The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements

By Sandor Ellix Katz

Summarized with permission of Chelsea Green.
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Xenophobia - Fear of the Strange and Foreign

• Canada's 2005 Weed Seeds order has a list of "noxious weeds," heal-all, chickweed, and plantain, to name a few, that are prohibited beyond threshold limits.
• Massachusetts added 140 new species to its list of invasive plants in 2006, all of which are prohibited for importation or sale within its borders.
• Landowners in Australia are required by law to report sightings of "noxious weeds" to "local control authorities."
• In 2004 South Africa implemented a "close the door" policy which prohibits alien plant introductions without extensive risk assessment performed, at the initiator's expense.
• Some plants, such as cannabis, are completely outlawed in many areas, the U.S. included, despite proven healing qualities.
• Originally grown mainly for fiber before its prohibition in the states in 1937, there was a surge in need for hemp by the military during WWII.
• Hemp cultivation was mandatory in the English colonies circa 1611 by order of King James I.
• The 1850 Pharmacopoeia of the United States lists it as a treatment for a range of afflictions, varying from alcoholism and opiate addiction to tonsillitis, uterine hemorrhaging, and incontinence.
• The primary beneficiary of the law making cannabis illegal was the timber-invested paper industry, which viewed hemp as competition due to it being a much more quickly renewable source than timber, and of the chemical maker Dupont, who produced the chemicals required to produce wood pulp papermaking process.
• The American Medical Association opposed the bill in 1937, after they realized that the "marijuana" that they were referring to was actually the same plant as "cannabis," which they regarded as medicinally important.

Vegetarianism and Humane Meat

• Animals are raised factory style, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics.
• Freshly hatched male chicks are thrown into garbage bags to suffocate since they will never produce eggs.
• Chickens beaks are cut off to reduce damage done by pecking at one another in the horribly cramped cages where they cannot lift their wings or even turn around.
• Calves are shut in tight stalls so they cannot exercise their muscles in order to produce tender veal.
• Foie gras is a pate created from the fatty and swollen livers of force fed geese.
• Most animals in mass production are diseased, such as in the case of the udder infections created by the recombinant bovine growth hormone that produces pus-filled milk, requiring pasteurization.

People, like animals, are healthier when they graze on raw greens more than grains. Some people, however, have a hard time foregoing meat and opt for other, albeit non-traditional, methods of food procurement.

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