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Our organic home grown ducks are scheduled for slaughter

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From the last batch of white ducks were left 1 mommy duck and 3 ducklings.  Those 3 ducklings grew up and are now full grown ducks.  These are the “bibe” variety.  These are organically raised ducks.  I think they are around 6 months old, you can check this blog for previous posts about them.  We never bought any animal feed.  These ducks ate the left over peelings of our organic fruit, some left over rice, some left over coconut meat, the grass on the garden, some herbs, papaya leaves and some insects and grubs they find interesting.

Why are we slaughtering them?  We got fed up with their pooping on the cemented walks!  So the ducklings finally grew their wing feathers this month, then all four ducks lately have been hanging around the cemented walks and pooping all over!  Irritating.  When they pooped in the grass, we don’t mind, but intentionally pooping on the walks is grrr….

My wife initially the soft hearted got some chicken plastic wire and caged them in a small spot.  The same day, the ducks went on a hunger strike.  They were given food, but they ignored it and just sat!

I told my wife that those ducks, those investments will be of no good to us if you cage them and make them sick.  They need their freedom to forage and do what they want.

So my wife the softy extended the chicken wire to fence off 1/4 of the garden, but the chicken wire was short.  And the ducks went on a hunger strike again… same day.  Finally the ducks found a loop hole to freedom.

My wife was convinced it was time.  Time to convince the kids it was time.  They said boo… thumbs down… boo… then my wife said, you clean their poops… they still said boo… so when my wife left the dinner table I told the kids the Bible stories they keep hearing from their mom.  That those shepherd characters who kept every lamb in check was looking after their own meals… they ate their own lambs… and they were sure the lambs were well fed.  Just like our ducks.  We cared for them, we made sure they were organic and now it was time to eat them.

My eldest boy was convinced.  The next 2 were convinced.  My eldest boy got a pen and in his rudimentary hand writing wrote the order of slaughter:

1. Gracia – the mommy duck
2. Uppy – the big male duck
3. Ugly boy – the small male duck
4. In-tsik – the small female duck they say looks Chinese (Intsik)

So we have duck scheduled on several dinners when the slaughterers are available.  Our driver on weekdays,  and on weekends ate Arlene can do the honors.  The plan is to slaughter the scheduled duck in the afternoon and serve that same duck fresh for dinner.

Will let you know what they taste like.  I’ll have my parts raw please.

Mosquito traps, mosquito zappers and mosquito nets are our non-toxic methods in the fight against the blood suckers

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Mosquitos are a terrible nuisance.  They bite us, cause us to itch, suck our blood and spread disease.  Parasites are real, for those who think parasites are not a problem.  I live in a tropical country so I’m telling you they are real.  There are many ways to combat mosquitoes, and just like any TV zombie, we used to use those products advertised on television, toxic chemicals that poisoned the mosquitoes as well as the human beings.

When we developed our organic thinking, and read about the experiences of others and the dangers of insecticides poisoning us, especially our children, we had to change our ways.  This is what we are doing now and so far have found it effective:

We sleep with mosquito nets on top of our beds.  Gives us a good night’s sleep without being bothered by the blood suckers.

We have turned on electrical zappers indoors and outdoors.  Every now and then the bugs are zapped.

We recently bought a mosquito trap that sucks in mosquitos.  There is a light that attracts the mosquitoes, they come near, they are sucked in the chamber and die a dehydrating death.

I think altogether they work pretty well, especially when I kept the mosquito trap on 24 hours a day.  You do spend a little on electricity, but at least we aren’t poisoning ourselves and our kids.

How much raw food should you eat?

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This was asked in the caveman forums. “How much raw food should you eat? Do we have any information on how much food the hunter and gatherers ate was raw?”

Personally, I’m only interested in solid, experiential evidence. I would consider the evidence of Weston Price’s research with healthy groups of people. I would consider the evidence of my own experience. This is how I answered this question:

I eat as much raw food as I can. I used to be really sick in 2005. ( See http://www.eczemacure.info to see what I looked like. ) So after being symptom free on 2006 I went and tried out many diets I stumbled upon. My stumbling led me to:

organic vegetarian

organic raw vegan – unsustainable

organic raw fruitarian – unsustainable

organic / wild wai diet (raw fruitarian + extra virgin olive oil + egg yolks + various ocean raw fish) – got boring… I wanted land animals later on

organic / wild raw primal diet (aajonus vonderplanitz – raw fruit, raw vegs, raw dairy, raw ocean fish, raw land animals) – raw dairy didn’t agree with me… only butter agreed with me.

organic / wild raw paleolithic diet (raw fruit, few raw vegs, few raw nuts, raw ocean fish, raw land animals + organs) – so far the best for me

cooked meat paleolithic diet (raw fruits, raw vegs + cooked meats) – I tried for 2 months to compare it to raw meats and I did not feel as good so I went back to raw paleolithic diet.

So I settled on raw paleolithic diet and shifted to HIGH FAT – LOW CARB… awesome, much better than high carb. The initial problem is sourcing of food stuffs.

I still eat some cooked meat at socials, but I try to avoid it, when I do heat meat from my refrigerator, I see to it that I heat it only or at the most RARE. Lately I see the toaster oven is the cleanest method of heating.

I make pretty darn sure I get organic / wild / ocean meats and avoid condiments. My only condiments are raw calamansi / raw lemon / real fermented vinegar – I don’t use salt.

This is me and it works for me because I have a lot of unhealth to reverse. As for my kids I feed them as much raw meat as I can. rare beef, raw beef, raw squid, raw fish, raw eggs, etc… but they still default to eating rice with cooked meat… which I’m working on to eliminate rice. Kids have realized rice tastes bad with raw meats… which is a big incentive to go with raw meat.

What nutrition can we get out of Ants’ Eggs?

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I was reading the Sunday paper this morning. They were featuring exotic Philippine food in the provinces and they showed pictures of ANTS EGGS!!!

So I asked my father in law if he ever ate ANTS EGGS and he said, yes he did eat them occasionally in his youth when he lived in the province of Ilocos. He said that ANTS EGGS are commonly sold in his home provincial markets.

Then I showed the ANTS EGGS picture to my sister in law. She’s a cultural mapping person and she said she saw ANTS EGGS served in the province of PAMPANGA.

My mother in law arrived and I asked her about ANTS EGGS and her face lit up and she said ANTS EGGS were absolutely DELICIOUS and that when you bit them they popped nice popping sounds in your teeth as you ate them. She comes from the province of LAGUNA.

I’m such a city born dork, I’m missing out. Ants eggs are now on my list of food to eat when I drive to the provinces. Better if I just get an ants eggs supplier and have them ship it to Manila.

My question to the knowledgeable and experienced ants eggs eaters there is, what do you get out of eating ants’ eggs? Is it nutritious? Does it fill you up? Is it medicinal?

My initial review of Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 days

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Finally, one of my most awaited movies that documents how they cured diabetes in a handful of clueless diabetic people who checked into the Tree of Life center in Patagonia, Arizona USA.  This is the culinary raw vegan approach in an isolated center… much like boot camp.  Of course it works.

We saw the hardships endured by the patients.    Hardship because raw vegan for 30 days is hard to do.  Humans are by nature raw omnivores.  But for people who are so sick and over cooked-proteinized, the raw vegan approach will make a quick cure in the diagnostic numbers.  To give my perspective, I did raw vegan for 60 days so I have some claim to give an opinion.

The diabetic patients chosen were your normal everyday sick people.  They are sick because they know NOTHING about health and diet, ignorance makes people sick.  The patients ate atrocious diets! I can say that now because I know now and I live a much healthier lifestyle.  I used to be truly FAT and ugly a few years ago and some 45 pounds ago.  It is obvious these diabetics were sick because they had terrible eating habits and most are toxic at the same time.

From what I can discern from the Tree of Life approach in the movie is that it was a brute force 30 day challenge that should shock any toxic diabetic into detox and sudden bewildering change.  No punches pulled here.  Well, the obesity of some of the patients looked like they were truly emergencies.  But with enough will power, and enough encouragement, many people will benefit from this approach to curing diabetes.

One patient opted out, the indian grandson of a chief, his spirit told him that he should go.  Rightly so.  I applaud his spirit.  He should try another approach to curing his diabetes.  Probably a semi cooked – semi raw. very low carbohydrate diet with lots or meat and much more animal fat.

Everyone else was happy they did 30 days of raw vegan and effectively cured their diabetes.  Their journey is not over and most of them will have to learn to bring back animal foods into their diet.  I am of the opinion that humans are raw omnivores and must get meat in their diet, the proportion will vary depending on many factors.

What I can tell about this video is that it uses the popularity of reality shows’ format to teach people that diabetes is indeed very much and easily curable.  This is one great way to do it.  And you should be impressed.  Plus the doctors who regularly spew nonsense about diabetes being incurable should hang their heads in shame… or at least swallow their pride and humbly watch this video and learn more!  That many times, diabetes is merely caused by the atrocious diets of what most people think is “normal”.  That the obscene diets people put themselves into are popularized by business and marketing as “normal”.

No education can compare to true experience.  The sick should look up to and learn from people who have successfully cured themselves of diabetes.  The diabetics should look up to people from the Tree of Life center who know and who routinely cure people of diabetes.  The sick need role models of formerly sick people who have turned themselves around and become healthy.  The sick need more videos like this: Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 days.

Gift your loved ones with this video.  Do everything you can to help them get rid of diabetes.  View the movie trailer.

My 5 year old boy was victimized by small dirty lake shrimp in coconut milk

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Grandma has fond memories of small Laguna lake shrimp.  You stew this in coconut milk and the whole shrimp with shell and all is edible.  A vendor frequented our village gate selling this cooked meal and lately grandma was buying from the vendor.  Saturday evening we had that cooked little shrimp and unfortunately for my 2nd son, he liked it.  And to help him eat the shrimp without pricking his mouth, his nannie removed thepointy heads.  So he was able to get his fill.

In the early evening my boy was telling me he had a small tummy ache.  In the late evening my boy woke up and was crying his heart out.  Found out his tummy was absolutely painful.  Plus he was itching all over.  He had very big welts on his forehead you could hardly see if you expected small welts.

I asked what other things the boy ate.  All clues pointed to the lagun shrimp.  While my wife and I were having dinner she pointed out that if those shrimp came from Laguna lake then they are polluted with very dangerous mercury levels.  She called it right.  Our son ate a lot of it.  I ate a lot of it myself, but maybe because I’m bigger and can detox better lately I didn’t get a tummy ache or itching.  So my son is in a lot of trouble and it is in the middle of the night… this is what we did:

For the tummy pain, I got 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and mixed it with 2 cups of water.   This is for tummy pain relief.

Then I got 2 tablespoons of Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea and had my boy take this so that a few hours later he can poop his troubles away.  This is a herbal colon cleanse.

Then I knocked on the nannie’s door and with her help got to steam bath our son for 15 minutes.  The purpose is to detoxify his skin.  The fact that he is itching terribly is he needs to detoxify the poisons out his skin.  His body chose his skin as the fastest exit of toxins.  So we help his skin by giving him a steam bath, make sure he perspires, then give him a quick shower.

That gave him relief.  After his bath, he was asleep in 5 minutes.

I did my fish port shopping at 3am and was back at 6:30am to find my 5 year old boy playing wonderfuly and with a healthy appetite at breakfast after having pooped his troubles away.

In the evening to be sure I gave him a glass of avocado leaves tea for kidney cleansing.

I told this story to all the members of our household so that we should never again repeat the same incident.  We are no longer buying from that lady who sells the little shrimp.  It’s toxic.  Whether it was shrimp, the coconut milk she cooked, or if she put MSG in it.  No thank you.  This is why we prepare our own food.

My 4 yr old daughter feels better after 1 day of the Paleo Diet

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My little girl is feeling better after 1 day on the paleolithic diet.  This is a diet before agriculture. Raw fruits and fatty meats cooked or raw.  Our idea of vegetable is a non sweet fruit like cucumber… which is technically a fruit because it is willingly offered by the plant to be consumed, so it is safe to eat raw.

Paleo Mum of CavemanForum.com sums it up nicely:

The “Seven Deadly Sins”
• Grains (eg wheat/rice/oats etc)
• Dairy (eg milk/yogurt/butter/cheese etc)
• Refined foods (eg salt/sugars etc )
• Nightshades (eg peppers/tomato/eggplant)
• Tubers (eg potato/arrowroot etc)
• Legumes (eg soy/beans/peas etc)
• Modernly palatable (eg cashews/olives et

Of course I make my own exceptions.  For butter, I sometimes use unsalted anchor butter from grass fed cows of New Zealand.

So my daughter’s breakfast yesterday was coconut juice, guava, avocado.

At 9-10 am she had her soft boiled fertilized eggs.

At 12nn lunch with me she had raw fatty beef freshly killed same day and some heated on charcoal same kind of beef… where eventually she noticed that the raw beef tasted better because it was freshly killed and never refrigerated.  Plus we ran out of coconuts and watermelons so she had to drink with calamansi and water, without any sweetener, she’s too young for honey… we have a 7 year old rule for honey, at 7 years old children acquire the ability to digest honey.

All 3 children tasted a couple of raw clams / halaan from Bolinao, Pangasinan.

Snacks, there were guavas and star apples from Montalban.

I gave her 1 teaspoon of Barefoot’s dewormer in 1/4 cup of water.  Mommy still gives her mercurious vivus homeopathic drops.

Dinner was souped clams.  Which my wife didn’t like, she is not a shellfish fan.  She thought it smelled like pee.  I and the kids did not like the texture of cooked clams either, it became small and rubbery tougher.  Luckily I had a bunch of live raw clams for myself and plopped them in my soup and gave some to my daughter, which was more satisfying.

Clams aren’t going to make my daughter full, not enough fat.  So all 3 kids requested for beef in a little soy sauce.  I had to intercept the cooking of the beef as this was being done by a maid who did not eat beef herself.  Don’t overcook it.  These overzealous cooked food eaters will not stop until the whole meat is cauterized to the core.  They believe in earnest that any trace of being a little raw inside the meat is bad… no wonder people are sick.

The beef finale made my daughter finally full.  Fat will make you feel full.

So it was a rice less day for my daughter.  And she didn’t mind.  She felt full.  Her cold was getting better.  The cold hasn’t vanished yet, but she got a good night’s sleep.

Today we are doing another Paleo diet day.  Plus I will ask her nannie to give her a steam bath.  And we are having beef broth soup for lunch and dinner and I will add some hot cayenne to make her mucus flow out.  It will be simmering all day with the charcoal stove.