CHEESESLAVE

Last Thursday Real Food Media bloggers attended the soy prison press conference in Chicago. According to a press release issued by the Weston A. Price Foundation:

Citing serious health conditions due to high levels of soy, inmates in the Illinois prison system are suing for a permanent injunction against the substitution of soy for meat in prison meals.

In the United States today, there are more prisoners than farmers. We have less than 5 percent of the world’s population, and almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. There is definitely a pattern here. We’ve seen a massive reduction of American family farms and rural communities along with an astronomical rise in prison populations. Some say the reduction of family farms is not accidental, but systematic, planned and executed by large corporate and government interests. Is NAIS the next step in the elimination of small farms?

From the Weston A. Price Foundation:
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What are SWAT teams doing in Amish country? Why are small organic family farms being raided? Jonas Stoltzfus, President of the Pennsylvania Independent Consumers and Farmers Association will be the guest on Info Wars with Alex Jones today, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:00 pm Eastern time.
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This is pretty impressive.
Two weeks ago, Crunchy Domestic Goddess blogged about an offensive online ad for Motrin which made fun of babywearers.

She went beyond blogging: she tweeted about it on Twitter.com, emailed the VP of marketing, and she advised her readers to blog, tweet and email as well. And she threatened to boycott, noting [...]