Until today I always assumed that Valentine’s Day was a holiday made up by the candy industry to sell more white sugar/high fructose corn syrup laden, artificially colored (from petroleum or crude oil), unnaturally flavored, and harmfully preserved candy that has little or no nutritional value. We heard this today on the World View in 5 Minutes below, and it completely transformed the way I think about Valentine’s Day. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did!

Emperor Claudius II, called Claudius the Cruel, ruled the Roman Empire with an iron fist during the third century.  He was having difficulty recruiting soldiers and believed Roman men were unwilling to leave their loved ones because soldiers were required to fight for at least 25 years.  Therefore, Claudius banned all marriages and engagements.

Kailey tanned another hide recently (which meant buying some store eggs). She suggested that we take a picture and compare our eggs from the chickens in the hoop house to the eggs she bought. I was surprised to see that our eggs were much more yellow than the store bought eggs, despite the fact that our chickens are protected in our hoop house and not on grass at this time. The picture of the eggs before cooking doesn’t seem to contrast the difference that we saw, but the cooked egg picture was a little better.

The honking of the goose can be heard from far away. The goose in this picture is a male, White Chinese goose which is a descendant of the swan goose. They are prolific egg layers and have a great personality. They are great at weeding and they are perfect for alarming when they feel threatened. We used a male goose because males are better at protecting their friends, in this case our female chickens. It doesn’t matter what anyone says or does to him, when he feels threatened by vicious intruders, he just won’t stop HONKING! We need more protectors like this!

Truly loving someone means loving them even when I don’t “feel” like loving them. This can be a struggle, because my flesh tells me that it’s all about me.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 ESV

Many consumers are waking up to the fact that animals on grass produce healthier meat, eggs, and milk, but there is a problem that not everyone is aware of. There is a lot of fraud in this industry. Pastured milk has become very popular in the last few years, but what many people don’t realize is that a lot of the cows producing this milk aren’t actually on grass. The only way to truly know if you are getting what you are paying for is to visit the farm where you are sourcing your products.

“An important study published in 2015 confirms what many mothers have observed—children on raw milk don’t get sick as often. Published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the study compared health outcomes in almost one thousand European infants consuming raw milk, pasteurized milk or ultra-high temperature pasteurized milk with the occurrence of respiratory tract infections, rhinitis (runny nose), otitis (ear infections) and fever.”

If you visit the Doctor and they send you home without a medication, give thanks.

When our older children were younger, I often took them to the doctor right away when there was a problem. Because of some confusion, one of our kids was given a very strong antibiotic for something I have learned to easily treat at home with little suffering. After completing this antibiotic my child started to develop yeast on her skin. I had never witnessed anything like this before. When we returned to the doctor, he wasn’t concerned, and we started applying an antifungal cream. As soon as the treatment was finished the yeast went away, but returned again shortly after.

Many people today are avoiding dairy because a once nourishing drink, has been transformed into an unrecognizable, highly allergenic, toxic laden, dead product. Pasteurization of milk was promoted back in the 1920s after the cities became more populated and the demand for milk increased. Unfortunately, healthy, clean raw milk being raised on the farms was too far from the city, so people started buying milk from “distillery dairies” where sick cows were being fed “grain refuse from whiskey distilleries,” according to Farm to Consumer Legal Defense.

Many people especially young children got very sick. Two solutions to the problems were to promote cleanliness or to pasteurize the milk. Pasteurization is a process of heat-treating milk to kill bacteria. According to the Weston Price Website, “Although Louis Pasteur developed this technique for preserving beer and wine, he was not responsible for applying it to milk. That was done at the end of the 1800s as a temporary solution until filthy urban dairies could find a way to produce cleaner milk. But instead of cleaning up milk production, dairies used pasteurization as a way to cover up dirty milk. As milk became more mass produced, pasteurization became necessary for large dairies to increase their profits. So the public then had to be convinced that pasteurized milk was safer than raw milk. Soon raw milk consumption was blamed for all sorts of diseases and outbreaks until the public was finally convinced that pasteurized milk was superior to milk in its natural state.”

By Cory Mentink

Hi folks, if you’ve been listening to the mainstream media over the last several days, you may or may not have heard about the Canadian truckers freedom convoy which reached Ottawa last Saturday.  The convoy stretched 100 miles and took about 2 hours to pass any given point.  The news media has somewhat ignored the 57,000 or so truckers and the Canadian government has tried to act like this is a fringe group, not a good representation of the Canadian people.  One Canadian news source did a poll of the Canadian people and approximately 76% of respondents support what the truckers are doing. So what are the demands of the truckers? End all mandates for everyone in Canada.  In other words, “We’re done, leave us alone.” Seems like a good cause to me.

Why is this probably the most important news story out there that no one in the news media is giving much attention to?  Because this is likely to spread, not only in Canada, but around the world.  There are already people organizing convoys in the United States and other countries.  I fully support these guys and gals in what they are doing, when liberty increases for one liberty increases for all.  But are we prepared to support them when this starts affecting us where we live?