Comments on: What Not to Eat

By: starbadger

starbadger — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:53:49 +0000

I am in general so in agreement but reading about your current approach to chickens not 100% – instead of buying the dual purpose breed if you want an even better fryer – buy the males of an egg layer – leghorn or in ontario – shaver whites – these birds can fly – ieit nstead of those movable cages – built a roast or some trees they can nest in -

They can fly and that alone makes them taste more like pheasant – ask Shannon about this – you can let the Animals be wild – esp pigs – but let them grow to 300-pounds or more of hard body pig

You’re doing just fine already -

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:00:20 +0000

DES – so wise – so well spoken.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:20:05 +0000

I’m all about the slow food. Ive been working towards your diet for a while now but it’s taking longer to convert the hubby. I am a CSA share-holder, frequent the local Farmers’ Markets and try to buy meat from local farms either at the Co-op, Market or straight from the farmer. We just got four chickens of our own for eggs and next year I plan to till up the front yard and plant a garden in the whole thing. Anyway, I really enjoy your site and plan to be back soon!

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:06 +0000

amen, sister!! i drank unpasteurized whole milk from the time i got off the teat until i left the farm at age 18. we raised or hunted our meat (i am a psuedo-veg now probably because of it… i feel if a person eats meat he/she should be prepard to kill it themselves ~ i lost the nerve a long time ago). anyways, thanks for that. it helped to reinforce my food goals for myself and my family.

By: jade

jade — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:59:29 +0000

I love your food manifesto, but I would suggest one slight modification.

“Your body is a machine. It needs good food to run.”

It’s poignant, but this metaphor doesn’t quite get at the importance of the food we eat. While true, a machine runs more efficiently and breaks less often if you use a higher quality fuel, a the matter in a machine’s “body” is not literally made of its fuel. The food we put in our bodies, while giving us energy a la machine fuel, also literally becomes the very cells that make us up. We really are what we eat.

Great blog, BTW. I’ve been a city girl for the past two years and I miss the country quite a bit.

By: Twwly

Twwly — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:27:15 +0000

We are apart of the ONFC.ca food coop. There are food coops all over the place, ours is Ontario specific. It’s basically a buying club that charges a bit over wholesale for natural/healthier food options at more affordable prices!

Under my FARM&FOOD links there’s the EatWellGuide & LocalHarvest – they ought to direct you to one in your area, and you could try Googling “Food Coop” and your state/province too! Good luck!

By: Tara McIntyre

Tara McIntyre — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:42:06 +0000

Tell me about this food coop. I am totally interested in that and trying to change my families eatting. Our son eats pretty much all organic but we eat terribly… Yeah, I know thats idiodic but the truth.. Hope you don;t mind me asking. I just came accross this when looking at tattoos