Re: More Pet Food
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: More Pet Food
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:26:56 -0500
amen to that Bonnie.

On 7/9/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Too bad the sharing can't work. Saw a program where a university was
> studying the impact of food on cows. They put a sanitary opening in the
> cows stomach so they could tell what happens when various things were
> feed to the cow. When the cow ate natural grass & grain all was fine.
> But, when the cow was feed all those feed lot additives, salmonella
> began to set up in the cow's stomach. It's not nice to fool with Mother
> Nature.
>
>
> Bonnie
> ETN Zone 7
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catharine Carpenter" <cathycrc@comcast.net>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:19:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Pet Food
>
> Even with sharing, it results in more meat than I can store! But I
> continue to hope...
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:01 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES wrote:
>
> > Fortunately, a couple of our local farmers who used to do the Saturday
> > morning thing in Maryville, set up a year round market. I can get free
> > range and hormone free beef, chicken, pork and lamb. It's a little
> > more
> > expensive but the meat can sit in the refrigerator for several days
> > without any deterioration. Two of the local bakeries also have
> > specialty
> > breads twice a week. One makes whole wheat with olives that is
> > delicious.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you get together with a couple of friends and share the cow? We
> > used to do that.
> >
> > Bonnie
> > ETN Zone 7
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Catharine Carpenter" <cathycrc@comcast.net>
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 10:22:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Pet Food
> >
> > I am so fortunate to live in a farming community where locally grown
> > food has really taken off. I buy vegetables and eggs from two farmers
> > I know personally. Meat is more of an issue, as I do not have space,
> > nor do the two of us have the appetite to purchase even half of an
> > animal.
> > Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >
> > On Jul 6, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Daryl wrote:
> >
> >> There was a very small window between the reforms spurred by Upton
> >> Sinclair and the politicized agencies that we have today.
> >>
> >> The only hope I see is the move back to slow food/whole/food/grow-
> >> your-own-or-buy-local-organic movement. With enough people pushing
> >> for better food, we may get it by force of economic reality.
> >>
> >> d
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 3:43 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Pet Food
> >>
> >>
> >>> Oooh... Yum. But I'm old enough to remember when USDA was on our
> >>> side, pre-Ezra Taft Benson.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Daryl wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The food supply is so hopelessly meshed and tangled that I don't
> >>>> think anything is truly "safe" any more, whether human or pet food.
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you read about the processed beef that is being used in
> >>>> hamburgers? It seems to mostly be floor scrapings treated with
> >>>> ammonia http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html
> >>>>
> >>>> d
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer"
> >>>> <inlandjim1@q.com>
> >>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:57 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] More Pet Food
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> They must all get this stuff from the same vat.
> >>>>
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> >>> Inland Jim
> >>> Willamette Valley
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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