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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

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An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that. In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz ( Wild Fermentation, Chelsea Green 2003) profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.
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There’s an excellent book I read almost 20 years ago that covers things like eating raw beef cubes with cold butter. It opened my eyes to a lot of things that weren’t mainstream yet. I actually remember learning about how raw milk is healthier for you than pasteurized and safer (for older humans).

Here’s the book if anyone is interested https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Will-Not-Microwaved-Underg...

Fjolsvith
My family had a milk cow during my childhood. Best. Milk. Ever.

I had heavy cream on my cereal every morning. We made Ice Cream every week.

Need more butter? Put the cream in a mason jar with a lid and shake it up. Add salt.

That cow gave us 5 gallons of milk a day and we'd separate 2-3 quarts of cream off it, every day.

Aqueous
Raw milk is quite dangerous and can house many dangerous pathogens which is why the pausteurization process became widely adopted to begin with.

‘For example, between 1912 and 1937, some 65,000 people died of tuberculosis contracted from consuming milk in England and Wales alone.[24] ‘

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

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