• Editorial - The Tax on Being Healthy
• April is Calymirna Fig Month at Living Tree Organic and Sun Dried - On Sale!
• Rejoice with Hazelnuts - On Sale!
• New This Month
  • Living Tree Organic Brazil Nut Butter
  • Organic Acai Powder
  • Organic Vanilla Powder
• On Sale This April at Living Tree Community
  • Living Tree Alive Organic Tahini
  • Living Tree Alive Organic Sunflower Butter
  • Alive Organic Chia Seed Butter
  • Alive Organic Walnut Butter
  • Alive Organic Pistachio Pesto
• Become a Living Tree Intern!
• What's New on the World Mind
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
April is Calymirna Fig month at Living Tree Community. We are delighted to bring you these beautiful fruits and put them on sale. They are a triumph of California agriculture and are grown for you with love and devotion by family farmers. We've also put Hazelnuts on sale.

Our offering of new products includes Brazil nut butter. Instead of making this into a chocolatey concoction, as we've done in the past, we've decided to accentuate its original flavors. We've taken out the chocolate and carob to make more room for the Brazil nuts to speak for themselves.

Then there is Acai Powder from the rain forests of the Amazonia. A powerful antioxidant with a rich, meaty flavor. We invite you to compare our prices.

Organic vanilla powder is here. While vanilla powder has been available for some time, organic vanilla powder has only recently become available. We've packaged it elegantly in glass jars.

In addition, we are continuing our April sale of tahini, sunflower butter, chia seed butter and pistachio pesto.

We mention also our internship program and have included a number of new and provocative articles on the World Mind.

Many of us feel that there was something profoundly wrongheaded about the recent healthcare legislation. As Mike Adams, a tireless advocate of health and healing says, the legislation that was just passed is focused entirely on how to expand the failed system of drugs and injections so that it causes harm to everyone rather than just those who voluntarily choose to be suckered into it.

The aspect of the legislation we wish to discuss here is the "individual mandate" requirement that almost every US citizen must buy government approved health insurance. Failure to comply will be punished with an annual tax penalty that by 2016 will raise to $750 or 2% of income, whichever is higher. Many see this as an unprecedented exercise of state power. Never before has Congress required people to buy private insurance or any private product. What a compelling concept! Why stop there, we ask? Why not require all Americans to buy GM cars? Think of the jobs that would create! After all... What's good fo General Motors is good for America...

Make no mistake, the compulsory insurance is a tax upon healthy Americans to pay the medical expenses of those Americans who are unhealthy.

With all of us economizing as much as we can, who needs an additional tax? Isn't it difficult enough to maintain vibrant health in a polluted world? After all, you have devoted effort and energy to healing yourself. You have spent much time in cleansing and transitioning to a live food diet- the hours in farmer's markets and on the aisles of natural food stores or maybe tilling a garden plot in your backyard or community garden. Then there is your labor in sprouting and dehydrating and even growing trays of wheat grass. What a colossal expenditure of money and effort you have made. It's likely that you will not use health insurance very often, if ever. Who would have believed that they would impose a tax on being healthy?! We suppose this is the meaning of "change you can believe in".

It doesn't compute, it doesn't make sense. Instead of taxing you, the government ought to reward and support your efforts. After all, not only have you healed yourself, but you have set an example for your fellow Americans. Is it any wonder then, that so many of us feel left out and disenfranchised?

There are many other sources of revenue that could be tapped instead of placing an extra burden upon Americans who are genuinely concerned with their health and are doing something about it.

When we partake of live foods we are making a start, a beginning of saying yes! to life in everything we do. Instead of listening, they have sidetracked you. The so-called healthcare legislation has nothing to do with healing or with truly vibrant health. That is why you who affirm life in the food you eat have got to bring that realization from your kitchen to the sorely needed re-birthing of this American ethos.

Jesse Schwartz, Ph.D.
President
Living Tree Community Foods

New This Month

On Sale This Month From Living Tree Community!

Purchase Living Tree Organic Raw Tahini
For the month of April, we are featuring our Living Tree Alive Organic Tahini. We sent a jar to our friend Heather Heyn for Review: Here is the Tahini up close and personal...This is the most amazing Tahini I have ever tried...I made some alive hummus that was to die for (I have been saying that a lot lately but seriously, it's true every time I say it)...Keep reading to see how to make some of your own! We invite you to compare its rich texture, savor it's flavor, rejoice in the intentionality that went into it.
Purchase Alive Organic Sunflower Butter	Purchase Alive, Organic Chia Seed Butter	Purchase Alive Organic Pistachio Pesto
	Purchase Raw Organic Walnut Pesto

Become a Living Tree Intern!
Our internships are primarily for those considering a career in the organic food industry. We offer first hand experience in sales, marketing, administration and production. You'll have an opportunity to do things like contacting buyers in natural food stores, making almond butter and creating Black Sesame Chocolate Truffles! At the same time, we will introduce you to our Living Tree approach to live food and physical fitness, intellectual inquiry and contemplation. As we see it, vigorous daily exercise is an inseparable part of a live food diet, inquiry is part of our responsibility to understand the world in which we live and contemplation helps to bring it all together. For details, visit Our Way. Your resources will include the research libraries at the nearby University of California- a treasure trove for early California history. What better place could there be for contemplation than Yosemite National Park, "the incomparable valley" as John Muir put it and one of the most inspiring places on earth. Furthermore, the Bay Area is the dance capital of the world, just the place to work on your mind-body connection. Most important, at Living Tree Community, you'll find supportive brothers and sisters who will encourage you in your evolution. You'll be treated with kindness and respect.
Kate Skalak	Maddy Gale	Puspa Khadka

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