As I watched an airplane at a distance circle around and spray toxic chemicals on agriculture farm land.  I started to worry which way the wind was blowing.  I little bit of that in my sysytem means liver dysfunction .  I wish I could love spring, but spring to me means way to many chemicals being applied to the land of the United States.  It means conventional farms spraying tons of chemicals.   It means cities spraying around playgrounds, schools spraying and counties spraying.  People spraying chemicals all around their houses.  Moss chemicals, lawn fertilizers, weed and feed, herbicides, 2-4-D etc.. The list of chemicals that will be used this spring across the US is a Sad and Depressing list.   Here are my thoughts today and every spring.  My name is Sue, I am the canary of this world.  I am the bee, the frog the butterfly and the bat.  I am here to represent them and myself.  I am here  to ask you to think about your purchases that you make.  When you buy something that is not organic, that means you have been a part of a sysytem that poisons the land, the animals, the insects, the water and the air.  It means you are supporting something that poisons humans.  Humans like me are affected immediately.  I speak the language that you understand. The rest of the nature world speaks to you but you do not listen.  They speak to you in deaths, die offs and sickness.  But you still do not listen.  I have the voice, to express to you  we are at a critical point.  I am a canary, and I get sick from the toxins in the environment and there are others like me. A canary in the  coal mine represents life or death.  Every year I speak of this.  I can only hope that our eyes we keep reading and your ears will  listen.  You can't say you are interested in being sustainable if you do not eat all organic.  You can not say you care about the bees dying off if you support toxic conventional agriculture, dye your hair, paint your nails, use any products that have petroleum and synthetics in them.  I think you are getting my point.  I might even be offending you.  But if you are offended it is because I have hit a sore spot. And you know that you contribute to poisoning this world.  Concerned for China and it's people?  I would hope we are all concerned for them.  After all, we are the consumers who purchase the many things that are not needed that are made in China.  Therefore we are a part of the toxic air pollution that is going on over there.  We are a part of the deaths in China that are happening  due to the extreme pollution.  Again you can change the world by what you purchase.  As spring approaches, I can't help but notice all the chemicals that are being applied to the land on a daily basis.  With topics like sustainability, bee deaths, water pollution and cancer rates at a all time high you would think we would make laws to stop these insane practices of spraying toxic chemicals on our food, in the water ways and on the food that is grown for animals.   When you see yellow and orange around the trees, the waterways on highways, in the farm fields, around the hazelnut orchards, fruit orchards, nut orchards you know they have applied toxic cancer causing chemicals.   I have also learned in my county the Yamhill County Soil and Water Conservation District will use and does use toxic chemicals (Herbicides).  WT.....????   Folks Herbicides are toxic...   Here I am again, in the 8th year in a row, standing on my soapbox, yelling PLEASE CHANGE, THINK ABOUT YOUR PURCHASES, YES YOU ARE APART OF THIS PROBLEM AND PLEASE CHANGE BEFORE WE HAVE A SILENT SPRING.......

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AND

HERBICIDES ARE TOXIC TO ALL OF US 
THIS COMPANY YOU SHOULD BOYCOTT.

 SAY NO TO DELMONTE

FOOD THAT GROWS SICKNESS 

Our food is becoming more toxic, our food traditions that are passed down are  toxic.  These food traditions that are passed down, are toxic choices that need to stop.  It is NOT ok to eat a candy cane with red 40 in it, it is NOT ok to eat a valentines day cup cake with Red 40 in it, it is NOT ok to eat marshmallow throughout the summer on your camping trips, they are full of GMO ingredients and toxic food coloring, it is NOT ok to eat at the sports snack shack, it is NOT ok to eat the candy thrown to you at the parades, it is not OK to eat the Little Debbie Snacks with a Capri Sun after soccer practice, it is not ok to eat at Izzy's pizza, it is not OK to eat elephant ears, it is not OK to eat the Halloween candy, It is not ok to eat the Thanksgiving Turkey that is injected with toxic substances, it is NOT ok to eat colorful Christmas candy, It is Not ok to eat the yellow and pink marshmallows for Easter or the Easter candy that is full of dyes and GMO's, it is NOT ok to eat that fourth of July red and blue food coloring.  As you can see this is a big list and I could keep going.  

I made this partial list because I wanted to show you how we go from one fat food fest to the next.

This list is 12 months of many once in a whiles, now add the birthdays in there.  As you can see by this list. that telling a child or teen that it is OK to have a toxic food once in a while, is far from being once in a while.  

American lives are fast and split up  and because of this once in a while becomes almost all the time. 

Mom says it is OK to eat that once in a while, since we have a high divorce rate we have Dad says it is OK to eat that once in a while, grandma said it is OK to eat it once in a while, Auntie said it is OK to eat that once in a while, at my sleep over little Suzie's mom said it was OK to have that once in a while, my coach said it was OK to have that once in a while, my baby-sitter said it is OK to have it once in a while, my teacher said is is OK to eat that once in a while and so on and on and on.  Guess what eating something that is not so healthy has become a (almost) 7 day a week theme.   If you look around like I do you can see it.  The obesity rates are skyrocketing and you see a lot of children that are just not strong like they used to be.  

I just love the voice of "It is only once in a while" or that person who tells you, you can eat a bad food once in a while.  Now days we are so busy and so split up in our lives that  just once in a while is becoming toxic and has become a sorry excuse that we use more than once in a while.  

This toxic saying is allowing us to justify in our minds to do unhealthy things weekly and  now daily that we should not be doing at all.  

Here is my first example that I hear a lot parents, grandparents and most adults who talk to children do.  The child hears that their fruity pebbles, red licorice,  snow cones with red syrup, red frosted cupcakes, valentines day candies are unhealthy.  They share this information with the adult about what they learned.  What happens after that, is that 98% of the adults that are talking to those children tell them, "It is OK to eat it once in a while".  

First, I want you to think about this, how is it OK to let child eat something that has toxic ingredients in it?  Just because they are not being rushed to the emergency room does not mean that the food ended up being safe.  Let me remind you that the cancer rates are at their all time highest.  Diabetes is at an all time high and America is getting more obese by the minute.  

Little Suzie is at a community event and someone is selling snow cones and she wants one.  The adult in charge say's OK, it is only once in a while.   That adult just told her that it is OK to eat unhealthy food.  The once in  a while does not matter in her mind and there was no consequence on the parent or child for eating that toxic food.  Little Suzie feels pretty good, so it can't be bad.  But, here is where all parents,grandparents, aunts, uncles, adult friends, adult cousins went wrong.  That food did affect her.  It is toxic because it has carcinogens  in it.  The worse part about it is that Little Suzy will keep eating those types of foods over and over again into adult hood.  She has been educated wrong by the Adults who could not stay away from toxic food themselves.  These same adults are struggling as adults with their health.  Little Suzie grows up and some day gets cancer from all the once in a whiles that were to many in her life time.  

We have to start thinking about what we are really teaching our children about health. You can't use the parenting style of consequences and making choices when it comes to food.   If you tell the child that a snow cone with red flavored syrup is bad for them and you give them a choice to have it or not, they will eat it and there is no consequence for eating it.  They feel fine. But it is affecting them deep down in their bodies.     As of right now  the children and teens of America are being taught that it is OK to cheat and eat bad food and that they are supposedly to busy to exercise.   It deeply saddens me to hear that most high school kids have no PE and the rest only have it twice a week if they are lucky.  

If you as the adult do not change your habits, and you keep the cheating going on, with "It is OK eat that once in a while",  on the toxic food then you are doing a dis-service to your family, yourself and this world.

42% of us will be obese by 2030 (actually, I think we are already at that percentage), our children are expected to have a shorter life span than us and 41% of us are going to inevitably get cancer. .

We are becoming a Wall-E World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU).  I do not want this and I am pretty sure you do not either.  But, we all need to change.  It is time to get rid of this thought process that was introduced to us many years ago, (I bet by a corporate commercial) because it has caught up to us.  To many kids with adhd, add, autism, obesity are everywhere and at an all time high, cancer is at an all time high, diabetes is at an all time high.  We can alter this trajectory if we spread as much information about the chemicals in food as possible – specifically the chemicals that can be directly linked to obesity and cancer and that are slowly poisoning us and making us suffer as a society. 

The most widely used dyes, Red 40, Blue 1,  Yellow 5 are contaminated with known carcinogens, linked to cancer and known to cause hyperactivity in children.   “Carmel coloring”  sounds natural,  and is anything but! Caramel color is often manufactured by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure, which creates carcinogenic compounds that are also linked to cancer.

More information on Food Coloring: 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/24/are-you-or-your-family-eating-toxic-food-dyes.aspx

Just Have To Stop, No More Once In A While: 

McDonalds, Burger King, Arby's,Taco Bell, KFC, Soda, hot dogs, non organic candies, deserts with artificial colors and artificial flavorings, frozen food, foods with artificial coloring and artificial flavors, the snack shacks at sports events and packaged process foods.  This list is just a small list of foods to say NO to.  

Remember,nothing is going to change until we realize, that healthy food, food without toxins with absolutely no fudging is what we need to be eating. This world is either going to become a Wall-E world or a healthy world.  We are at the tipping point for this.

Wall-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU

Parents be parents, protect your children.  There should be no choices when it comes to eating a food with toxins or not eating it.  It is your job to protect their health and safety, so this decisions is yours,  Be strong and say NO

Americans 'Just Have To Stop"  this is what is going to change their health, their families health, the future generations of America and it will help our oceans, land and air become toxin free to. 

We are approaching one of our biggest consuming periods we have each year.   Black evil Friday and Christmas, I am asking you  to please watch this, and change how you purchase, eat and live.  

I have changed a lot in my life, and I still have not changed enough.  I will work hard for the animals and people of this world.  I will set goals to consume less plastic in my life.  

Just how bad do we have to let it get before we change.  I am fearful, that if we did not start now, it will to late.  

A Silent Spring is approaching fast, in a run away train.  I do not know about you, but I want to stop this train. 

Put a stop to purchasing water bottles, energy drinks, plastic cheap toys, plastic, 5 hour drinks, coffee lids, pop, plastic bags, plastic, plastic, plastic.... butter tubs,  plastic, plastic, 

I think you got the point.  If we could all decrease our plastic consuming by half this could help

Knowledge Is Power, but you have to apply it. 

Don't be like so many people on Facebook that watch these films and then put their comments down on how terrible this is, how said it is, and then do nothing.

The link below provides a short clip of a documentary that is coming out soon.  It combines the love that these animals show and the death that they are going through due to our plastic problem that we dump everywhere.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN8JYhByVYg

In this weeks Mountain Mama Wellness letter I decided to give information in a variety of ways. How you can invest in your health care?  Investing in your health care now is what will give you a better future.  

Not only is it a better future for your health, but, also for the oceans, rivers, the air you breath, the soil, the animals, birds and bees. 

If you were looking for a retirement plan, looking for a house to buy, etc. you would have a list of needs, things that are important, you want to make sure you have a strong foundation and a good roof over your head.  

Correct? 

How is it humans do not apply this to their own health? 

Why do they continue to put bad investments into their body.  By eating out, not eating enough veggies or no veggies.   Eating GMO Food.  Eating foods that are high in pesticides.  

Why do humans continue to let their kids eat toxic food?  Food with artificial colors, high sugar, artificial flavors, toxic food additives and preservatives.

No matter how positive you are, how enlightened you try to be, how much Buddha you put in your life, you are still contributing to a very negative energy to the earth,  to your physical  body, to your spirit and  to your mind, by supporting bad food, bad agriculture, eating GMO foods, eating artificial colors and the toxic food list goes on and on.  

Taking Care Of Your Body

When it comes to taking care of your body, I really can't say it enough, support your local organic farmers, eat your veggies, stop eating at restaurants that do no support local farmers, stop eating at restaurants that use GMO oil for their cooking,  You want to starve cancer cells not grow them.. 

Find out what your food allergies are.  Then stay away from those foods..

Exercise is a must "NO Excuses"  For you and your kids, 5 to 7 days a week.  

Your heart, needs community.  You community needs you. 

Help others that are in need 

Stop consuming. There are only two categories when it comes to consuming

 Ask yourself is it a "Need" OR A "Want" 

VEGGIES ARE THE KINGS AND QUEENS IN LIFE

GREENS FOR VITALITY

And

AND 

AND REMEMBER...

AND WATCH OUT FOR THE WOLVES....

AND HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS:

 PUT IT INTO ACTION

REMEMBER YOUR TOXIC FOOD CHOICES

AND

EXCESS CONSUMERISM AFFECTS EVERYTHING 

AND WATCH OUT FOR THE TRICKERY,AND MORE TRICKERY

AND I AM SORRY BUT THIS GROWS SICKNESS,

NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT,

NOT EVEN ONCE IN A WHILE.... 

AND DARE TO BE THE LEADER IN THE CROWD? 

AND TRUTH

DO YOU GET IT NOW?

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? 

ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING HOW TO INVEST IN YOUR HEALTH?

First I want to give you a few quotes by one of  the most incredible women you could know. 

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to 
remember that the planet is carrying you.” 
― Vandana Shiva

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.” 
― Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.” 
― Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Because I am full of fire and have a strong personality, I look into things, I research, I ask a lot of questions, I read alot, I am alone 80% or more, I am with nature, animals and plants which makes me go deep in my mind, heart and intuition. Today as I am doing some research, I can't help but get angry and feel depressed. What is happening to our food system at an incredible rate is more than sad. The corporate food corruption alone gives my heart to much anger. On days like these I can not help but think being a sheelple would make life seem so grand. But, ignorance may be bliss it gives nothing but a sad spirit inside that has be broken and only finds water by being led. Today is a reminder and know my life is grand, I have my animals, and nature spirits for them I am thankful. I am thankful that I work on only having purity in my life and that I can listen to the right side of good and light and I pray that I can somehow help before it is to late... Thank you Great Spirit for the new changes that are about to happen in my life, I am thankful for the knowledge. I still have things I could give up. The hard road is not easy but here I go.

Today seems to be a day I am frustrated with the American People I say American because this is where I live. We are concerned about bullying but yet WE as Americans let, yes WE let our own government bully the world. Teen suicide is UP, and people are concerned and want to find the problem, the problem is, in my eyes to much screen time, to much cell phones, really bad food so it makes it impossible for your brain to function right, to much busy life, extinct family time? Family time seems to be something that is becoming extinct. A few weeks ago I was sitting at Whole Foods with my daughters and one of their friends. We were laughing, talking and eating great food. No cell phones came out, no lap tops etc. We stopped for a moment to look around, it was a sad picture everyone in there was starring at their cell phone screens. That is not family time. Watching a movie together is NOT family time. American food? I see and talk to people who are against Monsanto and biotech food, yet these same people who know about bad food eat out. They eat out a lot. No concern for the earth, themselves, and the toxins they are supporting that pollute the rivers and our air. My air, your air, animals air. I have a chemical injury do to these same people who support these various toxic things. People complain they are tired and stress out but yet they will blame everything except the vary thing that they put in their mouths which supports their body that gives either good energy or bad energy. I just read this morning that our organic packaged (processed) food is being polluted with toxic ingredients that our government has given company's the permission to not list it on the food labels. WHAT! I do not buy much packaged food, but I do buy organic oat milk, butter and the occasional canned beans. Now I am calling organic tilth to see what the heck. I have a lot of research ahead. Earth day is coming up, why is it one day a year? Does this honestly make you feel good because you did something for one day but yet you pollute on a daily basis's? Folks I do not want to offend but it is time to re-think what we do in our world. Turn your screens off, get rid of the cable TV, have family game night, require you child to only use their cell phone for emergency only. If you go out to eat make a point to not bring in your cell phones, when you are having family time turn off all ringers put and cell phones in another room. Pick up hobbies together, plan family hikes, sign up for a race together, if you want to not contribute to the toxic chemicals in this world, stop eating out unless it is only organic or from a local farmer who does not use petroleum based products, if your toddler or teen is acting up what have they eaten? Pay attention to your world, make it beautiful because our government will not, it is up to you to actually really change and that change needs to happen soon.

A few paragraphs from Farm Wars,  I left the links below: 

When did we learn to accept anything less than the best? When did we acquiesce to inferiority? To the endless compromise of our food supply? Why do we think that we somehow deserve to be robbed blind, lied to, poisoned for profit, and cheated every step of the way by the corrupt corporate system that acts like a black hole – sucking in everything and giving nothing back in return except abject misery? And why do we seem to like it? Why do we keep going back for more instead of ridding ourselves of these pariahs? Do you really want to know why? Because we have been trained that way! That’s why we accept “organic beer” made with conventional hops, and USDA Certified “contains organic ingredients” food items that have been poisoned with the likes of Neotame. We accept these things because we have been conditioned to think that this is somehow okay. It’s time to change our way of thinking.
It’s time to stop bowing to multi-national corporations who may or may not be what we think they are. Know your food producer. Know what you are eating. Become a food warrior, and fight for the right to not be deceived. Know how to read labels and figure out what the ingredients really are. The more people that wake up to the reality that we are surrounded by people who couldn’t care less about our health and are actually out to do us harm as long as they can profit by it, the better our chances of survival. Make no mistake about it. We are in a food war, and that is a war for our very lives.

http://farmwars.info/?p=4913

http://farmwars.info/?p=4897

“Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.” 
― Vandana Shiva

One more for the night:

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.” 
― Vandana Shiva

This weekend make it a point to go buy local organic produce.  Make it a point to not buy feed lot meat from the supermarket, Make it a point to read labels,  Make it a point to not buy processed food.  Make it a point to not buy boxed or bagged juke food for your child, teen or family anymore.  Make your treats homemade.  Homemade does not come from a box. 

Picture blow:  Even Oregon State University, the extension office and government DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT A VEGETABLE ARE!   

Peace to all 

This is a very important read.  It is time to get rid of the processed food organic or not.  

Approval and Labeling 

Neotame was approved by the FDA for general use in July 2002, and has now been approved by the EU. It is also is approved for use in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. 

The FDA loosened all labeling requirements for Neotame as part of a large-scale effort to make it a near-ubiquitous artificial sweetener, to be found on the tabletop, in all prepared foods, even in organics. It simply does not have to be included in the ingredient list. How's that for stealth?

If you purchase processed foods, whether USDA Certified Organic or not, that food may likely contain Neotame because it is cost-effective, and since no one knows it is there, there is no public backlash.

The USDA states that their National Organic Program (NOP) does not permit the use of neotame in products labeled certified organic, however this is likely a deceptive ploy to soothe the public's concerns about this toxic sweetener. 

Since the USDA is controlled by politicians and lobbyists, it cannot be trusted to follow through to protect any of its regulatory policies. The NOP is a division within the USDA in charge of regulating the USDA Certified Organic products, labeling, enforcement etc. Considering the size of this division in comparison to the amount of organic food they regulate, NOP standards are arguably as lax and useless as USDA's conventional foods. The employees that enforce NOP standards know this very well.

Bottom Line: Don't trust USDA organic foods and confide in local farms with reputable practices.

http://preventdisease.com/news/12/031212_Neotame-13000-Times-Sweeter-Than-Sugar-And-Even-More-Toxic-Than-Aspartame.shtml

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242858-Neotame-13-000-Times-Sweeter-Than-Sugar-And-Even-More-To

 My latest research has lead me to some serious thinking about what new changes I need to make in my life, my family's life and my animals.   What is happening to our food system at an incredible rate is more than sad. The corporate food corruption alone gives my heart to much anger. On days like these I can not help but think being a sheelple would make life seem so grand. Ignorance may be bliss, but, it gives nothing but a sad spirit inside that has been broken and only finds water by being led. 

In our family life Easter, and any other holiday, has become a non-toxic holiday.   

At this point in our lives we are poised between opposite forces, light and dark.   The "Dark Side" would be a normal Easter holiday with plastic baskets, plastic eggs, plastic toys, toxic dyes,to much toxic candy, loads of toxic food coloring, hams full of nitrates and a whole lot of non-organic food.  

The light side would be making changes that are healthy and good for the earth, yourself and your family.  

To me Easter gives the meaning of fertility (the symbol of the egg),  Fertility, which leads to birth therefore it is a time to create new opportunities for positive change.  It is a time to be receptive,active and conscious. I will give birth to my actions that come from my heart. 

Ask yourself what you wish to give energy to.  

Where will you put your focus? Dark or light?

What can you change for the better?

What actions can you make that will help the spread of good will and love in the world? 

Our Easter day Plan:

Environmental Goal:  Worked 1 hour on cutting scotch broom.  We did this to keep the logging company from spraying toxic chemicals to kill it.  

Eggs:  Organic eggs, dyed with red onions skins, turmeric,wild violets and thyme.  

Food;   Supported the local farmers and bought organic chicken and veggies.  

Family:  Dinner together with candle light and music

New Life Goals Set 

Boxed Alternative Milks

 We will not be buying anymore oat milk, hemp milk or any other alternative milk in a carton.  Because the cartons are bad for the environment and we found out the company's are putting ingredients that are excitotoxins in them.  They also have "Neotame".  The neotame does not have to be listed in the ingredients, see links below.   

Boycotting

We will not be setting foot in a Whole Foods store ever again.  They are traders and hypocrites. 

GMO ALFALFA = NO DAIRY FOR US

We also made a big decision that was not easy to make  and very sad.   That decision is to not buy any organic dairy (or any other dairy product) unless it comes from a very small local organic farmer.   This is not going to be easy because of how our government bullies small organic dairy farmers.   The sad part is a long story and I will put the link below.  I encourage you to read it.

A Challenge For All Humans

 I challenge you to take a stance and not buy any dairy in any form from the store for the next two months.  

We need to hit the big corporate food companies in the pocket book.  If we want a real change this HAS TO BE DONE.  Otherwise our food sources are going to get more contaminated.  After they contaminate the organic food, they will go and shut down all small farmers.  

After that they will tell you what you can and cannot not grow at your own house.  It is a matter of time.  Remember "For those who control the food supply will control the human race".

Whole Foods, Organic Valley and Stonyfield To Accept Monsanto http://monsantoboycott.com/featured/usda-forces-whole-foods-to-accept-monsanto/

Excitotoxins:

http://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-The-Taste-That-Kills/dp/0929173252

Neotame:

http://farmwars.info/?p=4913

It is time as the human race to get rid of "Toxic Traditions" .  

Toxic metals such as lead and mercury are no longer allowed in paint.  However, reading the labels on the cans of some types of paint will still reveal warnings about other toxic substances, such as solvents, which can cause brain damage.

The Franklin Institute asks, in an article on the history of lead, why painting has long been such a toxic activity.  "For some reason, paint seems to e the delivery system of choice for brain damage. Will future archaeologists be baffled by a society whose walls were more vibrant than its brain cells?"