Overall Rating:

5 out of 5

Where our food comes from, July 6, 2009
Guest edna43

"I used to be a small family farmer. We had 100 Jersey cows and produced milk. The government put an end to that with the dairy buy-out program, which we were forced to join or else lose our Farmers Home Administration financing. We joined the program and a year later, lost the farm.
During the years we owned that farm, I grew and processed virtually all our food. If we didn't grow it, we didn't eat it except for a very few staples. I raised two very healthy boys that way.
Ten years after he left the farm for a "real job", my oldest son developed Crohn's Disease. There's no history of it in the family and so his doctor speculates that it was because he suddenly fell into "an American diet" which included all the sugar and carbs and assorted junk food he'd been "deprived" of all his life.
Four years ago, when he was so sick he was unable to work, he started eating only home grown, natural foods. His Crohn's Disease is in full remission.
Although there is no longer a farm in our family, I believe strongly in knowing where my food comes from and what goes into it during its production. What I can buy at the supermarket isn't food... it's filler.
I can look at a number of my siblings and see how a healthy lifestyle and good wholesome food was replaced with a "typical American diet" and resulted in some serious, life threatening conditions.
We all need to understand that we are responsible for what goes into our mouths. Maybe a movie like this and an article like Laura's will help to get that point across.
As for myself, I have to go feed my handful of chickens and my three rabbits now. My sister and I recently acquired 2 acres but it's already producing a significant amount of our food. I want to get back to that point where "if we don't grow it, we don't eat it."

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