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What Price Decency?
Today’s post is inspired by the movie embedded above. Five minutes spent on a tour with a Perdue Factory Farmer is all it takes to strengthen my resolve to not eat factory meats. This week I purchased a naturally raised … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, beef, chicken, factory farming, great value, Perdue Farms, pork, sustainable farming
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Throw It Out World
Did you ever wonder how much food got thrown away back in the day when you had to grow it yourself? If you had to toil away in your summer garden to make sure that you had enough food to … Continue reading
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Tagged Change for the Better, changing habits, Do it yourself, food additives, healthy eating, USDA, waist reduction, Waste reduction
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Preaching To The Converted
One of the hardest things to do, as a dad, mom, grandpa, or grandma, is to silently watch as your kids and grandkids make mistakes. Making mistakes and learning the hard way is sometimes the only way that lessons can … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking habits, Change for the Better, changing habits, diet, healthy eating, living healthy, real food
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Don’t Clean Your Plate
If you eat out in the US, you should probably start training yourself immediately to ignore Mom’s advice from days of old to ‘clean your plate’. If you eat everything they bring you, not only will you be uncomfortable for … Continue reading
Rear View Mirror
Ok, so you ate Thanksgiving dinner and everything else you could get your hands on yesterday. Great. Yesterday was a sin-free day for me, too. I ate junk food on the highway during a three hour drive down there and … Continue reading
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Tagged backsliding, guilt, guilt free eating, holiday eatign, sales, selling your diet, shame
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Food Politics
There is a truth that a lot of people don’t talk about when they are talking about Democrats and Republicans–you can’t tell them apart by what they do or where they live. You can’t tell them apart by what they … Continue reading
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Tagged food policy, food regulation, political action, political action committees
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Home Made
There are lots of things that you might be used to buying in a box, bag or bottle for the big Thanksgiving meal. There may be a lot of things you don’t yet realize are really easy to make from … Continue reading
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Emulsion or Immitation
If you make something the way that it has been made for centuries, then you could rightly claim that your product is ‘authentic’. If you use only natural ingredients, the same ingredients that were in existence when your grandparents … Continue reading
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Tagged hampton creek, imitation food, just mayo, mayonnaise, real food, unilever
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Aching Joints Caused By Sugar
When I was just still a teenager I discovered something about myself, that if I drank too much soda pop it would make all of my joints hurt. I would get achey and all I had to do to get … Continue reading
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Tagged microbiome, probiotics, processed foods, rheumatoid arthritis, sugar poisoning
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