The Importance of Localism

Why Americans Should Worry about China's Food Safety Problems

Shannon Hayes: Health Lessons from a Local Diet (and her take on paleo)

Related:
Joel Salatin on Work and Stewarship & Forgiveness Farming and Redemptive Work
Joel Salatin is also featured in Episode 157 of Greenhorn Radio (mp3).

Met Joel Salatin tonight at Book Passage in SF! Long day...

Edit. Chelsea Green is offer a 35% discount on any purchase - Mr. Salatin has self-published some books through the company and is planning to do so for his next book (which may be out next summer). The company also has books by Shannon Hayes.

Shannon Hayes Interview

Daniel Rubin: The 'Radical Homemaker' explains the benefits of going off the grid

Shannon Hayes, Long Way on a Little

A ‘radical homemaker’ shares her secret to greener, more affordable meat eating
By Twilight Greenaway

The publisher of her new book: Chelsea Green.
Her website.
Radical Homemakers
Grassfed Cooking

Items of Interest, 19 May 2012

Back to Burke

Defending Strauss by Samuel Goldman

The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters by Gregory S. Ahern
Champions of Modern Civilization

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth

The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination by Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr.

The Third Way: Wilhelm Röpke’s Vision of Social Order by Ralph E. Ancil
Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton by Clyde Wilson
James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention by Lance Banning


Tom Piatak, Georgetown Needs An Exorcist
(Dr. Fleming, Re: Georgetown)

The Looming Reversal of Centralization by Gary North

Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan
Accurate history? Or spin and lies to make Obama look better after the fact?

New Right vs. Old Right by Greg Johnson
Nationalism: Phenomenology & Critique by Alain de Benoist


SSM:
Effects of Same-Sex Marriage

Sean Collins, Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage

A "New York progressive" gives four reasons for opposing "gay marriage"
Law professor says flawed view of sex threatens religious freedom by Michelle Bauman
Rod Dreher, A Burkean View on SSM
Social Issues Matter
Green is a color in the rainbow
Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide

Economics:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is.


Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)

Carson Interviewed on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio (mp3)

Guest Post: Failbook’s Epic Fail: Does Zuckerberg Want Users To Pay?

Congress for New Urbanism 20
Some reports.

Peak Oil and Energy:
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
By: Jeremy Wakeford

Fukushima Disaster: One Year Later

Shannon Hayes:



(alt)
Shannon Hayes archive at Yes! (Her website and Radical Homemakers and Grassfed Cooking)

She has a new book coming out in September, Long Way on a Little.

Five Questions for Florence Williams
May 18, 2012, by Kristen Hewitt

In Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, journalist Florence Williams delves into the biology, culture, and evolutionary history of this life-giving organ. In her witty and wide-ranging account, she explores where breasts come from, why we see them the way we do, and what they reveal as bellwethers for human health in a compromised environment.

Get Ready for the Breastaurant

Feminism:
Early Feminists: Moderate or Radical?
The Land of The Free and Home of The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women
Revisiting The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women

Gamer advice, some good, some bad: 66 Things On Life, Men and Women, and America

The Biggest Financial Decision a Young Man Will Ever Make

Even Miranda Lambert, supposed "Strong woman" tweeted publicly that she is reading the book Fifty Shades of Grey. SNL skit.


*warning* It is a rather bawdy skit.

How many women admit on Facebook or Twitter to reading this book. How many of them are self-proclaimed feminists? I'm not going to check search results.

The audience for ASCII porn
Women are Always Concerned with their Sexual Value


Catholic:
TAC: News from Two Alumni Priests in Minesota
The 2012 Baccalaureate Mass Homily by Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. (mp3)
2012 Senior Address by James W. Thompson (’12) (mp3)
The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long (mp3)

Gregory B. Sadler, Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 1 of 2)
Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 2 of 2)

Evangelization and human contact

Mass in the Vernacular, Yes. But at Least It Should Be Translated Well

I suspect the video of the FSSP ordinations will eventually be made available.

10 Fascinating Facts About Hildegard von Bingen

Michael Coren interview: Why he believes Christianity is the most abused faith on earth

What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe


Russian Orthodox:
Celebrations on the occasion of 5th anniversary of reunification of Russian Church Abroad with Moscow Patriarchate to take place in Moscow
Five Years of the Reunified Russian Church: Reflections of Fr. Nikolai Balashov

Five Years Together (mp3)

Patriach Kirill Gets Facebook Page

Diet and Health:
MF trains with Erwan Le Corre


Movnat Helps 65-year-old win Warrior Dash

The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue (full article)

Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #21 with Karen Pendergrass of Paleo Approved (mp3)

HealthWatch: NorCal Olympic Athlete Credits Paleo Diet For Healing

444: Daniel ‘The Barefoot Professor’ Howell Says Shoes Destroy Your Feet (mp3)

Modern-Day Primal Living

Esther Gokhale had a TEDxStanford talk today. If it becomes available on YouTube I will post it.

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 13): ‘Low-Carbing Women & Weight Lifting’ | Dr. Cassandra Forsythe (mp3)


Music:
On the occasion of the passing of Donna Summer
Welmer, Goodbye, Donna
In Defense of Dance Music

Cappella Musicale Pontificia "Sistina"


Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas - Bowl Of Bula


Mark O'Connor - "Tom and Jerry"


Misc:
Cannes 2012: Lily Rabe to Play Silent Film Star Mary Pickford on Screen

Preview – Travis Haley – Climbing the Ladder
Article by Recoil Staff

A Day in the Life of Tim Ferris


The Origins of the Tuxedo, Explored (via Tea at Trianon)

Items of Interest, 18 March 2012

Rod Dreher, Why Conservatism Can't Win

St. Calhoun, Part I by Bradley J. Birzer - Part II

Brig. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera to be deputy commanding general at USASOC

Intelligible Goods, Marriage, and Intellectual Conversion by R.J. Snell

Executive War Powers Have Strict Constitutional Limits

Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science

Paul Gottfried, Obama's Grievance Politics
“National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?

Wisconsin Senate Passes Healthcare Freedom Act
Conservatives Slam House GOP For "Betrayal" of States' Rights
Free Sterilizations Must be Offered to All College Women, Says HHS

So will the American bishops and Catholic institutions work with states to block Obamacare so that at least the Church will be protected in some areas? Or will they just play along with the rules of the nationalist system so that they can act the martyr?

Because of the latest developments, it once again appears that it might be better to support the Grand Oligarchy Party even though it gives scraps to social conservatives, because it at least won't be as radical as Obama if it controls the executive. Though there is no reason to think that the party will resist changes coming from any of the branches of the National Government. It will undoubtedly continue to promote oligarchy and as a result, pave the way for further destruction of economic freedom and community.

Is there a way to get around the requirements of Obamacare by changing labor contracts, so that employees are more like contractors or consultants?

Church Not State by D.G. Hart
Christians must choose between faith or worldly relevance

Grit Artisan: The Other Side of Racism

Study Finds That Corn Insecticides Are to Blame for Deaths of Honeybees

Nations, Liberalism, and Science by Peter Augustine Lawler

Economics:
Richard Heinberg, What is Sustainability
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
The Truth About “Free Trade” by David S. D'Amato
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy by Kevin Carson

Catholic:
William Oddie, Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline

The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation

Education:
E. Christian Kopff, Greek to US: The Death of Classical Education and Its Consequences
Shannon Hayes, From Homeschooling to Unschooling


Diet and Health:
The 4th MovNat principle: Practical
Triathlete’s paleo diet with bone broth dramatically reduces osteoarthritis pain

Music:
Watch Jason Aldean's 'Fly Over States' Video BY HUNTER HAUK

Heejun Han Performs Right Here Waiting on American Idol

Stile Antico "Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart" : Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion

More poseuwear:
Glock Apparel

Larry Vickers:




Product Review Haley AK-74 Rifle

TV:
Person of Interest Renewed!

Can I get a job with Benchmade? Fed grant to help Oregon companies hiring & training .

Items of Interest, 12 March 2012

Egalitarian Elites and the Academic Dilemma by Darryl Hart

Ryan Grant, Navigating the Republican Milieu, Part I

The Chapelstone Foundation

Robert George, Why Study the West? (National Association of Scholars - Academic Questions)

Rebellion: Country music and the culture wars

Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski, We’re All Traditionalists Now

Russell Kirk, The Conservative Purpose of a Liberal Education
Conservatism and the Western Tradition
Obedience to What is Noble


VDare: Deport Keish Kim! Impeach John Morton! (And Obama!)

Patrick Buchanan on Japan: Land of the Setting Sun


The European Union's Racist and Unintentionally Revealing TV Ad

Counterpunch:
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Land of the Mega-Rich
URI AVNERY, Attacking Iran
TOM ENGELHARDT, The Zero Percent Doctrine

Farming:
Shannon Hayes, A Farmers' Daughter
Rodale: The Girl Next Door Is the Future of Food
How can organic farming feed the world?
Why Monsanto Thought Weeds Would Never Defeat Roundup

Peak Oil:
Kurt Cobb, The narrowing window for a transition to a sustainable industrial society (EB)

Diet and Health:
Still a Fast-Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later
10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Sleep
Karen De Coster, Burzynski: The Movie (the movie)
Dominicans - Complicated Compline

History:
Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
The Templar Trials: Did the System Work?

Japanese Imperial Army Victory March Nanking 1937 日本軍の勝利は1937年南京行進


Music:
The Cranberries in Studio


For Sarge -


Chiara Luce Badano Movie Trailer

Items of Interest, 8 December 2011

Jack Donovan, Violence is Golden

Pearl Harbor:
Thomas Fleming, Pearl Harbor: Someone Had Blundered

Wilfred Owen was quite wrong. Though it is a hard thing for young men to die, it can be dulce et decorum pro patria mori, so long as the war is just and the leaders something better than the cynical butchers that lead their countries unnecessarily into war.

It is natural for a man to value the polity above himself. But what if the polity itself is an illusion and just an aggregate of individuals and their families, nothing more?

Mere Comments: Pearl Harbor, the Dust of Time
FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N. by John V. Denson

Empire:
Reading Cicero's "On Old Age" At Any and Every Age by Robert M. Woods
Iran War Already Begun
Justin Raimondo, The Untouchables

Washington’s Secret Wars by Philip Giraldi (The Changing Face of War)

The Remoteness of 1% Wars by William J. Astore
Why our wars of choice may prove fatal

Freedom Means War by Leon Hadar
Why libertarians can’t do foreign policy.

Fast and Furious:
Confirmed: ATF Plotted to Use Fast and Furious to Demonize Second Amendment
CBS

Paul Gottfried:
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement
Cambridge University Press
How the GOP Swallowed the Conservative Movement
His review of The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes The Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue.
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy

States' Rights:
One sheriff stands up for the people he serves

Economics:
ECONOMY: Ecological Economics (EB)
Gene Logsdon, Old Tractors Never Die
A Course to Keep You From Crashing (Chris Martenson)

John Michael Greer, What Peak Oil Looks Like
A review of his The Wealth of Nature.

John Robb, Technology Shifts and Economic Depression and US Economy Breaks Bad

System, not consumers, are the big green problem by Simon Butler (EB)
Old Tractors Never Die by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Relocalization:
Durban Dollars: Tck Tck Tck Money by Albert Bates (EB)
The Beautiful, the Local, the Slow by Marta Madigan
How Transition initiatives shone in the Energyshare vote: a podcast

OWS:
Farmers Come to Wall Street
Shannon Hayes, From the Farm to the Occupation (EB)
Ralph Nader, Not made in America (same article posted at Counterpunch last week)

Energy:
‘Net Energy’ ignorance reigns on Capitol Hill by Megan Quinn Bachman (EB)

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, The Industrial Food Machine Addiction


Food Matters from LuMeL on Vimeo.
official site

Whole30 Paleo: How I Failed But Succeeded
The 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness 2011

Education:
When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids

Items of Interest, 28 November 2011

Srjda Trifkovic, Multicultural vs. Stereotypical

Plato’s Euthyphro: Introduction by Thomas Fleming

Justin Raimondo, The Price of Empire

FBI Adds Preppers to Potential Terrorists List

Shannon Hayes, Toilet Paper: Preparedness or True Resilience

Sharon Astyk, How to Eat Cheap (EB)

Don't Panic! by Catriona Ross (EB)

Economics:
The new Story of Stuff: Can we consume less? by Fred Pearce (EB)

"Demand-Side Economics" and the Liberal Denial of Reality by Erik Lindberg (EB)

A mindful path to a steady state economy by Rick Heller (EB)
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Why is economic growth so popular? by Ugo Bardi (EB)

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM: Land Tenure and Anarchic Common Law

Energy:
The Energy Return on Investment threshold by David Murphy (EB)

OWS:
Ralph Nader, Let Them In

On Black Friday: A Look at the Occupy Movement and Buy Nothing Day

Counterpunch:
Franklin Spinney, AF-Pak SITREP
Brian McKenna, Student Loan Fury in the Occupy Movement
Paul Craig Roberts, The Roads to War and Economic Collapse and Just Another Goldman Sachs Take-over

A pathetic piece by a pedestaller on a book written by another pedestaller: Women Are Better at Almost Everything

November 28 2011: Are we there yet?

Don't go back to school: An interview with author Kio Stark by Paul M. Davis (EB)

Diet and Health:
How to Eliminate Tooth Decay

History:
A Chivalrous Man is not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
Childhood in Medieval England, c.500-1500

Shannon Hayes on meat consumption

From her FB:

Is Radical Homemaking Incompatible with Grain-Free Living?

I was sent the above question last week. Here is my response:

First, please understand that I simply cannot jump on board and believe that any particular dietary regime is the right course of action for every human being. When my family's health crisis started, I was in the process of writing the manuscript for my 3rd cookbook, Long Way on A Little, which focuses on helping folks to eliminate waste with grassfed meat consumption. I was developing lots of recipes that incorporate grassfed meat with grains and legumes. Then we went through our health crisis, and I wasn't able to test the recipes. Rather than hire a recipe tester, it was cheaper for me to re-write the book, focusing on recipes that didn't contain grains or legumes, so that our family could eat whatever I had to test. But I also had the challenge of still focusing on prudent meat consumption. Here's what I can tell you as a result of that experience:

I work in a cutting room @the farm, and just in that phase of food production, 20% of every animal harvested, and probably more often more than 30% of the hanging weight, is completely good food that is wasted. It never even gets wrapped for sale, because people just won't eat it. That includes the bones, the fat, pig skin, the heads, the feet, the organ meats, etc. Once folks buy the meat and take it home, there is even more waste. Unsure of food safety, folks throw out tons of perfectly good meat, or they cook it for one meal, and wind up discarding leftovers, unsure of how to use them. Thus, I cannot accept that a meat-based diet is bad for the planet and against RH values. What I can believe is that we are still incredibly wasteful. We can feed a lot more folks a lot more nutritionally dense food that is raised in harmony with the planet.

To do this in my home, i focus my family's diet on the 20-30% of the animal that gets wasted. I boil 10# of bones into broth every week. We drink it like milk. One cup of good broth for breakfast-on-the-run provides us unbelievable staying power. We picnic a lot, and I do that by drawing from French culinary traditions, making rillettes, rillons and confits, which can be made well ahead and will be preserved in nutritious fat. We also do a lot of devilled eggs, chicken salads, terrines and head cheese. All of this stuff is actually quite easy to do - it just takes some kitchen time. But when done ahead, it enables me to have fast meals easily. One day of kitchen work can actually buy me about a week of nearly "kitchen free" time. Because there is always lots of bone broth in my fridge, I can make "instant soup" faster than any Campbell's can. I boil the broth, toss in whatever veggies are on hand, and supper is on the table in just a few minutes.

When you focus on the 20-30% of the animal that is wasted, the cost of eating a meat-based diet drops significantly. Many farmers often give that stuff away, rather than see it go to waste. Interestingly, if more people would buy that waste meat, we grass farmers could probably drop the prices on our other premium cuts, because we would still garner the same net return. In my family's case, a 1 month supply of insulin costs $800. Eating without grains, refined sugars or legumes, we can make that 1 month supply last about 6 months, so the savings right there is pretty significant.

Learning to cook for a busy family w/out grains and legumes took some doing. But in many ways, I think I'm able to spend less time in the kitchen, now that I've come up the learning curve. If this is something you feel you need to do for your family's health, I just want to assure you that it can be done. Take heart, and feel free to write with any more questions you may have.

Items of Interest, 8 July 2011

Medieval News: Latest News on the theft of the Codex Calixtinus

Breaking the Spell of Money
To fix the economy, we first have to change our definition of wealth
by Scott Russell Sanders

Uranium Supply Update

One home grower is hit by the city's tyrannical code: Does Michelle Obama Know About This?

Shannon Hayes, The Unsupportive Partner

Basketball patches and plastic jug blossoms
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

John Michael Greer, Salvaging Energy

Ten Steps to Save the Cities
The new economics agenda for thriving local economies

Alberto's Paleo Transformation

Items of Interest, 29 June 2011

Renouncing, reclaiming, rebuilding: The 3 steps of radical homemaking

Shannon Hayes, Yes! Magazine  

 

Bigger farms, bigger headaches

Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

It took three 150 hp plus tractors, two backhoes and a bulldozer to finally free the rig. In the process three pull chains, each with 55,000 pound pulling capacity, snapped in one awesome surge of assembled horsepower. The country road alongside the field looked like a superhighway as the local population drove by to enjoy the show.

Brace yourselves for the next oil price shock
Dave Cohen, Decline of the empire

Karl Grossman, The Nuclear Gang Regroups
Harvey Wasserman, We've Almost Lost Nebraska
Paul Craig Roberts, A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy
Dave Lindorff, The US Military's A/C Bill for Iraq and Afghanistan Gives Me the Shivers
Henry Giroux, War Colleges

Radical Homemaking: It’s Not a Competition by Shannon Hayes
When it comes to ecological living, there’s always someone who’s doing it better. So what?

Shannon Hayes - NOFA-VT 2011 Winter Conference

Shannon Hayes, My Antidote to Overwhelm

My Antidote to Overwhelm
Shannon Hayes: People ask me, “How do you do it all?” The answer is, I don’t … and there’s a good reason for that.

Patrick Deneen reviews Radical Homemakers

At FPR.

Professor Deneen writes:

The only major shortcoming of the book that I have so far detected is a confusion of categories – throughout the book, Hayes claims that her argument in defense of the home is essentially “progressive.” What she calls “progressive” is, in fact, profoundly conservative, reaching back to the arguments at the heart of Catholic distributist theory at least since the 19th-century. Unfortunately, it appears that she has read neither Chesterton nor Belloc, nor has had any exposure to Christopher Lasch, all of whom are absent in her bibliography, and could have offered her a healthy corrective to this confusion. I think it’s more than a verbal mistake to call her argument “progressive,” for at the heart of her excellent case against modern organization is a rejection of nearly every aspect of what is today called “progress.” Hayes rejects growth, autonomy, expansion of human dominion, and wealth as what are purported to be the central goals of modern humanity (though, to be fair, hers is also a strong argument against much of what today passes for “conservatism,” in its “progressive” embrace of a corporate society aimed at “equal opportunity,” social mobility, and wealth expansion based on maximal extraction from and degradation of the natural world). Instead, Hayes would put the family, the household, and the community at the heart of our activities, and asks not how those forms of human association can serve the economy, but how the economy best can serve our shared lives. But for some philosophical confusion, it’s an excellent book, and one that points to a promising coalition of new feminism and traditionalism.

But what is the author's unspoken assumptions about how family life is structured, other than her recommending that both husband and wife be working out of the house? If traditionalism includes any sort of patriarchy, how can a coalition be formed? Some American women may be satisfied with a beta and holding power over him, but it would seem to go against the instinct of most women toward hypergamy.

How much of a modern woman's fear of inequality or exploitation is justified? And how much of these fears, and the resentment, anger, and hostility they cause, are due to the ways original sin affects women? (Or a failure to understand, or to at least accept men?)

Radical Homemaking’s Relation to Feminism
Radical Homemakers: redefining feminism and the good life
On "radical" homemakers + the femivore dilemma
Poultry is a Feminist Issue?

The author's website. The book's website. A webpage.
5 Minutes for Books

More with Shannon Hayes:
Yes! Magazine
Christine Escobar, "Radical Homemakers" Review and Interview with Author Shannon Hayes
The City Greens
Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes Asks “The Kid Question” (which links to this article in Yes!)
Meet some of Portland's radical homemakers
The Grassfarmer Meets the Radical Homemaker
Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes Makes the Case for Sustainable Meat
Edible Authors


Related:
Rod Dreher, Chicken keeping as a feminist act
'Femivores' and Food Ethics
Rise of the Femivores and Radical Homemakers and The Rise (and Fall) of That Whole Femivore Thing

Sharon Astyk, Food for Thought