Recommended by Fred & Louise: "Real Food" by Nina Planck

Such an easy read, such an important topic. Unless you like getting sick a lot, having allergies, being depressed and having mood swings, being fat, inexplicable fatigue, having insomnia, arthritis, back pain, being at risk for the multitude of inexplicable "autoimmune disorders," not to mention diabetes and cancers.


You'll be shocked as just how wrong everything is that we eat. Only, then you'll keep researching it like I've been doing for the past many months, and then you'll be thrilled that things like (grass-fed) saturated fat and cholesterol are so good for you. And you'll throw away all your low-fat "milk", and shake your head at how many egg yolks you threw away.

And finally, you too will want to raise goats.

P.S. I can't wait to get my hands on some lard from grass-fed pigs! At least I have a couple pounds of grass-fed tallow (beef fat) waiting for me in the meantime -- tallow-fried potatoes are supposed to be out of this world, and GOOD FOR YOU?! Who knew??

I'll betcha Fred & Louise knew. That's who.

I'll Have a Farm, part 2

From Front Porch Republic today: "I Did Taste!"

“What’s the big deal [with the gigantism that defines today’s food economy]?” ... declining health; an obesity epidemic; the collapse of the family meal; environmental degradation; a food system that will eventually tumble leading to food shortage and political unrest; the loss of joy and beauty in eating; the forgetfulness of a people bereft of one of the most basic pillars of tradition–grandma’s recipes; and ultimately, the loss of freedom for a people incapable of the ordinary work of self-provisioning. ...

Food rots. If it doesn’t rot, it’s not food. That’s a good principle to live by.

Or try this one: if your ancestors wouldn’t recognize it as something good to eat, it’s not food. ...

...if one can penetrate beneath the glitzy plastic wrappers, the know-nothing food pyramids, and the seemingly interminable processing of our foodstuff, we are in reality little more than a nation of beasts in a continuous state of mastication at a Babelesque pile of corn so massive it stretches to the carbon infused heavens.

"Big Fat Lies"

I love me some bacon, (pasture-fed) eggs and (organic) butter!

Interesting Video on Milk

"Milk and milk products have been the food staple of mankind since the beginning of recorded history. They are truly the one food source that has allowed us to become civilized and to develop societies as we know them today.

"But now, milk has a bad name. Is it the milk itself or is it the way that it is being processed and delivered in this corporate farming world we now live in? Are the problems we see a result of pasteurizing and homogenizing, which are relatively new developments in the history of milk?"
Dr. Mercola



I'm very interested in trying raw milk, butter and cheese...