REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Funding the Regeneration Revolution

As we have repeatedly emphasized over the past decade, we cannot hope to solve the climate, human health, environmental, immigration, financial, and rural economic crisis without organic and regenerative food, farming, and land use becoming the norm (along with alternative energy, conservation, and natural health practices), rather than just the alternative.

According to numerous polls and focus groups, the majority of Americans already understand that organic farming and (nutrient-dense, fresh, home-cooked, organic) food is better for your health. A growing number also understand that organic and regenerative farming, animal husbandry, and land use are healthier and more humane for farm animals and better for the climate (reducing emissions, naturally sequestering excess atmospheric carbon) and the planet (reducing pollution, preserving and regenerating biodiversity).

The unavoidable problem is that the majority of people are economically stressed and time-constrained, and/or lacking in cooking skills. Consumers routinely “cut corners” by purchasing cheaper, highly-processed, non-organic food or by eating out (or ordering home delivery) in fast food chains, or conventional restaurants. Sixty percent of the diet of Americans is composed of highly-processed food, laced with excess sugar, bad fats (high in Omega-6, low in Omega-3), pesticides, synthetic ingredients, preservatives, GMOs, and toxic vegetable oils.

Learn more: Funding the Regeneration Revolution

PESTICIDES

Bathed in Pesticides

The UK Off-Guardian reports:

“The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use… In just under 20 years, much of the Earth has been coated with glyphosate, in many places layering on already chemical-laden human bodies, other organisms and environments.”

Pesticide applications in California grew 10% from 2005 to 2015 and is growing even much faster in large agricultural producers such as China (2500%), India (250%), Argentina, and Brazil.

PODCAST

Keep on Truckin’ in the Free World

With a massive truck convoy moving across Canada, cheered on in every town and city, with thousands of Canadian (and even U.S.) truck drivers rallying in Ottawa, calling for an end to COVID mandates, masks, and the crippling restrictions on small businesses and working class/rural livelihoods that the elite call the “Great Reset,” why are the mass media downplaying and censoring this Movement?

Watch this podcast, already viewed by over a million people, by one of OCA’s favorite visionaries, Russell Brand.

Watch Footage of the Sunday Jan. 29 Ottawa Protest: Here and Here

HERBICIDES

Farmers Stuck in a Chemical War Against Weeds

Bart Elmore in The Conversation reports:

“The herbicide dicamba [marketed by Monsanto and others] was supposed to solve farmers’ weed problems—instead it’s making farming harder for many of them… In 2021, thousands of U.S. growers reported to the Environmental Protection Agency that dicamba sprayed by other farmers – sometimes up to a mile and a half away – damaged crops in their fields. Complaints came from all over the country.

The list of affected plants was astounding: sycamore, oak and elm trees; azaleas, black-eyed Susans and roses; garden tomatoes, peppers and peas. According to an EPA memorandum, there were 2,700 “dicamba incidents,” affecting about 3.6 million acres, in 2017. Two years later, the number of incidents ballooned to 3,300.”

Learn more: The Herbicide Dicamba Was Supposed To Solve Farmers’ Weed Problems – Instead, It’s Making Farming Harder for Many of Them

PANDEMIC EXISTENCE

Our Dystopian Reality

Tessa Lena, aka “Tessa Fighting Robots” writes:

“Hello descendants. I am writing this from America. Things are weird. Our governments have betrayed us, our science has been kidnapped and put on a ventilator, and our social media is already dead. As we are approaching two years of this insanity, I want you to hear the story of how this tower of lies was built…

“In March 2020, the world went mad, and basic things like hugging a friend or going to visit your parents were declared extreme. Borders were closed. Children were kept away from school. Privacy was made a crime. Elder abuse was gloried. Going to a grocery store or just for a walk outside suddenly required donning a ritual mask.

“It was as if the wheel was hijacked by cruel lunatics, and they just started barking orders at everyone that made no sense and caused tremendous pain — but the citizens were too shocked, and they obeyed…”

CENSORSHIP

Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About Mass Psychosis

Mercola writes:

“At the end of 2021, the term 'mass formation psychosis' had a value of 0 on Google Trends, meaning there’s not enough data for the term to even make it on the charts. Then, on December 31, Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology, mentioned it on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience viewed by more than 50 million people.

“The term, which provides a coherent explanation of why so many people have fallen victim to the unbelievable lies and propaganda of the mainstream COVID-19 narrative, went viral. On January 2, 2022, mass formation psychosis reached a value of 100 on Google Trends, which means it had reached peak popularity.

“The technocrats quickly took action, adding a rarely seen warning that popped up for those searching the suddenly popular phrase in the early days of 2022. It read, ‘It looks like these results are changing quickly. If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for results to be added by reliable sources.’

“In reality, the topic is not new. Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium, who has 126 publications to his name, has been studying it for many years, and the phenomenon actually dates back over a hundred years. One of the earliest works on the subject, according to Malone, is an 1841 book titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, which details 'the irrational behaviors of crowds.'”

Learn more: Google Doesn't Want You to Research Mass Formation Psychosis

ORGANIC FARMERS

A Way of Life in Danger

The Progressive reports:

“Michael Pollan, in a sorrow-tinged New York Times account in 2016, detailed how President Barack Obama failed to break Big Ag’s stranglehold on farmers, even though, as an outsider candidate in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, he knew the problem well. When he left office eight years later, the stranglehold was tighter than ever.

“As Pollan wrote, farmers are often captive to a small number of giant processors and purveyors that control particular branches of the industry: beef slaughtering, chicken packaging, corn and soy processing, agrochemical sales, and seed selling. Dairy farmers have their own special hell with what’s called “monopsony”—having only a single powerful buyer in their region to process their perishable raw milk.”

Read more: A Way of Life in Danger

SUPPORT THE OCA & RI

Right Before the Dawn

The last two years have not been easy.

The COVID pandemic, lockdowns, censorship, hyper-partisan political warfare in the U.S, corruption of organic standards, floods, droughts, fires, and storms.

We can’t undo the past. But the good news is this: Every single one of us can do our part to help cool the planet and regenerate our health, our mental outlook, and yes, even change public opinion and public policy and the way people and corporations invest their money.

On the climate crisis, scientists are clear: If we cool the planet, with alternative energy and regenerative and organic farming, we won’t stop every hurricane, every flood, or every fire—but we will reduce the amount of rain, flooding, damage and despair.

What can you do? Buy organic and regenerative, today and every day. Educate yourself, your friends and family. Take back control of your mental and physical health. Set an example in your personal life. When it comes to food and other consumer products, that means supporting the farmers and brands that use regenerative farming and land-management practices—healthy practices that restore the soil’s capacity to draw down and sequester carbon, restore the environment, and improve public health.

OCA and Regeneration International and our family of organizations are grateful for any support you can provide for our work.

Regeneration and revolution are not a spectator sport. As we have been saying for decades, the Organic Way, La Via Organica, is not only the right thing to do, it’s the best way to live. Drop your fears and sadness. Fill your heart and mind with gladness. The darkest hour is right before the dawn.

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