Posted on 06/25/2011 8:57:50 AM PDT by don-o
Oh my God. There are counties in Texas that have such small populations that they won’t support a supermarket full of argula and exotic fresh vegetables. Over 50 Counties have less than 10,000 population and the smallest, Loving, has 65 (yes, that is sixty-five) people in 681 square miles.
I got news for Michelle. Those kinds of numbers won’t support a local market garden sufficient to feed the population either because of a lack of W A T E R and the distances between ranch homes.
So what’s next, government supply trucks going ranch to ranch carrying relief vegetables?
We are in the hands of elitists who know better than anyone else what they should eat and by inference where the should live and work. Can’t someone tell these do-gooders that you can’t fix every perceived ill with a law and attendant bureaucracy.
Absurd.
I have nothing against hybrid, or even GM seeds, however I do not abide by the concept of "copyright/trademark" seeds that can cross pollinate with heirloom seeds of another farmer rendering his crop the possible subject of a lawsuit by the likes of Monsanto, et al.
Some of my best producing tomatoes started out as hybrid seeds about 5 years ago. I always let some of the fruit just rot into the soil. The dominant genes have prevailed and I now have the best producing grape tomatoes I have ever seen any where. They just come up on their own. This year I do plan on actually harvesting some just for the seeds, so I can put them in a different spot.
I know what you mean, except I’m the exact opposite, I need the space and openness.
Oh, we did get some rain, enough to make me mow what I had been watering already. Ten feet over, the dust would almost choke you. LOL
LOL!!!!
I know exactly what you're both talking about and I guess I sorta fall in the middle. In this part of Virginia, I'm the highest point around if I jump up!!!
I like that idea as it would improve nutrition and make our nation more fit and less overweight. But the big food processors and food store chains who control Congress wouldn't, and that is why it would never happen.
You may be 100% correct on GMO, or it may do huge harm to our long term genetics. GMO and its effect on humans and animals are an experiment in progress.
. The food companies and government are in cahoots to keep their profits up and Americans fat and stupid. Nutrition is an after thought. Americans need to learn self sufficiency and practice growing their own. Had the economy really tanked (as in depression) Americans might have learned much about self sufficiency and changed their spending and buying habits for a generation.
That's why the politicians, bankers and big business continue to do everything they can to keep the status quo, with Americans dumb and in debt. They don't want us smart enough to know how we're getting screwed by depending upon a government and Congress controlled by international food suppliers.
I think it’s the over abundance of vinegar and some of the concoctions they call tater salad. And yeah, I know tater salad can vary door to door.
Son was stationed on the NC coast and had a girl friend from the mountain end of the state. He called one time and said bring a brisket, these people don’t know what BBQ is. Of course, the airline lost the suitcase that had the brisket. It was thawed by the time it finally arrived, but survived.
Hawkins TN - Food Lion, Food City
Hancock TN - IGA
Greene TN - Food City, Ingles, Food Lion
Washington TN - IGA, Food Lion, Sam’s Club, Walmart Supercenter, Ingles,
Sullivan TN - Food City, IGA, Ingles, Food Lion
Wise VA - Food City
Lee VA - IGA, Walmart Supercenter
Scott VA - Food Lion, Food City, IGA
These are not high priced convenience stores. Also in rural TN, farmers put their corn up for sale on the side of the road as it is.
LOL, the highest place in this part of the country is the dump in CC, Mt Trashmore.
Seriesly!
Brisket? You bring brisket into a bbq discussion? As in beef? Or is there a pork brisket that I don’t know about?
God made cows for steaks, roast meat and hamburgers. The swine, He created for bbq. Stop trying to upset the natural order of things!
Thank me.
Mt. Trashmore is about 95 miles south of me in Virginia Beach, and it was the dump and is now a park.
Seriesly!!!
***...more vegetable- based items to their residents.***
AHA! I see the problem!
I was in North central Tenn a few years back during hog killing time.
Plenty of hogs and beef. Family gardens. Not enough federal supervision.
***Jar. They get their corn from a jar.***
I wish that I was on old Rocky Top,
Down in the Tennessee hills!
Ain’t no smoggy smoke on rocky top,
Ain’t no telephone bills.
Corn won’t grow at all on Rocky Top,
Dirt’s too rocky by far.
That’s why all the folks on Rocky Top,
Get their corn from a jar.
Our federal government is just nuts!
Well, being a lover of history I see it there, too. Here in the great eastern deciduous forest, hogs were far more practical. Especially in a hardscrabble, frontier existence, hacking out a homestead and maintaining what initially was a very tenuous foothold, hogs could be set loose to forage on acorns and such.
Beef was then pretty much the luxury of more established areas, requiring cleared pasture, fences and high maintenance. As settlement spread westward people encountered more open territory less hospitable to hogs set loose to forage free-range but more hospitable to cattle, and that is what they increasingly kept.
So, the preference for pork or beef barbecue is historically related to climate, geography and the land, and the adaptation of the people who brought with them the whole idea of pit cooked meat with a vinegar pepper, then tomato vinegar pepper, then tomato sugar pepper, sauce, shifting by degree as you head west, with a pronounced break on the west of the Appalachians away from vinegar and another west of the Mississippi away from pork.
I love a good brisket myself. It ain’t “our” barbecue but it’s very tasty when properly done, and the smell alone is amazing.
Except for regulation of banks, car manufacturing, healthcare, the school system, the energy sector, and anything to do with the environment -- with others to follow.
Just more slush money being passed out to buy votes.
That map is downright scary. Not because so many areas are “food deserts”, but because so many areas are DESIGNATED “food deserts” when they definitely are NOT! I checked and found several in places where I have lived or am living now. One in particular has the best grocery store in town in the middle of the “desert”. That area also has several other excellent grocery stores.
Are we soon to see government emergency organic tofu delivery vans in these neighborhoods? Something is not right with this.
The other irony is that some of these food “deserts” are home to farms, dairies, orchards, good hunting areas, and certainly amenable to home gardening. Some of these areas labeled food deserts could support people supporting themselves.
I wonder if “food deserts” is an excuse to set up government sponsored grocery stores. Drive out the private food distribution, then make everyone dependent upon the government for food.
Or a Walmart? In nearly every town over 1000 there seems to be one, and they sell food.
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