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| Dean |
Stop Agri-Biz Welfare! Save the economy and the environment.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/22-1Check out this comment at the bottom of the article...
Yah, corn for corn oil, high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed livestock crammed into pens getting sicker than shit. There are corn farms as far as the eye can see around here. Monsanto has their fingers in all of them.  There are quite a few family farms doing it the natural way, however. I've noticed the numbers growing on www.eatwild.com over the last few years. That's sure encouraging. 
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| jeff |
It's the same around here, Dean. Corn as far as the eye can see. Well, corn and soybeans. 
We do have lots of cows, though, too. After all.....this is America's Dairyland. 
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| Dean |
jeff,
Yah, we could have a lot more cows grazing if we weren't raising corn and soy. All the other countries of the world have had their family farms invaded by this type of large corporate farming. Makes me mad. They've displaced so many people into the world's worst slums. These people were raising animals and eating the real human diet, until these big ag folks came and wrecked everything. That's why I get so upset with vegans. They twist history so bad. Until very recently, the predominant food raised, the world over, was ANIMAL food, and it was raised naturally. Have you ever tasted butter from grass-fed cows? Man, there is nothing like it. Better tasting and more nutritious food, better treatment of the animals, much better for the environment, and much better for the economy. Like in the 30s, THIS is what will help bring us out of the upcoming depression. I just hope more and more farmers start changing what they are doing and transform this ridiculous grain farming for huge profits (as Bear always pointed out) and we get back to the type of animal husbandry we used to have not even that long ago. There is a woman who runs a natural farm who I have gotten dairy, eggs, chicken, pork, beef, lamb and other animal foods from, and all of it was SO superior tasting and I'm sure much better for me. She's part of the Weston Price Chapter around here. And, I've gotten familiar with a ton of other farms, including bison farms. I'm switchin' my diet back over to all natural, grass-fed, local farm animal food. I've been wanting to get back to that practice, that I used to do, for a long time, and, when you live around this stuff and see what is happening, it's even more pressing to do it. I sure hope others will do the same. |
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| jeff |
Yes, it's incredible. We get it from a store called The Cheese Factory, (or something like that). It's near the farm my wife inherited when her dad died a couple of years ago. It comes in giant 3 pound logs! Mrs. L was up there a couple of weeks ago and brought home 8 of them!  24 pounds of butter!! It should last 2 or 3 months. 
I also bought some Organic Valley heavy whipping cream last week, which actually comes from the same area in LaFarge, WI. This stuff was incredibly thick and yummy. Although I did notice it contained carageenen. But this stuff didn't pour from the carton......it oozed. It's a bit pricey, though, so I'll stick with Dean's for the most part. It wouldn't look good to the shareholders if I wasn't using Dean's.
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| Heather |
I have never tasted butter from grass fed cows. I am not eating much butter lately but I'd try just so I know. I'm not sure where I'd even find it. Where's Kat when I need her, she knows where everything is?
Yeah 24 lbs wouldn't last that long in my house either, we go through 3-4 lbs a week. |
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