Dear Bryan, thanks for sharing Tatsanee's article, which is below for sharing with the p2p-f mailing list and especially for our friend Sepp, who has a wholistic health blog. I understand this article is not for publication right now. Have you considered online publications such as the Asia Times?<br>
<br>I have no doubt that deficiency of nutrients are a very important part of the mix of illth, though can it be really proven that it is the most important factor? In any case, restoring a nutrient dense soil is crucial .. I know use Nutrient Dense as the paradigmatic example of p2p-based cooperation in all my lectures and seminars,<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Bryan Hugill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan.hugill@gmail.com">bryan.hugill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<font><font face="georgia,serif">Dear Michel,<br><br>I finally have the green light to send this to you. It's been written by a friend of ours (cc:'ed on this email) who's doing some interesting work/thinking about how to blend organic principles (including permaculture, biointensive cultivation, etc. etc.), food nutritional density and energy (i.e., the metaphysical aspect) into a more holistic way of farming and thinking about farming. <br>
<br>Perhaps it'll be of interest to the P2P Foundation members / mailing list :)<br><br>All the best,<br>Bryan<br clear="all"></font></font><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" face="verdana, sans-serif">_________________<br>
<b>Bryan Hugill</b><br><b>Co-founder and Environmental Manager</b><br><b>RAITONG ORGANICS FARM</b><br>Tel: +66 (0)85 915 0961<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:info@raitongorganics.com" target="_blank">info@raitongorganics.com</a></font><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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<br><b>LET'S GO ORGANIC FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND GOOD HEALTH!</b></div><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Real
</b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Health
Starts in Real Soil</b></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.04in;line-height:100%"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">By
Tatsanee Setboonsarng</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">
- Board Member & Executive Director, NawaChiOne Foundation</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.04in;line-height:100%"><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="mailto:Tatsanees@gmail.com"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><i>Tatsanees@gmail.com</i></font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><i>,
</i></font></font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="mailto:NawaChiOne@gmail.com"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><i>NawaChiOne@gmail.com</i></font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><i>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.04in;line-height:100%"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><i>©
October 2011</i></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="CENTER">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.19in;line-height:100%">“<em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>Let
food be your medicine..</b></span></font></font></em><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>.”</b></span></font></font></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
-- Hippocrates</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Hippocrates,
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">the
father of medicine, said “Let food be your medicine…” But have
you ever wondered why foods in the markets these days seem to be
poisons rather than medicines? </span></font></font>
</p>
<ol><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Let’s
try answering th</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">is
question: What is the fundamental cause of disease? Pollution in the
environment.</span></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Too
much fatty and sugary junk foods</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">.</span></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Toxic
residues in canned food, plastic containers and food ingredients.</span></font></font></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">An
u</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">nhealthy
lifestyle and stressful work life. </span></font></font>
</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">GMO
foods and t</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">oxic
residues associated with agricultural chemicals in foods. </span></font></font>
</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Diminish</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">ed
nutrients in agricultural soils.
</span></font></font>
</p>
</li></ol>
<p style="line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="LEFT"><br><br>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Most
likely </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">not
many readers would have picked the last choice as the correct answer.
But it is actually the correct answer. The rest of the choices are
valid, but mineral malnourishment is now a major health problem.
Nutrient-related issues are certainly important and toxic residues
associated with chemicals are also a secondary cause of health
problems, to which we should pay more attention. However, the key
issue begins with diminished nutrients and minerals in the soil. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">It
is crucial to </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">know,
really know, that the existence of healthy and fertile agricultural
soil is the essential factor of good health in human beings. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>H</b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>ealth
crisis and nutritional decline </b></span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">We
are dying prematurely of chronic </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">and/or
degenerative diseases, such as cancer, coronary artery diseases,
arthritis,</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>
</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">diabetes,
hormone disruption, and asthma. In Thailand, a recent study by
Chiangmai Public Health Office</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"><sup>1</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
revealed that 89% of a consumer sample group had accumulated toxic
chemical residues in their blood to “at risk” and “unsafe”
levels that could result in chronic degenerative diseases.
Interestingly, this number is 14% higher than the 75% found in the
farmer group who had direct contact with toxic agricultural
chemicals. Ironically, it’s becoming common knowledge among Thais
that Thai farmers do not eat vegetables they grow for sale, but have
a separate chemical-free garden for their own consumption. A formal
senior officer of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) disclosed that
the number of cancer patients in Thailand has increased 100-fold over
the past 60 years.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote2anc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"><sup>2</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
Cancer has been the #1 cause of death in Thailand throughout the
last decade and is still so today. MoPH’s 2010 statistics indicate
that an average of 6.4 people die of cancer every hour (56,058 people
per year) and 274 more are diagnosed with cancer every day.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote3anc" href="#sdfootnote3sym"><sup>3</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
Similar statistics can be found in many countries around the world.
Interestingly, food quality and diet are six (6) of the ten (10)
leading causes of death in the past decade.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote4anc" href="#sdfootnote4sym"><sup>4</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
It is said that good quality foods and good surrounding
environmental conditions can reduce up to 40% of cancer, and 80% of
coronary heart disease and diabetes.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">We
are often reminded to eat more fruits and vegetables </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">and
to reduce our consumption of meat, sugar and fatty food for a better
heath. However, the quality of fruits and vegetables we are
consuming these days, and the environment in which they are grown, is
changing. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">The
level of quality and nutrient</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">s
in the produce we consume depends on various factors, including the
conditions of the soil, water, temperature, storage and time from
harvest to shelves until they reach the hands of consumers. Studies
show that the quality of nutrients in foods we consume around the
world these days is declining by a level of 15-75% compared to 50
years ago.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote5anc" href="#sdfootnote5sym"><sup>5</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
This does not include hydroponic products which have even fewer and
limited mineral contents, especially those trace elements that are
essential to proper functioning of all the cells in our body. Why? </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">The
answer is simple. </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">It
is all about business. Business bottom-line targets have moved crop
production toward mass production, high-yield, and shortened growing
time by increased use of high nitrogen compound fertilizers,
pesticides, and herbicides under many unnatural controlled
conditions. An increased rate of growth for crops leaves lesser time
for crops to naturally accumulate nutrients. Furthermore, pesticides
and herbicides destroy crops' nutritional value and are harmful to
the body. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">An
i</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">ncreasing
level of CO</span></font></font><sub><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">2</span></font></font></sub><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
in the atmosphere also has a (small) effect on the faster growth of
plants.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote6anc" href="#sdfootnote6sym"><sup>6</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Farmers
today are increasingly depend</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">ent
on agricultural chemicals and have turned their backs on traditional
biological-based farming practices. Large amounts of refined
synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides as well as hybrid
and genetically modified (GM) seeds are widely used to increase
yields and bottom-line profits. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">By
using this method, soil is ruined</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
and there is a lack of microbial activities. Soil becomes compacted
and consequently good nutrients are stripped out. More importantly,
synthetic fertilizers provide only certain nutrients and lack several
essential ones such as copper, selenium, lithium and vanadium.
Meanwhile, crops are unhealthy and prone to disease. The immediate
solution is to use pesticides and herbicides introduced by the same
company that sells chemical fertilizers. In some cases, bugs become
resistant to pesticides and farmers then use heavier doses, sometimes
far beyond safety levels, leaving harmful residues for consumers. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Thanks
to powerful chemi</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">cal
giant companies that go around the world to promote “</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">modern
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">farming
methods,” during the past 50 years or so we have managed to reverse
millions of years of soil formation. The majority of farmland around
the world is degrading, lacks soil biological activities and is
deficient in key minerals and nutrients. Compacted soil also lacks
capacity to hold water and store carbon, which is another contributor
to global warming. Today, runaway agriculture chemicals can be found
everywhere on earth, even in the middle of the Antarctic! </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Organic
farmers have long claimed that plants grown with organic method</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">s
can improve the nutrient conditions, and we believe the claim has
certain validity. However, currently no standard exists to help
consumers verify the density nutrients, or lack thereof, in fruits
and vegetables. “Certified organic” is about the farming process,
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>not
the quality of produce. Moreover, organic certified products are
being restricted from using any nutritional claim for marketing
purpose. However, not all is lost. The good news is that there is
now an easy method to monitor plant health and nutrient density--by
measuring the sugar level in the plant sap or “</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><i>Brix</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>
– a system developed by</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><i>
</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>a
German scientist, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><i>Adolf
Brix.</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>
There is a growing new movement, particularly in North America,
whereby future smart consumers will be able to find out the
nutritional quality of a given item by carrying a small simple
hand-held device into the super market and check out the sugar level
of produce.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>Nutritional
Naivety</b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>
and Health </b></span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">It
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">is
important to note that every living cell has “energy” or “life
force” called “chi” in Chinese. It is energy that determines
the degree of health or disease. In plants, if the soil is
chemically drenched and lacks micro-organisms to digest and feed the
plants, the plants will lack necessary nutrients. Plants, animals
and people need over 100 different minerals or at least 60-80
nutrients for maximum efficiency, not the conventional 17 minerals
believed to be required or the three minerals N-P-K usually
advertises in chemical fertilizer blends. Traditional Chinese
medicine doctors will tell that it is “chi” that determines your
health. After we consume produce with no nutrients, plus toxic
pesticide residuals, we get sick and are prone to many kinds of
diseases.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">M</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">any
soil scientists and modern medical doctors would advocate that at the
molecular level all mineral colloids, no matter if they are organic
or synthesized, are simply chemicals. But food nutrition for human
beings may not be the focus of agricultural scientists and the modern
medical community. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">The
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">simple
fact is that plant-derived minerals have up to 98% bioavailability,</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote7anc" href="#sdfootnote7sym"><sup>7</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
whereas metallic minerals have a bioavailability ranging only from 8
to 12%. This high mineral bioavailability of soil-cultivated plants
is the main secret to health and longevity, rather than
pharmaceutical drugs, expensive vitamin minerals and nutritional
supplements. This is why n</span></font></font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal">atural
grown foods which </span></span></font></font></em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">contain
the mineral diversity found only in healthy soil</span></font></font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal">
are the best medicine. W</span></span></font></font></em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">e
just simply cannot bypass the soil.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT">“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Growing
the soil so the soil will grow </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">the
plants,” is an old saying among the older generation Thai farmers
that has almost been forgotten. When we harvest crops off a field,
we are basically “mining” minerals from the soil. If we do not
replenish all of the minerals that have been removed, in some form,
at least to a level where everything that we want in our bodies is in
our crops, we are certainly destroying not only our own future, but
the future of humankind as well as all lives on earth and eventually
the planet Earth itself!!!</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>Soil</b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>,
Health, Food Quality to Food Security and Future of the Planet Earth!</b></span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Earth
is the only planet in the solar system, if not the universe, that has
a breathing skin</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">:
soil. But soil has become a forgotten resource. It seems that we
have forgotten that soil is alive. There are over 6 billion
micro-organisms in a teaspoon of soil (the entire human population is
currently estimated at 6.9 billion). There certainly exist crucial
interconnections of soil fertility, food quality, human health and
health of the planet Earth. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">H</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">umans
have survived on only 15 cm. of fertile topsoil, the source of oxygen
and food for all life on earth. But we have already lost one-third
of that topsoil in the last 100 years (nature takes an average of 300
years to make 1 cm of topsoil!). Today, we are losing our topsoil
even more rapidly as a result of water and wind erosion, an outcome
of modern agricultural practices. Unfortunately, the current hasty
depletion of valuable topsoil by conventional mechanized farming
practices has forced farmers around the world to increase usage of
chemical fertilizers and stronger toxic pesticides in order to
maintain their yields. It is a vicious cycle indeed. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">S</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">cientists
have warned us that if we continue to grow our foods with
conventional mechanized agricultural methods, we might only have
enough topsoil left to grow food to feed the world for another 40
years or so.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote8anc" href="#sdfootnote8sym"><sup>8</sup></a></span></font></font></sup></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Moreover</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">,
each day we are adding around 213,000 more people to the world
population.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote9anc" href="#sdfootnote9sym"><sup>9</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
As such, over the next two decades the world’s population is
expected to grow by an average of more than 100 million people a
year. This will surely add even more pressure to the already
intensely utilized land and fresh water. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">The
growth population may be less important than the extravagant
consumption behaviour and life style of the increasing middle-class
population</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
on Earth.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">A</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
long-term perspective is essential to meet these future challenges of
depleting cultivated areas, depleted soil and freshwater, as well as
an increasing population and consumption behavior. The conventional
industrial agricultural models and ways of thinking of the twentieth
century will not serve us well in addressing our twenty-first century
challenges. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>Despite
impressive economic growth rates, are we paying enough attention to
the quality of the food being produced and that we eat? Is it time
for us to take seriously the deficiency of essential nutrients in
most of the remaining arable land? Should we accept and understand
the indisputable fact that soil health is a major factor in human
health, as well as the health of our planet? </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>Bio-Energetic
Agriculture</b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>
– A New Green Revolution</b></span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">On
the supply side, t</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">o
ensure food security for present and future generations, while
protecting the fundamental natural resource base, we urgently need to
rethink about the future of farming and the way we grow our foods.
We need more effective and sustainable farming methods that can
provide consumers with higher nutrition foods, and better tasting
crops that are free of chemical toxins to keep us healthy. At the
same time, such methods should also able to provide farmers with
higher yields, lower production costs, and better quality of life,
while nurturing the environment. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Sounds
impossible, doesn’t it? But there is just the technology that can
meet these challenges—the all-in-one 21</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">st</span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
century farming technology solution called </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><i>Bio-Energetic
Agriculture</i></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">!
</span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><i>Bio-Energetic
Agriculture</i></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
is a holistic and creative approach “</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><i>beyond
organic” </i></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">and
sustainable --economically,</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font>
</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">environmentally,
and socially -- farming and gardening system synthesized by
NawaChiOne Foundation, Thailand. It is a modern, scientifically
proven, farming method that focuses vastly on minimizing the
pollution of air, soil and water, and optimizing the health of soil,
plants, animals, people and the environment. The key to this method
emphasizes reinforcing nature’s biologically and physically dynamic
energies in the farming process, creating optimum conditions to best
support nature’s processes in healing and nurturing the soil. This
method is enhanced by an emerging evolution in utilizing non-visible
beneficial energies or “chi” in nature to promote the life force
that energizes the health of soil and growth of plants.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">U</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">nder
a comprehensive farm management system, Bio-Energetic Agriculture
aims to provide an accommodating soil ecosystem to maintain a
balanced, stable, and functional soil food-web; beneficial
micro-organisms and communities of lives in the soil can therefore
flourish to manage and maintain soil fertility to best feed the
plants. It combines supporting effective natural energies -- such as
the gravity force of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun; and the life
energizing force of positive electromagnetic frequencies including
colours (light), sound, high gauss magnet and vortex water -- to
stimulate life force of soil organisms and plants. Healthy fertile
soils not only have a higher water storage capacity, but also release
fewer greenhouse gases and capture more carbon from the atmosphere,
as well as provide healthier plants. Hence, the system can give us
carbon-negative foods. This method is a giant step toward the
foundation for a sustainable food system of the future.</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="">
</span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><i>Bio-Energetic
Agriculture</i></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
is not totally new. It is an integration of several
biologically-intensive traditional farming systems rooted in the
history of humankind, traceable back to thousands of years ago in
Ethiopia, China, Japan Korea, Greece, France, and the Amazon,
enhanced by the rediscovery of scientific principles underlining each
of these effective practices. It is also a combination of best
practices of several Eastern and Western natural and organic farming
methods, including permaculture, bio-intensive, bio-dynamic,
regenerative organic farming, Japanese, Korean and French natural
farming, Nutrient-Dense biological agriculture, and indigenous
technologies -- such as the use of vermiculture, bio-char and wood
vinegar -- and HM. King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s “new theory” on
agriculture system, as well as successful innovative farming systems
and techniques by a handful of local Thai farmer-sages, i.e.,
wanakaset (agro-forestry), kaset-praneet (dexterous agriculture), and
integrative farming. By synergizing the scientific proven healing
and revitalizing non-visible energies in nature, this method can give
intensified profound results.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">There
are</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
a number of scientific-based research studies proving the success and
effectiveness of each individual method mentioned above. In 1978,
Stanford University revealed a six-year research study using the
bio-intensive method</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote10anc" href="#sdfootnote10sym"><sup>10</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
alone showed the feasibility of an economic mini-farm of a 126 square
wah (1/8 acre) area, with one person working it, and able to earn
between Bt150,000 to Bt600,000 or $5,000-$20,000 U.S. market price
then. Without the aid of vermiculture and biochar, the method can
already provide a complete vegetarian diet for one person for one
year on as little as 80 square wah, or 1/6 </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">–
1/13 of the area needed in chemical-based agriculture.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote11anc" href="#sdfootnote11sym"><sup>11</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
Studies in Argentina and Africa also show that with this similar
method under closed farming systems, an individual working only 35
hours a week on a 200 square wah area of land can meet 60</span></font></font><font face="Symbol, serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">80%
of the needs of a vegetarian diet for a family of four, plus a
reasonable income.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote12anc" href="#sdfootnote12sym"><sup>12</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
These numbers have been confirmed by actual implementation in many
countries around the world.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote13anc" href="#sdfootnote13sym"><sup>13</sup></a></span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
There are also many studies and documentaries on the success of
biological-based farming processes being practiced by hundreds of
local farmer-sages and alternative agricultural research centers
around Thailand, which can be easily found on the Internet and
YouTube (but most are in Thai, though). There are also many recent
scientific studies supporting the positive effects of natural
energies in accelerating seed germination, fostering plant growth,
and improving health of living organisms, if utilized appropriately
and correctly.</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote14anc" href="#sdfootnote14sym"><sup>14</sup></a></span></font></font></sup></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">When
combining t</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">hese
proven best practices and enhanced by the methodical farm management
system of Bio-Energetic Agriculture, this farming practice can
produce mineral-rich nutritious food crops that are better tasting
and toxin-free, in a closed system, and generate a sufficient level
of income with low-input and high-yield, using a small area and less
water, producing a great diversity of crops to ensure food security
and biodiversity which enriches a natural pest control system and
open pollination, suitable to small farmers and adaptable to all
environmental conditions. With the fertile nutrient-rich soil and
biological farming system, pests and weeds are greatly reduced
without the use of any pesticides and herbicides. Because this
farming process requires a more rigorous discipline than organic
farming, and we can also easily verify the nutritional quality of the
produce and track food from farm to market to assure quality, we can
now go “beyond organic.”</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Mahatma
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Ghandi
once said, </span></font></font><em><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:normal">“To
forget to dig the soil is to forget oneself</span></span></font></font></em><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></font></font></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">”</span></font></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
The most promising aspect of Bio-Energetic Agriculture is that
anyone can easily apply this farming principle to grow their own food
in their own small backyard garden, even on the balcony or roof top
of their city home!! In addition, we would also help reduce
greenhouse gases and increase oxygen to the surrounding environment. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="LEFT">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><b>Smarter consumers</b></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">The
growing middle-class population will account for 60% of the world</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">'s
population in 2020. With more information and better understanding
of nutrition and the value of good food, the demand for better
quality foods will become more prominent. The supply chain system of
higher quality food will be shorter. More consumers will be willing
to pay more for better quality. Consumption behaviour will change
such that consumers will become more conscientious and less wasteful.
People will </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">eat
more conscientiously -- eating higher quality (nutrient-rich) food
which is also grown sustainably – thus becoming healthy and green.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>The
Future </b></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB"><b>is
in Our Hands</b></span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Sustainability
is something we all have a stake in. </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
We are part of a large interconnected system that is already
experiencing the negative effects of our unsustainable behaviours in
all sorts of ways. Our shared environment is something that can be
dramatically improved when we work together towards sustainability.
It is encouraging to see an increasing awareness among consumers and
farmers that things are not as they should be. However, the majority
of the population does not realize the link between human health,
soil health, and environmental health. We need to advocate for these
interconnections for the survival of all life on Planet Earth. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">G</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">rowers
need to learn the biological methods and materials of 21</span></font></font><sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">st</span></font></font></sup><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
century agriculture, and understand the community of the soil
food-web. Consumers need to be educated about the link between real
food, real nutrition, and real health. Good, fresh food, grown
locally by committed growers, is the very best to be found. “Organic
certification” is generally only necessary when food is grown by
strangers in faraway places, rather than by neighbours you know or
even by yourself. Demand for quality high-nutrient food by consumers
will help change growers’ farming practices from chemicals to a
biological and ecological paradigm. Consumers need to be provided
with more accurate and up-to-date information about their foods, and
not only labelling. They are a part of this process. Let's eat
wisely.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">Freedom
and responsibility are two sides of the same coin.</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font><span lang="en-GB">
We have been given the freedom to live on this amazing planet. But
comes with it is the responsibility not to act mindlessly. Our human
species is failing this responsibility. Now, as individuals, it is
our duty to change our behaviour and that of our nation as best we
can.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="LEFT"><br><br>
</p>
<p style="line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="LEFT"><br><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.04in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB" align="CENTER">
<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:9pt" size="2"><b>____________________________________</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.19in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB">
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<p class="sdfootnote" align="LEFT"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc">1</a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">A
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<p class="sdfootnote" align="LEFT"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote2sym" href="#sdfootnote2anc">2</a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">A
public lecture by</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
Prof. Dr. Somsak Vorakamin, formal Permanent Secretary of Ministry
of Public Health.</font></font></p>
</div>
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<p class="sdfootnote" align="LEFT"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote3sym" href="#sdfootnote3anc">3</a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
Office of</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Public Health, 2011.</span></font></font></p>
</div>
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</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Nutrient-Dense
Manifesto</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">,
Real Food Campaign, MA, USA.</font></font></p>
</div>
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</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>The</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
2011 Nutrient Guide </i></span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">by
Planetary Health/Amberwaves provides a comprehensive list of
nutritional composition of foods from around the world, based on
data of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Japan Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, the National
Food Institute of Denmark, Food Composition Tables for Foods in the
Middle East, and other national and international sources, including
data from trade associations and producers.</span></font></font></p>
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Science and Development Network: </font></font>
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<p class="sdfootnote" align="LEFT"><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.scidev.net/en/news/rising-carbon-dioxide-could-make-crops-less-nutrit.html#.Tnwv9ewvMNo.facebook"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">http://www.scidev.net/en/news/rising-carbon-dioxide-could-make-crops-less-nutrit.html#.Tnwv9ewvMNo.facebook</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">,
March 2005.</font></font></p>
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<p class="sdfootnote"><a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote7sym" href="#sdfootnote7anc">7</a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
Bioavailability is </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">the</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">extent</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">to</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/which">which</a> </span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">a</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">nutrient</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">or</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">medication</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">can</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">be</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">used</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">by</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">the</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">body.</span></font></font></p>
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Grain, “Earth Matter: Tracking Climate Crisis from the Ground
Up,” </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Seeding</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">,
October 2009.</font></font></p>
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UN-FAO, 2009.</font></font></p>
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</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span lang="en-GB">Bio-intensive
farming method is an integration of biodynamic and French natural
farming principles.</span></font></font></p>
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John Jeavons, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>How
to Grow More Vegetables</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">,
Ecology Action, USA., 2002.</font></font></p>
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Based on Ecology Action’s study in Africa and a confirmation
testing by Biospere II in Arizona, USA.</font></font></p>
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Perspectives from Ecology Action, “Biointensive Agriculture: A
Greener Revolution”, 2010.</font></font></p>
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</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">Examples:
</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Life
Energy Encyclopedia: Qi, Prana, Spirit, and Other Life Forces around
the World</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
by Stefan Stenudd, </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Chi:
Discovering Your Life Energy </i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">by
Waysun Liao, and </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Alchemy
of Life: Working with the Primal Energies of Life</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, and many books by Dr.Masaru Emoto
including </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>Message
from Water</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">
and </font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i>The
Miracle of Water</i></font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">,
etc.</font></font></p>
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