Comments on: What the right hook-up can get you

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:36:50 +0000

I keep 20 or so chickens on my hobby farm. Free range in tthe spring to late early winter. The eggs they lay in the laying season are worth their weight in gold to me. During the winter months The egg layers stop laying for 6-7 months. No eggs will compare. So I go without eggs for 7 months.

By: Micki

Micki — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:21:26 +0000

Agreed. I find it funny because Julie said it herself…but seemed to miss her own point… "Food should be something to feed the body" and how does food feed? By nourishing, and providing natural and essential materials we need. It is not about bragging rights at all. It is about the real purpose in eating…to sustain the body and mind.

Find out for yourself, Julie, how that tomato from Superstore holds a candle to one you could grow yourself. Not just in taste, which you would fall in love with guaranteed, but in what really matters – nutritional value.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:00:55 +0000

Just FYI, this is a Canadian website.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:58:35 +0000

I have had very few cases of food-related illness in my life. The most recent (Summer of '06) was not from eating any "unhealthy, gross" unregulated foods, but from eating at a commercial establishment. (In Chicago, but I can't recall the name of the place.)

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:55:22 +0000

Deprived of interesting things besides what goes into their mouths? You really believe that? I have to wonder what your definition of "interesting things". If food is just something that goes into the mouth, is clothing just something that keeps you warm? Is a house just something that keeps the rain off your head?

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:33:31 +0000

It looks like H.R. 2749 might be doing just that. I'm still trying to read it on thomas.gov. There's an article about it at http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications... but I'm not sure about how accurate it is yet.

By: Patriot Henry

Patriot Henry — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:35:03 +0000

“Some people have an awfully small world if this is the high point of their week.
I have never understood why people eat things like ….”

So other people have an awful small world, but you can’t even fathom why they’d want to eat tasty food?

“Food should be something to feed the body – not the main topic of conversation.”

Wow, what a big world you have!

“Hope some of these conniseurs end up with samonella, worms, or other type of food related illness. Then they might learn why milk is pasturized, why eggs are graded, & the point of meat inspection & proper storage.
Ho Hum.”

Your milk is pasteurized because factory farmed milk is inherently contaminated and unsafe for human consumption and can only be made safe by overcooking it. That’s also why your eggs are washed – they aren’t fit for you to eat. The same with your meat – it’s not even good enough for a dog.

I won’t eat your “safe” govt approved food for any sum of money – and no threat of any fine or prison time will keep me from eating the good stuff.

By: Cheryl Hadden

Cheryl Hadden — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:25:02 +0000

It doesn't take a college education to know when something works for you, you feel better, illnesses disappear, and your health is restored and when it all started and why.
We live in a constant pool of pollutants, and are fed an endless diet of phony, artificially flavored, colored and enhanced garbage that is labeled and packaged as food.
Why should it be criminal to try to avoid foods that make you ill and buy that which makes you better
Why do we allow food police to harass farmers that openly let people come to the farm?
If it were a filthy, vermin infested, foul smelling place, the farmer would have no customers!
You can't take a tour of a factory farm or cattle ranch, you can't visit a meat packing plant either.
If they are government inspected, why not?
What's to hide?
People who take jobs in these places don't stay long before they quit, you have to wonder why?
And just how often are these plants inspected and do they pass?
The peanut plants with the contaminated were inspected and fined several times and kept right on processing bad peanuts.
So much for inspections.
The joke is there are never enough inspectors for all the plants and the inspections are once in 3 years!

By: Jeanmarie Todd

Jeanmarie Todd — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:06:50 +0000

It's not about being elite, it's about nourishing your body and sold with nutrient-dense foods produced locally with care.

By: Jeanmarie Todd

Jeanmarie Todd — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:05:36 +0000

Right on, Maria!

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:43:17 +0000

if you buy eggs from a farmer you can see what the animals eat. (you are what what you eat eats.) pastured eggs taste so much better because the chickens get to eat grass and bugs. this also provides a balance of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids. no store that I know sells pastured eggs.

raw milk, if you can find it, is worth its weight in gold

By: Julie Hammond

Julie Hammond — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:32:33 +0000

Julie,

When my mother was growing up she NEVER heard of anyone with cancer. As child she also only knew of one person who was diabetic. Now every time you turn around someone has cancer. Also lots of people are diabetic due to the over use of fruitose corn syrup on ALL of the food we eat.

We are also eating food grown from GMO seeds. Is this why lots of people are getting cancer?

You desperately need to see the move: "Food Inc"

Julie H.

By: Real Food Fan

Real Food Fan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:41:39 +0000

Julie, my parents and they parents and the generations before have grew up on a farm and they ate raw milk, ungraded eggs ( even drank them raw out of the shell) and so on, and guess how many salmonella, worms and other food related illnesses they suffered from? Zero! Food should feed the body and not make it sick and that's exectly what is happening to people eating pasturized milk etc.

By: Sophisticated

Sophisticated — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:52:58 +0000

Sad for Julie. More for us.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:57:24 +0000

Some people have an awfully small world if this is the high point of their week.
I have never understood why people eat things like snails (escargot), quail's eggs, haggis, caviar, goose liver pate, raw oysters & other unhealthly things which are gross, & then act as though they are sophisticated for being able to stomach these things.
I think they want to feel as they are somehow elevated , or at least try to make others think they are somehow more worldly for downing this stuff. They deserve to be pitied for being so deprived of interesting things besides what goes into their mouths, & even more for bragging about it as though they have done something that matters.
Food should be something to feed the body – not the main topic of conversation.
Hope some of these conniseurs end up with samonella, worms, or other type of food related illness. Then they might learn why milk is pasturized, why eggs are graded, & the point of meat inspection & proper storage.
Ho Hum.

By: Vincente

Vincente — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:17:52 +0000

So why are we allowing bureaucrats, misinformed "experts", and paid hirelings of the corporate world (along with the military wing of their organizations also known as the "government") to dictate what we can eat and not eat? You can't buy eggs at a farmers' market? You can't buy milk direct from the cow in the farmer's barn? Just wait. It won't be long before our "protectors" make it illegal to buy lettuce and carrots from the farm or garden down the road.

By: Maria Minno

Maria Minno — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:51:36 +0000

"Part of the thrill" ??? What thrill??? I'd LOVE to be able to get high quality food at my corner market, but they don't have any. This is not a thrill. This is people who have seen their children and other loved ones recover from "incurable" chronic illness like allergies, asthma, hormone balances, autism spectrum disorder, ADD, osteoporosis, dementia, and much more, because they started eating real unadulterated unprocessed and fresh food, raised under natural conditions.

Sure it tastes fabulous. But that's the least of the advantages. Please get the main point here: These foods sustain health, environment, and local economy. This is not just some hedonistic fling, as the language in this article suggests. This is serious.