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Bugging out: Indoor insect-free farm providing new foods to observant Jews
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| July 13, 2018
| Michael Scotto
Posted on 07/14/2018 1:04:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obsessive. Gd forgives eating something by accident that isnt kosher. We are to live by the Torah, not become anal by the Torah. Just checking visually for bugs is all that is necessary.
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:08:19 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Some insects are actually Kosher.
The Title “Bugging Out” reminded me of an episode of Doomsday Preppers. There was a rabbi who raised rabbits. Even though they aren’t Kosher, he said it was okay to eat non-Kosher foods when you’re “starving”
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:12:23 AM PDT
by
gattaca
("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
To: gattaca
Didn’t John the Baptist subsist on locusts and wild honey?
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:15:50 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The requirement is so onerous many observant Jews avoid farm-fresh fruits and vegetables altogether and stick to pre-packaged produce already checked by rabbis, limiting their food choices.”
That’s just not cricket.
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:20:02 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here in the Philippines, they grow organic vegetables in greenhouses.
Lots of them in Baguio, where a lot of foreigners retire.
We were working to set up the program here, but after a year a typhoon went thru and flattened everything so we went back to just growing organic rice.
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:20:59 AM PDT
by
LadyDoc
(Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes. According to Leviticus, you may eat insects that have “jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.”
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posted on
07/14/2018 1:24:10 AM PDT
by
gattaca
("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
To: gattaca
locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper remain popular in many places
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posted on
07/14/2018 2:02:31 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good luck with pepper.
Feds allow 11% bug content.
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posted on
07/14/2018 2:35:22 AM PDT
by
Does so
(No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
To: gattaca
But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean. How many insects have four legs?
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posted on
07/14/2018 3:28:26 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Yaelle
Im sure that in biblical times, they were able to prevent all insects from entering the vegetable farms and granaries. ( sarc).
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posted on
07/14/2018 3:40:33 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: ckilmer
locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper remain popular in many places Not much different than crabs or lobster, really. Except these too, are banned by Jewish dietary laws ( more for me!)
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posted on
07/14/2018 3:45:49 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: exDemMom
Maybe they weren’t very good at counting.
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posted on
07/14/2018 4:28:38 AM PDT
by
gattaca
("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
To: exDemMom
The ones youve pulled 2 legs off of?
That would seem like it would get tedious, to get enough to amount to anything to eat.
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posted on
07/14/2018 5:51:50 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: exDemMom
LOL, since all insects have six legs...
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posted on
07/14/2018 5:58:22 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Aramaic Bible in Plain English:
Blind guides who strain out gnats and swallow camels!
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posted on
07/14/2018 6:02:50 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: exDemMom
"How many insects have four legs?" They all have at least four ;)
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posted on
07/14/2018 6:16:53 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Yaelle
I agree. I think the Hasidim have gone off the deep end with too much focus on nothings. Perhaps their response to the modern world is to build ever stronger barriers. They’ve worked very hard at recreating the shtetl, but their form of Judaism is no more authentic than modern orthodox, conservative, or reform.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder what kind of prices they pay for this produce where insects are not allowed. Insects take care of pollination for free and if you don’t allow insects, then you’ve got to pay a person to take care of the pollination to have fruit. That would get expensive in a hurry. $10/pint for the previously-unknown strawberry anybody????
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:09:41 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Removing bugs from typically farmed produce often requires intense washing.
I'm no expert on the subject, but it's very hard to believe that this is 100% effective. Many insects, grubs and worms are going to burrow into vegetables and fruits. I doubt there's any realistic way to eat fruits and vegetables without consuming a fairly significant quantity of insect matter every year.
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