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We apologize for the delay in producing this newsletter what with Christmas coming on and lots of people on holidays etc etc it is not till now that I sit down and compile our newsletter the first for 2003. This is not Spam. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed. If
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For unedited HTML version http://www.santostrading.com.au/p08newsletter.html if you are viewing with a text only email client copy and paste this link into your browser We apologize for the delay in producing this newsletter what with Christmas coming on and lots of people on holidays etc etc it is not till now that I sit down and compile our newsletter the first for 2003. We have decided to produce four issues per year Welcome to the gentle world of Santos...the home of the saints.
Feature Article You may have read the articles last year about Cole's and Woolworth's controlling most of Australia's fruit and vegetable markets. more details Well Robert went to Tasmania for summer holidays and found a very different story there. Medium small farms are everywhere and doing fine. mainly I suspect due to the large tourism industry. One can buy all kinds of high quality organic and BD produce in medium sized shops and at roadside stalls. excellent quality yum yum. Organic apricots straight from the tree, raspberries, apples etc .A gourmet's delight. Why is it not so evident on the mainland? Do you know that in Tasmania they grow about ten different types of potatoes? The supermarkets often only sell the standard Sebago type found all over Australia but the roadside stalls and Salamanca markets and smaller shops usually sell several local varieties and are much in demand. read more It all comes back to you the customer. After all because big supermarket chains can extract bargain bottom prices from growers and demand large long term contracts with severe penalties, food quality suffers and the supermarkets grow even richer. Woolworth's is is making so much money it is even buying back its own shares from the public arena. (gleaned from the ABC news ) As a result fruit and veggie prices on supermarket shelves may be cheaper than at smaller outlets which have to buy through smaller markets and pay higher prices, but not always! local produce purchased direct from local farmers is often much cheaper than supermarkets. By buying F &V at supermarkets you are promoting the increase of mass farming techniques, requiring huge machinery, extensive use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Farming on this scale is treated as a factory business; crop failures or shortfalls caused by insect attack, poor soil fertility or the effects of the weather cannot be risked due to the low profit margin and large capital investment in these factory farms. In Tasmania Small farms have easy access to the consumer. We bought most of our F&V from farm outlets. near Hobart. Prices were much cheaper than the mainland and organic produce much more common. One could also buy F&V from Coles and Woolworth's but a lot of them looked like they had been trucked from the Melbourne markets. It is very likely they had come from Tassie then trucked to Melbourne then back again. Not so fresh how about all that greenhouse emitting fuel used in the process. So you Byron bay residents. instead of grumbling about cheaper food in. supermarkets and getting that lump rising in your throat, think of the effects of mass marketing of food, and buy organic fruit and veggies at local outlets. buy as much locally produced food as possible. Buy fruit in season. e.g. papaya mangoes in summer. Do you realize that a lot of organic apples sold in Byron bay come from Tasmania. think of the greenhouse gasses and fuel costs. *************************************************************************** The Santos Warehouse our Great Secret Stop Press new update to warehouse prices check here Situated in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate, the Warehouse provides an excellent service to the local community. We sell bulk goods at bulk prices, and shopping in the Estate is nothing but bliss, with heaps of parking and no hustle...come and visit us at any time Our range of products is extensive, including dried fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, many kinds of rice, honeys, earth friendly cleaning products, carob products, cereals, rice milk, soymilks, tahini, flours, herbs and spices, etc, etc... Our aim is to have as many Organic options as possible, and we do have a large variety of the above products available as Organic or Bio-Dynamic!
We deliver to a number of businesses in Byron Bay daily, and to Mullumbimby and
Bangalow every Wednesday. If you would like to find out more about our services or products please visit our website www.santostrading.com.au or give us a call (02) 66 855 685. Regards, The Warehouse Crew... *************************************************************************** and from Aaron at the Byron Store This edition is sponsored by the gall bladder, and the number 108. According to our naturopaths the gall bladder likes to be kept free of gall stones, but often has difficulty sweeping them out of the lounging part of the gall bladder. The stones tend to turn into potatoes and become channel flickers. If you want to rid yourself of them we suggest you go to http://www.curezone.com/ . They have many recipes there, including Dr Hulda Clark’s, plus many other excellent recipes for increasing and maintaining good health. Our shop window in Byron Bay is currently filled with peace and anti-war messages from our customers. We like many people around the world do not support war in any form. We are all thinking, praying and wishing for peace.
A new item which has been awaited for some time is Himalayan
Crystalline Salt. This pinky coloured salt is reputed to be 250 million years
old, and is jam packed with minerals. Because of the extreme pressure this salt
has been exposed to in the Himalayas, it is much more bio-compatible than We are once again stocking the Oscar living juice food processor. The low speed of this juicer ensures that valuable nutrition is not lost during the juicing process. We highly recommend this juicer. Aaron ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^oooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Strange Facts!!! * Distance between earth and sun =.............108 times sun-diameter, That the ancient Indian astronomers knew of the first two shouldn't surprise us, because it can be calculated by anyone without the need for any instruments. Take a pole, mark its height, and then remove it to a place 108 times its height. The pole will look exactly the same angular size as the moon or the sun. I don't believe Indians knew the third fact, that the sun is 108 times as large as the earth, because there is no evidence of that in the old astronomy manuals. If they did, it would be as amazing a coincidence as the knowledge of the correct speed of light before modern measurements. Indian thought takes the outer cosmology to be mirrored in the inner cosmology of the human. Therefore, the number 108 is also taken to represent the 'distance' from the body of the devotee to the God within. The chain of 108 'links' is held together by 107 joints, which is the number of marmas, or weak spots, of the body in Ayurvedic medicine. We can understand that the 108 beads of the rosary (japamala) must map the steps between the body and the inner sun. The devotee, while saying beads, is making a symbolic journey from the physical body to the heavens. --------------------oooooooooooo000000000OOOOOOOO0000000000ooooooooooooo------------------- GMO Technology Again!!!!!!!! There has been talk lately of using gene modifying technology to create new super foods laden with nutrition. Part of the justification for pursuing this science is in order to treat those who are suffering disease. Whilst on the face of it this may sound beneficial, the implications are once again far reaching for us all. It means that in order to treat the few, the majority are also treated, because entire crops have been genetically altered, we oppose such mass medication. ************************************************************************** Is Time really Speeding Up? It seems today that most of us are enormously pressured by the perception of a lack of time. In spite of our lengthening life span, we appear to have less and less quality time for ourselves. Or is it that because of the nature of life in the 21st century, we feel a greater need for such time, than our ancestors did, or we ourselves did, even ten, or twenty years ago? The common cry seems to be that I don’t have the time. I am too busy. I can’t fit it in. and so on. In this era we have created massive cities, worlds within themselves, where just about every temptation, every whim and wish of human beings can be catered for. And yet at the same time we have created an environment that stands bubble-like outside of the natural world with its own ancient rhythms and timing. We have moved ourselves away from our own inherent cycles that have their origin in the natural world, which, until fairly recently we deeply understood as being synonymous with the movement of the seasons, and the journeys of the sun and the moon. read more In our cities we are assailed by the sight, sound and smell of vehicles around us as well as by planes in the sky. Buildings soar above us, billboards shout their wares, lights flash, and the air is filled with gasses as well as electrical energy from millions of appliances, cell phones and surging power lines. We have created light and power that burns for 24 hours. It is no wonder that we have lost rapport with both our inner and outer world and their inherent timing. Our senses are overloaded by extremes. Its not so easy to hear a bird calling or see a sunrise with the same kind of sensory depth as our ancestors did; we have largely consigned these things to the periphery of our lives, as being almost decorative to the reality of living a business-centered life. Our perception of time has become an assembly line of things to do, with brief periods of rest and pleasure having to be earned through striving. Unfortunately these brief periods of respite are often not able to be fully enjoyed or prolonged without there being a sense of guilt ensuing because everyone else appears to be continuing on the merry go round of doing and being productive. The marketplace of the outside world intrudes into our homes now more than ever, to constantly remind us of the external world, what it offers and what we can do out there. It is more difficult for us to recharge in the sanctity of our homes compared to the home life enjoyed by our parents and grandparents, when home computers, the Internet, cell phones, 24-hour television, and answering machines seek our attention. And many of us add to this by taking work home in order to stay on top of things in the workplace. We find ourselves increasingly doing more than one thing at a time, living in a vacuous world where our attention cannot be fully focused on any one individual task. The result is that we are living in a state of shallow consciousness; a state of being unaware of the depth of our actions on ourselves, our environment, and of our relationship to all things external to ourselves. Surely to live in this manner is to live in a deepening state of alienation from the rich textures and depths of our consciously operating senses. The ability to multitask is looked upon as being a useful countering ability to the increased pressures of modern life. We talk on the cell phone while driving; as well as read, put makeup on, and shave while changing lanes. We attempt to talk and listen simultaneously. We plan ahead so that we can kill two birds with one stone. In ten years time will it be three or four birds? And what yardstick of success will we be using to gauge our lives with? And of course all of this creates stress, tension and health problems. From all of us at Santos, we wish you a slow day, a slowing down of the race, and lots of slow gentle love. FROM THE MULLUMBIMBY STORE by Craig STOP PRESS: Those purveyors of hunky dory bread – Sol breads –are now churning out naturally made ICE CREAM, like organic chocolate, blood orange, pistachio etc. – all for your taste buds. Hurry in to taste this marvel of taste delight! In the heart of Byron Shire is Mullumbimby. Locals in Byron and surrounding area call it the heart of the Shire. Smack bang in the middle of that heart is Santos. The seed that is Santos that sprouted all those years ago attracted saints to come nurture, and of its own accord, proliferate, in simplicity, and this principle remains, simple, as close to God/Goddess/timelessness as possible - so our customers may experience same. From Santos' humble beginnings, sacks of grains etc on the floor and generous smiles - has turned into a thriving community oriented business. Bonanza bulk foods, 100% certified organic fruit 'n' veg, a visionary section of remedies; tonnes of goodies – in the real sense of the word. Check out the JUICE
AND SALAD BAR Probably the cheapest 100% organic juice in Oz. The heritage building housing Santos has upstairs a Body Space for massage by qualified masseurs; a Heart Space for meetings, conferences, workshops, yoga, dance etc; the Byron Environment Centre and Amytayus - a hospice buddhist based organisation who attend the terminally ill. AND DON'T FORGET! to go UPSTAIRS in Mullumbimby for:-
From Santos’ smiley crew. Blessed mortals providing everyday life practicalities for this fragile world in transition.
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