For those of you growing weary of philosophers I thought I would stray to something else I am passionate about. FOOD.
Here at the farm we raise natural beef and lamb. For days my farm partner has been bottle feeding a lamb.
His Mama doesn't have milk enough to sustain him. The sheep were originally purchased to keep the fruit cleaned up in the orchard and to fertilize it. We practice perma-culture here.
Perma-culture is the concept that everything you do enhances something else within the area and makes life healthier for everything and anything in its immediate area. Such as, bugs. Some insects that attach apple trees (we have 154 or them) actually go to the ground three times in their life cycle. Mostly they travel in fruit hitting the ground. So, the sheep eat the fallen fruit, poop in the orchard and eat the grass so I don't have to mow.
We breed the ladies and sell the guys for meat. They are sweet, healthy and fat and their life is one of happiness until the day they are driven to the processor. Nothing like the animals standing so close together knee deep in their own feces and eating food they were not built to eat.
We raise our cattle much the same way. We say they are apple finished because any apples or pears ( we have 39 Asian pear trees and 45 domestic pears) the sheep don't eat go to the cattle.
Peaches are another story. No one eats the peaches but us. (36 trees). The pits from the peaches will kill horses, sheep and cattle. They are not digestible
Actually, I got off subject. My story is about eating out. I am certain everyone who reads this is not going to stop eating out. In our life and times, we are subject to times when there is nothing else we can do.
We can, however , be informed.
Let's talk about GMO foods. Genetically modified organisms. GMO foods were designed to increase the yield in of corn and soy beans to help farmers grow more, etc. To genetically modify a seed, the nucleus is penetrated, e-coli is introduced and the new hybrid gene is introduced. Nasty, right?
Well, when you eat out you are eating meat that was fed the corn and soy beans produced in this way. Not good. So, try fish next time. But, because of mercury in the food, try a smaller fish like flounder and sardines. Any fish who is a bottom feeder. Stay away from tuna and shark.
Seventy percent of all rats in an independent study died of cancer within two years of eating large amounts of GMO food. Twenty percent of the rats who didn't eat it died in the same time period.
Am I trying to scare you? Yes. or at least open your eyes to better health. We all know someone who is a part of the cancer epidemic, if not you yourself.
Here are a few researched facts before you head to your favorite restaurant or go grocery shopping.
Monsanto invented GMO and the government allowed them to do their own research. This alone should
open your eyes to several things. Next. Corn and Soy beans are government subsidized crops so they are in everything.
Along with corn and soy, also now gmo is rapseed oil which is canola oil, cotton seed oil, soy lecithin, so that affects your corn chips, and cereal, meat because they eat the gmo products and dairy because not only do they eat the food, but some have growth hormones. We are lucky in the Springfield area that Hiland Dairy doesn't use antibiotics or growth hormones. Now papayas and alfalfa have been added to the list. And corn syrup is in everything.
Other little facts, Natural foods can have up to 30 % non natural ingredients without labeling them.
Organic is the same unless it says 100% organic. There are some answers. Eat local. Don't shop the center of the grocery store where the packaged food is. Go to your local farmer's market, but don't assume they don't use pesticides unless you ask them. And most of all. Demand GMO labeling of all foods.
There. I feel better now.
