It has been said that the food industry in this country would literally feed you cardboard if they could get away with it. You may be surprised to learn that in fact it is already known how much sawdust they can put in snack treats before you notice the difference — about 15%. Your body …
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Writer, lecturer, and farmer Joel Salatin has been a hero of mine for many years, as both mentor and inspiration. He calls himself a “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.” I can really get behind that. I own a number of his books. This was a post to Joel’s blog on 17 Aug 2020 (3 …
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I make chili pretty often. I use beans in my recipe, and onions, garlic, garden tomatoes, peppers, et cetera. Sometimes I add other stuff like the half can of corn that’s in the fridge, or the last quarter cup of oat groats in the cupboard that I just want to get used up. Before you …
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Long ago I decided that the majority of what I was told or taught about food was most likely bullshit. One of the bonuses of being a cynic is that you assume that pretty everything you are told or taught is that way. You learn to do a lot of your own research, and your …
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