Today I introduce you to Niti Bali, author of Farm to Fork Meat Riot and guru of rogue food commerce.   I talked about her back when her book came out, but today I want to explain something else she's up to:  a Food Church.

             It's a bona fide 501(c)(3) and meets every Friday 5-7 p.m. eastern time (she's in North Carolina) on Zoom.  She's been offering this for several months and I finally found the time to log on and attend this past Friday.

             Wow, what a wonderful time.  I couldn't stay for the whole time but while I was there people gave their testimonials of nutritional healing and farmers shared their stories of hardship and breakthroughs.  It was everything you would expect from a food church.

             I remember many, many years ago Sally Fallon, founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, saying that eventually we would have to claim religious freedom to get the kind of healing foods we want.  As Socialism and tyranny progress in America, the government's reach into food and health seems to know no bounds.  That forces us to grasp more outlying pieces of freedom in order to exercise choice over our bodies' fuel.

             Niti is the quintessential shepherd of this food flock, greeting newcomers, drawing out narratives, and introducing folks to each other.  She works the crowd like a pastor and it was delightful to see her in her element.  You owe it to yourself to meet this power player in our movement.  Niti lost a daughter to cancer at 4 years old and that experience not only shaped her thinking but fired her passion in our integrity food space.

             In order to keep this service and idea orderly, it's not just a public free-for-all.  You have to sign into a waiting room--think of it like waiting in the foyer for a deacon to seat you--before she lets you into the service.  I'd like to see her have hundreds of people attending, being baptized in food truth and encouraged to go out and spread our heresy. 

             Here is the link:   http://eepurl.com/cnGr5f.  

             With censorship running rampant and bureaucrats being hired by the hundreds, every idea that brings us encouragement, inspiration, knowledge and friendship should be supported and applauded.  I'd like to see Niti swamped with folks wanting into this exchange of true healing and help in the entire food and farming sector.   Thank you, Niti, for standing firm and sustaining motion in the face of opposition, misunderstandings, and outright hostility.

             If you're a fellow heretic, where do you get inspiration and encouragement?