re: Blackberries May Be Linked to Hepatitis A Outbreak

Almond — 11/25/2019 1:30:06 AM

We hear more and more about contaminated food. I you do not already produce your own food, it is time to give some thought to long-term production. Start by doing what you can, even if you cannot do it all.

One of my annual Christmas gifts is blackberry jelly. (Also, blackberry cobbler by special request.) I can guarantee you our blackberries are not contaminated. I do not need a food inspector to confirm that. (The elves have also been busy woodworking in Santa's workshop. There will be wreaths, too, etc.)

So much food goes to waste. Every year, I ask people if they want our surplus. They are very eager until they find out they have to pick it themselves. Many will say, "I thought you would pick it and deliver it." I really don't have time or that when I am busy putting up our own food. I figure my worms have to eat, too, and what I plow under will build the soil. There are days when I am shocked at the ingratitude and laziness of people. As a dear friend says, so many people cannot think past the apple in their lunch box to their next meal.

People have become so hopelessly dependent--on govt, on grocers, on others to make their decisions for them. I predict that a major crisis would revert back to natural selection with a triage system. I have just spent a weekend in the midst of an ultra-liberal group of people. (Occasionally, I need to enter a big city and mingle, but usually come away quite depressed.) I never heard so much nonsense spoken within such a short period of time. People's response to their problems is to wait for govt to take care of them--and nothing is too much to ask for. It is not possible to help people who will not help themselves and who have absolutely no problem-solving-ability. This reminds me of chickens in a CAFO. They stick their beaks up in the air when they want to be fed and expect a pellet to come down a tube. They have lost all natural survival instincts.