Food sources

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.