YAY-ness!!

[rosebee]

I *finally* finished that purple halter-top dress!! ::bounces around room::

It was SUCH a struggle! I also finished up a quick & easy knit skirt (well, almost finished, I still have to thread the elastic through and then finish sewing up the inch hole I left in the casing to thread the elastic through). It's a very pretty turquoise color.

Pictures to come later (today, hopefully) when my my photographer (aka hubby aka MrB) is awake. :)

We went to go see Food Inc yesterday. VERY good. Amazingly eye-opening. Things I kind of half-suspected/feared were confirmed on the big screen. Everyone really really should go see this!!

Did you know:
-McDonald's is the biggest buyer of hamburger meat & potatoes in the US? If they say they want all their meat to taste a certain way, then the 'meat growers' all have to follow.
-If feedlots would allow cattle to graze and eat grass for 5 days then 90% of the e-coli in the cows bodies would be eliminated. But of course they don't do that.
-There's a company called Monsanto (a chemical company, they made DDT and Agent Orange among other things), and they have patented a genetically modified version of soybean seed that is resistant to the pesticide Round-Up. This soybean is 90% of all the soybean plants in the US. Monsanto does NOT allow farmers to save their seed from these patented-soybean plants, it requires the farmers to buy new seed each year from them. And they farmers they suspect of saving seed, they sue for patent infringement! Monsanto even sued a "seed cleaner" for "encouraging patent infringement". The farmer fought the suit for 4 years and then had to quit & settle & go out of business because he couldn't continue to pay his legal bills.
-There's one farmer in the story that I wish was near me as I want to buy all my produce/meats from him. :) A farmer that's doing things the 'right' way.

I have a VERY VERY strong urge now to buy as much as I can at one of our town's many local farmer's markets, and to continue to always buy my meat at the local supermarket that sells locally and naturally raised options.
Also,
-I will NEVER again buy non-free range chicken meat or eggs.
-I will buy locally raised grass fed beef.
-I will frequent my farmer's market more often, and I will buy more veggies.

And now to go find breakfast!

Comments

[bossymarmalade]

If you haven't seen it yet and you want to know more about Monsanto, biopiracy, terminator seed, and growth hormones in milk (among many other things), I highly recommend The Corporation! It's a long but informative watch, and will guarantee that you look at many things differently forever more.

[rosebee]

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to go check it out!

[rosebee]

My local library has a copy! I've placed a hold request, I'm looking forward to seeing it!

[rainbow]

Long's Meat Market , which is near Capella's, has a good selection of meats, including beef from Knee Deep Cattle Company -- that's Alvina and Mike from whom we buy direct. Grass-fed, organic, humane. (They have lots of others meats, too, but I like Alvina's beef best.)

We get our eggs from Stillpoint Farm, but I don't think they do the market; they're about 10 miles north of us, towards Veneta. If you and MrB enjoy jaunting about away from town, it's a great place -- lots of u-pick and pre-picked berries and veg.

I want to find someone who grows chickens without feeding them corn or soy or gluten-grains, but I haven't found any yet. :(

[rosebee]

Thanks!! :D

MrB & I don't eat a lot of meat (mostly because I hate the smell of cooking meat, and I do most of the cooking), but when we do want ground beef or something else we'll have to go there!