Josep Pamies, peasant, initiator of the movement Sweet Revolution
"The Counter" from "La Vanguardia" IMA SANCHÍS - 06/10/2010
62. I'm from Balaguer. Married, 2 children and almost and 2 granddaughters. My aim is socialism, not what you know, and self-management and independence of my country, Catalonia, even in Castilian: the essential thing is understood. I believe in something that transcends us, but not in religions
What has taught earth?
Everything. The earth is the origin, and so when I have not heard I hurt myself and my land. When I finally realized it was a living and I've treated as such, have improved my income, my health and my children.
Dam Was the Green Revolution?
Yes, the imposition of super-culture techniques using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides ...
and against it devised the Sweet Revolution.
Dulce, because violence is not going anywhere, and sweet, too, in honor of the plant that I awoke.
The sweet stevia.
My life and my land was a disaster, no longer produced. Using all insecticides, fungicides, bactericides and antibiotics legal at the time (now and many illegal). I decided to investigate and put the word from my provider, Monsanto, on the Internet.
found What?
An association of parents of diabetic children killed in U.S.. UU. fighting against Monsanto to ban aspartame (owned) and legalize stevia, a natural sweetener, which consumed fresh or dry could have solved the lives of those children.
And its rebellion was to cultivate.
For ten years I have given thousands of plants, to the surprise of many diabetics and reduced insulin-making. I understood that behind many bans in Europe and the world there are economic interests, precisely those who have made this agri-business.
...
further investigated the behavior of the pharmaceutical industry, which I sold the products to spray my plants, and was horrified.
And born an activist.
If we eat what nature gives us without chemical spray, we can return to health, I have experienced in my body.
not have been a simple process.
need to detoxify the earth years. If universities were put on the side of farming and advise us in fifteen years the whole world could grow superrentable and productive agriculture, more than at present, no added cost of seed and treatments.
Organic food is expensive.
intermediation should be removed. If one weekend a month make the effort to move where farmers and organic farmers, the price is too tight and the food is quality.
Good idea.
And if we use the medicinal plants around us gives us dramatically improve our health, and public health budget would drop by half in ten years.
What is the problem of medicinal plants?
health Some treasures are illegal and Labeling Act prevents labeled with their medicinal properties of plants, but can be a plant extract in a yogurt and say it is good to regulate cholesterol, or add omega 3 to squeezing milk sardines. Labeling law has been in favor of big food industries.
Milk and mineral waters sing their virtues.
luxury
have exceptions. We claim the right to label plants with medicinal properties demostradísimas.
... Knowledge that is being lost.
why we have appointed professors of nature grandparents we still keep picking up knowledge and wisdom to heal itself, values \u200b\u200bthat must reinstate urban society.
How?
With balconies health: instead of just flowers, it should be necessary medicinal plants as a first aid kit: thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano.
Tell me.
For example, an infusion of thyme (bactericidal) with elderflower (expectorant) and stevia (antioxidant, sweetener) is outstanding against colds. Rosemary, Mediterranean natural ginseng is energy enhancer, and sage, for good blood circulation. But do not give up the tropical plants.
Everything. The earth is the origin, and so when I have not heard I hurt myself and my land. When I finally realized it was a living and I've treated as such, have improved my income, my health and my children.
Dam Was the Green Revolution?
Yes, the imposition of super-culture techniques using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides ...
and against it devised the Sweet Revolution.
Dulce, because violence is not going anywhere, and sweet, too, in honor of the plant that I awoke.
The sweet stevia.
My life and my land was a disaster, no longer produced. Using all insecticides, fungicides, bactericides and antibiotics legal at the time (now and many illegal). I decided to investigate and put the word from my provider, Monsanto, on the Internet.
found What?
An association of parents of diabetic children killed in U.S.. UU. fighting against Monsanto to ban aspartame (owned) and legalize stevia, a natural sweetener, which consumed fresh or dry could have solved the lives of those children.
And its rebellion was to cultivate.
For ten years I have given thousands of plants, to the surprise of many diabetics and reduced insulin-making. I understood that behind many bans in Europe and the world there are economic interests, precisely those who have made this agri-business.
...
further investigated the behavior of the pharmaceutical industry, which I sold the products to spray my plants, and was horrified.
And born an activist.
If we eat what nature gives us without chemical spray, we can return to health, I have experienced in my body.
not have been a simple process.
need to detoxify the earth years. If universities were put on the side of farming and advise us in fifteen years the whole world could grow superrentable and productive agriculture, more than at present, no added cost of seed and treatments.
Organic food is expensive.
intermediation should be removed. If one weekend a month make the effort to move where farmers and organic farmers, the price is too tight and the food is quality.
Good idea.
And if we use the medicinal plants around us gives us dramatically improve our health, and public health budget would drop by half in ten years.
What is the problem of medicinal plants?
health Some treasures are illegal and Labeling Act prevents labeled with their medicinal properties of plants, but can be a plant extract in a yogurt and say it is good to regulate cholesterol, or add omega 3 to squeezing milk sardines. Labeling law has been in favor of big food industries.
Milk and mineral waters sing their virtues.
luxury
have exceptions. We claim the right to label plants with medicinal properties demostradísimas.
... Knowledge that is being lost.
why we have appointed professors of nature grandparents we still keep picking up knowledge and wisdom to heal itself, values \u200b\u200bthat must reinstate urban society.
How?
With balconies health: instead of just flowers, it should be necessary medicinal plants as a first aid kit: thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano.
Tell me.
For example, an infusion of thyme (bactericidal) with elderflower (expectorant) and stevia (antioxidant, sweetener) is outstanding against colds. Rosemary, Mediterranean natural ginseng is energy enhancer, and sage, for good blood circulation. But do not give up the tropical plants.
Interesting.
The kalanchoe, for example, a highly potent antitumor and with astonishing results. It is a crime that the health system will not soak in this knowledge.
And banning its sale? Although
prove that its use is ancient in other parts of the world, you have to submit studies millionaires. Eight years ago an association that has been able to pay these studies, trying to legalize stevia. Has joined Coca-Cola, which has patented stevia for 24 food applications.
then be legal.
seed self-sufficiency is disappearing through transgenic hybrids. The same multinationals that produce them have been frozen in a tunnel of Svalbard, Sweden, to conserve indigenous seeds 5 million case is a disaster: the disaster that is causing them. The seeds must be frozen, but in cultivated fields.
civil disobedience
Take agriculture in the blood (four generations), at 16 and worked the land (cultivation of edible leaves and flowers). Devotes her time to the Sweet Revolution (dulcerevolucion. com), non-profit association that studies and promotes medicinal plants (some banned) linked to Slow Food, global movement that advocates a thoughtful food, organic and healthy. Pàmies is ten more than thirty years cultivating medicinal plants, including stevia, a symbol of their resistance against the unnatural, which regulates glucose and insulin levels in the blood. A powerful natural sweetener that has hit the industry producing synthetic sweeteners.
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