DutchNews.nl,
Friday 03 October 2014
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| The Netherlands is one of the world's biggest exporters of dairy products |
The
government needs to intervene to ensure people eat less meat, salt, sugar and
fat, according to the influential scientific council for government policy
(WRR) in a new report.
The WRR
advises the government on ‘future developments of great public interest’ and
focuses on sustainable food production in its latest report, the Volkskrant
reports on Friday.
The organisation
says despite the importance of agricultural exports to the Dutch economy, the
Netherlands should produce less dairy and meat products. The Netherlands should
also develop official policy toward food, rather than toward agriculture, the
council says.
Production
The current
approach, with the focus on production, has been very successful and led to an
abundant supply of good, cheap food. However, natural resources are being
depleted and agricultural land is become exhausted, the council warns.
In
addition, the shortage of water and phosphates and a manure surplus are all
having an impact on biodiversity. At the same time, obesity is an increasing
problem internationally, as is the increase in resistant bacteria in factory
farming.
Sustainability
To
counteract the effects of current farming policy, we need to eat less meat and
dairy products and grow food more sustainably, the WRR says in its
recommendations. Fat, sugar and salt in food should be reduced and the current
plethora of labeling be reduced to just two.
‘Production
and consumption in the Netherlands are contributing to the global ecological
problem,’ the council states. Dairy products and meat have a ‘disproportional
impact’ and it would be good for both the environment and human health to
produce and consume less, the council says.
The
Netherlands no longer has an agricultural ministry and its work is now done by
the economic affairs department, the Volkskrant points out. Deputy economic
affairs minister Sharon Dijksma said in a reaction the report is an ‘important’
document which ‘asks the right questions’.
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(13) Question: Dear Kryon, I’m very concerned about the obesity epidemic, particularly in the U.S. Around me I see people getting bigger and more unhealthy, all for the sake of convenience and saving time. You mentioned at one point a famine, and I suspect the famine won’t be from a lack of food, but from an abundance of food that has no nutritional value.
I wonder how we can honor the Earth by eating nothing that comes straight from it? Of course this involves caring for the lands and oceans as part of a bigger issue and making that connection, too. Is this what it will finally take for people to switch to a healthier way of living?
Its amazing how detached people are from the food they eat. We don’t even honor our digestive processes, the way we combine foods. Whatever happened to nutrition? Atkins is no solution; there is no balance in it. Gastric bypass is all about quantity reduction, not quality increase. When will people make the direct connection between what/how they eat and their health? Is a change in diet and lifestyle part of the upcoming shift?
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
(39) Question: Dear Kryon: I've noticed how many children are developing severe allergies to foods (my daughter included). When I've researched this, it seems that most of the allergies are essentially to seeds, grains, legumes, eggs, and dairy. I've noticed that these foods all hold the potential for life, or in the case of dairy, are essentially used to sustain the first stages of life in an animal's baby. My feeling is that because we're not releasing the life force within these foods (that is, sprouting, etc.), they're becoming harmful to us. I would like your impressions of this.
Answer: For thousands of years, these foods have worked for humanity. In these cases you speak about, the main culprit continues to be the way in which these foods are collected and processed. You won't find these allergies in third-world countries, and you won't find them within the children who work on farms, where they eat the foods directly. There will eventually have to come a day when you relax some of your efficiency attributes and go back to the way food was meant to be collected and eaten. And yes... there are effects from how the dairy animals are treated, too. Going back to some basics will help, and so will eliminating some of the procedures that supposedly create a "safer food." These procedures have instead made them begin to look like foreign food to the Human body.
(15) Question: Dear Kryon, please help us understand the increase of allergies. What can we do to heal this phenomenon?
Answer: Reduce the steps in your food chain, which are adding chemistry to fresh food.
(39) Question: Dear Kryon: I've noticed how many children are developing severe allergies to foods (my daughter included). When I've researched this, it seems that most of the allergies are essentially to seeds, grains, legumes, eggs, and dairy. I've noticed that these foods all hold the potential for life, or in the case of dairy, are essentially used to sustain the first stages of life in an animal's baby. My feeling is that because we're not releasing the life force within these foods (that is, sprouting, etc.), they're becoming harmful to us. I would like your impressions of this.
Answer: For thousands of years, these foods have worked for humanity. In these cases you speak about, the main culprit continues to be the way in which these foods are collected and processed. You won't find these allergies in third-world countries, and you won't find them within the children who work on farms, where they eat the foods directly. There will eventually have to come a day when you relax some of your efficiency attributes and go back to the way food was meant to be collected and eaten. And yes... there are effects from how the dairy animals are treated, too. Going back to some basics will help, and so will eliminating some of the procedures that supposedly create a "safer food." These procedures have instead made them begin to look like foreign food to the Human body.
(15) Question: Dear Kryon, please help us understand the increase of allergies. What can we do to heal this phenomenon?
Answer: Reduce the steps in your food chain, which are adding chemistry to fresh food.
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