#KnowYourProducer
I gave a talk about food sovereignty the other evening…here’s a 10 point summary:
1. The modern US food system sucks
2. The plant-based agenda is rooted in eugenics and discouraging procreation.
3. The modern supermarket system is less than 100 years old, prior to this we personally knew the butcher, baked our own bread and grew our own veggies and eggs
4. We’ve outsourced our food relationship to the government
5. USDA/FDA and Congress has been co-opted by Big Ag/Big Food
6. Business operates on a profit motive (as it should)
7. Cheap, low quality inputs means higher profits
8. Convenience foods are more shelf stable and profitable.
9. Big Food/Big Ag don’t really care about you
10. The government is incentivized to have an unhealthy population
Bonus: I find it interesting to have a pharmacy in a grocery store.
Conclusion: ‘Trusted third parties’ cannot be (duh). #knowyourproducer
Fiat-driven development…I did a seminar with strongtowns.org last year and the intersections with low-time-pref mindset are worth digging into. For that matter, consider hosting Chuck Marohn on TFTC.
Yes Altman and ‘cagey’ is perfect term to describe him. I didn’t mean idealistic to say he’s a Pollyanna but he doesn’t seem to understand we can see through his facade.
Not sure if there’s another reason for being.
got one last year…don’t know how I found my impact without it.
Society has deluded us into fearing the loss or lack of what has become ‘health insurance’ will result in folks dying in the streets. Harken back to the hyperbolic run-up to the ACA/Ob-Care.
Truth be told Health Insurance gained a foothold as an untaxed fringe benefit during the high tax periods during and after WWII. When rates were as high as 94% in the late ‘40s then hovering around 70% in the 1950s, corporations used it as part of an incentive package that couldn’t be dinged by the IRS.
Prior to this we paid what is now the ‘out of pocket rate’ and were incentivized to make healthy choices in our day to day lives.
Now the Government-run healthcare system tells people to eat really bad cheap food and take lots of expensive meds which in-turn lines the corporate pockets of the companies that financed the very elected servants that created and approved the aforementioned ACA…see: Self-Licking-Ice-Cream-Cone.
Fortunately we have several great options today. First, DO NOT follow the USDA/FDA dietary recommendations, they were created to hide inflation and payoff corporations. Second, ditch these scam health insurances that include massages and fat shots, instead purchase a ‘catastrophic care’ policy for when the shit really hits the fan and you NEED a Doc. Alternatively, consider one of the newer entrants to the space such as nostr:nprofile1qqsq0rqv0z34umfmc2g23cqfw9zwr47ywxq47glge7smpq4cpd2zf4qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshs47yauf (not sponsored, just read about them). Third, find a doc that’s honest and doesn’t blindly google your symptoms then write a prescription…sometimes we need to be told to stop with the twinkies. Last and I believe most important, know the person that grows your food. Grossry stores (sp. intended) can hide crap food through the layers and before you say local food is too expensive, how much are you spending on that health insurance?
Nope…ran for 31 years in the Army. Competitive long runs, short runs, sllllooowwww runs (aka accordions). Body broken, not running anymore unless there’s a bear chasing me.
Took a page from Peter Attia and now I workout so I can pickup great grand babies when I’m 95.
Considering our line of business (artisan meat production)…would it be heresy to have the nostrich butchered and packaged?
Thanks for putting this one together CJ. Being true to your pod’s name…Hope all is well
https://fountain.fm/episode/hMuZZSj2tslFFLswUqYI
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Where exactly is this?
You forget to add the cost of Ozempic and Lipitor
Head over to the Olympic Peninsula…Paul spends lots of time up in BC but his PO Box is still in Olympia and I think his warehouse is still in Shelton. Maybe get some samples…could be a great trip.
Looks like sofa-city for Shi Shi
Stealing this for a small town community group…
Ranchlife struggle is real…protesters blocking the road demanding free alfalfa pellets!
Recommend highly, just returned from week in DC…waaay better than airline propaganda videos
Half way through this one. Too many parallels, it’s as if Islington is a bitcoiner/anarcho-cap…
DC is where all the cool kids are this week!…we’re in town to lobby to Decentralize Food Production. One we’re working is the PRIME Act then call your US reps to support
https://farmandranchfreedom.org/prime-act-for-small-livestock-farmers/
First review while stuck in traffic on the airport shuttle: very positive response and interaction from the staffers we met with on both sides…except one…my own US Rep, TX-23 Tony Gonzalez. His staff refused to take five minutes to talk with us and left a wet-behind-the-ears kid to nervously toss us out the office.
Mark Twain said it best: Politicians are like diapers. Time to get a Bitcoiner into TX 23!
Government overreach at all levels…unelect the Karen’s and delete the prohibition or defund the enforcement authority.