Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[OneMountainAcres]

Well ofcourse the weeds are gonna adapt. There like the cockroaches of plants. I'm just sayin if they spray that much **** on plants it's gonna be in there. Plants absorb everything good and bad and that stuff is horrible for you. And that's just the begining. Then they turn it into high fructose corn syrup......

what the hell is wrong with people

agreed 100%. We make all our own bread and try to grow as much of our own food as possible from all NON-GMO stuff. Even or chickens eat non-GMO organic feed. It's so hard to afford to live that lifestyle and almost impossible to do it completely. I can't wait until the world realizes they're poisoning themselves. I read a study (I'd have to find it to quote it) about roundup ready corn and soy causing infertility over several generations. SCARY

 

[roseyred]

agreed 100%. We make all our own bread and try to grow as much of our own food as possible from all NON-GMO stuff. Even or chickens eat non-GMO organic feed. It's so hard to afford to live that lifestyle and almost impossible to do it completely. I can't wait until the world realizes they're poisoning themselves. I read a study (I'd have to find it to quote it) about roundup ready corn and soy causing infertility over several generations. SCARY

What scares me the most is that the same people who are modifying as adding crazy stuf to our food are the people who caused agent orange and other messed up stuff. I he a hard time making my own bread! It's never right /: can ya give me pointers? Also our chikens too eat non gmo organic feed and I only give them scraps of organic food. I even splurged and got my goat organic food since they like to eat the corn and barley out of it when he's eatig haha. As for saving money try reedy farms. I order from them and it's shipped to me. I get goat grain and chicken feed from them and it's like $100 total including shipping. There 50lb bags are like less than $30 a bag! And if you can get your local feed store to carry it it'll probly even cheaper

 

[roseyred]

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Reedyforkfarm.com
They also have organic meats. Safeway carrys some cheaper organic food. I refuse to shop at whole foods cause thy over price. Wegmans is pretty awesome. The best advice to save on organic is get others involved and share. Like if you grown seasonal crops have someone start growing year round producers like potatoes and tomatoes. Costco sells organic seeds and a lot of them to plant. Costco is also starting to carry so much organic stuff and even if it's not organic is usualy not crap. No preservatives or carageenen or high fructose corn syrup or citric acid.

 

[Blooie]

Well, I managed to stay hale and hardy and function quite well, even at my ripe old age of 64, by eating all the stuff that folks now scream about. Most of us old people that you see everyday in stores, post offices or wherever grew up being grateful that farmers were able to produce high yield crops. High Fructose Corn Syrup is a natural sweetener derived from corn starch and really has nothing to do with whether a crop is Round-up ready or not. sprayed or not. It's used because it's super concentrated sweetness - less expensive to sweeten with smaller amounts of HFCS than it is to sweeten the same product with sugar because it takes less to do the job. I'll concede that whatever a is in a plant's environment goes into the plant, but it isn't like we eat such vast quantities of it at a sitting that we are doomed to wake up with 3 legs and a spare arm sticking out of our backs. Moderation, common sense, and balance is better for us than hysteria.

 

[roseyred]

I don't feel hysterical. I feel confident knowing I am eating something that was given to use from the earth without having to change a thing. I do not believe in genetic modification. I believe everything that we need was put here to provide nutrition, medicinal, and other benefits. I feel it's my duty to my future generations to keep my dna unmutated and that is my choice. Im glad you are healthy and well. As muh as I won't get a flu shot I won't eat anyhing with genetic modification or added man made chemicals. Some of these thigs are natraly occurring in nature but that still dosnt mean it's worth the risk to eat them. Natural selection and evolution of plants and animals is how things should be "modified" they've taken care of themselves that way for ever and making gmo corn is actualy killing off other species and "infecting" through pollination non gmo plants. There's lots of other things I think is wrong to do to our food and water such as adding fluoride and other toxic chemicals to food and water. Rinsing chicken in amonia and bleach, dying farm raised fish, injecting hormones into animals and adding bleach to milk.......it's just stuff I personaly would like to avoid and like I said before keep y dna from being mutated. Not saying I'm gonna grown another ear but I wanna keep my immune system and other functions that I pass on to my future generations as pure as possible. I am not saying it is wrong to choose to eat things I won't eat but it's not for me.

 

[Blooie]

I agree with you. Those are the same reasons I like to grow what I eat, including enjoying our chickens' eggs and meat. I'm simply pointing out that I'm just not one of those people who is going to run out and buy all organic, and all natural, and all gluten free, and all High Fructose Corn Syrup free, and all whatever else free products that the food distributors feel are worth charging more than I can afford for such products. If something tastes good to me, I'm going to eat it. No matter what I do, I'm going to die eventually anyway and I'd just as soon go with sweet memories instead of worry.

And I apologize if you thought I was calling you personally hysterical. That was meant to say that every time there's a two minute news story, folks jump on the "OH MY GOD we're being poisoned" bandwagon and then proceed to criticize those of us who simply remain calmer about these things. If you took offence I sincerely regret that.

 

[hennible]

Well said both of you!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@roseyred you sound like me lol. I meant that is hard to feed the family on non gmo organic because it's so expensive. We have a hookup for organic feed I ran into a lady on here who's neighbor runs his own small organic mill and grows his own. We get 50 lb bags for $15-$21 a bag depending on whether it's layer, grower, or starter. The only bad thing is that he doesn't do soy free but that's ok. We drive the 2 1/2 hours 2-3 times a year and pick it up in bulk. As for the bread, we found the world's easiest bead recipe and it's SO good
3 cups flour (2 1/2 if using whole wheat)
1 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp dry yeast
1 5/8 cups water

Mix everything together in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let sit on the counter for 12-18 hours. After that turn dough out onto well floured surface and sprinkle lightly with flour. Fold it over on itself once or twice then cover with plastic wrap and let rest on counter for 15 minutes. Quickly shape dough into a ball and using just enough flour not to stick place on a towel and cover with another towel. Let sit for 2 hours. 30 minutes before time is up, preheat oven to 450° and place dutch oven inside to warm (I use the ceramic part of a crock pot). At the end of the 30 minutes, remove dutch oven and carefully tip bread dough into it. Cover and bake at 450° for 25-30 minutes then turn oven down to 350° and remove lid. Bake for an additional 10-15 minutes. Remove from oven and dump loaf out and allow to cool on towel or racks. You have to tweak the cook times based on your own oven.

 

[roseyred]

I agree with you.  Those are the same reasons I like to grow what I eat, including enjoying our chickens' eggs and meat.  I'm simply pointing out that I'm just not one of those people who is going to run out and buy all organic, and all natural, and all gluten free, and all High Fructose Corn Syrup free, and all whatever else free products that the food distributors feel are worth charging more than I can afford for such products.  If something tastes good to me, I'm going to eat it.  No matter what I do, I'm going to die eventually anyway and I'd just as soon go with sweet memories instead of worry.

And I apologize if you thought I was calling you personally hysterical.  That was meant to say that every time there's a two minute news story, folks jump on the "OH MY GOD we're being poisoned" bandwagon and then proceed to criticize those of us who simply remain calmer about these things.  If you took offence I sincerely regret that.

And I appolagize for taking it such a way. And I respect your opinion and am so glad you grow stuff!! If everyone just live like us and did something anything to create there own sorce of nutrients. Not saying we all need achres of land and wheat fields lol but somehing wethere its a small veggie garden or chickens...in turn we could reduce the amount of demand for crops and maybe thy wouldn't have to have %100 guaranteed yield therefore causing them to modify stuff. It's been proven to do some harm an that's all I have to know. Even if it's a minimal amount. Also thank you for being so cordial. Anytime I speak on this with someone who takes any other side I get bombarded lol. I guess I got my walls up a little. It's not scary to me that there doing it to food. It is just what they do and as long as everyone has the choice to eat whatever they want witch is the greatest thing ever.

 

[roseyred]

I also believe if we had communities that grew together then they would thrive and be able to provide food for those who now need food stamps or assistance.