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Green RevolutionVolume 3 | Issue 4 Article 204-1-1965Milk and Honey - Why Can't We All Homestead:Part IIJohn SeymourFollow this and additional works at: https://research.library.kutztown.edu/greenrevolutionThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by Research Commons at Kutztown University. It has been accepted for inclusion in GreenRevolution by an authorized editor of Research Commons at Kutztown University. For more information, please contact czerny@kutztown.edu,.Recommended CitationSeymour, John (1965) "Milk and Honey - Why Can't We All Homestead: Part II," Green Revolution: Vol. 3 : Iss. 4 , Article 20.Available at: https://research.library.kutztown.edu/greenrevolution/vol3/iss4/204-THE GRE�N REVOLUTION, April, 1965 MILK AND HONEY-Why Can1t We All Homestead? By John Seymour Suffolk, England (Presented By British Broadcasting Co.) Pari II People have said to me: "It's all right for you who have a piece of land to talk about the good life. But we can't all have our little homestead, can we?" Well, why can't we? According to the last JUI).e Re:turn, there are 24 million acres of good arable or pasture land in England. Making a small allow­ance for rough grazing as well, that makes half an acre a head of the population, men, women, chil­dren and babies. Now you're nev-· er going to get more than half the population of the country wanting to become homesteaders, Which Items Are Money-Wasters? The Food and Drug Adminis­tration has been giving a vast amount of publicity to its claim that the public is being mis­guided into wasting much of its income on dietary foods and SUP'­plements. In a recent publication it said: so if half the population went on living in the towns - and towns are necessary for civilization -that leaves an acre of good arable land or good pasture per person. Our family is five-we have ·five acres. (We've later bought 22 acres in Wales.) And we not only could but certainly do already produce enough food on those five acres to feed another family of five, in the cities. What's wrong with that? Why shouldn't then every Briton, who wants to and proves himself capable of doing it, farm his acre a head for himself and every member of his family? If all the land in Eng­land was farmed like our 5 acres, England would not only be self­supporting in food, she would be exporting it. Land Use You say, "It's not the best use of land!" But it is the best use of land! Before we came to our own five acres, they supported very little except weeds and rats-. And most five acre fields in this country now are given over to what good farmers call "combine-and-match­box-farming." You grow a crop of barley every year, collect the subsidy, combine (harvest) the crop, burn the straw because you keep no stock, and grow another crop of barley next year. I know of a man who farms nine thou­sand acres like this with three men. This isn't farming-it's land­mining-cashing the heritage of our children and grandchildren. For the heart is being taken out of this land; he is simply cashing the heritage of 2000 years of good farming. Our five acres are producing immeasurably more than any five acres of that nine thousand acre wheat and barley factory - and its fertility is in­creasing year by year, not getting less. "The need of reaching more low­income consumer groups has long been recognized as important, for it is they who can most bene­fit from sound information about the foods, drugs, and cosmetics which they purchase. Consumer education which would lead to more discriminating and economi­cally sound buying habits is bad­ly needed by this segment of the public. For example, it has been determined that many low­income families who can ill af­ford costly and often unnecessary rliPb:ir.;v foorl ,inn foorl ,:11r>r> l ,,_ me_nts are spending a high por-tion of their limited incomes for The Bloom of Health them through gullibility and ig- Every crop we grow is a bum-norance." per crop. Our animals have the It is questionable that "many" bloom of health on them; such low-income families spend a produce as we send off the place "high proportion" of their in- is wholesome and good. And we come on dietary foods, or that do this without the use of an --... DECENTRALIS T CODE -........... ._. - --'\...,. ._.....--, ��  -South Range Ranch, Mansfield, Mo. I will content myself with a minimum of things conducive to a clean, comfortable and efficient abode. Counter advertising. I will live on the land, to develop a healthful, human way of living. Counter urbanism. I will "grow my own," use it up, build it myself, make it do, wear it out. Counter commercialism. I will hold only as much land as I can use, and as is necessary to secure possession of the improvements which I and my family put upon it. Counter speculation. We will produce first to supply all or most of our own needs; then a, small surplus of some staple article of good quality to supply others at cost through a Merchandising Cooperative. Counter over­specialization. I will read and help produce our own publications; help conduct and patronize our own rental and book-purchasing service. Counter propaganda. I will help educate our children in our own home, community and school. Counter mis-education. I will refuse cooperation with all invasive acts; I will join ,vith others to provide ourselves voluntarily the common services which we need and want. Counter government. - I ""1:-;J11r;et1ti}-elt'genics, limit births to our productive resources and prac,ice natural childbirth. Counter degeneration. I wili embrace a religion or philosophy only after trial; hold fast to such teachings as day by day living demonstrates is good. I will join our own burial association for dignified and inexpensive rites for the deceased. Counter superstition. Seeks, cont'd deadly to me. Nor can I ride in a car, or sleep out of doors if they are burning leaves, laden with pesticide. We tried a motel but with trains and diesel engines I finally had to go back to the hos­pital and oxygen. We now have an electrically heated house; · I threw out detergents, cosmetics, toothpastes, deodorants (these are really polluted!), plastics, rubber products, new telephones, syn­thetic fabrics. My typing goes crazy, coordination affected by some typewriter ribbons. I spend Sunday in a daze if the Sunday paper (its print and ink) comes in; meetings often leave me sleep­less and hysterical - hydrocar­bons in people's clothing, deter­gents, cleaners, smoke, polishes, perfumes, and cosmetics. This problem is partly inher­ited, and affects us psychological­ly. All hydro-carbon allergic peo­ple are nervous wrecks; we get acute attacks of ataxia, dimin­ished sight, mental confusion, panic. I've never lost conscious­ness, but other patients have. We bleed from the nose and vagina. All this may bore you and I hope I don't sound like a crank. Help from Dr. Randolph Last September when I was about ready for a mental hos­pital, I found help from Dr. Theron Randolph (see item in this issue, "Chemicals ARE Kill­ing Us"). He questioned me about scores of symptoms. He had me fill out a peculiar questionnaire about chemical odors. He isolated me in a hospital, fasted me for five days, and then tested follow­ing ingestion of common foods, grown and prepared without con­tamination. He also gave me some canned meals. Then more chemi­cal testing back in my usual en­vironment. Coming out of the hospital, symptom free, the re­actions to chemicals were acute and dramatic. I even found my­self sagging to the ground while talking on a plastic telephone. He exnlains all this in his book, which belongs in School of Liv­ing library. But the only real solution is to live in a ciean7 natural, un­contaminated environment. can you suggest one for us .  ? - Rita Halvorsen, 1646 N. Greenwood Road, Glenview, Ill. customers are "gullible and ig- ounce of imported artificial H d Fl M" 11 norant." chemicals, with no expensive an our IThe singling out of "dietary machinery, and no imported foods and supplements" suggests petro� or oil :ither. Our tractor a bias. After all, dietary foods doesn t burn diesel fuel-she ea.ts are food, usually fresh whole- , grass and good hay, grown under grain breads made without food her own feet and fed with her additives, whole grain cereals and own dung. flours kept refrigerated to insure Land Formula freshness (instead of being chemi­cally treated to prevent spoilage) The _for�ula. we should never or again, fresh fruits and vege- �o.rge! m thinking abou! the land tables grown on fertile soils with- is. Big farms equal big output out poisonous pesticides. per man-hour, but small output . . . per acre. Small farms equal small . What lS wrong with pa�oruz- output per man-hour, but big out­mg source� of foods not ayailable put per acre. elsewhere. Do we not still have (to be continued) The little hand power mill shown here was developed by W. B. Booher (address below) fol­lowing a trip to Mexico and Guatemala. He observed that the people lived mainly on corn, which they soaked in lime water _ and then cooked a long time. Fuel for cooking came from long distances, and local stone was too soft for grinders. On returning home, Mr. Booher developed this mill that will han­dle corn, wheat, rice, and slightly roasted soybeans. He says, "I the freedom to buy the foods we prefer? Then why all the fuss? . E_'DA's continuous c�pai� of Chemicals ARE Killing Us cont'd ridicule and name-callmg 1s an 1 -undeserved and serious affront to many knowledgeable, health­minded persons. Specifically, FDA claims that dietary food stores do a business of one-half billion dollars a year, in a- manner implies that this is not to be tolerated. On the other hand, it seems that the govern­ment agencies have overlooked a number of items (usually lumped in with consumer's food expenditures) on which con­sumers spend vast sums, with lit­tle concern or knowledge of their harmfulness. Tobacco sales amounted to eight billion dollars last year (16 times the one-half billion for die­tary foods). Sales of alcoholic beverages amounted to eleven billion dol­lars (or 22 times the sum for die­tary foods). With alcoholism a top-priority national health prob­lem, and drunkenness a major cause of automobile accidents, certainly this item should be at the top of the list of serious haz­ards to life and health, and a waste of enormous amounts of consumer income. Candy sales came to three bil­lion dollars, six ti.mes the dietary food figure. -From Modern Nutrition products; 8 from mineral oil, waxes, etc.; 6 from tars, resins and dyes; 6 from disinfectants, de­odorants and adhesives; 3 from glycols, esters, etc.; and un­counted ones in drugs and food contaminants.! He has a chapter on treatment. The only common and temporary thing for acute cases is doses (or injections) of bicarbonate of soda and bicarbonate of· potassium. The rest is an effort to get into a chemical-free environment! Quote: "The potential dangers of these daily chemical expo­sures - insofar as the general health of all is concerned-war, rants far greater protection than presently exists. The magnitude of the chemical problem associ­ated with indoor hydrocarbon exposures and outdoor traffic exhausts underscores the urgent need of improvements in the de­sign and combustion of gas kitch­en ranges, heating systems and automobiles. "The downhill clinical course of many patients is also associ­ated with the indiscriminate use of chemical drugs. Both the gen­eral public and the medical pre>­fession need to be alerted to the potentially hazardous effect of overzealous drug therapy." Ge:rson's Book Republished A Cancer Therapy by Max Ger­son, M.D., presents 50 case his­tories of cancer patients, who had been given up as hopeless from hospitals, from his thirty years of work with his (basically) nutri­tional treatment. Many of them were, after five years without recurrence, claimed cured; oth­ers greatly improved. The first printings of this book were handled by Gerson's daugh­ter, Mrs. Joanna Oberlander, and friends in The Institute for Can­cer Treatment. It was my pleas­ure to meet Mrs. Oberlander, who has for years served herself and family the diet of organic food (fruit and vegetable juices, soup, salad, etc.) which Dr. Ger­son prescribed for cancer pa­tients. She is one of the most healthfully beautiful and alive persons I have ever seen. She said in April 1964 that some 900 orders for A Cancer Therapy were awaiting the newly pub­lished edition. This book is now available (first sales at $6.95; later $10) from the Groton Press, Inc., 325 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 1, N. Y. tried to 'develop a very simple mill so that anyone.working with ordinary hand tools could build at least half the machine. The parts they would have to buy would be the two burrs, the cast iron handle, a center shaft and several bolts, at a cost of $7.00 per mill, packed for shipment. Mill complete as shown here is $12.50." For further information, write direct to W. B. Booher, 1028 Alneria Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. $50 FOR $10 British Diploma In Na:turopathy $50 course for $10 46 lessons, wallcharfs, atlas Send $10 or Write Anglo American Institute of Drugless Therapy 20 Talbot Ave, Bournemouth, England NE.W McL_EAN UTILITY TRAC"J:OR UNIVERSAL Mfg. Co. 324 W.101i St; Indianapolis, Ind. 6 H.P. Briggs· Stratton Engine 36" Rotary Mower -� 36" Snow Blade �ff Special exchange price ·call for quotation-ME 4-6861 Special Offer $250 Where is the ideal place to raise a family? In the country! Most ideally in a homestead community where each family on its own acre enjoys and shares all the advantages generously provided by nature. Homestead Haven is over 70 acres in a secluded area with woods, fields, berry patches, garden plots, pond, springs, trails, plus those to be developed: athletic field, camp sites, swimming, diving, swings, cable ride into the pond, fishing, boating, a com­munity center in a charming old mill that will include lounge, reading room, large recreation room, guest rooms, dormitories; inside recreation (trampoline) in a large barn; crafts and car­pentry shops in the carriage house. The first ten families are to be selected on what they can contribute to the community in the way of skills via -individual and cooperative activities that will benefit both children and adults, in on-going projects that will educate and train the par­ticipants while improving the community. If interested, please write to Homestead Haven, Box 62, Baltimore, Md. 21008 

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