Not a rant

FOLLOW THE MONEY

I don’t know when it started, though I feel it was in my lifetime.   When did our health take second fiddle to our living?  

This thought line started in the wee hours.   It may be something subliminal since Sarah posts something similar and answered in part, something of which I claim ignorance in the first paragraph.

Facts: Farming in America is MOSTLY huge corporate farms, measuring thousands if not millions of hectares of land.   Farming in the plow, seed, grow, harvest sense.   Not including livestock type farming, (that line is a different ball of cod scrapings.)  Many of the Big Farms are also contracted with groups like Monsanto, that has intellectual property rights to the genetic modifications of the seed they provide.   Smaller farms were often, and may be still, swallowed up if it were found that some of that trace genetic material had crossed over into their feilds.   The little guys couldn’t afford the legal side of things and would go bankrupt trying to defend against laws of nature and wind drifting spores of ‘intellectual property’.

I’m not arguing against Intellectual Property laws, but I would say that, in the cases I mentioned, there was some lawfare involved and the defense of  location and weather should have been observed, not ignored by the judicial.   You can not stop the propagation of plant breeding ‘by decree’.  You can’t tell the bees, ‘these plants are mine, those are his: don’t mix the genes up, please’.

But that matter forces me to illustrate why I made it.    Sarah mentions that case in her post; heres that quote.

Around the eighties, the authorities, influenced in no small amount by “Diet for a Small Planet” which combined ignorance about agriculture (lands that are good for growing cows in, don’t necessarily work for wheat, corn or even potatoes) decided that meat was evil, and fat was responsible for every health problem.

Because fat is what makes food delicious, they instead started loading things with carbs and more carbs. And because our food regulations are susceptible to lobbyists, the corn lobby insisted that all sweet should be provided by high fructose corn syrup.

I know I have been down this road once before: LOTS MORE than just corn syrup is made from that corn.  From that syrup is also made Alcohol, Vinegar, Acetates, starches, etc etc etc,   And the real fact is “We don’t know what long term GMO exposure does”

Look around you.   Go to Walmart one evening, especially around the first of the month when the government checks hit the banks.    The amount of human lard is incredible.    Being near 60, I recall a time when that scene would have caused us alarm: yet this decade and the last one, THIS IS NORMAL.  Normal enough that seeing Large Models glamorizing clothing lines is a regular.  (alternative argument: Have you EVER seen a fat Amish person?)

(BTW, its not JUST corn products.   That whole soy business is booming too, and we don’t know how all of that effects the body.   I’ve read how it increases estrogen levels in men, decreasing Testosterone (Femme boiz), starts puberty earlier and faster in young girls (ever seen that 14 something girl that looks old enough with a rack large enough to convince ANY bouncer she is old enough to be in the bar?)

And that doesn’t even start to touch on the other health aspects we are under.   Diabetes is starting to climb the ladder as public killer #1 over heart disease or cancers.   We have this outbreak of turbo-cancers that are supposedly due to the Vaxxnottavaxx, but can we say that its NOT a combination factor between the Vaxx and diet? 

Childhood obesity!   That was a very narrow window issue when I was growing up.  I can think of only a couple kids with wieght issues throughout my school days.

I only know this: there was a picture posted recently.  A beach scene from the mid70’s, and there was not one fat person on that beach or in the water: NOT ONE.    Now? even those of us with naturally slim proportions are struggling with keeping the flab off.   Yes, it does happen with age, but I don’t recall any of my Grands having the problems I am experiancing.

By my own experiments, (and YMMV, everyone has different metabolisms) Going back to the diet my grands lived with: butter, not margarine.  Cream/milk, not soy or nut based milk like substitutes.  EGGS, Bacon, sausage, steaks, porkchops, potatoes, some green stuff in the mix,,,,,, Few breads or starches like pasta rice or beans. (though beans are higher in protein than the others and were a staple in many cultures including ours.)

BUT NOT PROCESSED heat and ready to eat JUNK,,,, my wieght started to fall off.   My middle got a little saggier, not flabbier (but I’m older, and the skin doesn’t pull back so quick these days) and I felt like I had more energy.   Yes, it takes more work, not convenient for the on the go lifestyle, and hard to find sometimes.  (do you really know what ingredients went into that sausage? for example)  

I also noted that free range eggs are far better than the mass produced store bought by several measures.   Consistency, stronger yolks, darker yolks and FLAVOR where the mass produced eggs seem bland in comparison. I MUST use salt on the store bought ones: the hand gathered sold from the front porch ones don’t need it.   I’ve also noted a difference between grass fed beef and the corn fed beef.   MamaKat won’t touch the cornfed beef anylonger, so I know its not ‘just my tastebuds’,,,,   So what if the beef is somewhat leaner (its not lean to the point of ‘no fat’): You get more for your dollar if the fat is minimal.  (and the local cattle farmer doesn’t inject his beef with water and CO2 to dress it up, like the stores do.)(Da noted on a turkey in the store this past year “20% water added”.  water adds wieght, and bulks up the deadbird making it look like you are getting more,,,, Y’ain’t!)

And what else is getting added into our food?    I read some ‘conspiracy theory’ that they are starting to add the Vaxxnottavaxx to meat for sale.   Can’t make us take it voluntarily, so they force it on us (it was when I read that, that I stopped buying meat at the stores and started using the local cattle peeps.  You may not have that option.   I have no desire to ingest a genetic modifier designed by Mengele wannabes.)

And then we have that chemical Glysophate.   You have heard it called Round up, and other names:   it was designed by (for??) Monsanto to treat crops and kill off any weed or NON-GMO CROPS that might encroach on their intellectual property.    Some have even said it was designed by the same people that gave us Agent Orange back in the Vietnam era, and that it is actually the same shit, toned down a bit so it kills weeds slower. (which could be argued ‘kills us slower’ as well.)  The mass use of glysophate correlates to the ‘glutten intolerance’ issue that popped up in the late 90’s/early aughts.   Which is it?  Something that has been with us for 10000+ years and makes bread taste glorious, or the chemical that is suddenly showing up in cows milk due to watershed poisoning, and is in most all commercially processed food to some extent?

How to untie this knot of profit and corporations?    I dunno, but it needs done IMO, and we need to get back to having more actual farms and not mega hectare production firms.     Chemical additives (not just the preservatives) like appetite enhancers (found in EVERY Lays product among others) are having effects too.  All in the name of profits.  I am not saying capitalism is a bad thing; we all like making profits.  But I don’t think most of us would sleep well, knowing that our profit came at the expense of someones life potential because our product was slowly killing them.

Learn to eat better, stop buying the junk, find local farmers to deal with if you can.   (most every town has a farmers market.  Not convenient but BETTER, for you and the local scene.) Unfortunately, we can’t educate every Swingin’ Joe-blow on the dole, that his cartload of pop and moonpies is why he needs a powered chair to go shopping and has 15 doc appointments this month,,,,

but we can start on US, work slowly and feel better, and others will ask us ‘HOW?’ and THEN, we can teach them too.

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