These animals have been humanely raised, in large enclosures or on pasture, on raw milk.
For this week and next, fresh lamb (at same prices as frozen) and veal are available from the Amish, including organs. Call Scott to place an order at 818-293-3437.
It is a fact of farming that you have baby animals that must be dealt with. They can be sold commercially to be raised for meat later, or they can be used younger, for a better price, having had a better life when kept on the Amish farm.
This is a factor of why we partner with the Amish. We like their practical and humane attitude toward the animals. They know them. They are treated well. I have been there, and Paul has been there.
The same goes for the Bison. They are treated well, killed in the field without the trauma of being gathered, herded to a slaughterhouse.
We have found that, while many of us have been vegans or vegetarians, it is the rare person who finds the correct diet that way. I was vegan for 10 years, but it ultimately ruined my health. I did it too long. My body needs animal protein and fats.
I do feel it is possible, when you can eat mostly leafy greens. Many very healthy people are vegan or vegetarian. Especially at the beginning. It can be a great cleansing, and can help rebuild deficiencies from having not eaten enough greens.
The thing is, the animals with bodies most closely resembling ours, teeth, eyes, intestines, and habits, eat mostly vegetarian, leafy greens and fruits, some roots, raw, of course, but also eat insects a lot, and meat about 5% of the time. They also get about 10,000 to 20,000 mg of Vit C in their diet daily! (Guess what raw liver has lots of?) They are also sedentary, and not as active as we are, evolutionarily.
The other factor is that our bodies are pretty well proven, to me, in Born to Run, to be designed for long distance running. The people who remember their old culture, rare tho they are now, that still do this, can run for an entire day. Some do it to survive and not be found in impossible mountains and valleys. Some
do it to run down a single animal (as opposed to running a whole herd off a cliff), an antelope or deer, for example, to feed the group, tribe, family, which is most likely the reason our bodies have developed as they have.
We have a ligament that runs from our head to our spine to stabilize the head, like horses, that apes do not have. We also have Achilles’ tendons, which act like rubber bands to help us run. Apes don’t have that. They are walkers. Leaf eaters or climbers. We have some of that, but the other thing we have is the ability to sweat. That is why we can outrun furred animals. We can cool off and keep going, and they can’t. They overheat, and have to stop to pant.
The main thing that works as a vegetarian is if you eat a lot of fermented foods with lots of bacteria. And if you look at diets from different eras, it just has not been that long, evolutionarily, since we were hunter/gatherers. Our food tolerances reflect that.
Bottom line is you have to listen to your own body. That’s how people learned what to eat, and how to prepare it. But you have to be in tune, listen, and realize that what you eat can affect you for days. Immediate reactions are pretty obvious, like throwing something up, or getting copious amounts of mucus, sneezing, feeling gross, fainting. Headaches can take up to 3 days to hit. Look in your own eyes. Notice changes.
Usually we start with what our body’s ancestors ate, and look at what the healthy ones did and ate. Then try out things from there. One thing to keep in mind is that you can also feel if something feels good to you, and even if you get diarrhea or mucus, if you feel mentally and emotionally hopeful, good, right, it is probably the correct thing to do.
Like I can get mucus from drinking milk, but also from water. I tend to be dehydrated, haven’t found my electrolyte balance yet, I guess. So, when I drink water, my mucus flows, and can build up over night in my stomach. If I eat one thing other than raw, unsalted cheese or clay first thing, I can end up throwing up because my body does not want to digest the toxins removed from my sinuses.
Cooking dries out food. We like sauces because they mostly have some fat to eat the food with. And salt, and sweet. Fat, salt and sweet are the triggers used by the food industry to sell food. Our bodies crave these things, because they are naturally in foods that have what our body needs in terms of essential fatty acids, proteins and minerals our bodies do not make. And Vitamin C. Most animal make their own. We can’t. There is pretty good evidence that Vitamin C is the main link in heart attacks. If you have enough, you don’t get heart attacks!
Read. Study. Start with Aajonus, as he really read and studied a lot. That will give you a good foundation. Re-read the book entirely every year, at least, and I would suggest you read a bit weekly. It is easy to forget things you did that worked and fell out because you felt good. Sometimes we need to remember. If it doesn’t make sense, look it up in the dictionary and online, even just words that you are not certain of.
We live in a sea of food traps, amid a wash of chemicals and electrical waves we can’t even see. The current market system makes it easy to get a lot of dead, storable, empty calorie food. Diabetes is epidemic, cancer, both connected to sugar consumption, heart disease, arthritis, you know them. Auto-immune diseases.
We can connect to the earth, ground yourself daily with bare feet or look at les-emf.com. Get sunlight in your eyes. Read Jack Kruse if you can. He is pretty technical. Turn off your wi-if and phones at night. Check for networks on your phone when you are in your house, and if different rooms.
Don’t let children use cell phones. Or do so rarely. Research this stuff. You can protect yourself, get a meter that reads correctly so that you know what your exposure is. Take it with you. Check your house, and fix hot spots. Take it with you in town. It’s an eye-opener.
Not to get you all freaked out, but we need to know. Knowledge is power. If you know, you can do something about it, or just rise above it. Monitor yourself, your health. Your response.
We go to extremes on the cleanliness and quality of our food so that we can tolerate our environment. And heal.
Keep eating the best you can find, and eat it as naturally and fresh as you can. Gardens in every yard, on every porch in pots, on every wall is my motto!! And our fresh weekly can only be beat by our own local farm. Still thinking.
Love you all!
Marilyn at RA
