Tradewinds August 2020 Web Final

write this column as a labor of love, without compensation.
It is intended to be a resource to the
I
tens of thousand of cancer survivors and their care
providers that regularly read my perspective for their
battle, with their cancer.
Health and Nutrition Strategies For
Cancer Survivors and Everybody Else
Warren Green is a 30 year member of the Institute of Food
Technology, A HAACP (hazard analysis critical control point)
Instructor with a Bachelors degree in Nutrition Science.
WHAT’S IN YOUR DIET?
Last month I had a couple of articles including,
“What’s in your Diet?” , and a special titled “Systemic
Racism “(page 37). The special on systemic racism
was the USDA/FSA’s complicity in denying African
American farmers and other minorities agriculture
resources because of race. The lawsuit became a
70,000+ class action lawsuit (Pigford V Glickman)
and was settled in 2010. The settlement didn’t consider
the damage of 70,000 farmers not being able
to supply clean, nutritious produce, to their primary
customers, the African American community. It is well
documented that the lack of nutritious food is a major
contributor to health disparities including but not limited
to diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular
disease and cancer. Consequently, the USDA/FSA’s
actions caused food deserts throughout the nation
and is complicit in health disparities in general, and in
the AA community in particular.
So, let’s connect the subjects of the aforementioned
articles with strategies to mitigate the damage.
The Government needs to revisit the settlement to the
70,000+ claimants and develop policies conditioned
upon adhering to organic guidelines. If communities
with health disparities have access to clean, organic
food, and strategies to grow it, we can eliminate food
deserts and expect better health outcomes because
FOOD IS MEDICINE.
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I took the opportunity to watch United Shades of
America ‘s program on the diminishing role of the
black farmer. The events of the aforementioned
coincides with the farmer’s concerns. I was always
concerned with the dynamics of America’s food chain.
I remember decades ago,when the political debate
was, should we use food as a weapon? I was in the
USDA, and it was about the same time the oil cartel
was forming. So a group of country’s used their leverage
to fix energy prices, while the U.S. seeded its
agriculture leverage to foreign special interest. Bad
public policy.
The fix to this poor public policy, is restoring black
farmers in the global food chain by investing in small
acreage farming. The cost of a small acreage farmer,
to grow organic is prohibitive. The USDA uses 3rd
party certifiers to certify organic. The certifiers are
usually not local so the small farming enterprise has
the additional expense of the inspection and the
certifiers transportation and per diem, driving up the
cost of organic farming. Grants and loans that were
denied the claimants, should be provided through the
USDA discretionary and mandatory budget.
Next time we’ll dig a little deeper into the development
of small acreage farming.
Finally, the CDC is investigating a huge salmonella
outbreak that’s sickened hundreds in 23 states. I’ll
provide updates as soon as they are possible.
Food is medicine.
“Cancel Culture”
Reaches Pasquotank County
By Bill Ward
I
, as many of you, have watched as the “Cancel Culture” has
attempted to erase from memory, the history of our great
nation. We have watched them deface, destroy and tear down
memorials to the deceased soldiers of this country, as well as
those of historical figures, in an attempt to delete from memory
the history of our nation, both good and bad.
It appears that no section of our nation is immune to this
ideation. On July 13, 2020 the Pasquotank County Board of
Commissioners voted to move the memorial to the Confederate
dead from the County Courthouse lawn. The memorial was
funded by friends and families of those that perished in the War
Between the States and was erected on that spot by the D.H.
Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1911,
the 50th anniversary of that conflict. That memorial has stood for
109 years, not as a beacon of white supremacy or intimidation,
as some have stated, but as a remembrance of those family
members that perished. And now, by a vote of 4 to 3, the “Cancel
Culture” has begun in our small portion of the world.
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That culture fails to understand that those that do not remember
our history are doomed to repeat it, as we see civil unrest spread
throughout this land.
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