Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Killing your own meat just came up in a discussion on BYC and I was saying it still amazes me how many people who have never killed their own meat!
Just think of the sheer number of people out there who are dependent on someone else to provide their meat for them! How vulnerable that makes America in so many ways. The days when a housewife would go out back and kill a few hens when company was coming for dinner are completely gone. Think of the power taken out of our hands by the simple act of prepackaging our foods for us for a couple of generations. You can look back at the old advertisements and how they touted "convenience" and somehow equated that with "progress". Funny how, now, trendy people are "getting back to nature" and think its something new!
I was raised so differently than most folks that it kind of tinted my view of the world for awhile. I would meet women at work who had never processed their own animals, didn't know where eggs came from and grew sick of the mere mention of the origins of their meat. I always viewed these women as the minority and had a mild contempt for their "airheaded" attitudes...until I was out amongst them awhile. Then it slowly dawned on me that I was the minority, and this was inconceivable to me!Guess the lack of TV during my formative years did stunt my education in one regard....I hadn't known the general population were so helpless and dependent.
As the years wore on, I was considered an oddity and became the butt of good-humored ribbing on the subject of being a "hippy" or a "hillbilly". It was only mildly irritating to have my "backwoods ways" mentioned, with the implication being that I was somehow ignorant to modern advances and conveniences. It didn't bother me much, as I always carried a reverse snobbery on the subject, a mild contempt for the helpless and dependent people of the world.
I guess now that feeling is vindicated but I wish more folks would get with it, so we could have more people with which to converse on the subject of being independent. Especially in my neck of the woods...I think these folks have fallen the farthest, as they still feel they are making "progress" when they buy everything from the store. Probably decades of being in poverty has jaundiced their views on "doing without" now that they have credit cards, decent wages, etc.
How far have we strayed from our roots?
Just think of the sheer number of people out there who are dependent on someone else to provide their meat for them! How vulnerable that makes America in so many ways. The days when a housewife would go out back and kill a few hens when company was coming for dinner are completely gone. Think of the power taken out of our hands by the simple act of prepackaging our foods for us for a couple of generations. You can look back at the old advertisements and how they touted "convenience" and somehow equated that with "progress". Funny how, now, trendy people are "getting back to nature" and think its something new!
I was raised so differently than most folks that it kind of tinted my view of the world for awhile. I would meet women at work who had never processed their own animals, didn't know where eggs came from and grew sick of the mere mention of the origins of their meat. I always viewed these women as the minority and had a mild contempt for their "airheaded" attitudes...until I was out amongst them awhile. Then it slowly dawned on me that I was the minority, and this was inconceivable to me!Guess the lack of TV during my formative years did stunt my education in one regard....I hadn't known the general population were so helpless and dependent.
As the years wore on, I was considered an oddity and became the butt of good-humored ribbing on the subject of being a "hippy" or a "hillbilly". It was only mildly irritating to have my "backwoods ways" mentioned, with the implication being that I was somehow ignorant to modern advances and conveniences. It didn't bother me much, as I always carried a reverse snobbery on the subject, a mild contempt for the helpless and dependent people of the world.
I guess now that feeling is vindicated but I wish more folks would get with it, so we could have more people with which to converse on the subject of being independent. Especially in my neck of the woods...I think these folks have fallen the farthest, as they still feel they are making "progress" when they buy everything from the store. Probably decades of being in poverty has jaundiced their views on "doing without" now that they have credit cards, decent wages, etc.
How far have we strayed from our roots?
, fuel your body for years with a substandard, dirty fuel, complain to everyone within shouting distance that you have health issues, take some more chemicals to try to fix it, complain about the cost of the chemicals, continue to feed your cells dirty fuel and more chemicals and expect to get a new result. Its frustrating when people take no responsibility for their own health and expect the medical profession to fix it. 
