Carrie Underwood is not one to get in bed with

The National Football League is apparently working some political games in order to change the game and avoid a huge settlement on behalf of its former players. One thing is for sure, they appear to have a desire to move away from the image of rough and tough muscled- up hard hitting players. Why else would they secure a deal with Carrie Underwood to sing on the Sunday Night Football broadcast?

In case you have not heard, NBC announced that Carrie Underwood would replace Faith Hill as the person who sings the opening song “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.” So why on earth would they want a self-proclaimed vegan, who stumps every chance she gets about eliminating milk, meat and eggs from your diet, involved in any way shape or form with football players?

First of all the consumption of animal protein and fat has been scientifically linked to improving individual intelligence. Numerous scientific studies exist that document this that but here is one from Australia that gives you the idea.

Scientists have found that adding extra "creatine" - a naturally occurring compound found in muscle tissue - to someone's diet can significantly improve memory as well as increasing general intelligence.

Caroline Rae of the University of Sydney in Australia, who led the study, carried out memory and IQ tests at the end of each six-week period to see if there were differences between the sets of volunteers.

Here are the results from Psychology Today that give a great explanation of the need for a proper diet:
Next to water, protein makes up most of the weight of our bodies. Muscles, organs, hair, nails and ligaments are all composed of protein, so it's obvious why protein is an important part of the diet.

But it gets more complex with the brain. The brain and its long spidery neurons are essentially made of fat, but they communicate with each other via proteins that we eat. The hormones and enzymes that cause chemical changes and control all body processes are made of proteins.

So what part of that would not be beneficial to a football player?

Remembering plays and patterns seems like a good thing. And there’s more:

Then of the course you have the strength aspect of meat consumption. Is there anyone in the world that can argue to the extreme benefit of protein from meat that makes a man stronger?

All athletes need protein after vigorous exercise. Protein helps repair and rebuild muscle tissue that is broken down during hard exercise. Because protein is the basic building material for muscle tissue, if you strength train, or want to increase muscle size, you need to consume more protein than sedentary individuals or non-athletes.

In fact, these researchers recommend consuming between .6-.8 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day.

Of course one could make the case that the NFL, who is currently being sued by a group of former players for concealing the emerging science about concussions over several decades, is trying to lower the IQ and strength of its players. It did create a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury committee in 1994 but players feel it was ineffective and did nothing to prevent life-threatening injuries.

So possibly this move to have Underwood join the NFL is all about reducing the strength and intelligence of its players. If they aren’t as strong and can’t hit each other as hard, they will have fewer brain injuries to defend in court.

Then you could make the case that is it simply a publicly stunt because the NBA is getting all the national press in the past couple of weeks because they had a player come out of the locker room closet. If Underwood’s influence actually works on players, considering what the Pyschology Today researchers have learned, a diet WITHOUT milk meat and eggs is much higher in estrogenic hormones. So one could fairly see that the NFL would have more man-bag carrying lightweights than hard- hitting he- men if they jump on the Underwood bandwagon.

In reality, football players are no different than every other consumer in this country: they need to consume a variety of all food groups and exercise more than they eat as a recipe for good health. The NFL, like all of us in American Agriculture, should take a hard look at the people we are getting into bed with and Carrie Underwood should never ever be on that list.

Trent Loos is a 6th generation United States rancher who ranches in Central, Nebraska but also host several daily radio programs debunking the myths about modern food production. To get more information log onto his website www.LoosTales.com or email him at TrentLoos@gmail.com

Carrie Underwood the Animal Rights Zealot is a hypocrite

She is a self proclaimed supporter of HSUS (the world's wealthiest animal rights organization) and she has made public statements about being a vegetarian but what about the rendered animal products she smears on her face every single day?

Tallow is a common ingredient in many products, including eye makeup, lipsticks, makeup bases and foundations, shampoos, shaving soaps, moisturizers and skin care products. It's made from animal carcasses.

Tallow is made by rendering animal fat, which means boiling the carcasses to create fatty byproducts. The dead animals used to make tallow USDA approved slaughter facilities and considered food grade.

See for yourself.

Contact Monsanto on teaming up with Agenda 21

This is a sample letter that you should use as a guide if you share the opinions of Trent Loos and Janet H. Thompson on Monsanto's recent announcement of team up on Agenda 21.

Dear Mr. Grant and Monsanto’s Board of Directors:

It has come to my attention that Monsanto has officially joined the United Nation’s Agenda 21 movement by joining the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

This is unnecessary, counterproductive and will lead to many problems for both Monsanto and your customers. As life-long agricultural producers, my family and I encourage you to reconsider lending your good name to such an organization.

Agenda 21 was birthed in 1992 at the UN’s “Earth Summit” at Rio de Janeiro. Agenda 21 is Maurice Strong’s plan to advance “the environment” through local governments all over the globe. Local governments, especially if they sign up as dues-paying members of ICLEI, are encouraged to limit what people do on their own property for supposed benefits to the environment.

In the name of nebulous, indefinable concepts such as biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystems, social justice and environment (amongst many others), a small group of people make centralized decisions about what can and cannot be done on an individual’s property.

At its core, Agenda 21 is an aggressive (albeit very clever) assault on private property.

Private property is necessary for Monsanto’s success because it is vital to each and every one of your customers. Private property is core to a free and prosperous, market-based economy.

I know that you have joined WBCSD in an attempt to demonstrate to detractors that you are doing good work and that your technologies, voluntarily purchased by farmers throughout the world, are, in fact, good for the environment.

Your technologies allow us to be more efficient. By its very nature, efficiency is good for the environment. It means we produce more food with fewer inputs. Were that not the case, farmers would not voluntarily purchase your products. Were it not for a profit motive, farmers would have no incentive to become more efficient. Were it not for private property and the surety that we personally will benefit from excellent care of and improvements to our land, no incentive for excellent care or improvements would exist.

Development improves the world around us. One need only travel to a few choice countries in the world to gain first-hand evidence of this fact.

“Sustainable Development,” though, as defined and advanced through Agenda 21, is the opposite of what it claims to be. We have many examples in history – even recent history! – of top-down, centralized decision-making leading to wide-spread starvation and degradation of land. Long-term, thoughtful investments in property improvement are traded for short-term survival decisions.

Never in the history of free-market civilization have ideas been as important as what this one is today. I beg of you to fully understand what is behind that to which you have signed up, and then to make a brave and responsible decision for the future of Monsanto and every Monsanto customer.

Thank you for your time. Thank you for your wonderful products.

Sincerely,

Clearly foggy Jan 28, 2103

The sun did its best but was not good enough today. Foggy and damp all day yet made progress here at home and thanks to Kurt and Matt Long we got a windbreak up for the cows.

In addition to the windbreak the Long's also got my Longhorn hide hung up in my office.

Think these pigs are comfortable?

This mare I am calling "Start Again" because her mother was called Genesis. She is sired by Midnight Moon and you will see me quite a bit aboard this flashy mare this spring.

My first day at the 2013 PA Farm Show with the Today's Agriculture display. This is the most progressive presentation of modern food production in the whole nation.

Long time friend Tom Farrer from Royal Center, IN has just selected the Berkshire bred gilt as the Supreme Champion female. The first time in the history of the PA Farm Show that a Berkshire has been named Grand Champion.

Isaac Lewis is the Ag teacher and FFA advisor at Hampshire High School in Romney, WV invites me to partner in the purchase of this Supreme Grand Champion Berkshire bred gilt. We end up buying her together for a record price of $3400. She is due to farrow on Jan 25th and will do so at the Hampshire High School swine farm.

New Years Day 2013

We have decided to invite friends and family over for the New Years Day Capitol One Bowl with Nebraska vs Georgia. I am going to smoking a pork shoulder with cedar.

I have not used this smoker enough but three hours later the shoulder was a huge hit.

Although the frigid temperatures below zero required me to smoke water lines under the farrowing house as well.

I too was celebrating the bringing the New Year 2013 only thing is I was giving this piglet mouth to mouth in order that it would survive at 12:00 straight up.

She survived and her earnotch is 8-2 we shall see how she turns out later this summer.

Libbi with me on a great ride of Titan. Her horse and the first horse she broke quite a talent she is when it comes to horses.

Probably the most important tool here on the ranch in the month of December.

Good old fashioned winter with few days in double digits in the past three weeks.

Eve helping me water cows running on cornstalks.

Sorry for the Holiday break but we have had tremendous family time Christmas and New Years break. So I spent very little time looking at this computer so now time to catch up.

The morning sun on Dec 23, 2012. The Christmas season was very cold and snow cover the whole time.

No words needed.

My Christmas present to my lovely wife Kelli. Okay so if you have never loaded hogs with your spouse this may not make sense. On the other hand if you know what it is like to load without proper fence's and loading ramps you fully understand the importance of this loading chute I just finished in time for Christmas. Love you Kelli.

Dug out, thawed out, bedded, fed and even bred.

No school thanks to the blizzard so I had great help today with Lindsi. Yes go ahead and notify the Department of Labor that some rancher Dad is taking pictures while his 10 year old daughter chops ice with an "axe".

Cows have to be God's most amazing creation (right after Jesus). Look they survive anyway, they eat stuff not good for anything else, cellulose, and they make what people need to live. I want to be as tough as a cow one day. The blizzard hit and they are just happy as can be on corn stalks.

Why is that silly cowboy always laying on the ground?

These hogs figured out how to handle the snow drifts in their pen. They made tunnels from the shed to the feeder to the waterer. I WANT A CAFO.

First project of the day collected El Regresso and bred the 1-1 spot sow.