Innate Healer

Survivalism grows popular 
Arizona valley residents growing food, obtaining guns, sharing ideas

As the recession lingers, some Phoenix-area residents are shifting attention from their financial troubles, including falling home values and shrinking retirement savings, to stockpiling food and ammo.

They worry the economic turmoil could lead to skyrocketing inflation, food scarcity, even violence. To prepare, they are forming social-networking groups to discuss how to store grains, purify water, plant gardens and, if needed, shoot guns.

“Most of us feel that if things do get better, it will be a long way out,” said Jeff Rodriguez, a 26-year-old software engineer from
Glendale. “I want to have some preparations in place.”  

The economy has him thinking a lot more about things like where his food comes from, how much cheap oil is left in the world and how people in the blazing-hot Valley would survive a major economic failure.

He has carefully prepared a 12-row, 384-square-foot garden, stores a ton and a half of grain in his home, and is considering buying pygmy goats or chickens.

He also has researched solar electricity and a rainwater-collection system.

He is far from alone. Rodriguez belongs to a local network of like-minded people who include retirees, young mothers and successful professionals.

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I have been an advocate for raw milk for a long time. Ever since I learned about its benefits, I have tried to get my friends to try it. My family drinks raw milk exclusively for a few years now, and have not experience any bad reactions.  Currently, we can get raw milk legally in
Missouri when we get it from a farmer directly. But imagine how much more convenient if we can get it at the grocery stores.  There are few states, such as California and Oregon that allow raw milk to be sold in regular store!  First, you must learn how healthful raw milk is for you. The website, RawMilkFacts.com is a good starting point.  Here is what it says in their home page:

Finally! Raw Milk Information You Can Trust!

Want to know more about raw milk? I did, too, but found there was no central place to go for trustworthy information. It’s amazing just how much controversy swirls around this simple, but oh, so complex food. The more I researched it, the more fascinated I became.

Some folks claim it’s positively deadly. Others liken it to manna from heaven. The truth had to be out there somewhere, and it was, buried under thick layers of half-truths and deliberate misinformation.

I’d often meet intelligent people like yourself with an interest in feeding themselves and their families more healthily. Soon I’d find myself telling them about this remarkably healing food I’d been studying. “Raw milk? That’ll kill you!” they’d say.

Well, I’ve been enjoying raw milk products from organic grass-fed cows for several years and I love them- especially the kefir I make at home. All the doomsaying and fear mongering just doesn’t add up.

So that’s where this site comes in. My goal with raw-milk-facts.com is to help dispel the myths that have sprung up around one of Nature’s most perfect foods.

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I found this video on the Farm-to-Consumer Defense Fund website, it shows the problems with making raw milk widely available to people. There are lots of misunderstanding and fear-mongering surrounding raw milk.  Something that we have been consuming for thousands of years, now, it is percieved to be deadly.  Yet, more deadly substances such as man-made drugs are readily available. I believe as people are educated on the benefits of raw milk, they will demand it and eventually make it available to all who wants it. 

 

Watch the video–Milk and Honey

It’s true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls. It’s time to get serious about health care reform. Tax credits, vouchers, and privatization will go a long way toward decentralizing the system and removmg unnecessary burdens from business. But four additional steps must also be taken:
1. Eliminate all licensing requirements for medical schools, hospitals, pharmacies, and medical doctors and other health care personnel. Their supply would almost instantly increase, prices would fall, and a greater variety of health care services would appear on the market. Competing voluntary accreditation agencies would take the place of compulsory government licensing–if health care providers believe that such accreditation would enhance their own reputation, and that their consumers care about reputation, and are willing to pay for it. Because consumers would no longer be duped into believing that there is such a thing as a “national standard” of health care, they will increase their search costs and make more discriminating health care choices.

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