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Twenty-five N.C. school districts were affected by the recent beef recall. This news has been on all the local news broadcasts all week. They has been describing how Wake County, one of the largest school districts in the state stands to lose as much as $100,000 unless they are reimbursed by the supplier. They say that there haven’t been any cases of children getting sick from the recalled meat. They also claim that none of the meat have been served to children. That is a bit hard to believe considering the recalled meat goes as far back to 2006. They probably just do not want to cause panic and undue worry, but I’m sure some of that meat has been cooked up and served.

While my children do not eat school food, they bring their lunches from home, it makes me wonder how much of the recalled beef I’VE served them at home. They never mentioned whether some of this same beef was ever released for public consumption or if they were only used for intitutional use. That is truly worrisome.

Do you know why the beef was recalled? Granted, we do eat dead meat. We prefer it that way. However, we do prefer the animals to be healthy before we slaughter them for food. You don’t have to be a scientist to figure out that when meat is unhealthy or dead (decaying), it can’t be good for you. A California slaughter plant violated this basic premise by serving up cows that are on the verge of death. They are prodded to stand and walk to slaughter just so they can say it was alive when slaughtered. There are even allegations that sick cows were fork lifted to slaughter so long as they were still breathing. This is sad and cruel and an apalling example of greed. That’s the bottom line.

Please help support the work of the investigators who bring these shocking abuses to light by making an emergency contribution to The Humane Society of the United States’ Investigations Fund.

According to this article, meat and milk products from cloned animals will soon be on your grocery shelves. Yummy! Doesn’t that make you practically drool in anticipation? Yeah, well get used to it because soon enough you’ll probably be drooling from having eaten the stuff.

It is bad enough that the food we eat now are full of chemicals, hormones and god knows what else. Worse, they don’t even taste like they’re supposed to anymore. So how can they be better? They all claim to be more nutritious and better for you because they have added vitamins. Hmmm…. if you have to add vitamins to foods that are already supposed to be nutrient rich, like milk and orange juice, shouldn’t that be raising some kind of flag for you?

I don’t know about you, but right now, I am getting visions of a bigger and better backyard garden. At least I’ll know what’s going in my vegetables. As for meat and milk, at the rate that they are messing things up, I really think I’ll be doing without them soon.

Stayed home from work today. I finally got caught by the flu bug. I feel weak and can hardly breath. I am all stuffy my head feels like a rock; and this is how we all feel to varying degrees. Yes, all five of us. We hadn’t done this in a long time.

Funny thing is, between not being to talk right because of stuffy noses and can’t hear because of pressure in our ears, we can’t understand each other so we have to repeat everything we say to each other before we get each other.

‘Ma, eht wahn ter tee’.

‘What? it’s only ten’.

No! I WANT SOME TEA!

ah, well why didn’t you say that in the first place?

 I did!!!

I have never been a super clean person. I mean, I liked being clean and having clean surroundings, but I have never been one to be obsessive about it. After all, my momma always said, “a little dirt never killed anybody”. Apparently there is some truth to what she said according to the article below.

Too Clean? Fight Against Germs Fuels Allergy Increase
Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: Fri Sep 14, 10:45 AM ET

A dose of dirt could be the best medicine for preventing allergies in kids who’ve never had them.

While avoiding excessive contact with germs can help prevent the spread of infections, going overboard with cleanliness could be at least partly responsible for an increase in allergies among children, mounting research suggests.

“We’ve developed a cleanlier lifestyle, and our bodies no longer need to fight germs as much as they did in the past,” said Marc McMorris, a pediatric allergist at the University of Michigan Health System. “As a result, the immune system has shifted away from fighting infection to developing more allergic tendencies.”

More than 50 percent of Americans ages 6 to 59 years are sensitive to at least one allergen, according to a national survey conducted from 1988 to 1994 by the National Institutes of Health. That’s two to five times higher than rates found in a previous 1976 to 1980 survey.

Recent research has found evidence for the so-called hygiene hypothesis, which explains how more sterile environments can lead to higher rates of illness. For instance, scientists in Germany recently found children exposed to farm animals (and the associated bacteria and other microbes hiding out there) were about half as likely as other children to develop the autoimmune illness Crohn’s disease.

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