This comes to us from our parent organization, The Weston A. Price Foundation. We encourage you to become a member of the foundation and take advantage of the special member-only offers. You can receive $10 off if you join by Monday, December 7th
We are grateful for your membership! Here are two reasons to continue your membership besides the quarterly journal, the members-only Facebook group and of course to support our work. Please tell others about these member benefits and about our flash $10 off membership drive now until December 7th (see below).
Members can view conference recordings for free
We held a one-day Healthy Future “Flash” Conference at Polyface Farm recently. The talks are available for free for Weston A. Price Foundation members!
Farm Tour: Joel Salatin, Polyface Preparing for Winter
Hilda Labrada Gore: 5 Tips for Greater Health
Mike Dickson: Homesteading
Sally Fallon Morell: The Contagion Myth
Joel Salatin: Addressing Illness on the Farm
Del Bigtree: Something Bigger is Going On
Reviews of the event:
“I absolutely loved everything about the day. Being outside on the farm, seeing so many faces and smiles, the amazing speakers and topics talked about … it was probably my favorite day of 2020. Thank you so much!!”
“All the speakers shared their knowledge with passion and great enthusiasm. I am grateful that I could attend the event at that exact location. With the exact speakers! With the exact attendants. Everything felt good. We were lucky. Thanks to all.”
Members can attend the monthly zoom meeting
Each month we host a zoom meeting where a guest who works closely with us answers questions from members. Join and you can log in to see past meetings. Topics have included reviewing our 11 Wise Traditions principles, vaccination, nourishing our children, the contagion myth and women’s health. Our speakers have included Sally Fallon Morell, Thomas Cowan, MD, Kendall Nelson, Leslie Manookian, Pam Shoenfeld and Sandrine Perez.
Our next meeting will be December 8 with Judith McGeary 2:00-3:15 ET on advocacy training. Registration (for members only) is required. Use this link to register and you will receive a confirmation email telling you how to join the meeting.
“I love, love the Wise Conversations series–they are not to be missed. I always learn more and more. I’m getting better at helping and educating my friends!” – Margaret R.
“I look forward to the Wise Conversations series. I often miss them live but go back and listen. They are always informative and I appreciate learning something new and reviewing things.” – Diane I.
PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS: $10 off if you join by Monday, December 7th
Send them the link here: https://www.westonaprice.org/flash-membership-drive-ends-december-7/
If you join by midnight (ET) on Monday, December 7th using the code wapf10, you will receive $10 off membership and can access the benefits above. ($10 off regular rate of $40-U.S. and $50-international)
This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation. I haven’t made this yet, but I did preserve lemon slices once and they were very good. Salt and lemon, yum, tasted like a margarita!
This recipe is taken from the recently published article The Nourishing Traditions of Morocco and based on a recipe provided by Jacqueline Hahn.
Ingredients
5 Meyer lemons
2 tablespoons finely ground unrefined sea salt or mined salt
Instructions
Trim the very tips from the lemons but don’t expose the flesh. Slice the lemons lengthwise into quarters without slicing completely through, so that you keep the quarters connected at the base.
Sprinkle the inside of the lemons with a generous pinch of salt, and then pack them tightly into a 24-ounce (or 750-ml) glass jar. Sprinkle each layer of lemons with additional salt.
Press the lemons down tightly in the jar so that they release their juices and combine with the salt into a brine that submerges the lemons completely. Place a weight over the lemons and seal the jar. Use an airtight container to help prevent mold formation. A weight to keep the lemons submerged and a fermentation seal will help even more. Allow the lemons to ferment at least a month before opening the jar to taste them and ensure the pith is no longer bitter. It may take two months!
This comes to us from The Weston A. Price Foundation. If you have any friends in the Virginia who might be interested in attending, let them know about it!
One-Day ‘Flash’ Event at Polyface
Since we had to cancel our big annual conference but really want to see people, we decided to put together a smaller event on Sunday of the same weekend that is akin to a FLASH sale. It’s a FLASH one-day conference! It’ll be much less formal than our annual conference (outdoors in a hoop house sitting on hay bales) yet still tons of fun! We have several speakers discussing how we can continue to build a healthy future through wise traditions.
“A Healthy Future” Event at Polyface Farm
Sunday, November 15; 9:00-5:00
Polyface Farm 43 Pure Meadows Lane, Swoope, Virginia 24479
Speakers include: Sally Fallon Morell, Joel Salatin, Del Bigtree, Mike Dickson and Hilda Labrada Gore
$50 per person
$20 for 7-20 year olds and children under 6 free (all must register)
Limited seating. Registration does not include lunch. BYOL (bring your own lunch), though hot dogs will be for sale at the farm!
2:00-3:00 Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm
3:15-4:15 Del Bigtree of The Highwire
4:15-5:00 Socializing and Good-byes
FAQs
What about inclement weather? We are on, rain or shine. Dress for the elements.
Should I bring spending money? Yes! Sally will be selling books, WAPF will be accepting new members and Polyface Farm products will be available in the farm store.
Will masks be required? They are optional.
DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP
We invite you to become a member for $10 off (use wapf10 coupon) to support our work and receive our quarterly journal: https://www.westonaprice.org/why-join/
It is with a very heavy heart that I must announce the cancellation of our conference, Wise Traditions 2020. I know that many of you were looking forward to a wonderful weekend of learning and friendship.
Several weeks ago, the Sheraton Hotel in Atlanta abruptly reneged on our contract because they had the opportunity for another contract that would fill the hotel until the end of the year. We have spent the last few weeks…
In 2020, I have heard more grumbling about people not being scientific than ever before. It is certainly true that there are a large number of people out there who know nothing about science. I’m pretty sure most of the ones who complain the loudest have not themselves ever looked at a scientific study. I personally don’t claim to be a scientist, but as I write this I have on my desk a stack of studies from various sources on mask effectiveness, and I have read them. This video looks at a wide range of studies done by many different agencies and people in the U.S., Europe and China. It covers the time period from when surgical masks were first used to studies done in the last ten years.
Most of these studies looked at hospital operating room settings and compared infection rates where masks were used to infection rates where masks were not used. A large metastudy from Cochrane—considered the gold standard in evaluating large amounts of research—concluded there was no difference. Numerous other studies are covered in the video. The conclusions range from masks making no difference to masks actually being slightly worse than useless. And this is in professional settings with people who theoretically know what they are doing. Can we expect any better results with the general public?
These studies show that masks reduce air volume in and out of the lungs by 25 percent. Carbon dioxide levels go up, and brain function goes down. If you are having trouble understanding this, try taking off your mask. A Chinese study done in 2017 showed that wearing the popular N95 masks correlated to higher infection rates than in the control group.
When I walk into Home Depot or other stores, I often see a sign saying that customers will not be let in unless they are wearing a mask. They add that cloth masks are OK. I appreciate their flexibility in this matter, but according to a study in the British Medical Journal, cloth masks turn out to be worse than nothing at all.
On the other hand, there are studies that conclude that masks are extremely effective. One favorite of the news media is a study done by Hong Kong University. One minor detail that might be worth thinking through is the fact that the study was not done with humans. It was done with hamsters.
OK. Hamsters may do an admirable job of simulating average human intelligence, but the astute observer may detect some slight physical, morphological differences between hamsters and humans. Apparently funding was not available to engineer a mask to accommodate those differences, so no hamster actually wore a mask in this experiment. What the researchers did instead was put a bunch of sick hamsters on one side of a wall with a hole in it and healthy hamsters on the other side of the wall. One phase counted how many healthy hamsters became sick while the hole was open, and the other phase counted how many hamsters got sick while the hole was covered by a mask. The data indicated that a mask over the hole greatly reduced the number of sick hamsters.
That’s very interesting, but some might be a little skeptical as to how relevant that is to real-life situations. I must confess I’m quite dubious myself, but the talking heads who want to control us all seem to think this study is more convincing than actual human studies.
The Science and History of Masks in Medicine has been posted on Instagram, where one commenter argued that many of the studies do show that masks reduce the viral load. This is a classic example of looking at a surrogate endpoint and making the assumption that greater viral load equals greater disease or infection risk. But these tests showed that the risk was not changed in spite of viral load. I personally don’t care what the viral load is. I care about the risk of actually getting sick.
The bottom line is that for all the bloviating about science, that is not what is really being talked about. Free exchange of information is an essential feature of science. Science does not advance by clinging to the status quo or only considering one side of an argument. Censorship does not win arguments. It destroys the credibility of the one doing the censoring, not the censored. Ad hominem attacks further destroy credibility. Asserting that “the science is settled” is not a scientific statement; it is a statement of religious intolerance. Whether you agree with these mask studies or not, the science is hardly settled.
We see on one side people who don’t care whether you wear a mask. If you want to wear one, knock yourself out. The other side is resorting to tactics that make the thinking person wonder what their problem is. The results of this religious intolerance for disagreement has led to both scary and hilarious results. Draconian dictatorship is scary, but then I see an ad encouraging couples to wear masks during sex. I see people alone in their cars driving down the road wearing masks (the people wearing masks, not the cars—yet). I’m tempted to think my crack about the equivalence of hamster and human intelligence is an insult to hamsters. The thumb is UP.
Today is the last day to tell the Washington State Vaccine Advisory Committee that you are opposed to COVID-19 or flu shot mandates.
The public has until today, Friday, October 9th at 5 P.M. to submit comments to be reviewed before the committee’s October 15th meeting. The committee will be discussing both flu and COVID vaccine options at that meeting.
The Advisory Committee provides recommendations to the Washington State Department of Health – so this is an important opportunity to let the Department know that Washington residents are paying close attention to vaccine issues and oppose mandatory vaccines for COVID-19 and influenza.
Experimental COVID-19 vaccines are being fast-tracked without proper study and influenza vaccines are the most dangerous vaccines on the market!
We must speak up before it is too late. Just a few minutes of your time can make a difference.
TAKE ACTION
Send your concerns about Covid-19 and Flu vaccines to the WA State Vaccine Advisory Committee TODAY!
Use the ACTION 1 App in the Side Bar (or at the bottom of the page if you’re on a smart phone)
Please ask your family and friends to do the same.
Talking Points for Comments:
Pick the 2 or 3 talking points that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
Companies are rushing to develop COVID-19 vaccines – despite the fact that volunteers are experiencing serious side effects in every clinical trail.
A coronavirus vaccine will likely not be safe or affective, based on previous failed attempts to create coronavirus vaccines. All previous coronavirus vaccine candidates have produced “robust” antibodies, however they have also shown a propensity for “pathogenic priming,” meaning that the vaccine makes the illness worse, not better, when the recipient is later exposed to the wild virus.
Many of the new vaccines being created use DNA or mRNA technology which use a faster and less expensive technology. Neither DNA or mRNA vaccines have been properly tested in large-scale clinical trials. These new technology platforms have been used to develop experimental vaccines for SARS, MERS, and HIV, but so far, none have been proven effective and safe for humans.
2005 Federal legislation removed all civil liability from pharmaceutical companies for injuries and deaths caused by vaccines and drugs manufactured in response to declared public health emergencies, including the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Flu vaccine is high risk, as shown by the fact that it is the most compensated for vaccine in the U.S., harming and killing more people than all the other vaccines combined. As of August 1, 2020, individuals had filed 6,368 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) claims for injuries and deaths following influenza vaccination, including 188 deaths and over 6,180 serious injuries.
The NVICP has compensated a total of 6,358 claims for vaccine injuries, paying victims over 4.4 billion dollars—and two-thirds of the claims involved flu vaccines.
According to the CDC, the 2014-2015 flu shot was only approximately 19% effective. In 2018-2019 the overall effectiveness of the flu shot was only 29%. In fact, the flu shot has not surpassed a 60% effectiveness rate over the past 14 years.
Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergy, and death and no one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Flu vaccine ingredients vary, but may contain a variety of toxic ingredients including mercury and formaldehyde. http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts.htm
Approximately 50% of all flu vaccines are still made with the mercury-containing preservative Thimerosal, which has never been tested or approved by the FDA.
This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation:
Hello WAPF Member:
We have gotten requests for guidance on defending health freedom. How can we avoid medical mandates? How can we retain agency at a time when so much seems out of our control? How can we meet others who are like-minded and work together during these interesting times?
Starting this Friday, each week for six weeks we will publish a second Wise Traditions podcast featuring conversations with Sayer Ji, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Del Bigtree, Andy Wakefield and others.
Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts here or through your favorite podcast app. Or listen on our website. We are proud to announce that soon a transcript will accompany each podcast to make accessing each of our podcast episodes a snap!
We want to keep you aware of these podcasts as well as events and action alerts to safeguard your health and freedom. If you know of events or actions for us to share, please email us.
This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation:
WISE CONVERSATIONS FOR WAPF MEMBERS
Our next Wise Conversations Zoom meeting is October 21 at 11:30 AM (2:30 pm ET) with WAPF board members Sally Fallon Morell and Tom Cowan. They will be answering questions about and discussing their new book, The Contagion Myth.
We have had hundreds of members take part in our Wise Conversations members-only meetings. Members can watch past recordings by going to our members-only Facebook group or by logging in to westonaprice.org.
Register now to watch the sessions that are LIVE streamed, and you can stream recordings of ALL sessions ON-DEMAND after the conference as many times as you want. Or you can have a DVD-ROM or USB Flash Drive shipped to you. This package includes slides and video of the presenter for live streamed sessions and audio with synchronized slides for all other sessions. LIVE WEB STREAM will be broadcast for all three conference days and all sessions can be viewed on-demand after the conference.
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