rule of thumb…if you are gonna eat it, DON"T name it… things with names
cannot be eaten.

i have gathered my share of eggs, shoveled my share of s**t and milked my
share of cows… but wouldn’t have changed any of it for the world

Muffled laughter. Indeed, I have been out standing in my field for ages…and
in the ditches, doing water setting, and in the barns, shoveling s**t, and in
the hen house shoveling "sunshine" and gathering eggs, and … well, we both get

the picture.

I swear to Buddha that it is growing up with such distance from our origins that
make folks so queezy about the life/death cycle. I learned early never to make
a pet of my potential dinner as it was pretty tough to eat a pet pig - which
sent me on a pork strike for a half a year, until Buddy was out of the freezer.

So, d’ja do crops, critters, dairy or a little of all?

Marsha–> crops & critters

Cheers!
Marsha

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Muffled laughter. Indeed, I have been out standing in my field for ages…and
in the ditches, doing water setting, and in the barns, shoveling s**t, and in
the hen house shoveling "sunshine" and gathering eggs, and … well, we both get
the picture.

I swear to Buddha that it is growing up with such distance from our origins that
make folks so queezy about the life/death cycle. I learned early never to make
a pet of my potential dinner as it was pretty tough to eat a pet pig - which
sent me on a pork strike for a half a year, until Buddy was out of the freezer.

So, d’ja do crops, critters, dairy or a little of all?

Marsha–> crops & critters

Cheers!
Marsha

Farms are all about death when it comes right down to it. You create life in
order to feed it to something or someone else. The combines that harvest the
wheat also chop down all the critters in the field - and any farm kids who get
in the way. Then there are the poisons that kill the animals that want the same
food. I figure I have been cropdusted so often by being in the wrong place at
the wrong time that I could be named Toxic Tizzy. It isn’t just the bugs that
get it, we kill all sorts of things in order to keep vegetative matter for
ourselves. We are in less competition with predators (wolves) than we are with
birds, rodents (including cute little bunnies) and critters such as the deer who
come and eat up all your produce.

We killed our own animals for meat, we raised our own vegetables for food, did

the canning and freezing and whatnot. It bothered me less to chop a head off a
chicken than it did to see what happened when an animal was caught in a
harvesting machine - now THAT is ugly.

My cousins were city kids. I remember when my cousin nearest in age found out
milk came from cows and not from factories. Insofar as I am aware she never
drank milk again. Of course, this is the same cousin who would not kiss because
she thought babies came from kissing - other actions were perfectly okay, though
- until I explained that kissing was NOT the issue.

Now, back to diabetes and eating naturally - no one goes on a protein binge.
None of our comfort foods include steak, pot roast or chicken legs. We binge on
carbs and carbs are what is making the nation as a whole very obese, espeically
carbs in combination with fat - as in candy bars, donuts, cakes, pies, etc.

Okay, off my soapbox in the pasture - duck! here comes a cropduster.

Marsha

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Farms are all about death when it comes right down to it. You create life in
order to feed it to something or someone else. The combines that harvest the
wheat also chop down all the critters in the field - and any farm kids who get
in the way. Then there are the poisons that kill the animals that want the same
food. I figure I have been cropdusted so often by being in the wrong place at
the wrong time that I could be named Toxic Tizzy. It isn’t just the bugs that
get it, we kill all sorts of things in order to keep vegetative matter for
ourselves. We are in less competition with predators (wolves) than we are with
birds, rodents (including cute little bunnies) and critters such as the deer who
come and eat up all your produce.

We killed our own animals for meat, we raised our own vegetables for food, did
the canning and freezing and whatnot. It bothered me less to chop a head off a
chicken than it did to see what happened when an animal was caught in a
harvesting machine - now THAT is ugly.

My cousins were city kids. I remember when my cousin nearest in age found out
milk came from cows and not from factories. Insofar as I am aware she never
drank milk again. Of course, this is the same cousin who would not kiss because
she thought babies came from kissing - other actions were perfectly okay, though
- until I explained that kissing was NOT the issue.

Now, back to diabetes and eating naturally - no one goes on a protein binge.
None of our comfort foods include steak, pot roast or chicken legs. We binge on
carbs and carbs are what is making the nation as a whole very obese, espeically
carbs in combination with fat - as in candy bars, donuts, cakes, pies, etc.

Okay, off my soapbox in the pasture - duck! here comes a cropduster.

Marsha