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Rhys Jaggar's avatar

My experience of farmers in the UK does suggest that small farmers can not only survive, but thrive and prosper by simply not using supermarkets as retail channels. They use their own farm shops, local farmers markets and butchers and marketing hubs run as SMEs.

You can also source vegetable box schemes direct from horticulturalists/market gardeners.

I can't speak for the USA, but I strongly urge all readers to be active in seeking out 'ethical farmers' who focus on quality over quantity, as close to where you live as is climatically feasible.

The supermarket channel is poor for small farmers, so avoid using it.

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Susan Siens's avatar

"Childhood Vaccine Injury - 6 month old Liam Archer Osterhout died the same day he received the Hep B, Tdap, Rotovirus, polio and pneumococcal vaccines​."

I deeply appreciate my now-retired holistic veterinarian. He taught me to NEVER EVER take or give more than one vaccine at a time. First you wait to see if there are any bad effects -- called vaccinosis -- then you wait to give another vaccine. The kitten dumped on our road is now 14 years old and Uncle Lee was her veterinarian as compared to the kitten we adopted from the shelter who DIED AT AGE THREE. I try never to adopt from shelters because their care is so low-grade, but we did adopt an "unadoptable" beagle/whippet mix last year who is do very well on NO DRUGS (the shelter was drugging her), a quality diet, and endless petting. The only decent veterinarian I have ever met at a shelter was at Bide-A-Wee in NYC in the 1980s; he truly cared for the animals.

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