Continuing our Commitment to assist small farmers thru the SM foundation Program

September 17 2010 at Bgy Looc Nasugbu, Batangas, The Sm Foundation together with Superior F1 has started the second phase of its Free-range chicken livelihood program for the farmers of Nasugbu and its far areas (barangays that you need to "tawid dagat"). Last year, after a series of 6 dispersals with the technical assistance from Superior F1, the SM Foundation with Ms. Cristy Angeles, Marven, Harold and the Nasugbu D.A. headed by Ms. Dory and Che, the simple project has developed into a small business commerce for the small farmer beneficiaries. This project has attracted the community to participate because of the business opportunity it provides.

Time Magazine cover on Organic Food

The September first week issue of Time magazine has a cover story entitled "The Real cost of ORGANIC food". The article dwelled on the Pros and Cons of Organic products that includes livestock production. I am not declaring that all free-range chicks that we provide the farmers mean that all of them will come out as Organic. This only means that the relevance of Organic production or natural free-range chicken raising and Nearest to Organic Free-range chicken raising is happening worldwide. One basic fact that makes this important is that Superior F1 free-range genetics is now supporting the concept of organic or Natural free-range farming. Chicken is one of the first livestocks that you can convert to the concept of Organic Chicken production. It will still be a long and winding road towards this goal but I see that it is quite attainable.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN (a guide for Global Leadership)

Some things to remind us of LIFE!

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]