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3.8ML earthquake hits Melbourne’s northern suburbs

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Revisiting Aquarius: where we have been and where we need to go

It was ‘far out’ to be in Nimbin again for the 50th celebration of the Aquarius Festival. 

Francisco’s table

A thick hunk of toasted sourdough, a joyous tumble of braised tomatoey capsicum and onion and beans, a perfect fried egg to crest it all – and there it is on the counter waiting for whoever ordered it and I’m so tempted to claim it!

Alan Dickens (Letters, April 12) raised the problem of phosphorus regarding sewage treatment. We sink deeper into it if we contemplate that a particular variety of great apes decided to break ranks and switch from carbs-from-fruit to carbs-from-grain about ten thousand years ago. 

Unfortunately grain has eight times as much phosphorus as fruit and the acidity of this globalised diet has been wreaking havoc in that particular great ape ever since. Prior to becoming sewage, the acidity [of carbs-from-grain] damages internal tissue, which stimulates inflammation, which then obstructs blood flow – resulting in almost every disease a great ape can think of.

It really shits me that the global food system continues to fart around feeding poison to billions of brainwashed great apes. The food-health industry has probably shortened more lives than the military-industrial complex.

Sapoty Brook, Main Arm


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