my daughter eats her fruits and veggies

researchers at the University of California, Berkeley did a 3 year study examining the difference between children who participated in a edible schoolyard program and those who didnt. Apparently the children who helped garden and helped cook the food they harvested ate 1 and a half servings more fruit and vegetables.

hmmmmmm, sounds a lot like what I did with my daughter. and I really didnt need an expert to tell me this.

it just seemed like common sense to me. In fact this was common practice in the old days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/health/policy/25vegetables.html

kids eating a proper diet starts with the parents eating a proper diet. until then, the chain cannot be broken.

what do chickens eat?

Via @nprnews: Egg Farmers At Center Of Salmonella Outbreak Speak Out | http://t.co/c2zDsXV

the egg farmer believes the root cause of the salmonella may be 'meat and bone meal' found in the chicken feed?!

So, lets do a common sense exercise here. growing up as a kid, going to parks, visiting zoos, feeding the pigeons and ducks in the parks or those PBS shows, I really can't remember birds being fed meat unless it was a predatorial bird such as an eagle, a hawk, a vulture, etc.......

I really can't remember chicken eating meat.

I think the real question 'the house panel' should be asking the egg farmer is, 'why are you feeding the chickens bones and meat in the first place?

Mr President, please make a stand and fight for our health! among other things.

If only our food were to be properly farmed, and most of the country were to eat properly, maybe we could almost eliminate the need for healthcare.

Its about time doctors do more than prescribe medicine that just numbs the pain, or prescribe surgery for the sake of surgery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/dining/22doctors.html

I like the doctor's quote at the end of the article. As I mentioned on this blog, common sense is difficult to find in people these days. A little common sense can go a long way.

where does your food come from?

Creating a garden is about building an ecosystem.  You take your decomposed organic material (grass clippings, kitchen organic material) to mix into the soil which provides the nutrients for the plants. A rich soil provides food for earthworms. the plants grow and attracts insects, which provides food for birds and other critters, which help pollinate your plants. One sign that you have a thriving ecosystem is when you see earthworms and other insects that help your garden thrive.  You won’t find any life on a factory farm. The soil is basically dead from all the pesticide and weedicide. You’ll never see an earthworm. Its also void of any nutrients because organic material is never mixed in. Instead the soil is given its nutrients through chemical fertilizers which eventually renders the farmland dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/business/energy-environment/11solar.html

A healthy garden is full of life. Ladybugs are commonly used in organic farms to fight off insects that would eat your crop.

I'd like to harvest honey next.

We need to take a step back and think about just where it is our food comes from.

composting reduces landfill

Black gold. Anything from our kitchen that can be composted , is piled up with leaves, lawn clippings and whateverelse is available to make black gold. Think how much we could reduce our landfill if everyone just did a simple thing as this, composting. Even newspaper and cardboard, paper could be composted. I refrain from composting paper goods unless it was printed with non toxic ink. If only we could get all packaging material to be made from recycled material, compostable plastics, non toxic inks, we can basically eliminate the need for garbage pickups from suburban homes. Landfills could be drastically reduced.

I killed my lawn

I never understood why people spent so much time and money on fertilizing and weeding lawns. So proud of a green lawn? All that toxic fertilizer, pesticides and weedicide that gets washed into our sewers and water system.

We mow the lawns and put the grass clippings in garbage bags. We rake the leaves and take them somewhere to be composted, hopefully. Some much time and energy for what?

I like to pile the grass clippings and leaves into composting piles. 

tāst health

we at tāst dont wait for others to tell us if something is not good our health.

why eat something if its injected, infused with, cooked with things you never heard of?

we at tāst have been looking out for your health from the beginning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15farm.html

Let's start blogging!

I’m not a writer or journalist, far from it, I’m not a nutritionist, nor do I have any medical background. What I do believe I have is a little common sense and experience.  The discussions and material presented on this blog may not always have medical backing or be substantiated by any medical studies, but hopefully everyone sees it as common sense, something that is harder to find in people these days.

Through this blog, I hope to share with everyone information and experience gained over the years about the food we eat and where it comes from and how it has affected my life.

The postings may be sporadic late in the middle of the night while half asleep or from my phone while out on the road  so there will be many grammer and spelling errors and sometimes what I post may not make any sense at all, but hopefully it will be informative.

So lets start blogging!

“Antibiotic Resistance and the Use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture”

Tasteatery stays away from meats pumped with hornones, antibiotics, steroids. In fact we go step further, our beef comes from a small farm upstate NY that is grass fed and grass finished. the grass finished being the important part. (more on this next time)

we care about what you eat. you should to.

A great person to follow,

https://twitter.com/jarkoch,

Our own goverment agency (an agency that is suppose to look out for the good of the people) is now......., just now..........testifying to the fact that the use of antibiotics in farm animals is contributing to antibiotic resistance for us.

http://www.ecocentrism.org/2010/07/20/usda-admits-link-between-antibiotic-use-by-big-ag-and-human-health/

http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2071:hearing-on-antibiotic-resistance-and-the-use-of-antibiotics-in-animal-agriculture&catid=132:subcommittee-on-health&Itemid=72