Posted on 10/20/2021 7:25:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I dunnoh Diana, even though I live in a suburb now, I’m going to channel my inner farmer and say that its probably not a good idea to go naming your food!
Sure it is! The first steer we raised was named, ‘Dinner.’ The second was ‘Supper.’ Now we have ‘Weber.’ Next year, I’m voting for ‘Chuck.’ (Roast)
The key is to give him a VERY good life, which he has, right up until the last second. If you’ve ever seen a Feed Lot, where steer are crowded in shoulder to shoulder on CONCRETE, in the blazing sun and fed grain all day, you’d realize that Weber has it made in the shade.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for Weber’s bucket of warm beer and daily muscle massage. I’m growin’ me some Kobe Beef! ;)
I don’t know what everyone is all worried about. Mother Government has lists at this site of things you should have on hand when disaster (Read: ‘Mother Government’) strikes!
According to her, you only need three days of food and water, some sturdy shoes and games and toys to keep the kids amused while she’s making her way to rescue you!
Kinda laughable, actually...
Read medieval texts on the issue.
Yes, hoarding was viewed as a form of gluttony, avarice, and lust.
When the mob is hungry, and the rumor is you have food, you are dead.
Am I greedy to want to keep what I produced? Maybe the ones who want to seize the products of my labor the ones who are greedy. Are you hoarding if you grow it and can it or freeze it or dry it? No, but any weak excuse will do for the left to institute their programs. (Is it not slavery for one man to force another to work without compensation??)
It’s never ending parade here. Gotta love it.
We have a big bayah [bear] problem here.
SAFETY WARNING: RECALLED canned Roast Beef and Gravy by Crider Foods, date codes “Best By” 10/22 and 3/23.
Excellent product ruined by outsourced, untested spice in it that appears to contain LEAD. Learned of the recall, contacted Dollar General concerning returning the affected cans we’ve “put back”. This is week 2 of waiting for DG to produce a firm “plan” of how to handle this. I’ve discussed it with one store manager I know so far. We just want our money back or in store credit(s) for ALL of the bad product we were sold. Crider has gone down a few notches in our book for not testing every batch of additive(spice in this case) they use in a food product.
USDA/FSIS recall notice:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/crider-foods-recalls-canned-beef-gravy-products-due-possible-unsafe-levels-lead
Affected Crider labels, not just Dollar General’s “Clover Valley” label:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/food_label_pdf/2021-10/037-2021-labels_0.pdf
Medieval economic theory is an interesting worldview. Not one that makes sense today.
For produce, the assumption was the Lord owned it, but he owed the farmers a living. Charity was required, but if you were not working you could be seized and MADE to work.
If a rich man had a store of food during a famine, he was expected to feed his subjects with it. Or be killed.
Again, it was a very different system. Responsibilities up and down the chain.
So if you, as a private person, with your own hands, built up a store of food from your own land, you were not required by law to share. But you could find yourself kicked out of church (which brought all sorts of legal issues).
If a rich man had a store of food during a famine, he was expected to feed his subjects with it. Or be killed
Of course the food was harvested from his land that was worked by his peasants so it could be argued that it was his responsibility.
In earlier societies you tithed to the temple or paid a tax the emperor or pharoah who held grain against famine periods, at least that was how it was supposed to work!
Is that your yard last winter?
I have been listening to episodes of CBS Mystery Theater and for a stretch around Christmas time they were advertising Polish hams. They were behind the Iron Curtain back then.
The deer are just starting to get brave around my house. I’m starting to worry about my arborvitae wall.
I love dystopian fiction but I couldn’t watch The Road. I would be on the lookout for people keeping human cattle.
$36,332.40
Yeah it was pretty morbid.
You are greedy and selfish.
It is your civic duty to report to the Soylent Green factory immediately!
Thank you. That’s a lot of soup & beans...
And *a* change of clothes.
I pack more for a road trip than they recommend for emergency preparedness.
Define hoarding.
You do realize, don't you, that these last couple generations have been the only ones in human history to not plan ahead for a year's worth of food, to get you through to the next growing season and harvest?
At one point in the not to recent past and beyond, those who didn't do what we now label prep, were considered the foolish ones, and very likely, they did not survive.
It's a crazy world when what we do now what our grandparents did all the time is now condemned.
Did it ever occur to you that the government is intentionally painting preppers as hoarders for the purpose of putting pressure on them to not prep?
Its in their best interests to have everyone depend on them for their monthly food handout, doled out by the government, just like Saddam Hussein did and China does.
People who are free cannot be easily controlled.
People whose survival depends on the government handouts, can be.
You may want to rethink whose side you are on by advocating against wise prepping.
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