Originally posted 10/26/16
Let me put it this way kid.
I’ve always known where my food comes from.
Start to finish.
Done it more times than I can count personally, and growing up, if we hadn’t...
We wouldn’t have had much food on the table.
But being slightly less than mobile nowadays and because money isn’t hard to come by if you’re willing to work, I prefer the grocery store to the woods to track my game. The hunting is easier and the meat much less stringy. The food sometimes already prepped and ready to eat.
But being slightly less than mobile nowadays and because money isn’t hard to come by if you’re willing to work, I prefer the grocery store to the woods to track my game. The hunting is easier and the meat much less stringy. The food sometimes already prepped and ready to eat.
That said: I have no problem rolling my sleeves up and tilling a garden or cleaning a few fish next to someone else.
When I was a wee lad almost all of our meat came from the family farm or what we hunted.
Much of our Produce came from our farm or the neighbors depending on who was growing what and what we could trade for.
So.
You know.
Ya learn.
On the family farm we kept horses, cattle sometimes, chickens, dogs, cats, and even an emu or two when the fad was a thing back in the day.
Even though I’ve become much more urban as I’ve gotten older and "progress" has creeped all over the farm land surrounding the family farm I still keep tabs on what major crops are being grown around the world, subsidized, and what not. What health benefits and allergies they might contain. What companies control what bits. Who’s fighting over what patents for what seeds, and the ever frustrating argument for or against GMO’s and industrial farming.
Even though I’ve become much more urban as I’ve gotten older and "progress" has creeped all over the farm land surrounding the family farm I still keep tabs on what major crops are being grown around the world, subsidized, and what not. What health benefits and allergies they might contain. What companies control what bits. Who’s fighting over what patents for what seeds, and the ever frustrating argument for or against GMO’s and industrial farming.
Do I think GMO’s are bad?
Not really.
Spoiler alert: If you have ever eaten an orange carrot you’ve enjoyed a GMO. Look it up.
Are GMO's being misused right now? Or rather; "not good" versions being made?
Probably less than you’d think but more than is comfortable even for this carrot muncher.
Probably less than you’d think but more than is comfortable even for this carrot muncher.
It all boils down to what sort of Modification is being done to the plant or critter. After all, plants interbreeding and sharing genes is a natural and regular part of the world. It happens normally. But in nature these modifications usually manifest themselves in ways to make their tasty bits harder to get to and less desirable to eat for most critters.
So science is making foods more edible now...or they’re supposed to be...We'll see.
I do support our agricultural framework with everything I have.
I like to eat and I happily eat my orange carrots by the handful.
