Posted on 12/09/2009 12:00:38 PM PST by fanfan
Sanity will continue to exist, but at what cost under bureaucratic control? We'll all go mad.
I distinctly remember trudging through field and forest for HOURS and not seeing any deer, or even signs of deer. They just weren't there.
Then some guy invented high lysine corn. From that point on wild deer could survive and thrive on deer alone. Their numbers ballooned.
These days even fenced orchards aren't safe from the deer. Last thing I'd ever do is pick up an apple from the ground and eat it.
I live in Nova Scotia. We have a version of the food police here, too.
We buy (unofficially organic) chicken and turkey from a local farmer and beef (also unofficially organic) from another local farmer. The nice couple that sells the poultry tells us they may not be able to do so much longer as some onerous laws related to “bird flu” may make it impossible for them to afford to raise the birds any longer.
Ever taste an egg that is truly organic or “free-range”? No comparison to the store bought version. I traded some preserves I made for some eggs from yet another farmer in our area. She mainly has chickens to provide for her family so it was a rare treat to get some.
One day, remembering those great eggs, I bought what was “officially” labeled as free-range / organic eggs in the grocery store for a ridiculous price. They tasted just like any other regular store bought egg. Very disappointing. I later found out that the government allows the egg company to sell them as “organic” or “free-range” if the chicken is exposed to 2 hours per day of outside light through a skylight while in the cage. What a crock!
Hard to know where this type of government regulation is coming from - profit driven for large food companies or the desire to control people. It is probably both and it is most unwelcome.
I guess, when we take back our country and toss out the “Progressives,” we’ll have to take over Canada and make you our fifty first state, eh? Get you back to being free. And NO, we won’t allow French as a second language, any more than Spanish. The Quebecois can learn English, just like everyone else LEGALLY here.
We weren't overrun exactly, but we had them, and in fair numbers too. Normally there were beef cattle pastured in among the apple trees, so we were much more likely to die of cowflop germs than deer pellet germs.
The electric fence didn't stop the deer, either. They'd run right through it. I walked that fenceline with a wire fence tool in my pocket more times than I can count...
I read that book, the hero hangs himself at the end. It was the only sane way out.
Yep! I wouldn’t be surprised if buried in the food safety act the house has passed here in the states that butchering your own meat is also outlawed since it outlaws heirloom seeds already!
How can they stop you from using heirloom seeds? Under what grounds?
Sooner or later, we have to start treating these self-important badges like the occupying gestapo that they are.
Especially if you turn it into scrumpy!
There’s also been a theory posited that the large increase in asthma and allergies is due to parents not letting their kids outside much, and then not letting them get dirty when they do. Something about how the underdeveloped immune systems of children recognize asthma/allergy antigens as their own. Those not exposed to these antigens as young children see them as foreign when they get older, which sets off the attacks.
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