At first blush, POTUS Trump (well, candidate Trump) and Perot compared well: go getters and problems solvers, often taking the path least traveled and apparently with a genuine love of USofA. But the more I listened to Perot, the little hand grenade?, the more I disillusioned, unlike with Trump. I remember two things about Perot outside of the political circus (that sucking sound of NAFTA): sending a mercenary squad to rescue his employees and how he dealt with a house he was restoring. The way I remember this is that the house was for his mother (?) and the brick facade was marred by previous coats of paint (or the like) and he wanted THISE bricks. He was told that do to the nature of the bricks there was no way to clean them such that the original color would be seen. Perot then proposed carefully removing the bricks and turning them around so that the inside untainted side was now the outside. Problem solver.
Perot was really a one-off production. God broke the mold. . .
Even though pissed that his candidacy caused the Repub. loss to Clinton, I have always said I wasted my vote. But, your recapitulation of the man's thinking -out-of-the-box nature makes me wonder if I would not STILL vote for him again!
Regardless.
about the bricks: He had FU money, used it to effect the best fix. YES!
Traveling through China several decades ago, I forgot to say "No Ice" in my cocktail. I drank it and got the runs. One-half of a Cipro tablet solved the problem. Contaminated water supplies exist.
Mexico has a problem. We have a problem in the US with Concentrated animal corals where 1000's of cattle are housed and the soil is contaminated with E-coli and C-Diff. Wind transfers the fine soil into adjacent fields and contaminates vegetable crops. Since 6 % of our red meat supply is contaminated with C-Diff and E-Coli, you do NOT want to consume anything but well cooked meat. The other solution is buy locally from farmers raising grass feed beef. I learned my lesson two years ago when I ate a rare filet. Mayo antibiotics saved my life. It is a serious problem and the real issues are not addressed and the focus is on measles. Sad state of medical affairs. CDC needs to be re-educated and fix the problems.
Thomas I always have figured eating solid cuts of meat(ie steak vs burger) is mostly safe. I can not conceive how E coli gets into the middle of solid meat. But, you appear to be saying this is not true-- you got sick from a rare steak?!
I wonder if contamination of solid meat is from not cleaning the band saws often enough in big processing plants.
I found having a meat grinder at home is good for making my own burger. I avoid large packaged burger meat at stores, particularly from places like Walmart. I found our local grocery has thin steaks T-bone, rib eye and sometimes other cuts, that cost about $6 to $9 each and are just the right size to cut in half for each of us for lunch = $3 to $4.50 each. It is also about the right (fits in the palm of your hand) recommended amount of protein.
Visit my website www.vegetable-gardening-online.com for lots of helpful information on growing many vegetable, fall and winter gardening, container and raised bed gardening. I have lots of charts and guides for free download to help with planning and planting a garden.
Sorry friends, but have you seen any port-a-potties in the fields where they pick crops? I have here in America, but do you think they wash their hands after the toilet use? Where do you think they go to the bathroom and wash their hands in the fields in Mexico?? They just do not spend the money for those items even though they SHOULD. How many other crops are harvested under those slack sanitary conditions? Fresh vegetables are becoming less inviting to consume, unless you grow them yourself, and not everyone has room for vegetable gardens or warm greenhouses, or the time to maintain them. I guess it depends on how much you want to stay “well.” Good luck with that! I had a beautiful greenhouse once. Wasps took it over. :-(
I have seen them at the large organic operation near my old home. They had green houses and fields plus a store so we could go during the week and buy stuff all week instead of waiting for the Saturday farmers market in town.
Back to the farming days! I like the raised bed idea. Catch on younger generations! Getting closer to 80 than 70.
In my mind’s eye, I see my dear mother by a garden in the state of KY. I think she probably had just planted it! I have the picture somewhere! Thanks Dr. Malones! Finally we know the source for now.
Thank you both...good Doctors... I'm now soooo hungry for a good, fresh, salad... that I must get to my nearest local fresh market and pray that they have something that looks as good as the pictures of your beautiful veggies do! 😋
Growing a Greens garden is one of the easiest but short lived endeavors here in “Heaven on Earth” Alaska…unless you spend big bucks on heated greenhouses. Our short season for greens does reap glorious harvests but we mainly rely on cole crops and veggies that can be frozen or canned. One of the trade offs to living in the Last Frontier.
Waiting for the book to be released! I keep checking days off for August 4th! Pre-ordered of course. We finally are enjoying our garden this season. It was a weird garden season this year. It was cold enough that it stunted the plants but there was never a frost and it has made everything quite late this year. It’s not a complaint now as things are ramping up and the food you grow yourself tastes 100X better than anything you’ll ever buy even at Whole Foods.
There is always a source of contamination, many times it’s obvious. On the pond where we bought a small cottage house the water is tested annually, always exceptionally clean. There came a time where E.coli was detected on one side of the pond. It began by a family dogs swimming started getting infections. The home owners paid to get water tests done and they traced it to a run off stream coming from a hill along the pond. Sure enough a property owner had recently bought 2 cows and was piling up the cows waste with a small pay loader just up from the stream that drained into the pond. Eventually, after many arguments, the property owner got rid of the cows and the pile of waste, and the problem slowly cleared.
Sometimes issues like this don’t become a reality, until someone or a pet close to you gets sick. Unregulated food production or pharmaceutical production, as we know, can kill. Many times, as wrong as it may be. there’s an obvious answer but no one seems to end up paying a liability price. I guess this is today’s reality…
I might have shared this before but perhaps it is important enough to share again. Many humans do not eat "out of the garden". Many have become aware enough to restrict their purchases of food from Certified Organic. At the present time Certified Organic is institutionally challenged due to being under USDA. It has been "captured" and the certification means little in today's food economy. Which means that growing one's own food is even more important. We buy from Sustainably Grown local farms at a farmer's mkt, (and grow our own) so we can ask questions and get answers about the local farms. OrganicEye.org has sued USDA Organic thru the Commerce Dept., but the new administration has not noticed. If you want to support OrganicEye, go to their website and get more information about the US food system, and add that to what is being said here. Thanks so much for speaking to this particular issue today. As I was born in Oak Ridge, where the atomic bomb was created, I grew up on can food...if I had eaten out of the garden, I probably would not bee alive today.
Thank you for this. (Your writing is so fluid, it carries you along without effort, but these things don’t write themselves; so, thank you for the time and effort.) MSM would like us to think Taco Bell is the main/only problem, but anyone with a brain in their head (and willing to use it) can easily understand that the problem is nationwide because the chain that supplied Taco Bell is linked to thousands of other “Taco Bells.” Thank you for laying that out so clearly. I appreciate you two.
I have avoided lettuce for decades. It wasn't because of fear of diseases. I just don't like it. I prefer other vegetables, most of which are more nutritious anyway.
H Ross Perot warned us about NAFTA back in the day. Trump was an H Ross Perot supporter. They were right!
Hy
They hollowed out the domestic workforce, and told us it would be good for us.
I voted for him too. So, it appears Trump and I think alike.. . hmmm.
I need to think about that one!
At first blush, POTUS Trump (well, candidate Trump) and Perot compared well: go getters and problems solvers, often taking the path least traveled and apparently with a genuine love of USofA. But the more I listened to Perot, the little hand grenade?, the more I disillusioned, unlike with Trump. I remember two things about Perot outside of the political circus (that sucking sound of NAFTA): sending a mercenary squad to rescue his employees and how he dealt with a house he was restoring. The way I remember this is that the house was for his mother (?) and the brick facade was marred by previous coats of paint (or the like) and he wanted THISE bricks. He was told that do to the nature of the bricks there was no way to clean them such that the original color would be seen. Perot then proposed carefully removing the bricks and turning them around so that the inside untainted side was now the outside. Problem solver.
Perot was really a one-off production. God broke the mold. . .
Even though pissed that his candidacy caused the Repub. loss to Clinton, I have always said I wasted my vote. But, your recapitulation of the man's thinking -out-of-the-box nature makes me wonder if I would not STILL vote for him again!
Regardless.
about the bricks: He had FU money, used it to effect the best fix. YES!
Just go with it….
Traveling through China several decades ago, I forgot to say "No Ice" in my cocktail. I drank it and got the runs. One-half of a Cipro tablet solved the problem. Contaminated water supplies exist.
Mexico has a problem. We have a problem in the US with Concentrated animal corals where 1000's of cattle are housed and the soil is contaminated with E-coli and C-Diff. Wind transfers the fine soil into adjacent fields and contaminates vegetable crops. Since 6 % of our red meat supply is contaminated with C-Diff and E-Coli, you do NOT want to consume anything but well cooked meat. The other solution is buy locally from farmers raising grass feed beef. I learned my lesson two years ago when I ate a rare filet. Mayo antibiotics saved my life. It is a serious problem and the real issues are not addressed and the focus is on measles. Sad state of medical affairs. CDC needs to be re-educated and fix the problems.
Thomas I always have figured eating solid cuts of meat(ie steak vs burger) is mostly safe. I can not conceive how E coli gets into the middle of solid meat. But, you appear to be saying this is not true-- you got sick from a rare steak?!
which antibiotic?
I wonder if contamination of solid meat is from not cleaning the band saws often enough in big processing plants.
I found having a meat grinder at home is good for making my own burger. I avoid large packaged burger meat at stores, particularly from places like Walmart. I found our local grocery has thin steaks T-bone, rib eye and sometimes other cuts, that cost about $6 to $9 each and are just the right size to cut in half for each of us for lunch = $3 to $4.50 each. It is also about the right (fits in the palm of your hand) recommended amount of protein.
Visit my website www.vegetable-gardening-online.com for lots of helpful information on growing many vegetable, fall and winter gardening, container and raised bed gardening. I have lots of charts and guides for free download to help with planning and planting a garden.
Sorry friends, but have you seen any port-a-potties in the fields where they pick crops? I have here in America, but do you think they wash their hands after the toilet use? Where do you think they go to the bathroom and wash their hands in the fields in Mexico?? They just do not spend the money for those items even though they SHOULD. How many other crops are harvested under those slack sanitary conditions? Fresh vegetables are becoming less inviting to consume, unless you grow them yourself, and not everyone has room for vegetable gardens or warm greenhouses, or the time to maintain them. I guess it depends on how much you want to stay “well.” Good luck with that! I had a beautiful greenhouse once. Wasps took it over. :-(
Another reason and hope for local farmers markets and home deliveries. Maybe not perfect but better odds if doing it oneself won't work.
I have seen them at the large organic operation near my old home. They had green houses and fields plus a store so we could go during the week and buy stuff all week instead of waiting for the Saturday farmers market in town.
Back to the farming days! I like the raised bed idea. Catch on younger generations! Getting closer to 80 than 70.
In my mind’s eye, I see my dear mother by a garden in the state of KY. I think she probably had just planted it! I have the picture somewhere! Thanks Dr. Malones! Finally we know the source for now.
Thank you both...good Doctors... I'm now soooo hungry for a good, fresh, salad... that I must get to my nearest local fresh market and pray that they have something that looks as good as the pictures of your beautiful veggies do! 😋
Growing a Greens garden is one of the easiest but short lived endeavors here in “Heaven on Earth” Alaska…unless you spend big bucks on heated greenhouses. Our short season for greens does reap glorious harvests but we mainly rely on cole crops and veggies that can be frozen or canned. One of the trade offs to living in the Last Frontier.
Waiting for the book to be released! I keep checking days off for August 4th! Pre-ordered of course. We finally are enjoying our garden this season. It was a weird garden season this year. It was cold enough that it stunted the plants but there was never a frost and it has made everything quite late this year. It’s not a complaint now as things are ramping up and the food you grow yourself tastes 100X better than anything you’ll ever buy even at Whole Foods.
Thank you!
For anyone else interested, here is the link:
https://www.amazon.com/Homesteading-Health-Familys-Guide-Self-Sufficiency/dp/1510788883/
No need Doc’s. We support people we believe in!
There is always a source of contamination, many times it’s obvious. On the pond where we bought a small cottage house the water is tested annually, always exceptionally clean. There came a time where E.coli was detected on one side of the pond. It began by a family dogs swimming started getting infections. The home owners paid to get water tests done and they traced it to a run off stream coming from a hill along the pond. Sure enough a property owner had recently bought 2 cows and was piling up the cows waste with a small pay loader just up from the stream that drained into the pond. Eventually, after many arguments, the property owner got rid of the cows and the pile of waste, and the problem slowly cleared.
Sometimes issues like this don’t become a reality, until someone or a pet close to you gets sick. Unregulated food production or pharmaceutical production, as we know, can kill. Many times, as wrong as it may be. there’s an obvious answer but no one seems to end up paying a liability price. I guess this is today’s reality…
J.G.
I might have shared this before but perhaps it is important enough to share again. Many humans do not eat "out of the garden". Many have become aware enough to restrict their purchases of food from Certified Organic. At the present time Certified Organic is institutionally challenged due to being under USDA. It has been "captured" and the certification means little in today's food economy. Which means that growing one's own food is even more important. We buy from Sustainably Grown local farms at a farmer's mkt, (and grow our own) so we can ask questions and get answers about the local farms. OrganicEye.org has sued USDA Organic thru the Commerce Dept., but the new administration has not noticed. If you want to support OrganicEye, go to their website and get more information about the US food system, and add that to what is being said here. Thanks so much for speaking to this particular issue today. As I was born in Oak Ridge, where the atomic bomb was created, I grew up on can food...if I had eaten out of the garden, I probably would not bee alive today.
I guess it’s time for me to start a small garden. Thank you!
The above ground green leaves of beets is an excellent anti-cancer food. Best if eaten raw or lightly steamed.
Thank you for this. (Your writing is so fluid, it carries you along without effort, but these things don’t write themselves; so, thank you for the time and effort.) MSM would like us to think Taco Bell is the main/only problem, but anyone with a brain in their head (and willing to use it) can easily understand that the problem is nationwide because the chain that supplied Taco Bell is linked to thousands of other “Taco Bells.” Thank you for laying that out so clearly. I appreciate you two.
“Iceberg” — good one!
A reminder to buy locally and enjoy fruits etc when in season and freeze them for off season use.
Thanks to you two, my how my Garden Grows!
;-)
I have avoided lettuce for decades. It wasn't because of fear of diseases. I just don't like it. I prefer other vegetables, most of which are more nutritious anyway.