This Is The Farm Blog

Living in isolation has its drawbacks. Unless we cook, the food sucks. Really bad. The radio is horrible. The newspapers are a bore. The news on TV is conducted by 21 year old recent college grads trying to break into the big world of 'reporting'....We sometimes live in the dark. Which brings me to the fact that we were recently introduced to a documentary right up our alley.....King Corn. We haven't seen it yet, but plan to very soon so we'll offer our review. Hopefully its as exciting as The Omnivore's Dilemma, Coming Home to Eat or The Good Life or that recent documentary on pork production??? Anyway...it opens in Chicago this weekend so check it out.  We hope to see it soon....

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Let us know what you think and we'll do the same...love new stuff on food.....I went to Jewel this evening - who eats all that pudding in plastic cups and pancake syrup made from high fructose corn syrup anyway? I can't believe how much of that stuff there is????? 

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More alarmist blogging from me about food. Anyone heard about the pet food recall? Bad gluten from China. No offense to China - global trade is good and great in many cases. Who'd supply the dollar store if not for China? Where would our Ipods come from if not for China?

Bad gluten. Gluten is used in a lot of things. 

Here's a good article if you are interested in caring more about your food supply.

Conscious Choice

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And so I begin my rant on food. Which will go on for a very long time. I have been having trouble trying to decide where to begin. First, I am unclear as to why I am obsessed with the food that people eat. I am more obessed with the collective 'people' than myself. I think I have partially decided the reasons for my obession with what we are eating.

It isn't just food. Its greed. I don't like greedy behavior. I don't like the fanatic consumerism that has developed in my lifetime. The dollar store mentality. Cheaper more-cheaper more. Or for the wealthy; more, more, more.  (This also explains why I sell vintage textiles, used items, recycled items that one cannot find in the dollar store, nor Target, nor Walmart.)

Food has become non food. Things that were something else like corn are now chicken nuggets. Sugar has been replaced almost completely by high fructose corn syrup.  Animals are literally tortured so that eggs can be 49 cents per dozen and chicken 49 cents per pound. 

You can actually purchase Jimmy Dean Chocalate Chip Pancakes and Sausage on a stick in the grocery store. This is old news of course thanks to Jon Stewart. Before he talked about it I screamed at Rich in the grocery store,"RICH YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS." and we couldn't believe our eyes.

So I can't quite figure out how to put my rant on food together. It is too big to be one rant. And it isn't a holier than thou rant either, I love Dorritos, White Castle, hot dogs and pizza. (I eat these things about once a month, for the record, and not all on the same day.)

Food should just be food. It shouldn't be highly processed and it shouldn't require factories and it shouldn't require an army of workers and barrels of petroleum to get to us.  It really shouldn't be all that fast either. If we don't have time to feed our families and ourselves, we ought to really look at our lifestyles and see what's going on. It shouldn't make us ill. It shouldn't drive the incidence of diabetes and heart disease to the highest levels known to mankind. It should just be food.

I have more to say on this. I hope all my thoughts can be organized by my personal neural network. Until then, eat local - eat food.

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