked why you wouldnt stand for the Pledge, you turned around and asked, Are you questioning my patriotism? Yes, the person responded. You made a feeble, condescending effort effort to engage the audience, but your intent was to let them know who was really in charge.
-Remember who controls the legal system. Not only did you refuse to stand for the Pledge, and borderline violate legal ethics by semi-threatening Mark Baker, you were disrespectful to the crowd of people in the courtroom. At the end of the actual session, where you caved and publicly sanctioned Baker raising pigs in violation of the ISO, so as to convince the judge to dismiss Bakers suit, you were disdainful of the court itself, as you mocked Baker: What do you think of your court now?
While you were pissed at Baker for getting judicial approval to operate in contravention of the ISO, you know how tough you can make it for him to get that judicial approval to stick. You were cleverly slippery and noncommittal in an exchange with the judge. You said at one point, “The makeup of the herd is one-seventh Russian boar. I don’t know if that is on the record. I am not saying we won’t apply the ISO. I am saying the ISO doesn’t apply” in this situation. So….any change to Baker’s herd, and watch out for the DNR, right, to enforce its genetic purification model?
You regarded everyone in that courtroom–Baker, his supporters, on up to the judge–with utter contempt, as if they were fools to think they might get satisfaction from an American court of law. In that respect, your disdain of the Pledge of Allegiance makes sense, since its final lines proclaim your country .indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Liberty and justice have nothing to do with what you do as a lawyer employed by the state.
So, no, I dont think youll be in any trouble with your bosses..at least so long as that video doesnt go viral and create a cascade of citizen complaints to the Michigan Attorney Generals office. If anything, youve probably gotten some kudos back at the office for standing up to the kooks and weirdos in that court, and for putting Mark Baker in his place. Even if Baker gave it to you.
Moreover, you knew well that the DNR is committed to continuing its campaign against Baker and other hog farmers, as a DNR official suggested to a local paper after the judge dismissed the case.
DNR Public Information Officer Ed Golder said this is exactly the outcome the department wanted.
Our understanding is he does not have prohibited pigs, so there is no longer need to pursue this in court, Golder said. We’re very pleased with the ruling. The state’s natural resources will be protected against harmful invasive species.
Golder said if it came to light that Baker still possessed invasive pigs, the department would continue to enforce the order regardless of Wednesday’s decision.
To which Baker said in a new YouTube statement, that he understood the longer term ramifications of the state’s actions and the judges decision: We think they (the DNR) is protecting something. They do not want to go in a court of law with this .These guys have an agenda they are following. After all we have gone through, we are back to square one.
I know, Harold Martin, that you are likely chuckling at Bakers sudden realization that his days of tangling with the AG and DNR arent over. Just know that Mark Baker is one tough guy, and the people behind him are increasingly savvy about what you and your henchmen at DNR and the pork industry are up to. You may have more of a fight on your hands than you realize.
I hope Baker takes Gary Coxs suggestion, and seeks compensation from the state for upending his business and family over the last two years. I also hope he continues to resist state efforts to possibly intimidate him. As Lynn said in a comment following my previous post, about meeting Baker some time back: I knew here was a man who would not cower, nor concede, to the injustice of the MI Invasive Species Order. I kept thinking how unfair his situation: after serving his country for 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, now creating a life for himself and support his family by farming, this?
I hope you, Mr. Asst AG, heard the people in the courtroom last week when they told you in no uncertain terms to turn away, and not mess with them.
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Where are all these angry outspoken raw milk producers and consumers Don could have been referring to?
If any negativity is seen in the raw milk community it is not of their doing. It starts with lobbying from raw milk’s competitors and harassment from regulators. Think about what these people are doing.
They are dipping in someone else’s business, looking over our farmer’s shoulders, telling them how to do their job, criticizing a product and production methods they admittedly know nothing about and admittedly have know desire to learn about.
They are calling us liars and telling us what to eat. What ever happened to The customer’s always right.? These regulators are supposed to be working for us.
This is a battle between health-minded consumers and powerful privet organizations trying to control the market and limit our choices. Don and Ben have already said they don’t want to talk to us, they want to go over our heads rather than having to explain themselves to us.
What do we really have to say to each other?
What is the purpose of the conversation?
What do people do with junk-mail?
Can’t we put these people on our no call list?
Can’t we just put up a No Solicitingsign?
Why are they so intent on telling us what to eat?
What could possibly be their motivation?
They are not just advertising their product.
They are forcing us to buy their product because their advertizing is not working.
Truer words were never spoken. Thank you for you courage David, but I still worry about people covering your back, I used to think I had that too until.
The state is only regrouping to fight another fight. The video needs to go viral, send it to news stations, social web sites, etc. Put it out there. Mr. Asst AG will become a laughing stock. I do caution that his behavior reminded me of one with PTSD, or other psych issue. He demonstrated rather erratic and explosive behavior. These behaviors can be dangerous, these type of people have been known to attack those who they “believe” have harmed them, whether real or imagined. Going postal.
The farmers and consumers do need to form some sort of corporation to stand together. There is strength in numbers. The more people who hear and see what is happening, the more who will stand with the farmer.
http://claravaledairy.com/faq.html
http://healthytraditions.com/blog/post.cfm/certified-raw-milk-in-california-visits-to-the-two-raw-milk-dairies
Diarrhea is a symptom, not a disease. The acute form lasts only a day or two and usually isn’t serious. It affects people of all ages, and some types are infectious. The average person may get acute diarrhea 3 to 5 times a year, and long-term effects are rare. Children under 5 years of age experience about 1 to 3 episodes of diarrhea every year.
http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/condition_info_details.asp?disease_id=224
Diarrhea can be caused by a variety of factors or agents; 2,247 medical conditions are said to cause diarrhea. The National Institute of Health report that the average adult in the US experiences acute diarrhea four times a year.
http://www.nafc.org/blog/incontinence-blog/slippery-slopes-combating-diarrhea2/
Most infections that cause diarrhea are quite contagious, spread by the fecal-oral route and by fomites(an inanimate object [as a dish, toy, book, doorknob, or clothing] that may be contaminated with infectious organisms and serve in their transmission). Most children will have diarrhea several times throughout childhood. Most children with diarrhea have a viral infection in the gastrointestinal tract. Rotavirus, adenovirus, and the Norwalk virus are common causes.
http://www.drgreene.com/articles/diarrhea/
People of all ages can get diarrhea. The average adult has a bout of diarrhea about four times a year.
http://www.liversociety.org/html/diarrhea_.html
Children are not any more susceptible to foodborne illness.
Indeed children that are raised with care and love should naught be more susceptible to any illness. Unfortunately the reason why children have a tendency to reflect greater susceptible to illness is because they and their immune systems are the most violated by the medical profession and its vaccines and drugs.
Here is a little anecdotal evidence to consider.
My two eldest children out of desire to follow the doctors orders, although breast-fed, were also supplemented with formula (no raw cows milk), and received their full series of vaccines. Recurrent ear infections were an ongoing problem and antibiotics (amoxicillin) were regularly used to treat these infections. As a result they developed persistent diarrhea and had to be hospitalized and placed on IV.
In contrast, the next two children (the twins) whose mother passed away following their birth in the hospital, were one month premature and weighed between 4-5 pounds, were placed on raw milk as soon as I brought them home from the hospital. They were not vaccinated and received absolutely no drugs. I refused to bring them to see a doctor and they are now 27-year-old healthy adults with a life of their own.
The remaining children that were born after I remarried were breast-fed and when necessary supplemented with raw cows milk. They have not been vaccinated and have received no drugs of any kind. Of those remaining children only one has had to see a doctor because he broke his arm playing soccer.
Ken
I agree it is a symptom and it can have numerous causes and is usually self limiting. 3-5 times a year? I am glad I am NOT average. I know when my kids were 5 and under they certainly did NOT have diarrhea 1-3 times a year.
Since these are the govs stats, are they listing the exact causes and ways to correct this? Are they even investigating this? The only thing “normal” about diarrhea is the body trying to eliminate something rapidly that is potentially harmful from it.
IMHO it is the processed foods people eat, the way even produce is processed is unhealthy and in a nutshell these are major contributors to diarrhea. So, to answer my own questions, NO the gov is not investigating and no they are not going to inform the public on anything that will harm in any way their bed partners.
“stomach flu” is a misnomer. There really is no such thing. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/viralgastroenteritis/ (I ignore the crap about vaccinations, that is its own toxic cocktail)
Speaking of establishment created disease, I’ve concluded the main cause of “heart disease” is hydrogenated oils. They try to work these into everything they can. Even lard (the only brand they sell here in the deep South lists the first ingredient not as “lard” but “hydrogenated lard”). Hydrogenated oils are artificially hardened and artificially harden your arteries. To pull off the trick, the establishment has been blaming good fats like eggs, lard, meats… For years I have heard that French people have 1/5 the heart disease of Americans, Did some digging and finally found an article on why French donuts taste so much better than American, French people wrote in saying it’s because they don’t use hydrogenated oils, they use real fats.
The medical doctor I referenced here last year, that traveled the world looking for natural cancer treatments, talked about how it is so often the case that if you look at a group of smaller studies, they will tell exactly the opposite story as the larger, well publicized ones ie don’t trust “studies”. The establishment routinely fakes studies.
To heal damaged blood vessels, what has come to me is hot peppers, such as cayenne and jalapeno. This came to me as a “message”, as my Native friends would call it. But if you like written documentation, do some digging into heart benefits of using cayenne pepper. Natural ‘chelation”.
Ive seen plenty of odd injuries in my time playing, coaching and watching sports.
Ken
I believe it is not just one thing that causes harm. Plus, what harms one, may not harm another. The media and the gov focus on JUST mercury (thermasol) in the vaccinations. There is a slew of other toxic ingredients too. To my knowledge, and I have not been able to find any research papers; there has been NO long term or short term studies on what all these ingredients do to a person. Plus, the amount of vaccinations given to babies and kids before they are 5 yrs old is a travesty. Take the Hepatitis vaccine; there is absolutely no reason to give that to a baby. Does the baby engage in drug use? have casual sex? questionable booze intake? eat is questionable food establishments? Hell no, so why give this series of 3 shots to a forming immune system? vaccines are just one example, people need to question and do their own research so they can make informed choices.
They one thing I learned in stats class was that you can skew the numbers to fit whatever you want.
Food can be medicine. I believe that medicine (pharm drugs) does have its place, I feel it is abused for profits and pushed by those who have $$$$ to gain from it. But, people for the last 50 or so yrs have been programed to believe that taking a pills is the best quick fix and quick already prepared meals are best for the Great American lifestyle. Sadly this lifestyle is what’s causing illness and deaths.
And yes, I can vouch from personal knowledge and experience that you should avoid vaccines at all cost.
They use peanut oil as an excipient in vaccines, antibiotics, and other drugs.
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/allergies/vaccines-and-the-peanut-allergy-epidemic/
Have you ever wondered why so many kids these days are allergic to peanuts? Where did this allergy come from all of a sudden?
Before 1900, reactions to peanuts were unheard of. Today almost a 1.5 million children in this country are allergic to peanuts.
What happened? Why is everybody buying EpiPens now?
Ken
Modern day testing studies will not be done on anything food or technology wise not patentable that won’t be funded by deep pockets so you do need to do your own research which is why we are here. Eat well, food IS medicine grow your own. Pills are for pill pushers.
Ora, take a closer look at the ‘heyday” of vaccinations and you might conclude they have no place in medicine at all. I posted how in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Price documents in the 1930s that people eating their natural, mineral rich diets were immune to tuberculosis, which was rampant around the world then, where people ate establishment slop food.
Sylvia, I was right with you, until you lumped in casual sex, with drug use, booze, and questionable eating establishments. One of the establishment’s best kept secrets: casual sex is fundamental to the lifestyle of our closest relatives on this planet (brains-bottlenose dolphins, bodies-bonobos). What if touching is actually Good for our health? (you’ll never hear that in “health class”)
I don’t want to sound outrageous here by suggesting to the group that living in harmony with Nature is actually good for our health, but I did post a lot last year debunking the HIV scam with testimony of Noble Prize winning scientists, the “neurosyphilis” scam by showing it is actually created by “treating” syphilis with mercury, etc etc. Since “stds” are basically not found in Nature, I have to conclude they are caused by something unnatural, such as psychosomatic illness (being taught endlessly that your genitals are “obscene”), severe mineral deficiency such as caused tuberculosis in the 1930s, antibiotic use killing off intestinal flora, etc.
The attack on sex and the attack on raw milk are surprisingly similar.
The manufacturers of Mazola Corn Oil are recently pushing it as if there’s no tomorrow. Please educate your enemies as well as your friends about the dangers of these horrid oils. There are so many other good oils from which to choose. Avocado, walnut, coconut, red palm, etc. I do not advocate the use of flax oil but a lot of people do, but even rancid flax oil probably is better than the gmo corn used to make Mazola – and ethanol. =8/
And in those days we did not even have a “convenience store” in town, so you ate whatever you or your neighbors grew. No “establishment slop food” available except in the big cities so we were immune to that or maybe not. The best tasting fruit is that just fell off the tree, no paper towels or spray bottles ever heard of, and cleaning meant washing something in a running stream not a faucet. Those were the days, when maybe we were safer? I don’t need no doctor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw
Back then we were very happy if one kid had a ball of rolled up bunch of socks that we could all kick around and play! No nets necessary. But now I need my own useless non-food growing unproductive golf course in my front yard and irrigation system so I can pretend to be important and make you jealous. Profit and vanity is the American way.
Well stated, Donna. Thanks.
David, please let me know if posting music links is too tiresome annoying and I’ll stop although I think they help expression.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/13/276453719/sexually-transmitted-food-poisoning-a-fish-toxin-could-be-to-blame?ft=1&f=139941248
Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get any more strange!
It really displays in full color the regulatory verses the peoples disconnect and the disdain for judicial process verses pure overwhelming corporate political power. What we saw here was an example of the power of the people with Mark Bakers intestinal fortitude and ability to persist and bring truth to power and bring it tumbling down. What we saw was the powerful voice of corporate regulators…simply become frustrated by inconvenience of the truth and rights prevailing. This inconvenience was truly manifested in the awkward frustration of the attorney general asking for public comment and then saying he did not care about the public comment.
The more we can expose this type of missconduct deep in our government and show the bright light of truth and freedom upon it…the freer we will be and less of this we will be met with in the future.
Another round of applause and a standing ovation to Mark Baker and his brave wife!!
Also children in school or daycare are more susceptible, since most so called foodborne pathogens are much more likely to be spread by human contact then through food.
The reason I posted these links is that they indicate that children actually get less stomach flu. That means they are apparently not getting more foodborne illness than adults, like the anti-raw milk people are suggesting.
Also note where it says 2,247 medical conditions are said to cause diarrhea. So when a raw milk drinker gets diarrhea how in the world can you blame it on the raw milk they put on their Froot Loops?
I’m trying to switch to the term stomach flu because I’m sure everyone is tired of hearing about diarrhea. What is that medical term the anti-raw milk people use?
http://bigstory.ap.org/content/angela-davis-1972-2
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http://www.jetcityorange.com/angela-davis/
http://search.proquest.com//docview/304801850
http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Angela_Davis
http://www.alternativecomplementarymedicine.com/another-government-attack-on-raw-milk-in-california/
Kind of like Mark posting bail for James Stewart after the Rawesome raid.
Mark, this was so revealing, partly because it doesn’t make the light of day too often. Regulators, as we well know, are quite adept at doing their dirty work in darkness, out of public view. Many of the worst ones make it a point to avoid bright lights of any sort, or even dim lights. They run if there is any chance they will face public scrutiny. They behave themselves in court, don’t say more than absolutely necessary. This guy (and the people he represents), as you suggest, must have been so totally pissed and frustrated that he just let it all hang out. He did a great job educating people who don’t understand the mentality.
too harsh for this nice little group of farm folk chatters? I’m going to say it again, til I get it across ; the Campaign for REAL MILK is engaged in a life & death struggle with race traitors in high places, who are bent on implementing the Communist Manifesto in Ham-merica via industrialization of agriculture, as well as the communist agenda to compel the masses to live in ‘rabbit-hutches’ in cities.
since its as near as a couple of keystrokes, have a look at the OTHER photo of Che Guevera, the much less popular one ;after the shootou … the only good commie is a dead commie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-x7RqRF8Pk&feature=kp
Nice cow cuddling dreams to you all, spring will be springing soon and remember all you can really ever hope for is to wake up tomorrow
Listen – Aired January 22, 2014 – 8:00am;
http://www.wpr.org/shows/racism-politics
Read – Posted on 2013-12-12;
http://ebookee.org/Dog-Whistle-Politics-How-Coded-Racial-Appeals-Have-Reinvented-Racism-and-Wrecked-the-Middle-Class_2412499.html
Watch, Published on Jan 14, 2014;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqKHc8Fmaxg
Angela Davis guilt or innocence wasn’t the point, it was the similarity between Mark McAfee posting bail for James Stewart and Roger McAfee posting bail for Angela Davis.
I think around that time of outsourcing, there was some contaminated milk or cream. Anyhoo, it all appears to have been corrected.
I think many people also don’t understand that different cows give different tasting milk. Claravale has all Jerseys (I think) where OP has mostly holsteins. Plus what they eat, etc. They are used to the swill that’s been adulterated sold in stores. Like I said before, it appears most people believe that store bought dairy goes straight from the cow to the pasturizer to be boiled then to the bottles and on to the stores. Don’t ya know that ALL cows milk must taste the same and have the exact same amount of milk fat (or no milk fat)? Sheeple.
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the Nugget Market and Downtown Sacramento Farmers Market and Davis Farmers Market. In the late summer of 2011 OP decided to drop all those venues
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owner isn’t really interested in selling at ANY retail stores
I would be surprised if not selling at the Nugget store, but then Whole Foods quit selling raw milk years ago, so it is possible the store itself had something to do with that.
Here’s a list of stores selling it. Plug in other zip codes and you get other places.
http://www.organicpastures.com/cgi-bin/FindStores.pl?zip=93706
tripling the brix value ( sugar content) of grass in pasture
instead of feeding skim milk to swine, put it back on the fields
from Mother Earth News
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Improving Garden Soil: Milk and Molasses Magic
By Terroir Seeds
Milk as Soil Food
Using milk on your compost and in your garden will probably come as a surprise to most. Upon closer inspection, however, it starts to make sense. The amino acids, proteins, enzymes and natural sugars that make milk a food for humans and animals are the same ingredients in nurturing healthy communities of microbes, fungi and beneficial bacteria in your compost and garden soil. Raw milk is the best, as it hasnt been exposed to heat that alters the components in milk that provide a perfect food for the soil and plants, but any milk will provide nutrition and benefits. Using milk on crops and soils is another ancient technique that has been lost to large scale modern industrial agriculture.
Milk is a research-proven fungicide and soft bodied insecticide – insects have no pancreas to digest the milk sugars. Dr. Wagner Bettiol, a Brazilian research scientist, found that milk was effective in the treatment of powdery mildew on zucchini. His research was subsequently replicated by New Zealand melon growers who tested it against the leading commercially available chemical fungicide and found that milk out-performed everything else. To their surprise, they also found that the milk worked as a foliar fertilizer, producing larger and tastier melons than the control group.
Recently David Wetzel, a Nebraska farmer completed a 10 year study on applying milk at different rates to his pastures, and recorded the results with the help of the local Agricultural Extension agent Terry Gompert , a university soil specialist, a weed specialist and an insect researcher.
What they found was amazing- the grass production was drastically increased; the soil porosity or ability to absorb air and water doubled; microbe activity and populations increased; cows were healthier and produced more milk on treated pastures; the brix or sugar level in the pasture tripled, indicating more nutrients were stored in the grass than before. Grasshoppers abandoned the treated pastures- the sugars are a poison to soft bodied insects as they do not have a pancreas to process the sugars. This also explains why insects will leave healthy, high brix level plants alone, as they contain more sugars than the stressed and sickly ones. Milk Works As Fertilizer.
For the home gardener, the ratio can range from 100% milk to a 20% mixture with water, with no loss of benefits. Use as a spray on the compost and garden soil prior to planting, and as needed when insects appear. Spray directly on the insects and around the areas they inhabit. When combined with molasses, it becomes a highly beneficial soil drench. A proven solution is 20% milk 1 cup of milk to 4 cups of water, or 2 cups milk to 8 cups water for larger gardens.
Molasses Feeds Micro-Organisms
Molasses is a viscous by-product of the processing of sugar cane or sugar beets into sugar. Sulfured molasses is made from young sugar cane. Sulfur dioxide, which acts as a preservative, is added during the sugar extraction process. Unsulfured molasses is made from mature sugar cane, which does not require such treatment. There are three grades of molasses: mild or Barbados, also known as first molasses; dark, or second molasses; and blackstrap. The third boiling of the sugar syrup makes blackstrap molasses. The majority of sucrose from the original juice has been crystallized and removed. The calorie content of blackstrap molasses is still mostly from the small remaining sugar content. However, unlike refined sugars, it contains trace amounts of vitamins and significant amounts of several minerals. Blackstrap molasses is a source of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and iron; one tablespoon provides up to 20% of the USDA daily value of each of those nutrients.
Molasses is a very valuable addition to the compost pile, as well as to the garden itself. Unsulfured blackstrap is the preferred variety, due to the mineral content, but any of the unsulfured ones will do fine. The benefits beyond the minerals are the natural sugar content that will feed the microorganisms in the compost or soil of the garden.
Use 1/4 to 1 cup to a gallon of water and spray onto the pile or garden, or add to the drip system for the garden. For soils that are poor, stressed or need help use 1 cup, while those that just need a little snack use 1/4 cup. The readily available sugar content will skyrocket the microbial activity.
Blackstrap molasses is also commonly used in horticulture as a flower blooming and fruiting enhancer, particularly in organic hydroponics. Use the before mentioned mixture in the drip system, or sprayed alongside the roots of fruiting vegetables as they start to flower to increase their flowering and fruiting. Add 3 Tablespoons of molasses to the milk spray solution mentioned above and use to feed plants during the height of growing season. Hungry, high production plants such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons, etc. will really benefit from the consistent feedings, giving you more production that is more flavorful.
A fringe benefit of spraying the milk and molasses mixture on the garden is a biologically friendly weed population control. Many broadleaf weeds thrive on diets high in available nitrates and potassium diets, common with commercial fertilizers. Phosphorus is tied up or bound with calcium in the soil and needs biological activity to release it. The calcium in milk helps to compensate for what is unavailable in the soil, while the increased biological activity from both the milk and molasses releases unavailable phosphorus and create soil conditions that are unfavorable to germination of weed seeds.
Who knew that something as simple as milk and molasses had such powerfully positive, far-reaching effects?
For a more in-depth look at other proven but unique approaches to creating great compost and healthy, fertile and vibrant garden soil, read our article “Compost- Nourishing Your Garden Soil” where we show how to stack several techniques to super-charge your compost.
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Stephen Scott is an heirloom seedsman, educator, speaker, soil-building advocate, locavore, amateur chef, artist and co-owner of Terroir Seeds with his wife, Cindy. They believe in a world of healthy soil, seed, food and people. Everyone has a fundamental need for vibrant food and health, which are interrelated. They welcome dialogue and can be reached at Seeds@UnderwoodGardens.com or 888-878-5247. Visit their website and sign up for their Newsletter for more education like this!
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You said Ancients would never have tuned things to wacked out numbers like that, they would use hertz, cycles per second Tom, how would they have counted the cycles and what were their units of time? How did they measure frequency?
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Are there musical seconds just as there are nautical miles? If not maybe there should be.
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THE ANCIENT SOLFEGGIO FREQUENCIES
http://www.roelhollander.eu/en/tuning-frequency/Ancient-Solfeggio-Frequencies/
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The very first occurrence of an electronic device to measure frequency was … the early Hewlett Packard audio oscillator production. The 500A, analog electronic frequency meter was described as follow in the 1943 catalog
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Italian, Galileo Galilei, discovered more of the properties of sound waves. He discovered that the frequency of the sound wave is the factor that determines what pitch the sound will have. He discovered this in or around the 1660s.
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Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician could be accredited to be the earliest researcher particularly on the vibrating aspects of the sound around 500 B.C. Further Archytas of Greece made studies on sound related with its pitch. Even the famous philosopher, Aristotle made suggestions that sound makes movements and air carries it. But it was Galileo , the father of acoustics,who reveals to us that the characteristic that the frequency of the sound wave is the determining factor of the pitch of the sound.
Posted by neela on January 1, 2010 at 3:16 AM (Answer #6)
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/who-discovered-sound-wave-when-126763
Ancient temples designed for 110 Hz chanting
http://unmistaken1.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/ancient-temples-designed-for-110-hz-chanting-why-was-this-frequency-so-important-to-the-ancients/
For every consumer that loves Claravale raw milk thickness and flavor there are many more that do not like thick raw milk and instead prefer pasture grazed lighter raw milk from 10 mixed breeds including 300 jerseys and plenty of jersey Holstein crosses. Each person has an opinion and a pallet to match. That is why choice matters.
What I can say is that OPDC provides free tours for every one. OPDC responds to all emails….every one!!! Also, I absolutely take every call from each and very consumer that calls. If I am not around, I call back every time!!
Just to make sure that the truth gets told …again, our cows are pastured each and every day of the year !!! 100 % organic feeds and land and practices!! I get so sick of haters and negative junk. There is only one raw milk producer in the world that has taught 450 free Share the Secret raw milk classes in the last 4 years, and only one raw milk producer that was the first to teach other producers the tricks of how to produce raw milk safely, putting capitalism aside and consumer health first!
For an up close and intimate tour and connection at OPDC, all are invited to our May 3rd , 3rd annual Camping with the Cows Event.
There is no Raw Milk producer except for perhaps Edwin Shanks Family Cow Dairy, that tests it’s milk 230 times per month including Pathogen testing of milk filters, with RAWMI Listing and published bacteria counts.
Let the facts speak for themselves. As far as Angela Davis and my dad are concerned, in the late 1960s, carpet bombing tens of thousands of people and napalming babies in the name of American freedom was a damn good reason to become damn mad, speak out, and blow up and break things. The raw milk revolution is a no biggy when considering the moral detour that America took in the 1960s. Deep down inside, my moral compass has no problem determining what is right and doing the right thing.
Ok…now I feel better….
Angela Davis engaged in pure domestic terrorism. The minute you condone that, you ditch any claim to a moral compass. Setting out to kill / maim perfectly innocent people, as though it somehow ‘helps’ bring about a greater good, is one of the definitions of insanity.
…What you’ve just said is : you’ve irretrievably thrown in your lot with Angela Davis and the very worst of the antichrists who hate America because it’s white and because it’s Christian : words straight out of her own poisoned pen
…what will it take you, Mark McAffee, to re-consider such insanity? Will it take some Muslim straight off the plane from Gaza Strip, coming ’round to your local farmer’s market, on a beautiful summer day, when you’re out there enjoying your liberty in this land of milk and honey. …. and he comes up next to you and your grand children then suicides himself with a belt of high-explosives, believing it will make his political point? How would you like it if those other guys = moved by the very logic you just professed = “brought the war home” ?
…Your pal Angela Davis was the most despicable of the whole lot … the over-educated, pampered limosine-liberal got someone else to do the butchering. Morality ? Robert Strange McNamara had the integrity to admit he was wrong. May God have mercy on him. Angela Davis and her blood-drenched ilk, will have a very different end, come Judgment Day than he will.
… Perhaps you join Comrade Davis in justifying the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, too? Do you condone the murders of people who literally got crushed to death under Soviet tank treads? Angela Davis did.
… Millions of people managed to wake up from the national nightmare of Soviet tyranny … but you’re still apologizing for them! Alexander Solzenhitsen spent 12 years in hard labor in the Gulags … Angela Davis’ opinion was : he deserved it, for criticzing communism
…Back in the 1992, I was scouted for the role James Kopps carried out … nicking a few abortionists and leaving them floundering in pools of blood, for maximum media attention. I chose not to. Later, in an anti-abortion case, Prosecutor Elliot Poll put to me on the witness stand : “you talk so big and tough … why don’t you go out and shoot abortionists yourself ?” On the spur of the moment, the Holy Spirit guided me to say : “because knocking off an abortionist, is not going to stop the holocaust on unborn children”. Did the Black Panthers help their own people, or hurt them? They were controlled opposition from Day One… go talk to Eldridge Cleaver, then get back to us. Malcolm X was assassinated because he saw through the way the biggest racists of all = the commies = were happily using the Negoes to destroy America … exactly as Israel Cohen, head of the Communist Party USA had predicted in 1905.
to this day, Angela Davis is one of the most dangerous domestic enemies of the Republic. She deserves to be given a genuinely fair trial then publicly executed for Treason, the very same as she espoused for poltical dissidents in the Soviet union
http://www.theonion.com/articles/monsanto-develops-hardier-strain-of-corn-that-yiel,35377/?ref=auto
“Tom, how would they have counted the cycles and what were their units of time? How did they measure frequency?”
Their units of time were based on The Clock, hours minutes seconds. The idea of dividing the day into these increments is not recent, it goes way way back. To measure frequency, believe it or not, their original technology was far more advanced than what you are using today. This of course is denied by establishment science, as are whole facets of knowledge and whole bodies of evidence. Those ancient cities I mentioned, all being situated in precise spots on the Earth, are a clue.
David has the past archived on this blog and you can do a search. Angela Davis has nothing to do with raw dairy as far as I know. I am not seeing any reason to rehash her past since she isn’t involved with raw dairy.
Lets be clear here. I do not encoruage, support or condone violence in any form.
I was a child growing up in the 1960s and I saw plenty of violence first hand in Isreal. I live there on a Kibutz, I saw the Isreali army kill innocent palestinians with out any regard as a matter of policy. I have seen American police beat protesters brains in….I have seen police incite riots only to arrest the rioters.
Enough of violence and enough of violent language. It is time to evolve from the use and abuse of violence and adopt to change through social consciousness and dollar voting to a better and more sustainable future for all. When a drone is the answer….we have a serious problem. When name calling and labeling people that disagree with our cultures and our beliefs in order to target them for death is the new policy…we are no longer free as a people. We are far worse than those that attempt to stand up in their individual concept of freedom against us.
Life on earth is very much just like the human biome study discovery. Bad bugs and pathogens grow when conditions support their growth…super bad pathogens grow and become resistant when challenged with death. Life on earth is just the same. We must invest in humanitarian assistance and reduce military agression if we expect to lead by example. I do not mean that we should be weak militarily….but it is not the example we should use to encourage non violence and encourage peace. How can we speak of Russian agression in the Crimea, when we invaded two countries in the last 12 years and killed a million civilians!!! We speak out of both sides of our mouths!!
It is time to become less bigotted and a whole lot more loving and considerate of all peoples. By example we will drain the swamps and then there will be fewer alligators.
Gordon….I appreciate your passion and your first amendment rights, but I think you are very miss guided and do not fully appreciate the deep frustration of the negros and what they needed to do to rebel and take a stand and regain some morsel of pride and honor when they were being hung up on trees just becuase they were black and their non-violent civil rights had just taken a bullet in the chest.
I am not going to write any more about this…..lets all go back to raw milk and building a healthier and better future for our children.
Mark, the alligators and swampers in general are not happy with that last comment but I am. I do agree with every mouth having two sides, I’m looking for my other one while trying to speak and at the same time speaking of me not you. I did not know you grew up in Middle East buy it helps me understand who you are a lil bit.
Morsel Of Pride, I saw them with Deep Frustration (or was it Deep Purple?) I hope I don’t bore you but since I’ll only be around for maybe another 10 years or so hate me while you can. Peace is for the dead, violence is the last recourse of those realizing they’re wrong or having no other choice but some sort of muscle physically financially politically and mentally. Hey look, it’s snowing out again!
“police incite riots only to arrest the rioters” is quite quotable too.
I just got a desparate call from a woman in New York that goes to Pennsylvania and buys raw milk from several Amish dairymen and then takes it to new York and Long Island and delivers to Coops.
She had no idea about indicators of milk qulaity she had no idea what a pathogen was…she was a very lost ball in a very big bulk tank!!!
She reporting to me how scared she was that several of her coop members are now reporting that they have bloody diarhea and have even been to the hospital. She did not know what to do…she did not know if she should change Amish farmers and get some better ones.
Her language was so ignorant. This is the kind of thing that happens with a black market system. This is what happens when there is no transparency, no testing and no PLAN.
I am supposed to support this kind of market system! She was calling me at RAWMI to get help. I did all I could, but this is like closing the gate after the cows are out.
Prevention, RAWMI LISTING, Knowledge, Plans testing, Mentoring, decent standards. This is the way forward. The FDA must be loving the chaos created by ignorance. All of this madness just re-enforces their anti raw milk mantra and suppressive regulatory policy.
If you are producing raw milk….please become RAWMI LISTED and proudly show your hard work to everyone. Prevention is the name of this game!! I am so tired of getting calls from really desparate and really ignorant people.
My point was that the second has only recently been defined as a fixed value based on the speed of light, so 24 cycles per second in ancient times is not the same as 24 cycles per second today. Is a bell or tuning fork the only way to preserve a pitch or frequency?
if you believe that violence holds a place in peace and or progress….you sure as hell should not suggest it in public. Kind of like a Martial Arts Black Belt bragging about his ability to break your neck in 3 seconds. Does not really help much. It tends to excuse the use of a gun against Black belts as a pre-emptive measure. Peace is a state of heart. It does not mean that you are not armed…quite to the contrary, it is a place where the mind and strategic thought trumps emotions and stupid actions. It is a place where you feel very secure in your true north and avoid violence and do not seek it. It is the place of being ultimately armed with with a clear and calm state of mind. No fear…just love and strength.
Listen – Aired January 22, 2014 – 8:00am;
http://www.wpr.org/shows/racism-politics
The quickest, easiest and most effective( 98% cure rate) treatment for bloody diarrhea is probiotic bacteriotherapy.This is a polite way to say: find a healthy doner and introduce a small amount (less than a cup) of their liquified stool by enema into the colon of the one with bloody diarrhea, repeat daily for three days . The affect was dramatic in the case I am aware of.The first treatment showed great improvement ,the third treatment probably was not necessary.No trip to the hospital is necessary. Healthy stool is 50% live bacteria and even better it is a whole community of bacteria that are already functioning successfully as a team. Why does this work so well? You will have to reexamine your whole belief in good and bad bacteria. It is the balanced bacterial community working as a system that keeps us healthy.
The measurement of time fragments and relevance to pitch and frequency are based on the absolute math no matter if you use an oscilloscope, or tuning fork or your ear 24 beats per second will always be what they are no matter what clock you use and it’s not a preservation thing it’s a raw fact. Should I mention milk to stay on topic? Hope I don’t suddenly disappear though some would think that’s an improvement.
Amen, back to my now full jot tub Jacuzzi. Peace out for a couple days.
If the unit of measure, in this case the second, is variable then so is the frequency(which is measured in cycles per second) of a note, pitch, or tone. The unit of measure is what determines which frequencies will have whole numbers. Is there a way to determine the frequency of an ancient note, pitch, or tone? I think Tom has raise a very interesting question.
Are you saying you understand and agree when I say New CDC study proves raw milk prevents foodborne illness. Food safety professor Ben Chapman of North Carolina State University agrees raw milk has a negative risk factor. David Gumpert says the CDC’s 1.7% per year negative risk-factor for Minnesota raw milk is way off and that he believes Minnesota’s raw milk has a negative risk-factor lower than 0.5%.?
This article summarizes it fairly well:
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/false-science-how-propaganda-masquerades-as-scientific-progress_032014
“The best defence against scientific frauds is a simple realization, science is something for everyone, not just scientists. We all have a duty to think for ourselves, to utilise our own minds and separate fact from fiction. Use the scientific mindset to rationally analyse the evidence before you.”
As to the music/ frequency/ measurement… if you were to decide that a minute has 68 seconds, it would not alter the tone and how a musical note is perceived by our ears but it would affect the counting of cycles per second, counts per minute or wave length so you may have a point there.
Back to the man cave.
http://www.wpr.org/shows/racism-politics
< http://www.amren.com/news/2014/03/the-biological-reality-of-race/ >
or, farther down that website, under March 13th = the article from the Medical Express “Study links ability of Africans to spread of cattle raising”.
Of course, being only peer-reviewed papers from genuine scientists they won’t make a dent in your mind-set that “race is only a social construct”. Every bit of evidence from the Human Genome Project, plus what scientists ( real scientists ) are discovering about the human biome, confirms that Caucasians differ significantly from other people. One example being : our very DNA programs white people to survive and thrive on REAL MILK. The mortal enemies of our nation know that much, which is why they work so hard at work denying us that part of our heritage. The poisoning of the wells – with fluoride / adulteration of our food supply in, what used to be, the land of milk and honey = are tactics of war that go right back to the days of Baalim.
you want to see what “dog whistle politics” looks like in action … go review the unspeakably loaded comments your President made, prior to the Zimmerman trial
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The problems of race cannot be solved without adequate understanding. Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse. Progress requires the study of all aspects of race, whether historical, cultural, or biological.
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What you call race realism is in fact the exact opposite. The fact that you ignore all my links and questions proves this.
The Race Card Project, only whites think it’s a game. Small minds think in short sentences.
Dog Whistle Politics, do you even understand the concept?
How does burning bridges help your cause, unless burning bridges is your cause?
I have a much better grasp of “dog whistle politics” than do you, getting my information first-hand : hanging out with Paul Fromm for the last quarter century, listening to what people such as Tom Sunic, Mark Weber ; David Irving ; Lady Michelle Renouf etc have to say, when they come to town. There’s a whole universe of thought that the lib-tards try so hard to deny, that makes a lot more sense than the “diversity” song. Race realists like Jared Taylor can explain why Detroit is ‘a failed nation’ and why there’s more of the same, to come … people like you see white flight but your ridiculous explanations don’t help a bit. Caucasians are now entering the phase of our national ( Israel-itish ) cycle wherein our God forces us to separate ourselves from the world. The Campaign for REAL MILK being one tiny hotspot in the overall battle. Until you read the Bible, Mikey – and ALL of it – you’re not an educated man
I’ve taken myself out of the currency game and suggest you do too. Less stress, more happy and milk.
The bible is just words if you have no understanding of it.
What is the definition of a boom town?
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White is not a race. Whites have a diverse history and blacks even more so. The same goes for our genetics.
What you call race realism is in fact the exact opposite. The fact that you ignore all my links and questions proves this.
If you understand dog whistle politics, please explain it.
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Yes, poor minorities bear the brunt of these bogus policies followed by poor whites and middle class minorities have to put up with some rascal profiling but for the most part, dog whistle politics hurt whites as much as they hurt blacks. Our current economic situation is a direct result of dog whistle politics.
… you’re obtuse to grasping the FACT that “they” already have done it. Did you miss the part where a dozen cops of various govt. agencies, swarmed Rawsome and took away $80,000 worth of food … to the dump? the raid on Glencoulton farm in 2006 : where an actual SWAT team showed up to seize dairy equipment? I recommend David Gumpert’s book Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Food Rights, to tune you up.
… These people have lost their minds … if they ever had one. “Law” ? what ‘law’? you mean your quaint Constitution? which the anti-christs subverted 3 generations ago?
… ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ = “they” don’t have to find new ways to get around the law ; Until you get it clear that the presumption of the those who direct the thugs in the uniform of the state is : “might makes right”. you don’t have the measure of the enemy. the movie. As simple as it is, the movie “They Live” is highly instructive
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Gordon, I’ve come to the same conclusion. So, like they say, We have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. ….