Organic Food Vs. Non-organic food
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B_cloverboy
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Yes, your doing it, but your not everyone are you? More specifically your not everywhere. Perhaps the climate where you live allows for your year round blueberries, which would be a real treat btw, but there are so many places in the world that have a much harder time growing crops. It is snowy and cold a lot of the year from where I come from, yes we've grown some potatoes, corn, lettuce, tomatoes, peas, kale, herbs, carrots, etc. in our yard. What I've noticed is that the food that we grow only has so long of a shelf life...
So I guess in the winter time we should just start harvesting snow and eating that?
EagleCowboy
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So your last smartass line strongly suggests that you have the attitude of "why should I plan for anything"? To which I say, fine. Don't. Eat your snow. Don't learn to can, preserve, and stock up. There are natural ways to extend shelf life.
Where I live now, in East Texas, yes, I can do that. Even though it does snow and freeze here, my grass is pretty much green year 'round. That mower almost never gets a break.
So conditions here are fairly well suited for growing things most all of the year.
Now when I was a kid living in NE Oklahoma, it was a whole different story, but I did it. Yes, it was cold and snowy there. But there are things you can grow in the winter like winter wheat. Even build yourself a really nice greenhouse provided you have the room. Grow stuff in your living room instead of useless decorative plants.
Just remember that the Amish have been (and still are) doing it on a large scale for hundreds of years without modern tools and techniques to help them. They look like they're just starving to death, don't they?
I heard something the other day on TV, but I didn't get to stick around and watch it. All I caught of it was that the reason fast food is cheap is because it's being subsidized. Anyone else catch that?
My question is: If that's true, then why is fast food very bad when it should be good for you food?
B_cloverboy
Experimental Member
To be honest I much prefer ice cream to snow, but eating just ice cream is not so healthy, nor is any diet in which the variability of the food you eat is limited. Canning and preserving food would (and does) allow us to keep food in the winter, but a very low variability. Theres only so much of a variety of things that will grow in my climate, of those fewer can be preserved. May be I could eat canned beans, jams, etc. (yes we do some home canning, not all from the store) all winter but realistically that is not as healthy as me going to the supermarket and picking up a good variety of fruits, vegetables, meats and grains which are relatively fresh and provide me with a greater array of nutrients.
Truth be told, there is nothing I love more than my grandma's completely homemade and homegrown garden vegetable soup. Mmmmm, with sausages they made themselves, and homemade bread (store bought flour though, it doesn't grow well here)! But realistically, we only have access to those really fresh healthy foods in the summer.
Overall, we would be less healthy here if we had to rely solely on what we could grow and preserve. I understand your points that people are lazy and could help to feed themselves if they tried, but in some places it's just impossible to live off only the land.
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