6 Essential Food Types To Grow Your Own Food Pantry

Last year, I devoted a better part of a year encouraging all of you to get prepped in the 52 Weeks to Preparedness series. This program was so successful, we made it into a book. Hopefully, you have taken action and stocked up now that food prices are getting out of hand. Today, I want to ask you to stretch yourself and take things to the next level by encouraging you all to take another step towards self-reliance.
Commercial food sources have become corrupted with genetically-modified foods, hormones/antibiotics, pesticides and neurotoxins. This is no way to keep your family healthy. Your food pantry should be stocked with healthy foods, and growing them yourself may be the only option left.
If you are just beginning your food pantry, ideally, you want to store long lasting shelf stable foods that your family normally consumes, as well as find foods that serve multiple purposes. Having tools on hand to dehydrate and preserve extend the shelf life exponentially. Here are 25 foods to use as a starting point. Many of the foods listed in the previous link can be grown in a garden or on your property. By taking steps to grow your own food, you can naturally begin to restock grains, fruits and vegetables, spices, canned meals, and even plant-based oils for your pantry. Most importantly, you have total control on how the food sources are grown. An added benefit to growing your own food, is that they attract deer, wild pig, birds and other animals you can lure for food sources.

What You Need to Get Started

Proper Equipment: Your investment in this venture is simple: garden supplies, seeds and small trees, a few tools (dehydrators, oil expellers, canning equipment) and time. Although growing your food is more of an agrarian type of pantry system, this is the best way to learn self-reliance as well as the best way to help you learn how much food your family needs to thrive.
Start Small: As with all prepping endeavors, start small and don’t get in over your head. Start a vegetable/herb garden and then accent it with additional beds for berries and grains. Once this is established, start adding fruit bearing and nut bearing trees.
Be Efficient: Further, creating an efficient gardening area equipped with a water source for easy irrigation, a composting area and natural sources for manure will help you make the most use of the space you have. The following image best describes this type of gardening space.

6 Essential Food Types To Grow Your Own Food Pantry

1. Herb garden

Herbs are one of the easiest additions you can make to a garden. Best of all, they like a little abuse and don’t require as much water as vegetables do. A trick that I have learned is to plant my herbs along the perimeter of the garden. This is the driest area of the garden and they are very happy there. Further, since they are usually small in stature, you can easily trim them and make more room in the middle of the garden for vegetables. When the herbs are ready to be harvested, get your dehydrator ready! You can make teas, spice blends, herbal extracts, emulsions and medicinal tonics. Read about these 6 Fool-Proof Tips for a Successful Garden

2. Vegetable garden

There is no better feeling that growing your own food, in my opinion. It’s very rewarding and the taste from fresh grown produce is like no other. Start with the easiest seeds to grow and then consider adding a berry patch and perennial vegetables to help you make the most of your time. By growing perennials, you’ll create a more diverse garden that ultimately needs less from you: You’ll spend less time working and more time harvesting. Perennial are also a great way to create an edible landscape. Wild leeks, onions, asparagus, artichokes, rhubarb and sorrel are some of the delicious perennial additions you can add for future harvests.

3. Legumes

Legumes make up a large portion of our food pantry. Beans, peas and lentils are the richest source of vegetable protein, as well as a good source of fiber, calcium, and iron. Aside from using legumes in the usual manner, legumes can also be ground into an alternative flour source, sprouted for a fresh vegetable source, or made into spreads such as hummus. To learn more about why having a protein in your shtf diet is essential, click here.

4. Fruit trees

Having wild fruit trees in abundance not only provide edible food for humans and livestock, but they also attract needed pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds. The crab apple tree, mayhaw tree, mulberry tree, pear tree, persimmon tree and plum tree offer food for animals such as the deer, quail, goose, pheasant, and turkey. Most of the fruit from these trees can be dehydrated or made into tasty jams, jellies, and fillings for pies. Further, look into finding the dwarf-variety of fruit trees. There are many varieties of very small fruit trees now, including semi-dwarf, dwarf, dwarf, mini, and colonade trees. It would seem that you can grow fruit just about anywhere, but there are some catches to it. For instance, you will need more than one fruit tree variety to produce fruit. Also, you need to look into what zone you are living in to ensure the fruit trees can grow there. Fruit trees can also be grown in a greenhouse – if you have sufficient ceiling height and space. Some people put them in large pots on wheels, to move them in and out. Others plant them in the ground in the greenhouse.

5. Grains

Grains are essential to any pantry; they can be ground into flours, added to stretch meals or made into delicious cereals. Start growing the easy to grow grains and learn how to incorporate them into your favorite recipes. Growing grains such as wheat, spelt, oats, rice, amaranth, buckwheat, barley, millet, and rye in your backyard doesn’t require any special machinery, and you may be surprised at how little space it takes to grow a substantial supply of homegrown grains. A typical family uses about a bushel of wheat (60 pounds) a year, plus about ¼ to ½ bushel of other grains. Given reasonably good conditions, you should be able to grow a bushel of wheat in a 20- by 50-foot plot (1,000 square feet).

6. Nuts and Seeds

Although a majority of nuts and seeds come from trees, there are some seed producing plants that can be grown in the garden. Sunflowers, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds and peanuts can be grown in the garden and used to make cereals, added to dishes or eaten all on their own.

 article source  --  http://eatlocalgrown.com
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Revised: 65 NEWS STORIES & WEBSITES

Forwarded To Me On Feb 25, 2010

Hi, All,
As you know, I do alot of surfing/research
on the net to enlighten myself. Below
are some news articles that I have kept
for myself. I am passing along to you
for your possible interest/use. You could do the
same over the course of a month. I appreciate
getting useful info.


Feel free to forward this to others with
curious minds.


Also, four health pdf's attached; first two
are my Flu Remedies flyer, one in Word,
second in Works. Then my Prune Juice Blast
cleanse method, then a Pau Arco Health
Tea remedy for cancer and general health.
The heavy mineralization from the tree
bark alkalizes the blood preventing and
hindering disease.


Lee
P.S. There's alot to read here.
I archive emails like this for future reference.
Put it in your "Lee" file.....

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1) Troop support. We may not all agree
with the war, but we have to respect our fellow
Americans who put themselves at risk, and the
sacrifices of they and their families. Here's a
listing of dozens of troop support groups to
choose from for donations.
http://troopssupport.com/

2) Bloom Energy box to power homes
size of shoebox featured on 60 minutes:
http://tinyurl.com/yjr2mqk


3) Ron Paul's HUGE win in presidential straw poll
at 10,000 attendees at CPAC (Conservative Political
Action Committee). See the first video, and super
second CNBC interview video!
http://tinyurl.com/ye48usx


4) 33 Conspiracy Theories That
Turned Out to Be True:
http://tinyurl.com/yz8j6br


5) Guardian angel help;
two recommended books:
http://www.thegentlewaybook.com/


6) "Meet Your Meat"; abuse of farm
animals: MUST SEE to BELIEVE.
http://tinyurl.com/yz8j6br

7) More:
Milk concerns:
http://www.alternet.org/story/145378/got_milk_a_disturbing_look_at_the_dairy_industry

8) Significantly reduce mouth bacteria,
plaque with "oil pulling." Scroll down a
few articles to find it here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/Author143.html


9) Discovery: two nutrients your eyes
are starving for:
http://www.belmarra.ca/vna/index.asp

10) Great Diabetes cover-up:
http://tinyurl.com/ydy9uk3


11) Vitamin D cured cancer?
Dr Prendergast video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PYsXQ16Ztg


12) Full body airport scanners may
damage human DNA:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027913_full-body_scanners_DNA.html


13) Matrix Energetics....interesting:
http://www.matrixenergetics.com/


14) Fifteen Minute Miracle:
http://www.15minutemiracle.com/miraclestories.html


15) The NEW "Mapquest:"
http://www.vpike.com/ Amazing...quick to
look up all your previous addresses!

16) Find your cure: www.curezone.com/dis

17) Traffic ticket help:
http://www.http//ticketslayer.com/
Know your rights in a police stop:
http://www.flexyourrights.org/

18) MUST READ: If you are a 14th
Amendment federal citizen, you have
NO rights, only privileges granted by
Congress !!
http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael108.htm

Ever wonder why government can
trample all over your rights? Well, are
you holding the "Office of Person?"
http://www.barefootsworld.net/sui_juris/person.html

More:
http://www.henrymakow.com/the_ficticious_legal_entity_ca.html

Natural rights website:
http://www.natural-person.ca/contact.html

Learn your heritage of rights.
Click on Liberty University, read,
"Path to Freedom." http://www.sedm.org/

See free down-loadable ebook on left
column: "The Great IRS Hoax" here:
http://www.famguardian.org/

Legal research site: http://www.1215.org/

This website asserts that the simplest solution to
America's huge problems are to do what the Founding
Fathers did. Start with a clean slate and create a new
political "compact."
http://www.therightofselfdetermination.com/


19) Natural lighting for home and office
increases energy, productivity. Many
websites to read on this subject.
http://tinyurl.com/yfalpne



20) Many tax advantages with a small
home business!!
www.tinyurl.com/cazkrx


21) Patriotic radio shows on-line;
index of them. Learn alot of suppressed
information the big media blacks out.
http://www.patriotradioreview.com/Home_Page.html

Here's a sample of the better ones:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio
http://www.stevequayle.com/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/
http://www.firstamendmentradio.net/


22) Comparisons with Democrat and
Republican healthcare options:
http://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/a_tale_of_two_approaches.pdf


23) Republican alternative to healthcare bill:
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare


24) Harmonic healing tape, very interesting!
http://www.harmonichealingcd.com/pdfs/frequency_is_everything_report.pdf


25) 66 Books That Founded America
http://tinyurl.com/ydpmrz3


26) Women put up to 515 chemicals
on their face DAILY !
http://www.naturalnews.com/027822_cosmetics_chemicals.html


27) Vaccinations dangers:
http://www.vaccinationeducation.com/
Dangers of artificial sugar: www.sweetpoisons.com


28) Alternative cancer cures:
http://www.drday.com/
Past September conferences list dozens
of alternative doctors & healing modalities:
http://www.cancercontrolsociety.com/
http://www.cancertruth.com/

29) Financial Coup d' ta: Listen to
Congresswoman Marcey Kaptor talk
about Chase bank:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/760.html


30) I have seen NO interviews of Ralph
Nader on the healthcare issue. Why?
This is Ralph Nader's group on a single
payer health system...Very interesting.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/watch2.html


31) Protest the big banks abuse of our
financial system. Put your money
into a local bank:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north796.html


32) VERY effective conservative legal
group,worth supporting. Free e-newsletter.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/

33) Germs & viruses on new clothing !!
Wash it !!
http://tinyurl.com/ybshzn4

34) What really causes alzheimers??
http://tinyurl.com/yavtpnm


35) Best site for suppressed information:
http://www.rense.com/
Ebook reports on suppressed info:
http://www.toolsforfreedom.com/


36) Reincarnation: 11 year old boy
remembers past life; fighter pilot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CbH7liYS0Q


37) Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theories:
Secret Societies: 6 parts; (New episodes
being filmed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR24APqFimM


38) IRS help:
http://www.taxhelponline.com/
http://www.irszoom.com/
http://www.pfbs.com/
http://www.taxreductioninstitute.com/

Exposed: Labor deductible from gross
income as a COST??
Former Assist. U.S. attorney tells all:
www.tinyurl.com/ybl4d5r

Additional proof in law:
www.tinyurl.com/cxoala


39) Iodine: why you can't live without;
97% Americans deficient:
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20100114.htm

40) Dr Mercola's most powerful healing
technique:
http://tinyurl.com/qznxc
and: http://tinyurl.com/ykect9h


41) Cris Angel Walks on Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5tS3N0STs
Cris Angel Puts Hand Through Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hPyiBA1TQE&NR=1


42) On-line education classes, some
unlimited,for only as little as $29.95 month !!
Index of on-line education schools.
http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat4.html


43) Famous forecaster, Gerald Celente,
predicts 2010 on audio. Worth a listen.
(Store food)
Audio: http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente21.1.html
Written report 1:http://www.rense.com/general89/celent.htm
Written report 2: http://www.rense.com/general88/toptrend.htm


44) Great sites for latest in natural health
and healing. Both have FREE newsletters
I highly recommend:
http://www.drmercola.com/
http://www.naturalnews.com/

45) "War is a Racket" by Major
General Smedley Butler, USMC.
MUST READ!! Historical speech
about war!! Very timely!
http://tinyurl.com/9vl8d

46) Cell phone ban in cars PROVEN
TO NOT DECREASE CAR ACCIDENTS !!
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=6474


47) 1100 State Legislators: letter to them
on solving the federal govt problems
http://www.devvy.com/legislator_letter_020110.html


48) Great alternative newspaper !!
Idaho Observer !
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/


49) Prevent Alzheimers book:
http://tinyurl.com/yavtpnm

50) Cooper in pipes risks heart disease
and Alzheimers. I get my water from
Water Store that uses 12 filters! Lee
http://tinyurl.com/y9n7d27


51) New tell-all CD series on the inside
story the corrupt, greedy folks who are
behind the economic doldrums of America.
Read the list of topics covered.
http://www.thefallofamerica.net/


52) Kennedy Assasination:
Secret Service Called Off Limosine !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY02Qkuc_f8

53) Help foot, ankle, back pain with
power walk inserts. Amazingly, only $20,
versus Good Feet for $150.
https://www.walkfitplatinum.net/?mid=686733&a=56003&s=Jan10

54) Amazing health products:
http://www.rense.com/products/newearth.html

55) New revolutionary SLOW juicer
preserves nutrients:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028128_Hurom_slow_juicer_juicing.html

56) Government without Taxation??
Walter Burien says "Yes" if secret govt
slush funds are utilized:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/01/06

MUST SEE: www.cafr1.com
http://www.taxretirement.com/


57) Little boy remembers past life !!
Wow!
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/12/23/lkl.reincarnation.cnn

58) Vitamin C key to cell rejeneration:
http://tinyurl.com/y8oshbh
Vit C discoveries effective on many ailments !!
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/
Nutrition remedies for Chemtrail
atomosphere spraying:
http://www.herbalhealer.com/air-pollution.html
Advanced Power C
http://www.rense.com/products/ac1.htm


59) Best emergency preparedness book.
Chip in with friends and get a case of 8
at a big discount
www.tinyurl.com/53zslu

Food crisis not being reported !
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/12/2010-food-crisis-for-dummies.html

60) Criminal turns criminolgist;
MAKES HUGE DIFFERENCE!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/07/BA091BE9R2.DTL

61) Huge health expo; Long Beach, CA,
March 35, 26
http://www.naturalnews.com/028029_Health_Freedom_Expo_Ranger.html
62) Whistle-blower audio/radio interviews:
http://www.projectcamelot.org/audio_interviews.html

63) Movie on-line: expose of the privately-
owned Federal Reserve Bank, and its
cousin the IRS. SUPER !! Must see:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5355374476580235299&hl=en&emb=1#

Interview the director, Aarron Russo:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5420753830426590918&hl=en&emb=1#

64) Pro-freedom activists organizations:
Ron Paul's campaign:
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/

College kids for freedom:
http://www.yaliberty.org/

Excellent group:
http://www.restoretherepublic.com/

TV on-line reporting on suppressed news.
Click on each link to see each program:
www.tinyurl.com/ydmox9n

65) Are Food Preservatives Poisoning Us?

(P.S. The article below doesn't even mention excitotoxins, a class of

chemicals pervading most prepared food that cause brain damage.

Beware of things like (autolyzed) yeast extract, hydrolyzed (vegetable)

protein, and NutraSweet. Even things such as natural flavors and spices

on a label can be a cover for excitotoxins. Most of these are more

dangerous than the most well-known excitotoxin, MSG. Please see

Russell Blaylock, M.D.'s book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, for

hundreds of scientific studies demonstrating this. Trisha)

Subject: A Must Read! Preservatives and Additives

Please share this article far and wide ...There is much truth here. Our health, and especially our natural immune system, has been altered bythe synthetics that are put into foods ...INTENTIONALLY...That's right. The scientists and food manufacturers know what they are doing. It's big business for you and me to get sick...at the cost of making Big Business wealthier. The FDA is behind it and so is the federal government. Drug companies also are responsible for all the chemicals humans ingest, and they don't care the least that it is a long-term way of killing all of us murder in the first degree!

An excerpt from below:

"We live like no other generation before us. A giant experiment of toxic ingestion. In this game, the stakes are high, it can cost your life. We may consider our way of eating as normal, but the modern diet is about as normal as a test tube of chemicals. The body's chemistry is recreated by ingesting countless food additives and environmental contaminants....

"Chemicals which have the power to produce mutations through chromosome damage are called mutagens. They cause disruptions of the genetic code that are responsible for over 15,000 inheritable, genetic disorders. Sadly, they have drastic consequences for our children and grandchildren.

"The food industry aims at making products look and taste appealing, without thought to the products' nutritional value. Loaded with chemical additives and designed to be addictive, processed food is manufactured first for profit....

"Your body has become a chemical depository. Sulfur is used to keep dried fruit fresh. Formaldehyde, which is used to retard corpse decomposition, is added to disinfect frozen vegetables. The blue shimmer on the surface of luncheon meat is the result of sodium nitrate.Sodium nitrate is commonly used in the preservation of ham, bacon, sausage and bologna to keep meat looking red when, normally, it would have decomposed into an unappealing gray. In the stomach, sodium nitrate is converted into nitrous acid, which is suspected of inciting stomach cancer. Germany and Norway have banned the use of this powerful toxin." (Note: Formaldehyde can be responsible for RA or Rheumatoid Arthritis!)

Preservatives and Additives

This is an excerpt from the book, North American Diet

PRESERVATIVES AND ADDITIVES

This is the age of science. A fabricated custom-made reality, competing with the natural, organic world man which has lived for thousands of years.

Yet the living, human cell has been incapable of keeping up with our ever-changing times. The small print on your Twinkies reads more like rocket fuel than food for human consumption with unpronounceable test tube names labeling chemicals manufactured in the cauldrons of industry. There is no doubt that the Twinkie-drug has been a successful experiment in taste-bud delight, their bright plastic husks found in dumps all over the planet. But are there side effects? And if so, do they outweigh the benefits that Twinkies are providing for the

millions who have come to depend upon their relief from the drudgery of daily living?

The human body consists of billions of microscopic living cells, composed of perfectly, balanced quantities of water and organic substances. If you have eaten the standard North American Diet for years, without serious harm to your health, it is due to your body's outstanding resistance. Yet genetic weaknesses may be hidden by youth. The cumulative effect of toxins will increase the risk of becominga host to disease or premature death. Unfortunately, resistance to disease diminishes as the abuse continues. Disease is like heating a

pot of water. When the water becomes too hot, it quickly boils over. The biochemistry of the body will absorb toxins only to a point.

There is a boiling point-illness!

We live like no other generation before us. A giant experiment of toxic ingestion. In this game, the stakes are high, it can cost your life. We may consider our way of eating as normal, but the modern diet is about as normal as a test tube of chemicals. The body's chemistry isrecreated by ingesting countless food additives and environmental contaminants.

The toxins in your body have been accumulating since birth and are imbedded in every cell structure and organ. But do not despair, there is an answer. Toxins disrupt the natural chemistry of your body. Remove the harmful elements in your diet, replacing them with health-filled foods, and a wonderful new metamorphosis will occur.

Chemicals which have the power to produce mutations through chromosome damage are called mutagens. They cause disruptions of the genetic code that are responsible for over 15,000 inheritable, genetic disorders. Sadly, they have drastic consequences for our children and grandchildren.

The food industry aims at making products look and taste appealing without thought to the products' nutritional value. Loaded with chemical additives and designed to be addictive, processed food is manufacturedfirst for profit.

All great chefs will tell you that the tangy flavor of lemon juice is a must in enhancing and lifting the taste of fish. In fact, lemon juice is widely used to compliment a variety of popular dishes. But to cut cost and for the sake of convenience, manufacturers have replaced lemon juice with 2-methyl-3-(pisopropylphenyl)-propionaldehyde. An unpronounceable name to add to the estimated three thousand chemical additives which we consume.

Your body has become a chemical depository. Sulfur is used to keep dried fruit fresh. Formaldehyde, which is used to retard corpse decomposition, is added to disinfect frozen vegetables. The blue shimmer on the surface of luncheon meat is the result of sodium nitrate.

Sodium nitrate is commonly used in the preservation of ham, bacon, sausage and bologna to keep meat looking red when, normally, it would have decomposed into an unappealing gray. In the stomach, sodium nitrate is converted into nitrous acid, which is suspected of inciting stomach cancer. Germany and Norway have banned the use of this powerful toxin.Feed for raising chickens contains arsenic to stimulate growth,

increaseegg-production and give the chicken a yellowed skin.

Aluminum compounds are added to baking powder, aspirin, antacids, beer, table salt, and antiperspirants. It also leaches into our food and water through cookware, soft drink cans, and aluminum foil. It has beendiscovered in high concentrations in the brain of Alzheimer's patients and is suspected of contributing to or even inciting this most hideous disease.

Potatoes may seem untouched by chemicals, but because of their bad habit of sprouting, they are coated with the chemical inhibitor, maleic hydrazide, which has resulted in cancer in laboratory animals. Ice cream producers use propylene glycol, the same substance in antifreeze and paint remover. Carboxymethylcellulose is a stabilizer,used in ice cream, salad dressing, cheese spreads, and chocolate milk. It has produced tumors in 80% of rats injected. Yet the FDA flatly denies it as a carcinogen, for the reason that when it was given to the rats orally, it didn't cause cancer.

For 50 years, producers have added brominated oils to bottled fruit juice to maintain a look of freshness-even after 6 months of storage.Unfortunately, brominated oils have side effects. They produce changes in heart tissue, enlargement of the thyroid, kidney damage, decrease in liver metabolism and withered testicles. Canada, Holland,and Germany have banned brominated oils in the production of bottled drinks, yet they can still be imported from other countries.

New food additives are believed to be met with stringent testing. But due to unreliable testing methods, lack of qualified technicians, expensive analysis equipment, budget cuts and government lobbying by food conglomerates, additives that are marginally carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic stay in use.

The fetus cannot deal with foreign chemicals. Whatever toxic substances the mother eats flow largely unimpeded into the fetus. Unlike an adult, the fetus lacks protective, detoxifying systems. Teratogens are toxins which harm fetal development. Certain food additives are considered mildly teratogenic.

What toxicology testing cannot accurately predict is the long-term combined effect of 3,000 additives and environmental toxins on children, the elderly, newborn, the fetus, and people with cancer. The combined effect of these toxins on humans is unknown.

The processed food industry loads fat, sugar and salt into their products because they are cheap. They use chemicals to change these cheap, raw materials into brightly-colored, tasty products with a long shelf life.

Food producers buy the cheapest raw materials, manufacture the product as quickly as possible, then sell it for the highest price. Good business sense, but, what is lost in the manufacturing is quality.

Before cyclamate was banned, it was used to sweeten drinks such as Kool-Aid which contained 28.5% of this substance. It was discovered that 30% of humans converted as much as 40% of the cyclamates ingested into Cyclohexylamine which produces chromosome damage in animals, a high rate of still-born young, and birth defects. It was then banned. Lipton donated its artificially sweetened product to mental hospitals and prisons in Ohio, where it was accepted without question. It seems as if food companies will do just about anything to enhance the taste and textures of their products. The aim is to increase the pleasure of eating so as to maximize brand loyalty and thus profits, even if it meanscompromising nutritional value.

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Note: We can all contribute easily toward creating a

better society by passing along useful/interesting information

to increase each of our own and others' personal knowledge

bases. Increased awareness and knowledge spur CHANGE AND

REFORM. The major media only provide a tidbit of the huge

amount of valuable information in the internet. Feel free to

forward this "newsletter."

Lee

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