Newsletter - December 19, 2023

My dear brothers and sisters,

Hummus is such a versatile food. It goes so well with salad greens, potatoes and squash. The basic components are chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, garlic and lemon juice.  In this recipe, we add green peas for an appetizing green hue.

This week’s special is pumpkin seed butter. We offer a $3 discount. Pumpkin seeds are a powerful antioxidant due to  the presence of Vitamin E and carotenoids.

Next James Prigioni shows us how easy it is grow a garden in containers. Even if you have only a patio, porch or balcony it is still possible to grow living greens.

Our December Victory Garden sale includes Cashew Butter,Tumeric and Honey  Butter and Golden Flax seeds. We offer 10% off these featured items (Remember, if you buy 3 or more of any Living Tree manufactured product, you get an additional 10% off!)

Our Black Sesame Tahini is now in a 16oz jar. We make it by slicing raw black sesame seeds into a luxurious spread adding organic black sesame oil. An excellent source of calcium.

Next Steve Kelly tells us how the buffalo have been slaughtered to near extinction. Today only a remnant survive in Yellow National Park. They are being hunted and harassed mercilessly as they seek food in Montana when deep snow in Yellowstone National Park drives them to grazing grounds outside the park.The violence inflicted upon this unique buffalo population destroying their physical, social, and mental health is unspeakably wrong . Last winter, well over 1,000 bison were massacred outside Yellowstone National Park’s boundary.

Next we stand in wonder at the flagellum, an amazing piece of nanotechnology that functions like a propeller enabling a bacterium to track down its food supply. It can turn at 100,000 RPM in one direction and can reverse, turning at 100,000 RPM in the opposite direction.The Darwinian mechanism of random variation and natural selection can not account for its extraordinary complexity.

Finally, we present 5 magnificent exercises men should do every day by Men's Health & Fitness Tips.

Please accept our best wishes for  vibrant good health, prosperity and success to you and family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

by Steve Kelly

(Missoula Current) Sixty million wild, migratory buffalo once wandered freely across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Many are unfamiliar with the immense collective violence visited upon wild buffalo under the doctrine of Christian discovery and Manifest Destiny, as first imagined and articulated by Pope Alexander VI in his papal bull (Inter Caetera) of 1493 to the ‘royal’ Christian ruling families of Portugal and Spain.

In the 19th century the United States government violently supported the systematic extermination of buffalo with deliberate genocidal intent to remove Indian peoples’ food source, or in other words, eliminate their means of survival.  From a buffalo’s perspective genocide is an apt description.

By the 1890s buffalo had been slaughtered to near extinction, their heads and hides sold at market, their bones ground into fertilizer. When the gun smoke cleared, only 23 wild, migratory buffalo avoided extirpation by finding peace and seclusion in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley.

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