Working With Nature
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Dear Friends,
This gorgeous creature on the right is perhaps the most endangered mammal on the planet. There are just a few left in the wilds. This female and her cub were filmed by the Planet Earth documentary team—an extremely rare sighting. Do you know the name of our beautiful animal? Does it really matter if we loose to extinction an animal such as this? What is it contributing to our lives? Does it really matter that we are cutting down all the forests that make up its habitat? We have been answering these questions for years, but let’s revisit, because it is important . I’ll come back to our gorgeous creature, but meanwhile… Hey, it’s Spring here, and hope springs eternally…right? Mother Nature is sprouting, new buds are popping, chlorophyll is making its appearance once again. What a gift we’ve been given, what a responsibility we have, regarding our relationship with Mother Nature. Let’s talk about how and where we are getting this relationship right, and shine the light on the reason for our hope in the face of our self-made, but not inevitable, doom. More of you have weighed in regarding my comments, in our March 14th Forward Thinking newsletter, on the recently published article, Red Meat Consumption and Mortality, and also to the supportive commentary offered by Dean Ornish in his article, Holy Cow! What’s Good for You is Good for our Planet—both basically promoting a vegetarian solution to the de-evolution world problem. Adding to the point of view that all red meat is not bad and that there is a world of difference between a factory farmed animal and an organically pastured-only criter, was Karen Wennlund, Dispensary Manager and Clinical Herbalist for the Mederi Centre For Natural Healing. I will share some of the points she made in her email and her invaluble links to the major architechs of the solutions she is proposing. Direct quotes from Karen’s email:
Here are some very important links that Karen has given us: Down and Dirty—How carbon farming, the practice of putting CO2 back into the soil, can help fight global warming; Scientists Help Ranchers Wrangle Carbon Emissions—Soon ranchers might be able to use their land to offset carbon emissions; Holistic Management International—Help to improve your land and your life; and Abe Collin’s, Co-founder of Carbon Farmers of America, talk: The Carbon Ranch- Using Food and Stewardship to Build Soil and Fight Climate Change. So, thank you Karen. These are fantastic and important ideas and links (above) for us to dive into. Now, how does all this relate to my opening paragraph’s question, why save the beautiful creature above from extinction? The answer in a nut shell is, that if we look carefully at her ways and how she fits into the ecosystem, we can learn how to keep that ecosystem healthy. A good example is what we talked about above. When we acknowledge the reality that our present farming methods (factory farms, and monoculture plantation) are destroying the soils all around the earth and polluting the air we breathe, and furthermore that even the fruits of these farming methods, whether plant or animal, are vastly inferior to organically grown vegetables and fruits, and livestock that are raised and fed by migratory grazing strategies through variety of organic pastures, similiar to how the zebras, wildebeest (let’s not forget the lions) do it—grazing the top of the plants and fertilizing and building the soil along the way. When we learn from nature and duplicate her ways, we not only have better meats and vegetables but we have a healthy ecosystem worldwide. This is all something to get our energies into. This is something we can do now. If we get the farming right, we get the soil right, we get the air right, we get a bounty of real food right that can therapeutically nourish our bodies. Nature knows, we need to work with her not trample her creatures. Then we can all flourish. Sincerely yours, Seann Bardell Clinical Note:
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