Food wisdom
Folks, stop blaming the F&B industry for your bad eating habits. You demand speed and abundance on the cheap and you get just that: Cheap food that is abundant and fast but barely fit to eat.
Think a little on where your food comes from: That juicy steak you ate at an expensive restaurant was, and this is pretty certain, once standing for months flank to flank and head to tail in a cramped, hot, and sweaty ship’s hold. That meat you ate once lived a horrific, short life, it was pumped full of medication to keep it alive just long enough for it to reach the slaughter house. And we all saw the slaughter house on television. So, the next time you feel like steak, buy a young, healthy calf and raise it yourself, preferably let it run free and graze on green pastures. If you can’t afford such luxury, then you don’t deserve steak! Thus is capitalism.
It’s the same for chicken, and I know how we all love our chicken, our shish tawouk. Trust me, after a visit to an industrial poultry farm you will never eat shish tawouk ever again. In most industrial farms hens are packed so tightly together that if one dies it can’t fall down and only regular inspections would be able to detect and remove the dead animal. This is true everywhere in the world, not just in our country. Of course, in the case chicken it’s a bit easier to buy your own live hens and let them roam free in the garden, but your neighbors might not like you so much afterwards. The pay off, however, is not just their meat but their eggs too. So its worth thinking about.
If you are a real meat lover, on the other hand, go for wild game: Wild boar is tough to hunt, its wild, fierce, and it still runs free in some parts of our country, now that is a proper carnivore’s feast! Or, you could fish, or hunt geese, if one is still allowed to do so that is.
The bottom line is, we don’t need meat to survive: We can live of grains, legumes, fruits, and all the multi-colored veggies so plentiful in our country. If you're worried about pesticides, don’t so much. It is worth noting that recent samples of fruits and veggies taken by authorities have proven to have acceptable levels of residual pesticides on them, or so I heard on the radio.
But, better than buying your fruits and veggies, why not grow your own. Gardening is such a joy and it will relax you and give you a sense of accomplishment. It is still something we can do with our hands that we can see the results appear before our eyes, that, and making your own furniture I hear, is immensely satisfying.
If you want to buy olive oil, why not go up to a farmer you know in the mountains and follow the process from the picking of the olives to their pressing at the village oil press. That way you know for sure you get pure olive oil, and it will taste better too.
To all the shop keepers out there who are not too happy at what I am writing, learn from this experience, adopt quality standards, make it your mission to follow the food production chain, know your suppliers better, and don’t take risks, remember reputation is the easiest thing to loose, the hardest to earn, and almost impossible to recover.
Think a little on where your food comes from: That juicy steak you ate at an expensive restaurant was, and this is pretty certain, once standing for months flank to flank and head to tail in a cramped, hot, and sweaty ship’s hold. That meat you ate once lived a horrific, short life, it was pumped full of medication to keep it alive just long enough for it to reach the slaughter house. And we all saw the slaughter house on television. So, the next time you feel like steak, buy a young, healthy calf and raise it yourself, preferably let it run free and graze on green pastures. If you can’t afford such luxury, then you don’t deserve steak! Thus is capitalism.
It’s the same for chicken, and I know how we all love our chicken, our shish tawouk. Trust me, after a visit to an industrial poultry farm you will never eat shish tawouk ever again. In most industrial farms hens are packed so tightly together that if one dies it can’t fall down and only regular inspections would be able to detect and remove the dead animal. This is true everywhere in the world, not just in our country. Of course, in the case chicken it’s a bit easier to buy your own live hens and let them roam free in the garden, but your neighbors might not like you so much afterwards. The pay off, however, is not just their meat but their eggs too. So its worth thinking about.
If you are a real meat lover, on the other hand, go for wild game: Wild boar is tough to hunt, its wild, fierce, and it still runs free in some parts of our country, now that is a proper carnivore’s feast! Or, you could fish, or hunt geese, if one is still allowed to do so that is.
The bottom line is, we don’t need meat to survive: We can live of grains, legumes, fruits, and all the multi-colored veggies so plentiful in our country. If you're worried about pesticides, don’t so much. It is worth noting that recent samples of fruits and veggies taken by authorities have proven to have acceptable levels of residual pesticides on them, or so I heard on the radio.
But, better than buying your fruits and veggies, why not grow your own. Gardening is such a joy and it will relax you and give you a sense of accomplishment. It is still something we can do with our hands that we can see the results appear before our eyes, that, and making your own furniture I hear, is immensely satisfying.
If you want to buy olive oil, why not go up to a farmer you know in the mountains and follow the process from the picking of the olives to their pressing at the village oil press. That way you know for sure you get pure olive oil, and it will taste better too.
To all the shop keepers out there who are not too happy at what I am writing, learn from this experience, adopt quality standards, make it your mission to follow the food production chain, know your suppliers better, and don’t take risks, remember reputation is the easiest thing to loose, the hardest to earn, and almost impossible to recover.
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