What to eat?

It seems that in the hollowed halls of learned that they have had a change of heart concerning your diet. You can read about it on the LA Times site. Of course history may make its fatal judgment known...it is too late. The industrial feed companies have 'only met a market need.' Since most people gave up their humanity to be employees lonely refueling with industrial feed is perfect for the Neolithic civilization that make up the undifferentiated ant mounds known as 'the city.' An acquaintance recently allowed that he never had to worry, because the shelves of his favorite grocery store are always full. A moment’s reflection would remind him that the same was said in Soviet Russia, Weimar Germany and Britain in the 70's and 80's. Still as much as one would like for things to be different - one can only look upon such creatures with compassion and let it go.

So, what should one be eating? I can not answer for others but at this time of year the garden here are very dry and in need of rain (forecast for the next couple of days). However, currently the gardens are producing beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, chard, several varieties of lettuce, potatoes, radish, spinach and turnips. One could do worse, say a manufactured and chlorinated carrots.

Given that last month was the month to fill the storage with meat, I would say that one should have a good stock of your favorite meats. It is still too early to enjoy the salted pork or a ham, but if you started early some of the bacon may be just right. Additionally, a few pullets or hens can always be recruited to fill the pot for the week. Also, should you be fortunate enough to have shot a deer or two or three, a few rabbits and a turkey then you are set.

Oh, I forgot all the vegetables that were canned or frozen during the summer. Heck, we are not missing a thing except bread. So, with the winter wheat only just now showing growth, one could dig into last springs wheat and oats. Here I mix both into bread that will keep you going all day.

That just about does it for all of the basic food groups - meat, roots, leaves, grains, vegetables. Did I mention that the only food pyramid we use is how high the food can be stacked on the plate?

Somewhere in the dim past, say eight to ten thousand years ago, a group of rather ‘unhandsome and inferior creatures’ began to plant seeds, tame animals and harvest both. Thus, this ‘exceedingly nasty tribe’ was able to spread throughout the earth. This Neolithic being, despite fashions, plumbing and other “camouflage of civilization”, remain constant, “just a repulsive type of animal, very inferior to pretty much all the rest of creation.” In the end, to manufacture its feed and collect it into herds seems to be best for this “unformed, unquickened, Neolithic matter.”

SDG