Thread: ever wonder who your money goes to at the grocery store

Originally Posted by BobH

I doubt there has been any planting yet up here.

Bob

4a, 4b Hardiness Zone for most of your area, I would be willing to bet many are like me and have the seeds started indoors since the end of March we are a 5a here...

Heirloom Gardens are the single biggest thing that any one person/family can do to fight big Agri-Business.. Of course if you have the room you can go bigger, but a small raised garden produces much more produce then many realize...
If you really can't grow stuff you can shift to buying at the small farmers markets at least during the growing season..

Whoa, pretty impressive picture. It's very reassuring that US inhabitants worry about such things, though : it sends an overseas message of hope.

COOK, my friends, COOK !
Buy fresh vegetable, fresh meat and cereals and COOK for f***'s sake ! Try not to buy anything that is industrially prepared for you. COOK !

Well, that said I must add : if you can afford it. :S

Originally Posted by gssixgun

That is pretty Doom & Gloom

So who has planted what this year ???? and did you use GMO free seeds ???

Monsanto is the devils concubine !!

Originally Posted by dudness

Whoa, pretty impressive picture. It's very reassuring that US inhabitants worry about such things, though : it sends an overseas message of hope.

COOK, my friends, COOK !
Buy fresh vegetable, fresh meat and cereals and COOK for f***'s sake ! Try not to buy anything that is industrially prepared for you. COOK !

Well, that said I must add : if you can afford it. :S

Unfortunately that is a tough order to fill in this economy. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do do keep fed. But totally agree that if you can fight the power, by all means grow your own and or raise your own and cook,cook,cook !

The very word CORPORATION turns my stomach. Too bad we couldn't have more mom n pop businesses growing and selling unadulterated meat and produce. Why does everything have to have cornsyrup in it for example ? The Amish got it right me thinks !

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Unfortunately that is a tough order to fill in this economy. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do do keep fed. But totally agree that if you can fight the power, by all means grow your own and or raise your own and cook,cook,cook !

Here in France vegetables are still less expensive than prepared food - or is it processed food, I don't remember the right word ?
The meat begins to be very expensive though, except pork. Pretty expensive yeah... I begin to feel unconfortable, as I just had a baby. Fish is over-priced. But we stopped smoking and if there will be some need one day, I got pretty nice pieces of cut-throats to sell, as well as a car that seems to me more and more useless, or less and less useful - again, I don't know how to put it in right words. I really don't want to go back to eating cardboard food again.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Why does everything have to have cornsyrup in it for example ?

Don't really know, how does it taste ?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

4a, 4b Hardiness Zone for most of your area, I would be willing to bet many are like me and have the seeds started indoors since the end of March we are a 5a here...

Sorry my concern is not Northwestern Ontario but what happens on our prairies with regard to agriculture. Most of our wheat producing areas are definitely not 4a/4b hardiness Saskatchewan - Veseys . More like 3s and 2s if it is the same hardiness ratings you guys use. The only place I cab find that would be considered 4a would possibly be southern Alberta in the Lethbridge area Canadian Prairies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I think considering the amount of snow this year out west, how it may melt and how much rain falls it may be a late planting year. It maybe one of those years you just can get the equipment on the fields early to actually get stuff in the ground. Then again I ain't no farmer.

Bob

Originally Posted by dudness

Here in France vegetables are still less expensive than prepared food - or is it processed food, I don't remember the right word ?
The meat begins to be very expensive though, except pork. Pretty expensive yeah... I begin to feel unconfortable, as I just had a baby. Fish is over-priced. But we stopped smoking and if there will be some need one day, I got pretty nice pieces of cut-throats to sell, as well as a car that seems to me more and more useless, or less and less useful - again, I don't know how to put it in right words. I really don't want to go back to eating cardboard food again.



Don't really know, how does it taste ?

I don't enjoy bashing on my own country's food supply, but it really does upset me how compared to a lot of places in this world and given how modern we are supposed to be and all that it's mind boggleing what we put in our foods. I admit ooooonce and a great while I break down and junk out on processed foods, but fresh and unadulterated is sooooo much better . I wish all the big food corporate heads could be force fed their own ingredients much like a kid is forced to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes when caught smoking(back in the old days)...maybe and I use the term pessimistically , but maybe they would get a clue.

Originally Posted by dudness

Here in France vegetables are still less expensive than prepared food - or is it processed food, I don't remember the right word ?
The meat begins to be very expensive though, except pork. Pretty expensive yeah... I begin to feel unconfortable, as I just had a baby. Fish is over-priced. But we stopped smoking and if there will be some need one day, I got pretty nice pieces of cut-throats to sell, as well as a car that seems to me more and more useless, or less and less useful - again, I don't know how to put it in right words. I really don't want to go back to eating cardboard food again.



Don't really know, how does it taste ?

That's the insidious part, it's not the taste so much you notice..........it's the damned obesity and diabetes it causes cause it's like hyper refined sugar. You'de be better off using regular sugar . However ....some things like soda pop do taste better using regular sugar.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

I wish all the big food corporate heads could be force fed their own ingredients much like a kid is forced to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes when caught smoking(back in the old days)...maybe and I use the term pessimistically , but maybe they would get a clue.

L'aile ou La Cuisse, Coluche & De Funes, by Claude Zidi.

I wonder if you can find it - or if it has ever been translated - chez toi ?