For those of you who have been watching the horror that is Florence, did you know that those big hog farms where the animals were left to drown belong to the Chinese. Yes, very little of our food source is owned by citizens. Most of the fresh stuff comes from Mexico and South America. And I doubt that anyone knows where the beef comes from because the companies no longer have to tell you. Those chickens that drowned, know how they are processed? Chicken should only keep about at most 2 days in the fridge. Not this chicken. It will keep for up to a week. Know the secret? The meat is dipped in bleach before being packaged. This is approved by your government, the FDA. And that fish you buy? Talapia from China grown in sewer water. Farmed shrimp. Nasty.
I buy my chicken and turkey from local small farmers. I can go to their farm at any time and see how they grow their animals. Beef, all grass fed. Local farmer. My vegetables, either from my own garden or from the farmer's market. Eggs, I have a standing order from a seller at the farmer's market. I have a rapport with a lot of these farmers. I give them plants from my yard, we talk farming. I also buy my soap, handmade, from a seller at the farmers market. I get honey from the farmers market. I make my hand lotions from ingredients I get at the farmers market and from my own yard. I get very little from the grocery store. Am now looking for a dairy farmer that will sell me raw milk so I can make my own cheese and butter. If you are too lazy to take care of your food source, or too cheap, you deserve those food born illnesses.
The loss of those animals in North Carolina will not affect me at all. I do feel sorry for the animals and think the owners should be charged with animal cruelty for not letting them out before the flood waters reached them, but then those people went and left their dogs locked up. No sympathy for them. They got what they deserved. We take our animals. We do not leave them behind. When Central Texas burned, one neighborhood had only a few minutes notice to get out. A deputy was driving down the street with a bullhorn telling people to get out now. Everyone grabbed their kids and animals and ran. No trying to save material possessions. Just the necessities. Kids and animals. And when Harvey was headed toward us, even the law enforcement was out driving cattle to higher ground. They used their patrol cars to heard the cattle. Our game wardens were out saving people and animals. All animals. They loaded deer, possums, whatever needed rescuing onto their boats and took them to high ground. Texas A&M Vet college has an emergency response team. Every rescue and every vet and every shelter stepped up to take in animals. We don't leave any behind. But apparently the East Coast does not think animals are worth saving. Shame on them.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Just complaining
I just bought a pair of knit pants, elastic waist. I have worn them 3 times and will have to replace the elastic. And these were not cheap pants either. I paid $69 for them. The only thing cheap about them was the fabric and notions used to make them. And everything I look at is made of polyester. Do you know what polyester is? It is spun plastic. Put that in a landfill and it is there forever. It is the same stuff that is forming an island in the Pacific.
I am old enough to remember when we made everything. When we have good jobs. As a seamstress, I remember those great fabrics we made here in this county. Dan River ginghams, seersucker, fantastic wools and compton corduroy. Hell, even our flour came in cotton sacks that were reused in kids clothing. Now we produce nothing, nothing. And we have done it to ourselves. We like the cheap stuff. We can go shopping and but tons of cheap stuff, wear it a couple of times and throw it away. Quality no longer counts. We as consumers have sold our livelihood for cheap garbage. The consumer controls the market. And by demanding cheap stuff, we have made it so easy for those companies to accomidate us and make huge profits off using slave labor to produce those cheap goods. Now a pair of plastic shoes sells for $70 and we just shell out for that crap. Athletic shoes. Better be ready to shell out over $100 if you want a pair that will last more than 3 months. And those with memory foam, yeah, as soon as that memory foam gets damp, you have no more cushioning. And the sizes. My foot measures 6/2 M. In a shoe, I have to buy 71/2 to 8 and in an athletic shoe it is 81/2 or a 9. I can excuse this generation because they have never known any better, but those from my generation and my children's generation know better. You get what you will settle for. Just like being sold on the right to work laws. Those laws only benefit the companies. It does nothing for the employee. It is a union busting law. Nothing more and the fools who work an hourly wage have fallen for it like a ton of bricks. "They can't force me to pay union dues." No, they can't, and you cannot force those companies making money hand over fist to pay you a living wage. Nor can you for decent health care nor safe working places. Do you know the real reason employers want to hire the illegal foreign nationals? They don't have to meet labor regulations nor OSHA safety regulations. But you the consumer do not care because you get cheap goods. Never mind that you don't make crap, just the cheap goods and by God no union dues. You showed those damned unions. And you the taxpayer subsidize health care, You pay those higher prices in benefits paid out to compensate for the low wages and no job benefits. Better think about this.
I am old enough to remember when we made everything. When we have good jobs. As a seamstress, I remember those great fabrics we made here in this county. Dan River ginghams, seersucker, fantastic wools and compton corduroy. Hell, even our flour came in cotton sacks that were reused in kids clothing. Now we produce nothing, nothing. And we have done it to ourselves. We like the cheap stuff. We can go shopping and but tons of cheap stuff, wear it a couple of times and throw it away. Quality no longer counts. We as consumers have sold our livelihood for cheap garbage. The consumer controls the market. And by demanding cheap stuff, we have made it so easy for those companies to accomidate us and make huge profits off using slave labor to produce those cheap goods. Now a pair of plastic shoes sells for $70 and we just shell out for that crap. Athletic shoes. Better be ready to shell out over $100 if you want a pair that will last more than 3 months. And those with memory foam, yeah, as soon as that memory foam gets damp, you have no more cushioning. And the sizes. My foot measures 6/2 M. In a shoe, I have to buy 71/2 to 8 and in an athletic shoe it is 81/2 or a 9. I can excuse this generation because they have never known any better, but those from my generation and my children's generation know better. You get what you will settle for. Just like being sold on the right to work laws. Those laws only benefit the companies. It does nothing for the employee. It is a union busting law. Nothing more and the fools who work an hourly wage have fallen for it like a ton of bricks. "They can't force me to pay union dues." No, they can't, and you cannot force those companies making money hand over fist to pay you a living wage. Nor can you for decent health care nor safe working places. Do you know the real reason employers want to hire the illegal foreign nationals? They don't have to meet labor regulations nor OSHA safety regulations. But you the consumer do not care because you get cheap goods. Never mind that you don't make crap, just the cheap goods and by God no union dues. You showed those damned unions. And you the taxpayer subsidize health care, You pay those higher prices in benefits paid out to compensate for the low wages and no job benefits. Better think about this.
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