The Illuminati Agenda – 7 Billion People under Mind Control of a few Shepherds

The Illuminati Agenda – 7 Billion People under Mind Control of a few Shepherds | World Truth.TV.

The Illuminati is a fascinating conspiracy. The best part of it is that if you bring it up you are automatically dismissed as of weak mind or something.  If you are intrigued by it, Eddie from WorldTruth TV has done one of the most interesting posts that I have seen on the subject.  he throws in everything: Big Pharma, Chemtrails, secret societies, the list is endless. So endless that I have never seen a subject light up so many categories for a post before.

Either way, it is good entertainment.

Lou

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With kind permission and from Eddie at | World Truth.TV

An illusion it will be, so large, so vast, it will escape their perception.

Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.

We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.

We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive.

Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon our selves.

This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.

We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.

We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy.

Death will come to he who speaks.

We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.

We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening.

We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water; also in the air.

They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn.

The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds.

We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison.

The poisons will be absorbed through their skin and mouths; they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems.

From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.

The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear.

We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far.

We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones.

Those they look up to will help.

We will enlist them to push our poisons.

They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect.

When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them it’s for their help.

We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.

When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future.

When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine.

We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.

They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.

We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self.

We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all.

Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say.

If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives.

We will use fear as our weapon.

We will establish their governments and establish opposites within.

We will own both sides.

We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.

They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.

Our families will never mix with theirs.

Our blood must be pure always, for that is the way.

We will make them kill each other when it suits us.

We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion.

We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how.

We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.

We will foment animosity between them through our factions.

When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death,
whichever suits us best.

We will make them rip each other’s hearts apart and kill their own children.

We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend.

The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers.

They will be busy killing each other.

They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit.

We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.

We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths.

We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished.

We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds.

We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this.

The tools will be provided by their labor.

We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.

We will always hide the divine truth from them; that we are all one.

This they must never know! They must never know that color is an illusion.

They must always think they are not equal.

Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal.

We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them.

We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have.

We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt.

When they shall band together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media.

We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor.

When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that.

They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.

We will recruit some of their own to carry out our plans.

We will promise them eternal life, but eternal life they will never have for they are not of us.

The recruits will be called “initiates” and will be indoctrinated to believe false rites of passage to higher realms.

Members of these groups will think they are one with us never knowing the truth.

They must never learn this truth for they will turn against us.

For their work they will be rewarded with earthly things and great titles, but never will they become immortal and join us.

Never will they receive the light and travel the stars.

They will never reach the higher realms, for the killing of their own kind will prevent passage to the realm of enlightenment.

This they will never know.

The truth will be hidden in their face, so close they will not be able to focus on it until its too late.

Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.

When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them.

This reality will be their prison.

They will live in self-delusion.

When our goal is accomplished a new era of domination will begin.

Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.

But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then.

THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW.

If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action.

They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen.

Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.

This is the secret covenant by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.

This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood.

We, the ones who from heaven to earth came.

This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist.

It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we
shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.

3 minute video on sheeple control:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVY12beC3k&feature=player_embedded

How linguistic programming works:

-Progressive
Implied – One who wishes to move his country forward.
Actual – One who wishes to move his country toward a state-socialism.

-Feminist
Implied – One who wishes to be more feminine, and wishes to protect feminine ideas and custom.
Actual – One who wishes to be more masculine, and destroy differences between the sexes.

-Affirmative Action
Implied : Action which is correct (“Affirmative” means correct, and “Action” is normally good as well)
Actual : Preferential treatment for a particular minority group. (See : Apartheid, Racism)

*For more NLP examples Big Brother uses, read 1984.*

Source:

thegic.org

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Victory: Connecticut Becomes First State to Require GMO Labeling

Victory: Connecticut Becomes First State to Require GMO Labeling | Common Dreams.

June 4, 2013

by Common Dreams

Food safety advocates hope Connecticut’s move sparks nationwide momentum for labeling of genetically modified foods

– Andrea Germanos, staff writer

In a landmark act, Connecticut has become the first state to require the labeling of genetically modified (gmo) foods.

(Photo: MillionsAgainstMonsanto/cc/flickr) The gmo labeling bill overwhelmingly passed in the House in a 134 – 3 vote on Monday.

As the Hartford Courant reports, the bill entails a sort of trigger in order for it to take effect:

For the legislation to take effect four states — including those bordering Connecticut — must pass a similar bill. In addition, any combination of northeastern states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey), with an aggregate population of at least 20 million people, must approve labeling legislation.

Immediately after the vote, cheers could be heard outside the Hall of the House from advocates who had been pushing the labeling requirement.

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) said the trigger “unnecessarily puts on hold what consumers and lawmakers have already validated as important legislation,” but still welcomed the passage of the legislation as a victory in the food movement, and hoped Connecticut’s action would prove a catalyst for other states to enact similar measures.

Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, told the New York Times that the trigger may not be entirely negative.

“The hurdles in the Connecticut bill, if surmounted, would mean a critical mass in the marketplace that would emulate the impacts that would have materialized if California had passed its ballot initiative,” said Kastel.

Dave Murphy, founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now!, cheered the bill’s passage as a victory of people power over corporate agriculture, saying, “The grassroots have won in Connecticut for a key victory over Monsanto and the biotech lobby.”

“It was inspiring to watch Connecticut legislators supporting GMO labeling stand strong in the face of the biotech industry’s effort to kill the bill,” said Murpy.

“Numerous other states in the Northeast and around the country are actively considering pending GE food labeling bills. Connecticut’s leadership provides momentum and an incentive for these other states to move forward,” Rebecca Spector, who works on state GMO labeling legislative efforts at CFS, said in a statement. “Other states should now pass GE labeling laws, providing millions of U.S. consumers with the basic right to know how their food is produced.”

The legislation now heads to Gov. Malloy, who is expected to sign it.

How to Identify G.M.O Genetically Modified Food @ the Grocery Store – 3 min video

How to Identify G.M.O Genetically Modified Food @ the Grocery Store – YouTube.

We need all the help we can get.

How to read the code: How to know if your food is organic or GMO

Growing Organic, Eating Organic

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No offense meant

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International Day Of Protest Against Monsanto and GMO Foods MAY 25, 2013

International Day Of Protest Against Monsanto & GMO Foods MAY 25, 2013 -YouTube.

Heather Callaghan

May 16, 2013

Activist Post Nick Bernabe, Emilie Rensick, and Tami Monroe Canal’s organizational and social media directing gifts have been pivotal in garnering support for one of the largest worldwide peaceful protests to date. Initiative from hundreds of activist organizers online, activist media writers and tens of thousands are sharing the message. Any other divergent opinions are being put aside by those joining the march to raise awareness of biotech corporatocracy – literally from the ground up. While the activist-dubbed Monsanto Protection Act rider slipped into law, so launched the March Against Monsanto. The protest is on May 25th 11am PST and simultaneously spans 6 continents, 36 countries, 48 United States plus the District of Columbia, and at least 250 cities. Bernabe packs a lot of info in the following clip, discussing the blurring lines of Monsanto with the government and why Monsanto continues to increase profits (22% increase in April) thanks to “corporate welfare.” No donations – just show up and spread the word. Find all the info you need below. Nick asks

Why do they need to be protected from the law? Why are they putting themselves above the law? And who are these politicians that are willing to just do what they are told to do because of the money they are receiving from these huge companies?

Monsanto succeeded in protection from legal recourse on their second try at rider slips with the Monsanto Protection Act. So sneaky and devious was it that it drew poignant comedic ire from Jon Stewart. Even Hollywood celebrities are pitching in support to raise awareness for food giant transparency. Recently, the Supreme Court backed Monsanto in a landmark patent case against a farmer accused of saving seeds.

For many activists, the desire is for GMO bans and at least labeling so that people can make a choice. But when does begging the government ever achieve results, especially when “one hand washes the other.” Monsanto spent millions to campaign against labeling during last Fall’s Proposition 37 in California. 

Nick believes that the easiest way to know what’s in your food is to grow your own, and he hopes the march inspires that motivation. If growing or organizing co-ops cannot be done, at the very least support local organic, he says. Perhaps the march will halt some of the biotech profits even if the government chooses to turn a deaf ear. Growing your own is the most empowering “grassroots” and “ground up” activism.

Social Media Director Nick Bernabe wants people to:

…remember that it is the people taking the initiative to make changes, not the government. We’ve waited for things to happen that way for far too long, it’s time we the people take matters into our own hands.

Lead organizer is mom Tami Monroe Canal who started the march to protect her two daughters’ futures.

I feel Monsanto threatens their generation’s health, fertility and longevity. I couldn’t sit by idly, waiting for someone else to do something.

Why Do We March? From the March Against Monsanto website:

• Research studies have shown that Monsanto’s genetically-modified foods can lead to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer tumors, infertility and birth defects.
• In the United States, the FDA, the agency tasked with ensuring food safety for the population, is steered by ex-Monsanto executives, and we feel that’s a questionable conflict of interests and explains the lack of government-led research on the long-term effects of GM products.
• Recently, the U.S. Congress and president collectively passed the nicknamed “Monsanto Protection Act” that, among other things, bans courts from halting the sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified seeds.
• For too long, Monsanto has been the benefactor of corporate subsidies and political favoritism. Organic and small farmers suffer losses while Monsanto continues to forge its monopoly over the world’s food supply, including exclusive patenting rights over seeds and genetic makeup.
• Monsanto’s GM seeds are harmful to the environment; for example, scientists have indicated they have contributed to Colony Collapse Disorder among the world’s bee population.

What are solutions we advocate?

• Voting with your dollar by buying organic and boycotting Monsanto-owned companies that use GMOs in their products.
• Labeling of GMOs so that consumers can make those informed decisions easier.
• Repealing relevant provisions of the US’s “Monsanto Protection Act.”
• Calling for further scientific research on the health effects of GMOs.
• Holding Monsanto executives and Monsanto-supporting politicians accountable through direct communication, grassroots journalism, social media, etc.
• Continuing to inform the public about Monsanto’s secrets.
• Taking to the streets to show the world and Monsanto that we won’t take these injustices quietly.

We will not stand for cronyism. We will not stand for poison. That’s why we March Against Monsanto.

I can’t remember ever seeing an online activist campaign this big before, complete with Twitter bombs and memes. Check out the action. Will you go? Will you help spread the word?

#MarchAgainstMonsanto Event info:

March Against Monsanto Website – contains all necessary info
Facebook Page
Facebook Events Page
Events List with Local Facebook Links
It’s not too late to organize your own march if there isn’t one near you
Online flyer

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US supreme court rules for Monsanto in Indiana farmer’s GM seeds case

US supreme court rules for Monsanto in Indiana farmer’s GM seeds case | Environment | guardian.co.uk.

The report noted that three big companies now control more than half of the global seed market – a position that has sent prices soaring. The report said the average cost of planting an acre of soybeans had risen 325% between 1995 and 2011.

Justice Elena Kagan says Vernon Bowman’s late-season soybean crop infringed on patent for GM soybeans

• Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
• guardian.co.uk
• Monday 13 May 2013 

Indiana soybean farmer Vernon Bowman speaks to the media outside the supreme court in February. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

The US supreme court came down solidly on the side of the agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday, ruling unanimously that an Indiana farmer could not use patented genetically modified soybeans to create new seeds without paying the company.

The case – which was cast by the farmer’s supporters as a classic tale of David vs Goliath – could well dictate the future of modern farming.

In an unanimous ruling written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court ruled that the farmer, Vernon Bowman, had infringed on Monsanto’s patent for its GM soybeans when he bought some of those seeds from a local grain elevator and planted them for a second, late-season crop. Monsanto sued, arguing that Bowman had signed a contract when he initially bought the Roundup Ready soybeans in the spring, agreeing not to save any of the harvest for replanting. The seeds are genetically modified to be resistant to Roundup Ready weedkiller.

On Monday, the nine justices agreed. Kagan rejected the farmer’s main argument, that Monsanto’s patent was exhausted, because he had bought the seeds from a grain elevator. “Patent exhaustion does not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder’s permission,” she wrote.

Bowman, who is in his 70s, grew up in south-western Indiana and has farmed the same stretch of land for most of the past four decades. He had for years been faithfully signing contracts with Monsanto for his main soybean crop. More than 90% of the soybean grown in the mid-west is believed to be GM strains, like Round-Up Ready. But Bowman got into trouble when he decided to buy up junk seed from a local grain elevator and use it for a second, late-season planting. The advantage to the farmer was that such seeds were cheaper than the price demanded by Monsanto, and the late-season plantings were a riskier crop.

Monsanto sued, arguing that it maintained patent rights on the GM seeds even after sold on by a third party, and won a settlement of $84,456 (£53,500) which was upheld on Monday.

Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP Kagan, above, agreed with the company’s argument that if it allowed farmers like Bowman to replant his seeds after just one season’s use, it would have no business model:

“In the case at hand, Bowman planted Monsanto’s patented soybeans solely to make and market replicas of them, thus depriving the company of the reward patent law provides for the sale of each article. Patent exhaustion provides no haven for that conduct. We accordingly affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.”

Monsanto said the ruling would help shore up the US patent system, and encourage greater innovation.

“The Court’s ruling today ensures that longstanding principles of patent law apply to breakthrough 21st century technologies that are central to meeting the growing demands of our planet and its people,” David Snively, the company’s general counsel, said in a statement on the company’s website. “The ruling also provides assurance to all inventors throughout the public and private sectors that they can and should continue to invest in innovation that feeds people, improves lives, creates jobs, and allows America to keep its competitive edge.”

Kagan said it was a narrow ruling. But some commentators said the decision could offer greater protection to those with patents on products that can be self-replicated, like cell lines and software.

The decision will be seen as a big defeat for those who had looked to Bowman’s case to challenge the growing power over modern farming that is wielded by giant agricultural and biotech firms. By the start of this year, Monsanto had filed 144 lawsuits against 466 farmers and small farm businesses alleging patent infringement, according to a report from the Centre for Food Safety which has championed Bowman’s case.

The report noted that three big companies now control more than half of the global seed market – a position that has sent prices soaring. The report said the average cost of planting an acre of soybeans had risen 325% between 1995 and 2011.

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The Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial

The Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial – YouTube.

If you drink pop, sodas, you must watch this truth “commercial”

5 Ways to Lower Your IQ

Activist Post: 5 Ways to Lower Your IQ.

Kenny Valenzuela
Activist Post

April 16, 2013

Developmental neurotoxicants are chemicals that affect the way your brain develops in its ability to process, store and retrieve information. The pharmacratical dictatorship has sunk its fangs of control into every facet of human existence making it nearly impossible to escape the toxic stream of products being produced by the new world order’s mental hygienists.

Dumbing down the population is a compartmentalized industry which exploits human necessity in order to expand its fear of influence. Turning food and water into weaponized mental poisons, the modern-day behavioral sterilization program marches forward.

The (EPA) Environmental Pollution Agency has established a list of chemicals that are known to cause learning disabilities and central nervous system disorders.
The Mundy Database refers to these chemicals as developmental neurotoxins. This list contains well over two dozen different poisons that will lower your IQ level while quenching your thirst and brightening your teeth.
Taking a look at the EPA’s list, you start to realize most of these chemical are in foods and beverages we consume on a daily basis. In fact, it would be nearly impossible not to consume at least one of these brain-cell-killing chemicals which have saturated consumer goods and permeated every aspect of human hygiene creating an empire of imbeciles who pay to be poisoned.

• Aluminum in sunscreens, deodorant and vaccines
• Aspartame in diet sodas, artificial sweeteners and chewing gum
• Bisphenol A in plastic containers, liners of food cans and baby toys
• DEET in bug sprays and insect repellents
• Fluoride in drinking water, bottled water and toothpaste

Imagine you became aware of the man behind the curtain of this population reduction program that has its origins in the 1920s United States Department of Eugenics. A program first established via sterilization of those deemed unfit in order to minimize the amount of breeding that was occurring among its citizens.

Today, the pharmacratical dictatorship fiddles with the very nature of being human not only at a cellular level, but all the way down to your DNA. These eugenicists drive consumer products and have systematically whittled away the protective barriers our bodies use to possess. The only way to avoid the constant onslaught of toxic chemicals being hurled at the human animal is to become Grizzly Adams and retreat into the wilderness leaving behind the illusions of a corrupt and polluted un-civilization.

5 Ways to Lower Your IQ

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Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising

Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising by Daniel Moss — YES! Magazine.

YES! Magazine

The book Harvesting Justice isn’t just a look at the world’s most exciting food justice groups—it’s also a knockout organizing tool.

by Daniel Moss

posted Apr 10, 2013

A group of Rarámuri Indians from Bocoyna Municipality, who marched into the governor’s palace in 2008 to demand that genetically modified corn not contaminate their native seeds. Photo by David Lauer.

Chewing on a mouthful of locally grown lettuce, I wondered if the claims I’d heard about the global food-justice movement were true. Was there a line to follow, however crooked, between my purchase of these greens, land reform in Brazil and opposition to genetically modified seeds in California. Or was it all just empty calories?

Reading about how people transform the way they farm and eat makes you want to cook up your own plans with your neighbors.

As a somewhat conscientious consumer and occasional Taco Bell boycotter, I’ve hoped that the movement was real. But it hasn’t always been easy to perceive the connection between marching for improved farmworker rights, signing a petition against factory feedlots, and cooking up beets from a CSA (that is, community supported agriculture, which usually comes in the form a box of assorted veggies delivered to people who contribute to a local farm’s financial well-being).

Those connections form a tight weave in the new book, Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agriculture in the Americas. Using “food sovereignty” as the secret sauce, the book sautés the individual ingredients of sister movements into a coherent, flavorful whole.

Young Rarámuri women select corn for next year´s seed after a farmer-to-farmer workshop on seed selection in the community of Rekusachi, Chihuahua. Photo by David Lauer.

The book was created for the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance—a network of organizations allied with La Via Campesina, which advocates for culturally appropriate (think tortillas in Mexico instead of bread), ecologically sound (no GMOs), and small-farmer friendly food systems.

The book’s authors, Tory Field and Beverly Bell, do a lot more with food than just write about it. Field is a farmer who co-manages the Next Barn Over Farm, a CSA program in western Massachusetts. Bell has worked for decades with small farmer organizations in Haiti, including those who set fire to agricultural aid after the 2010 earthquake. The farmers didn’t see the donated seeds as aid, but as a Monsanto “trojan horse” undermining their control over their own food.

Both authors are also members of Other Worlds, an organization that educates the public about citizen movements and builds community alternatives to corporate globalization. Introducing us to farmers speaking in their own voices, they describe how fighting the dominance of agribusiness and relocalizing the food system are indeed two sides of the same coin.

The book merges five years of field research and interviews, and describes more than 100 case studies of advocacy campaigns and alternative food systems in the United States and around the world. The authors interview New Mexican farmer and teacher Miguel Santistevan, who insists that “We don’t like the way the food system treats the earth and its negative health effects on the people, [and] we are working to actualize an alternative.”

They introduce us to Rosnel Jean-Baptiste of Heads Together Small Peasant Farmers of Haiti (Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen), who says, “It’s not houses that are going to rebuild Haiti, it’s investing in the agriculture sector.”

And they encourage consumer action through the words of Ben Burkett, president of the National Family Farm Coaltion. “No matter what us farmers plant, the consumer’s got to change the system, ” Burkett says. “As long as they don’t complain, there’s no need even talking about it. The marketplace dictates.”

A group of Haitian peasants meets to discuss strategies for rebuilding agriculture after the earthquake of 2010. Photo by Roberto (Bear) Guerra.

Designed for use as an organizing tool

Accompanying the book is a curriculum of teaching exercises called “Sowing Seeds,” intended for use in community and academic settings. The curriculum is dizzyingly comprehensive, a kind of “best of” in food systems education culled from sister organizations.

The book connects the dots between community groups doing related work and breaks up any sense of going it alone.

Have you ever wondered how many tons of tomatoes a picker needs to pick each day to earn minimum wage, or what the salary of David Novak—the CEO of the company that owns Taco Bell—would add up to in tons of tomatoes at the same rate? It’s all in here. Consumer, producer, and retailer perspectives are all explored through engaging exercises. Suggested workshop formats may come in handy if you are an educator or organizer.

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
It’s organic. It’s local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?

You may want to nudge your local bookseller to carry Harvesting Justice. I’m guessing they won’t be sorry. It’s not only highly readable but may catalyze actions such as getting local food into school lunches. The stunning photos serve up inspiration to get off your duff and transform the local food system.

Because it provides that kind of inspiration, this is the kind of book that your local food co-op, farmer’s market, or anti-hunger organization might consider using as a study guide. It can help connect the dots between community groups doing related work and break up any sense of going it alone. The appendix fills nearly fifteen pages, introducing us to groups like the Food Chain Workers Alliance, First Nations Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, and the Honduran Garifuna organization. While these organizations are scattered around the planet, they form the foundation of a localized, alternative food system.

Reading about how people transform the way they farm and eat makes you want to reach for a big soup pot, cut up some onions, and cook up your own plans with your neighbors. Harvesting Justice gives you more than the recommended dose of civic engagement.

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Daniel Moss wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. As a consultant, Daniel works with communities and organizations around the world to advance democratic and sustainable stewardship of our shared commons.

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