She is absolutely correct about just how hard it would be to grow your own food sufficient to be independent, but it is pretty easy (if you have easy access to the land) to grow enough veggies to make a pretty significant impact, and if you go a bit further and embrace canning, dehydrating and pickling, you can get a good bit further. On a smidge less than 2 acres, we grow fruit and veg enough that we don’t have to shop for very much, and as the orchard matures it will be even less. But enough to not have to buy anything? Yeah, not very likely.
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Not to mention being willing to take the time to do it.
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i have the time, some space, and enough knowledge (from formative years growing up on a modest farm, with acres of garden and livestock) to try.
however, i can’t grow coffee at sea level, nor can this climate and salinity of soil sustain many food crops.
if i am lucky, i can trade tropical tree fruits for some fresh veg, but corn? beans? wheat? rice? not likely.
that’s before we even factor in all the PFAS in the ground water, tap water and the fish i can catch in the bay or ocean here.
all we can do in the upcoming uncertainty regarding the safety of supermarket foods, is be as careful as we can possibly be. there will be no guarantees. farmer’s markets are something to look into, if you have that access where you are. get to know the local producers - again, if you can - and buy from trusted sources.
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Thanks!
I guess they’re MadeBad bars. 
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Evidently!
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Andy Ricchiuto, a father-of-three from Indiana, tells how he started using AG1 this year after hearing about it on Joe Rogan and Dr Andrew Huberman’s podcasts.
But routine blood tests revealed his liver enzymes spiked, ten-fold. “The only thing that had really changed about my lifestyle, as far as what I was eating or drinking, was AG1.”
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Bought a cucumber yesterday, now I see it’s a Sun Fed, the brand recently recalled for salmonella. That was a couple of weeks or so ago, and I don’t see any recent news about the recall.
It would be great if there were some sort of central site that issues assurances that recalled brands are now safe.
I’m also wondering if salmonella gets inside whole produce. If I wash and the peel a cucumber, would the inside of an infected one be okay? Is it just a surface contamination?
A lot of fuss over one cuke, I know. I should just use it to scare a cat!
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Generally, it’s surface contamination. Of course, peeling it without contaminating the inside can be tricky, and scrubbing it off generally doesn’t work. Better to get shit-free produce in the first place! (Harder than it should be, though.)
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Depends on the source. Lettuce contamination is often internal, like with the lettuce that was recalled that was grown downstream from a cattle feed lot. Ugh.
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Health officials identified the eggs as Handsome Brook Farms Kirkland brand of Signature Organic Pasture Raised 24-Count Eggs, which were distributed to Costco locations in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Watch what you’re feeding your darling kitties.
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OTC cough and cold meds are famously ineffective and offer little but side effects and placebo, but maybe choose ones with less “potential foreign material contamination?”
The recalled medicine was sold at Costco stores in Midwest and Southeast states between Oct. 30, 2024 and Nov. 30, 2024. The items bear the item number 1729556. According to LNK International’s notice, recalled units are marked with the lot code of P140082 along the side of the medicine boxes.
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Am I just learning about more of these recalls from this topic, or has the incidence really increased?
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Yeah, I’ve been wondering that too…
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Outbreak Trends and Future Efforts
There were 179 Class I recalls for the fiscal year that ended in September, which is up from 145 Class I recalls in 2023 but less than the 185 recorded in 2022. Similarly, CDC numbers indicated that the number of high-profile recalls has increased only slightly from last year.Dec 9, 2024
So not really, just the awareness.
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