Milk: Product or Conversation?
This is the latest installment in the ongoing food-as-medicine conversation originating out of Test Kitchen Rochester(MN)[1].
The TL;DR ~ Summary:
Many administrative systems (commercial, digital, financial, religious, governmental and more…) treat people and other nature-based entities as a stale product/derivative whose production, processing/manufacturing, distribution, monitoring, consumption ‘should be’ centralized, homogenized/modularized, commoditized, financial-ized, securitized, and more…
Milk stands out as the canary in the coal mine for such antiquated systems administration thinking, whose formulations and formations make them, presently, uniquely unavailable to turn away from living off emaciated hosts and grow healthier alternatives.
As their old system’s internal pressures build from within, further impeding their ability to cope with change, and thus causing system collapse/implosion, look for robust, creative, innovative integrative healthier alternatives to surface…
These new systems are characterized as, among other factors, a combination of standard, artificial and blockchain technologies in conversation with living, responsive systems.
nourishment is intelligence.
@argosaki ‘milk is a conversation’ telling of @Mammals_Sucks story is informing and timely:
∞ Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk. She revealed that nourishment is intelligence. Milk is a living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.
∞ Such is consistent. Repeatable.
∞ And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus[2].
∞ Katie Hinde thought she was studying milk. What she uncovered was a conversation.
∞ Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
∞ Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.
∞ and more…
- aka Please do experience both
- @argosaki excellent storytelling
- @Mammals_Sucks excellent TEDTalk [ref: Mothers are eating not just for two, but two to the trillions.’, and more…
now, let’s cross-link this ‘milk is a conversation’ story more broadly to the environmental, economic and social systems it turns over…
We see the ‘milk is a conversation’ story continues by cross-linking both @argosaki connection making storytelling and @Mammals_Suck milk is information/intelligence’ storytelling to the following series of cross-links[4], and the more to come…
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #1.
The food pyramid/system has been turned over, and with it the administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) of the agriculture systems that supplied it and the mechanisms/models/more… of the healthcare systems that benefited from it. Also in disarray, and seen in disarray, are the associated investing, strategic, operational (administrative, marketing, logistical models, modalities, missions, visions, goals, objectives, and more…)
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #2.
Turning the food pyramid/system over is an important, and major, step. Doing so weakens the cultural/social atmospheric-like resistance to changing antiqued administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) understandings/relationships/systems significantly.
City councils, and other administrative bodies, across the globe are calling for ‘creative innovation’. They are among the growing many, demonstrating a willingness to receive new ideas that prune back what is not working, so as to, among other things, allow what has been known to work before, work again. (aka everyday people trialing new techniques and technologies in such a manner so as to grow new revenue streams capable of growing operating margins strong enough to support tax flows and more…).
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #3.
The change(s) in federal funding flows for NGOs (including not-for-profits), academic/K-12 entities, and more…—up and down the agriculture, food and healthcare stack/supply chain—is also an effective incentive to move both individuals and institutions into creative problem-solving mode focused on reconnecting soil life and the low-cost, high-value essential nutrients it provides, to us humans and the planet. And do so in such a manner so as revitalize the human gut ∞ brain connection, and other metaphysical and physical nurturing connections. So as to revitalize emaciated individuals, institutions, groups of any size and more…
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #4
Technology folks, their financiers (and more…) understand how a combination of standard, artificial, blockchain and other technologies are collapsing the multitude of margin sucking decision layers, antiquated, CAFO dependent, centralized oilseed and meat processing infrastructure via the Why Software Is Eating the World model.
They also intuitively understand how system alternatives will be more capable of delivering essential, low-cost ~ high value nutrients in forms capable of, once again, enhancing planet and revitalizing people’s health…
Watch for this pace of system turnover and the sprouting of alternatives to increase at faster and faster rates.
Tech and finance folks might recognize the pattern and importance of integrating upstream/foundational alternatives replacing ancient modular siloed models when they consider how fast their industry moved to having ebeded/integrated nuclear power plants for their AI/data centers.
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #5.
We view the term food-as-medicine as, among other things, a test kitchen.
aka:
~ “Think of it as the ultimate intersection of science, art, and cooking [an agnetic add: production, processing delivering and monitoring too], designed to produce consistent, reliable, and delicious results every single time.” — @flavor365_silas )
~ A setting capable of managing multiple administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) system turnover dishes/conversations concurrently, in an ongoing manner, for quite some time to come.
~ A setting where honing one’s creative skills, known as, busking it,—aka the learning by inventing, innovating and implementing concurrently, in the open and the trial and error that goes with it—is culturally and civilly accepted, encouraged and celebrated.
∞ cross-link dot/traits-in-the pattern #6.
We see Rochester, MN as a test kitchen setting robust enough to invite in others from a wide range of other settings whose administrative mechanisms, logistic models/systems (and more…) are also being similarly turned over. [ref: broader commercial, academic/education, military, governance, religious, and more… e.g. Something Big Is Happening and this response The consumption was the product. The sharing was the output.]
∞ cross-linking dot/trait(s)-in-the pattern #7.
Decoding how milk as a conversation, and other nature-based essential nutrient vitality enhancing exchanges fit into the larger, broader, deeper food-as-medicine conversation—so as to grow a series of modern administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) alternatives—like autonomous vehicles embedded from the get-go[5] fit in—isn’t conducive to the old administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) system’s propensity to rush to modularization, securitization, financialization, derivative-making and other #LeadWithLeverage commoditization outcome(s)/predetermination(s).
There is a healthier planet and people health value capture exchange and creation alternative that does not contain so much slop as today’s financialization above all else systems creates. (ref: the premature and unnecessary rushing to oversimplification; purposefully breaking things so as to give plausible deniability to rebuild it all back; the placing of oneself in the role of hero; and other humanly contrived dysfunctional patterns of rushing to hypothetical conclusions not yet relevant; (e.g. Like the frenzy to tokenize all of Nature (every tree, etc.) many financial folks hope to run through their central extraction machine(s) (physical or digital, and more…).
In other words, instead of trapping ourselves in the application of the build/destruct doom loop to everything we humans think, decide and act upon, let’s try something else.
For example, gardening is a process/pattern that has known to work when we humans allow Nature to lead. (aka Realizing the art and science of pruning does not kill the host/plant. In fact, it revitalizes and encourages growth. Often in new unanticipated, advantageous directions, and more…)
∞ This cross-link series’ focal point: Nature has something all-together different in mind than those who like to #LeadWithLeverage have in mind. (aka With nature in the lead, investing time, space and environmental, economic and social benefits pays out differently, yet in anticipatable ways, than predetermined product/outcome-based, #LeadWithLeverage administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…). (e.g. eliminating the illicit payoffs/fraud/waste/and abuse and other slop often needed to keep humanly contrived central processing machines running.)
if not now, when?
If now is not the time to prune back/ease up on brutal perfectionism and other #LeadWithLeverage culture’s dysfunctions seen not working, when?
The food pyramid has now been turned over, and with it, its own version of the old #LeadWithLeverage pyramid’s administrative mechanisms, logistic models and more….
While this antiquated administrative mechanism’s, logistic model’s (and more…) collective is in, if not total panic, then enough internal disarray so as to be greatly diminished from their once overwhelming ability to dominate challengers; protect their feudalistic ways; their fiefdoms; the prevailing status quo, along with current and additional near future shifts in government funding, public attention and other civic and cultural support running out, look for the old agriculture systems administering/supplying the old food pyramid and the old primary healthcare system’s administration models benefiting from its output to turnover too.
Additionally, as pressure within each #LeadWithLeverage silo’s administrative mechanisms, logistic models (and more….) systems builds, look for a series of implosions that start other, often unanticipated by some, dominos to concurrently fall. [ref: Old system agriculture, old system food and old system planet and people healthcare system’s ability to command, control and more…]
Each imploding system is anticipated to initiate its own cascade(s) of failure along an identifiable pattern. Do anticipate each failure cascade enabling deep changes to the way we humans heal ourselves and the planet.
a natural confluence
As additional pyramid’s/system’s administrative mechanisms, logistic and other internal/external systems (and more…) across the agriculture, food , healthcare, military, academic/education, religion, commercial, governance endeavors collapse/turn over, please recognize Test Kitchen: Rochester, MN has the jump on how the combination of standard, artificial and blockchain technologies in conversation with living, responsive systems works. And how it doesn’t.
Our food-as-medicine test kitchen welcoming you and all-who-eat is now available. Please do join us.
we leave you with a thought exercise…
While you take the time you need to connect the many dots above, and what it means to you, as an individual, within your institution/group of any size, we will leave you with a couple of examples of how, the trifold polyintelligent alternative to your systems’ collapse/turning over works in the governance space.
We do so by highlighting these three side-by-side cross-linked dots/traits that have been known to shape and reshape outcomes.
These three originate with Marco Rubio, current Secretary of State, Shirley Chisholm, former House of Representatives, now deceased. and Anthony Scalia, former Supreme Court justice, now deceased:
∞ “We (America) do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker … The alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed … by fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future.”
~ Marco Rubio, Secretary of State [ref: 260214 Munich Security Conference remarks.
∞ “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair.”
~ Shirley Chisholm, former House of Representatives, American politician
footnotes, cross-links, good-natured shade throwing among siblings and friends, legitimate horse trading, and more…
[1]: food-as-medicine conversation: The notion, among other things, that what most thought of as just a lifeless product is actually life filled and in conversation with different other life forms, and more…[ref: the more at A New food-as-medicine Conversation Is Happening in Rochester, MN]
[2]: Nicely put @argosaki. It turns out Minnesota isn’t the only place with lots of ice behind its nice. [ref: “What Is Minnesota Nice? The Truth This Time
[3]: What we don’t know about mother’s milk
[4]: cross-linking: ‘connecting (something) by a series of transverse links’ – New Oxford American Dictionary, Copyright © 2005 – 2023 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
[5]: A key factor in this alternative system’s focus is the lowering a series of product/outcome-based industry’s accumulative CAPEX. (Our working estimate is by ~30% (or more…). Yes, those who view tokenized ‘natural capital assets’ as the next big gold/value mine where they can focus their extraction systems, may want to Take An Active Pause™.
While such a “democratization of power through digitalization”, focus may sound outlandish to the uninitiated, who may have not yet discovered and relate to “the moon economy”, Trump Accounts, and other terms being used to describe the new, in our view, nature-based environmental, economic and social relationships, we and other first-principle folks recognize these and other metaphysical connections now reshaping physical outcomes, and more..
hat tips(s) and more…
@argosaki Thank you for lifting up this up in such a beautiful way.
@Mammals_Suck (Katie Hinde) is the person behind the story out there breaking new ground, taking risks and illustrating to the rest of us one can opt out of conventional wisdom, protecting the status quo at all costs and let nature’s data and signals lead the way…
Katie your TEDtalk remains as informative and inspirational today, as the day it was released. Thank you. [ref: https://www.ted.com/speakers/katie_hinde ]
@SaraKaysMusic = Our busking it hero!
@SecRollins @SecKennedy @realDonaldTrump @frankdiana @Chaunce_Stanton @MichaelDell @pmarca @flavor365_silas @SaraKaysMusic @nateberkopec @WillManidis @WillManidis @marcorubio (@StateDept)
legitimate horse trading
Shameless Plug: Here are the seeds I’m planting that, among other things, heal and recondition local soil and provide both the roots and shoots known to bring forth robust planet and people health, life giving fruit, and more…
∞ Our food-as-medicine test kitchen welcoming you and all-who-eat is now available.
∞ LinkedIn is where you will find our earlier writings
∞ When you are ready for more, please contact us
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