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Dear brothers and sisters,
We appreciate so much your kindness and support. You have made it possible for us to innovate ebulliently. We are delighted to announce our Alive and Organic Almond, Acai, Black Sesame Chocolate Bars.

A unique creation of Living Tree Community Foods. A juxtaposition of almonds grown by family farmers in California, Acai wildcrafted in Amazonia and Black Sesame from Bolivia. All of these habitats are melded together to bring you this exotic chocolate bar. Handcrafted in Berkeley, California; 21 Nobel Prize winners have taught here.

Take it with you hiking and backpacking in the High Sierras. Take it with you for lunch and snacks. Open the gold foil and read the words of encouragement embossed on each bar.

It makes us sad to think that almost half of unemployed Americans have been without a job for over six months. The average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35 weeks. Furthermore, a quarter of Americans, just entering the labor force,between 16 and 19 years old are without a job. Nothing like this has been seen before in the postwar era; the number of people who are unemployed but are not receiving a check amounts to 9 million. The US work force shrank by 652,000 in June one of the sharpest contractions ever.

The US government is projected to have a $1.6 trillion deficit this year. According to a new report, US national debt will reach 100% of GDP by the year 2015. In March, the US trade deficit widened to its highest level since December 2008; month after month we buy much more from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Wealth is draining out of the United States at an unprecedented rate.

40 million Americans are on food stamps. The US Department of Agriculture forecasts that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011.

The most tragic statistic of all is the so-called underemployment rate--which counts people who have given up looking for work and those who are working part-time for lack of full-time positions--now sits at 17.3%. In other words, over 26 million Americans are not able to earn a reasonable living. This, after the $862 billion economic stimulus of February 2009, supposedly to create millions of new jobs!
Since February 2009 the US economy has lost 2.35 million jobs; it has falling tax revenues and a ballooning deficit.As the Editor of the Wall Street Journal said, “A nearly $1 trillion stimulus has been followed by a mediocre economic recovery, a 9.5% unemployment rate, and almost no net new private job creation”.
On Friday there was a thunderbolt- the Federal Reserve confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the Fed may need to pump even more money into the economy.Usually the dollar serves as a safe haven whenever the world takes fright, and there was plenty of sobering news from China and other quarters on Thursday. Not this time. The US itself has become the problem.

Could it be that the recession was really a depression all along and that we are right smack in the middle of it?

It seems to us that through the expenditure of purposeful life energy we create our world. Intentional life energy is the basis man’s genesis. Could it be that every American has a need to contribute in a meaningful and purposeful way? What then could be more tragic than the plight of the 26 million Americans who are prevented from engaging in building their world? There is no reason, not at all, why they should be sitting on the sidelines. The world that they have helped to build has repulsed them through no fault of their own. When we look at this from the point of view of life energy we get an inkling of how utterly wrong end wasteful is “unemployment”. In one year they could have contributed 52 billion hours of labor. Imagine if that colossal energy were used to re-create an America dedicated to wellness, fraternity and conviviality!

Why not replace the worn out and archaic categories of “left” and “right” with your discovery, namely, that of aliveness? It is an idea whose time has come. Is this not the deepest ecology? After all, what is “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” all about than the unalienable right to engage with fellow Americans in restoring and healing this land.

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

New This Month

New! Alive, Organic Almond, Acai, Black Sesame Chocolate Bar
Purchase Alive, Organic Almond, Acai, Black Sesame Chocolate Bar	We begin with almonds grown by family farmers in the wondrous fertile Central Valley of California. We add acai wildcrafted in Amazonia. This delicious food is high in antioxidants. We then add unhulled, black sesame seeds from Bolivia. They are especially high in calcium.
The whole is surrounded by our alive chocolate made from 100% raw cacao, cacao butter, alive honey and Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt. We've put these into the form of a chocolate bar. So convenient for traveling and school lunches. Each bar is in three segments with the words, "Prosper in Good Health". Handcrafted in Berkeley, California, a wellspring of the human spirit.

On Sale This Month From Living Tree Community!

Purchase Living Tree Organic Brazil Nut Butter	Purchase Organic Raw Black Sesame Tahini	Purchase Dream of Paradise - Organic Chocolate Energy Butter
Purchase Desiree Black Sesame Pesto with Sundried Tomatoes		Purchase Heart n' Sol,Organic Carob Halva - Chocolate Free!

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