Local Food Legislation

By Elze van Hamelen “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” ~ Henry Kissinger, 1973 I. Introduction A New Chapter in the Great Poisoning Something big is happening with food. The emergence of what I call “pharma food,” terminology…

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout BABETTE’S FEAST (1987) Two spinster sisters living in a very religious Danish community in the 19th century do not know any life other than praying and taking their simple meals of bread and water. Into this world comes Babette, a French woman fleeing persecution, who expresses her gratitude…

Slow Burn[Low Great Poisoning – Low Sovereignty] A surprising number of people have been successful in protecting their health from the tsunami of poisons, in no small part thanks to local fresh food networks and new media and health alternatives. Many of them, however, still live in jurisdictions that are moving to compromise their sovereignty,…

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No one has ever rendered fruits more juicy or seafood more fresh than 17th-century painters in the Low Countries. Starting with late-Renaissance artists such as Pieter Aertsen and continuing for a century and half afterwards in the works of Dutch painters from Frans Snyders to Vermeer, this decorative tradition…

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