Changing Course for Life by Sir Julian Rose

Changing Course for Life : Local Solutions to Global Problems
By Sir Julian Rose
New European Publications

“Continuously accepting ever more restrictive clamps upon our civil liberties and human aspirations ultimately weakens and confuses us, making us cannon fodder for all the consuming appetites of corporate pirates and political apologists. There is nothing more important to do now than to take the authority to control our lives out of such people’s hands, and to pour our energies into securing a resurgent future for largely self-governing human scale communities throughout the world.” So writes Sir Julian Rose, who urges his readers to reconnect with farmers, the land and small-scale communities, and what better way to start than by obtaining our food from farmers and artisans. In this way we help build a just economic system, “one which establishes the best means for as many people as possible to realize their potential, and helps to build the shared goal or ideal of a caring society.”

Reductionist science, agricultural policy, environmental destruction, the role of the arts, modern medicine, and the trend to globalization are some of the themes Rose illuminates with his insight in this excellent little book. Says Rose, “All infrastructure should serve the purpose of helping humanity—and nature—to reach a healthier, more subtle and more dynamic state of self realisation.” That’s a goal we can all eat for! New European Publications. THUMBS UP.

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2010.

About the Reviewer

Sally Fallon Morell is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.

She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. Through her New Trends Publishing label, she publishes books on nutrition and health, such as The Fourfold Path to Healing (by Dr. Tom Cowan), Honoring Our Cycles (by Katie Singer), The Untold Story of Milk (by Ron Schmid) and The Whole Soy Story (by Kaayla Daniel). The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.

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