In fact, the packages of everything are getting smaller while the price
stays the same or increases. That just happened with the paper towels I buy.
Now the role has 54 sheets instead of 59. I wonder if they think we won't
notice or if they just don't care.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 2:57 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: More On the Pig
Thank goodness for the food co-op in Port Townsend. They do handle lots of
local farm products, including beef and pork, along with very healthy
chickens.
But times they are a changing. Cathy picked up a bag of granulated sugar
the other day and was startled to see that it is no longer a five pound bag.
It's four pounds. But for years my one pound of coffee has been thirteen
ounces. And now they have made the can shorter, so I'm sure that if we
check the coffee will be more like ten or eleven ounces. The potatoes I
bought as a young man, ten pounds for a dollar, have gone up dramatically in
price. I can understand that, but what I don't understand is why those #1
Russets sold today, look just like the culls we used to use as seed potatoes
or as pig feed.
And why do the super markets think they have to wash everything down?
As a boy, I would grab a bunch of carrots with the dirt still clinging.
Today the tops are cut off and the carrots are put in plastic wraps, and
watered. So are the potatoes. That ten pound bag of spuds now has at least
two or three rotten potatoes at the bottom of the sack. Have you ever
shoved your thumb into a rotten potato?
Yuk!
We shop at the local farmer's markets when we can. They still allow for
dirt and leaves.
But it won't be too long before we just have a feeding tube sticking out of
our necks, and we can hook up to whatever slop is being passed off as food.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/3/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have you noticed that pork chops have changed, as have pork roasts?in the meat.
They used to be deliscious and part of the reason for that was the fat
running through the meat. But then the health police said that fat is
bad and the industry began breeding pigs so that there would be less fat
That means, dryer meat with no wonderful rims of fat around the porkchops.
And that is one reason that I don't eat pork chops anymore. That's not
the only reason. I've read about the conditions under which the pigs
are raised.
Now if I had access to, and could afford, pork from pigs grown on an
old fashioned farm, bred in the old fashioned way, maybe I'd consider
eating a pork chop. Yes yes, I know about recipes that are supposed to
compensate for the dryness of the meat, but it just isn't the same.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 11:39 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] More On the Pig
Just kidding, Miriam. I've never taken the life of any critter, much
less a pig. Even when my grandma grabbed a fat hen and hauled it off
to the chopping block, I could never watch the actual chop...well,
once I did, but never again. I did watch my mother hold a rabbit up
by its hind legs and whack it behind the ears with a short, heavy
stick. But despite my inability to do the deed, I never suffered from
an inability to chow down on freshly fried chicken or rabbit.
So the smart pig roaming around Roger's neighborhood is safe from me.
Just as the cute pot belly pig dancing around our cabin was safe. In
fact, if we'd not found the owner, we had talked about hauling that
funny little guy over to our eldest daughter's home. She loves pigs
and at the time they had a five acre farm near Yakima. Of course I do
love bacon and pork chops.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on subjects like that? People who
can't kill another living creature, but can smack their lips over the
hot, tasty remains?
At one time, when my eldest daughter was around 4 years old, we were
given a Ginnie Pig, a rather mean fellow who liked to bite finger
tips. We tried giving him away but found no takers. Finally I said,
"I'm going to release him to freedom". So up the alley I went. I
found a very thick stretch of weeds and opened Petey's cage. Off he
went. As I turned to go back home our cat passed me, headed for the
thick grass, hot on the trail of Petey.
Nothing to do but to go back and try to out hunt the cat. Even blind,
I beat the cat. So we went back to looking for some unsuspecting
person. A woman and her 8 year old son finally rose to the challenge
and took pig, cage and all. As they were loading the cage into their
car, the darn little critter bit the boy on the finger. "Are you sure
he's friendly?" the mom asked.
I assured her that he was probably just nervous, since he was not
accustomed to cars.
We never heard another word from them.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/2/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's terrible! Pigs are very intelligent animals. This one seems toabilities.
have figured out how to become the center of attention in his
community. I think he should be honored for his public relations
Miriam
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Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 1:20 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: More On the Pig
This is the trouble with giving pigs a bit of the limelight. Just
mention them and they try to Hog all the news.
My cold hearted solution would be to gather your neighbors, catch the
pig, build a big bond fire and have a real pig roast.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/31/15, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The local television news just reported that about five to six miles
away from where I live someone found a pig getting into their garbage.
Then later in the day several other people reported seeing a pig
running around their neighborhoods. A news crew finally got a
picture of it and asked anyone who knows who might have lost a pig
to call them. I called my neighbor who also saw the news report and
they confirmed that it is definitely the same pig that stopped by to
play with the dogs. It is solid black. No one knows where it came from.
