Skip to main content

Madness and Loveliness

 I’ve just finished this reading this…


Sheesh…just when I thought the human race couldn’t become any greedier or more stupid, this bombshell drops. It’s very science-based but also very readable. It also makes a lot of sense. Of course, I doubt anything will be done about the state of our major food manufacturing businesses (because all they care about is a) making ‘food’ in the cheapest and quickest way possible so they can b) make huge profits. Ironically, you can’t take money with you when you die, and eating a diet of UPF will ensure you die sooner and with more health problems than you should. Of course, the cynic in me wonders if the food giants are in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies - ‘we’ll cock up people’s health with this crap, and you can make profits treating their health problems. Just don’t tell them they could sort out many of their health problems by eating proper food though, or our plans for world domination will be scuppered.’ Humans - greedy and stupid. We’ll reap what we’ve sown come the zombie apocalypse. 

It all makes me want to vomit. As did some of the food manufacturing processes that were described in this book. Eurgh….yack…and ptui. Read this if you want to shout, ‘Dear goodness me…NO!’ and ‘That’s DISGUSTING!’ out-loud, and make your peacefully sleeping puppy dog called Nell jump up and start barking because she thinks the house is being invaded.

I’m going to be even more eagle-eyed when it comes to what I eat now. 

On a more cheerful and life-affirming note, I can confirm there are at least four baby swallows in the laundry nest. They were all hanging their heads over the edge yesterday afternoon. Only a couple more weeks and they will be fledging. The nest box attached to the shed at the top of the garden is full of very noisy sparrow babies, like we haven’t got enough sparrows knocking around as it is. I rescued a fledging blackbird from the greenhouse the other day, for despite the doors being WIDE open, it was still trying to escape through the glass. And I’ve heard wrens, but not seen them. Little hedge ninjas, they are. We have a bumblebee nest half way up the courtyard steps. I am STILL having to warn Nell about not eating bees. Luckily, she hasn’t swallowed one yet, but I’ve had to rescue a couple of miner bees she’s dug up, and dry them off before sending them on their way.

We are enjoying a lovely spell of warm, dry and sunny weather at the moment. In fact, I have to go now and do some pot watering. I’ve just noticed my dill is wilting. 



Comments

Anonymous said…
Reading that makes one understand why it is important to keep you soil healthy and thereby your vegetables. Know thy butcher too!
KJ
4 June 2023 at 22:36
Denise said…
Absolutely. It’s horrific what is happening in world food production to the detriment of the planet. Talk about a species putting itself on the path to self-destruction. I’m glad I read it, because it gives me more control over my life, and I am grateful to be in the position to be able to do so. Small and local is the definitely the way to go, but that costs time and money which many people don’t have.
5 June 2023 at 08:43
Anonymous said…
You are of course right. We are lucky we can afford it. My question is can we afford not changing our ways including make real food available to all or are we as a society willing to carry the cross of seeing people suffer from food related deceased and pay the price via healthcare. I’ll step down from my soap box now.
KJ
7 June 2023 at 00:53
Denise said…
You carry on, KJ! Here, the good old NHS picks up the bill for people’s poor health choices. But then the good old NHS is crumbling before our eyes. I hope to goodness I can always carry on being responsible for, and looking after, my own health.
7 June 2023 at 06:58
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Frosted Dawn Enigma

The decorators are in at the moment. Stairs and landing. Given my previous history of 'Hoo Ha Occurring on Stairs ' - reference the Trapped Under the Sofa Incident and the Foot Wedged Between Bookcase and Stair Rise Debacle - I thought it wise to pay for professionals to decorate the stairs and landing rather than get myself in a mix with ladder and plank combinations and achieve the Magic Three of staircase accidents. The decorators are a father and son combo who go by the  names of Craig and David. This automatically causes me entertainment. 'Came in on a Monday, prepped, filled and undercoated, back on Thursday, first top coating, by Friday finishing touches...' Okay, not as frisky or well-scanned as the original song, but you get where I'm coming from. Anyway, before they started the job Craig asked what colour I wanted for the walls. 'Same colour as the downstairs walls, please,' said I. 'Dulux Frosted Dawn.' And then white for all the woodw
2 comments
Read more

Day 1 - Decisions Are Made Beyond the Author's Control.

‘Well,’ I say, looking at the expectant faces gathered around the huge table in the Great Dining Hall of Much Malarkey Manor, ‘I didn’t think it was going to happen this year, but it is!’ There is a sharp intake of breath as everyone wonders of what I speak. I’ve been muttering about all sorts recently, and I’m not talking liquorice here either.   ‘The Much Malarkey Manor Annual and Traditional Christmas Story!’ I say, and wait for the expulsed air of relief to settle before I continue. ‘I thought we had done it all. I thought we had covered every Christmas story there was. I’ve been wracking my brains for a full two months now, trying to come up with something we haven’t done before and then it hit me! We haven’t done a version of one of the Great Christmas Films of Yore!’ ‘Your what?’ says Mrs Slocombe, who is more interested in the selection of pastries I have brought to this breakfast meeting, because that is what one does, isn’t it? Eat pastries at breakfast mee
8 comments
Read more

Launched!

  I was going to wait until tomorrow to launch the ‘Hallo Tarot!’ website, what with tomorrow being 1st July and, therefore, a nice tidy date for a beginning. But this afternoon, I became involved in a flurry of final tidy loose ends activity, and thus ended up cracking the metaphorical bottle of champagne against the ship of which I am Captain and whoosh! Off she went into the World Wide Web!  You can find it here : www.hallotarot.co.uk The blog is moving there, too, so unless things go horribly wrong, this will be the last entry here.  I hope to see you on the other side then! Let me know what you think. 
Post a Comment
Read more