Looking for friends who don't eat "clean" and healthy

southernoregongrape wrote: »

Shhh, don't tell anyone, but if something is truly "organic, clean, natural" it was raised without any pesticides, or unnatural foods.
Our orchard was organic and natural. We ate around the worms in the apples.
Our beef was grass fed, but not truly natural because we fed them oats before we butchered them because otherwise they were too tough to chew.
Our chickens were not free range. The critters would have come down from the hills and killed them all if they were running free. They also did not eat natural foods. We bought their food in sacks from the local farm supply.
Our milk was not homogenized nor pasteurized, nor did we drink full fat. We skimmed that to make butter etc.
And worst of all, we actually ate a lot of processed foods with preservatives. Salt and sugar being our preservatives of choice and the big pressure cooker our processor of choice.
If any one would like a natural organic chicken and dumplings recipe, I'd be only too glad to share a true old fashioned one I used many times over the years. Of course it starts with buying x number of chicks and raising them behind the wood stove in the kitchen to keep them from freezing. And many who laud organic and natural might cringe when they find out that you have to actually kill the chicken, then scald it in boiling water then pluck the feathers and then gut it before you can even think of cutting it into pieces to boil.
I personally fell in love with "factory farming" when I finally went to a grocery store when I was in high school and found out that others were actually willing to do all the work and make it available at a reasonable cost.
To each his own, but I personally adore reliable electricity, flush toilets (outhouses were no fun in the middle of the night when it was pouring down rain), eggs that I don't have to gather, etc.