Lord knows. The Brits are pretty crazed about food safety, not always in a good way. Trials of GMOs got vandalized if memory serves.
Here it's the war on the cow which is scary. Did you know that if all dairy cows were like those in the UK & Ireland we could eat something like 2/3rds of all present dairy cows and not lose milk? Happy, healthy cows are productive as all hell. UK cows live better than UK war veterans and they're still determined to get rid of them.
That IS scary, especially considering how much beef we eat here. There’s a war on cows starting here as well, though likely not in as advanced stages as over there. The powers here are mainly focusing on dairy cows, using the century old avian flu strain that’s been all over the news lately, as an excuse. We buy our milk and cream directly from the dairy (raw) and I make our butter with the cream. I’m greatly concerned that I’ll have to buy these things at the supermarket in the future.
Great post Samantha. I also did a post a while back about GMO's and surprised at those who had no idea. Although, the newer labelling requirements of bioengineered ingredients seemed to have caused some concern now for some. Little did people know that those foods have been in the system for a while now, just under the GMO heading. Awareness of where your food is coming from is so important.
Thanks Danni! I’ve written about them before as well and don’t want to belabor the topic, but I came across several completely uninformed people last week and just had to write it.
Ideally, growing one’s own food as we do each season, preserving it in various ways, and using organic principles is best. But I realize not everyone can do that. My biggest encouragement to others, even those in an apartment is to at least grow something — even if it’s just culinary herbs on your balcony.
Heading to your page to see if I can find your GMO article.
Sadie — Thank you so much for your kind words. And, yes, she was a Cluster-B GMO storm and probably DEI as well! All we can do is try, love, and I think you’re doing great.
We’ve been hearing about the water issues in your area. Here’s a clue (and I know nothing): it’s all about the cobalt mine and it’s in the “Inflation Reduction Act.” People are on the take. I pray pray pray that I’m wrong, but Gov Little may be one of them.
We order a LOT of things from Azure Standard. They are amazing. There’s a similar one we haven’t tried, but when I find the name, I’ll let you know.
Heading to read the story you linked.
Love you, sis! Pray for us — for the DS to pull the trigger on our home before end of year.
Thanks for that! Praying for you guys. There is a huge copper mine being formed not too far away from us. Hercules Metals has held town hall meetings around here, but they are just 800 of the 3K claims that have been filed on our mountain. God only knows who the other 2200 claims belong to! I have played cards with ole Brad. He used to be just a rancher, but it seems everyone is open to corruption and I am so sick of it. Yes, they want to put in a truck stop at the base of Midvale Hill, oh hwy 95. We fought and fought and P&Z denied the rezone but the county commissioners passed it anyway. So dirty, even in this little county.
That’s so disturbing, Sadie. I know corruption has been around forever, but I think it has really become almost ubiquitous these days. The cobalt mine is really bothersome. I hadn’t heard about the copper mine. I need to read about it.
Hello! So sorry about your damage from that bitch Beryl. Pretty sure she was a GMO hurricane. I am almost literally pulling my hair out trying to find food that has not been altered and degraded and adulterated. I am out of 100% cream for my coffee this morning, so things are tough. I TRY to eat nothing processed. There is a great store in Boise, but I am 2 hours from there. Would love to grow my own, but our season is short and the water is an issue. We are inundated with smoke from wildfires currently, which makes being outdoors super awful. My daughter is also on the hunt for food that is better. I tell you....geographic location has everything to do with how well you can or can't eat. In Florida it is so great and simple to find food. Here? These old ranchers are not having it. I did find this site and ordered from them last week. I was very pleased. azurestandard.com Good to see you girlie, even if you are a body in a freezer. Haha! I just wrote this recently. I am so frustrated with what they have done to our food. If you visit another country the food is MUCH better than food here in the USA. I just read that over 73% of American food is ultra processed and I believe it!! https://sadiejay.substack.com/p/the-food-the-bad-and-the-ugly
Nice ice bath Gluck! Hot and then cold therapy are vastly under-used and under-appreciated. I just take hot showers and cold showers. Do you do any form of hot therapy? Maybe just live in Houston and spend an hour outside in the afternoon.
We’ll have a sauna when we move to our acreage in Idaho. For now, just training outside this time of year is enough! Haha I also practice Wim Hof breathing method each day.
Wim Hof breathing method: eleven minutes well spent each morning. I can hold my breath so much longer than I ever could in the past. I can feel my lungs getting stronger.
Same here Lawdog! And it relieves all types of stress, elevates mood, and so many other positive things. The ice baths have been a huge blessing for me as well — 3 minutes out of my day (now that I’m no longer making, buying and hauling ice to my bathtub) and it’s life-changing!
Interesting article. thank you. Ice baths? Go you. I follow this couple in sweden (cabin in the woods type of thing - in case I have to implement my Plan B which is a cabin in the....)
Here is their method of ice bath i thought you'd be interested in....God not for me...
Thanks for the video! I’ll check it out once I submit this reply. The man I follow for the amazing breathing technique AND ice baths is Wim Hof. He’s in the Netherlands. You might get something out of his breathing and breath hold technique. He’s on YouTube. If you decide to check it out, make certain you get to his actual channel. There are a lot of copycats out there.
As for the ice baths, your reaction is most people’s reaction, understandably. But you only need to stay in 2 minutes to get the benefits. I happen to be up to 3 minutes at this point and have an immediate goal of 5 minutes, which will ultimately end up at 10 or 12 minutes. I know, go ahead and say what you think: This person is a freak! I’ve heard it before haha.
Thanks. Truthfully, i wish to get 'there'. ie to a stage where 'im in control' ie be able to take the ice bath and 'function' and extract the benefits from such conscious decisons (this is good, do it). A bit like you and your awarness on Frankinstein foods that you refer to. They are our choices to make. Sinn Fein (as we say in Gaelic, which means, 'I alone').
So yea, well done. One day, more so if Plan B comes to fruition as I think it probably will which is a cabin in the woods by a lake (ice baths) in Sweden. It rains a lot here in Ireland young Lady but it frigging snows like it rains here in Ireland in fecking Sweden. ;-)
Regards to husband. I looked after someone here in ireland for over a year, he had two hips replaced. ICE ICE ICE PACKS where the key. Even using them months afterwards.
Anyways, follow that sweden couple, very insightful and there is something about nature/forest and enjoying such including growing your own that lures me to such. And def not the dogman in the woods they have.
Anyways, thanks for replying. regards, Johnny. Ireland.
Hi Johnny — I understand about plan B and I think that scenario is on our heels at present. We’re moving from Texas to 70 acres in Idaho. We’re going to start a whole new adventure out there. But, we’ve been planning this prior to things getting so bad (that is prior to 2019). Now it all makes sense.
I’d love to visit Sweden/Norway/Denmark, etc., someday. I’m been to Europe (mostly eastern), but that was many years ago. We had plans to travel to Greece and Italy (had bought tickets and everything) right when the “troubles” began in 2020, so that got scrapped. You know what French say: c’est la vie!
I’m not fretting over it. We’re very fortunate in this life. Thank you for your regards to DS (that’s a sort of nickname — most people call him DS). He’s all better now, but full recovery took six weeks. I love Gaelic. Of course, as you know, Scot Gaelic is different. One side of my family is from Tain Scotland (Ross and Cromarty County), so I did my best to teach our children some Gaelic and all about where their grand-papa came from.
So GLAD you followed Wim Hof. I subscribed to that Swedish channel. I can’t wait to show it to DS when he gets home this evening. He’ll love it.
Thank you, as well, for the discussion. Some of the very best conversations happen in the comment sections of Substack.
Thanks Kindly for your words. Gaelic's not that different and strangely is. Even here in ireland, each county (all 32 of them) have their own forms of dialet and strays. But I speak piegon Gaelic truthfully. Yes, I see what you mean by Texas to 70 acres in Idaho. Similar problem here, as I rent, though due inhertenance at some stage, wont get me this cottage by the sea where I live nor a cabin in the woods in rural ireland. But it will in Sweden. Get this....this is true, saw this 2 weeks ago, 34 acres, Sweden, in woods, backs onto lake, you have 4 out houses (falling down but hey), a jetty for lake access, an old house, in need of repairs, and this includes your own fecking Island.
How much? £20 thousand pounds or there abouts. Yep, £20k. Now, you'd need to know how to get shit done to get it right (which is where i lack) but hey. So, cabin in the woods which is why i am following that couple, very interesting insights to that quite life (im slightly older than DS) and on my own (daugher in England) and ever married.
I need a plan B and no disrespect, I cant live in a country where you can walk into a shop to buy milk and pickup an AR15 at the same time. Just so not me but hey, if your in the wild, you need something to protect family from wildlife etc. I get that.
So, it will be a cottage by the sea in Ireland (not looking good) or a cabin in the woods, which is very very very tempting. Work from laptop and go visit Santa every fecking year in Lapland. I mean, like thats cool right?
Thanks again. Keep in touch. later. Johnny. Slán go fóill mo Chara. Go raibth agat.
I just messaged Roshni via Telegram. Need to stock up on some stuff. It's 2 or 3 am there so probably won't hear back right away. Thanks very much for the tip!
That's awful about your crops, just a crying shame. I'm so sorry. But I'm glad your power is back on. Sorry I didn't have the presence of mind to check on you sooner. I trust DS is doing well?
By the way, I take ice baths after long training runs. Helps with recovery and avoiding what I believe are called 'oxidative stress' muscle injuries. Here in NM I actually have to go buy ice. But at my place in CO the water comes out of the tap year-round at 46*F, already colder than I can stand, so I have to run a little warm water to get it to 50*, which is about my lower limit.
Yes he’s sleeping haha, but he ALWAYS follows up. And you’re welcome for the tip. Ordering regularly from him has been a great blessing for us.
Yes it’s disappointing about the crops, Jack, but it’s just one of those things that happens sometimes. We had harvested several hundred pounds so far before the hurricane. Only a few things survived and we were set to harvest 300 more pounds, but c’est la vie!
I used to make loads of ice AND buy ice and use my big bathtub. I’ve been doing the baths daily since January 30 this year. All the hailing ice got to be so much. Wim Hof himself (Netherlands) uses a chest freezer himself. That’s where we got the idea. So, sweet DS bought me a 15 cu ft chest freezer for Mother’s Day.
The temp is 33* to 34*. I stay in 3:00 to 3:30 minutes — not nearly as long as I stayed in the warmer bathtub ice bath!
Thanks Doc! Between DS’ surgery and getting back on track after his 5 weeks out of work, THEN Beryl jusssst as we were getting back to normal — yeah, it’s been an unusually busy time. Can’t complain though — not really — MANY people we know got much worse destruction from Beryl.
We don’t have hurricanes, but there is often flooding; when buying land, height above sea level is a big concern. And, on the coast, tsunamis are a danger.
As a boy, I told one of my teachers I was an anarchist. She responded that this was understandable, given what human governments were like, but that another government kept the stars in their places. Looking out from our cottage at the vast sky with its slow-moving clouds of iron, that other government seems very near!
Yes, Doc! The Apeel compound (and the way it’s marketed) is quite deceptive and suspect. I mean, GMO is dark and evil and destructive and all that, but, for thinking people, it’s more difficult to conceal the real and present dangers associated with it.
However, with Apeel, they claim things like “all included compounds are safe and natural.” But what many people — even those who aren’t overly dull — could be fooled.
Pulling up my two-headed lettuce patch now . . . .
In all seriousness, this CRISPR and GMO thing has gotten out of hand. Are you seeing it there?
Lord knows. The Brits are pretty crazed about food safety, not always in a good way. Trials of GMOs got vandalized if memory serves.
Here it's the war on the cow which is scary. Did you know that if all dairy cows were like those in the UK & Ireland we could eat something like 2/3rds of all present dairy cows and not lose milk? Happy, healthy cows are productive as all hell. UK cows live better than UK war veterans and they're still determined to get rid of them.
That IS scary, especially considering how much beef we eat here. There’s a war on cows starting here as well, though likely not in as advanced stages as over there. The powers here are mainly focusing on dairy cows, using the century old avian flu strain that’s been all over the news lately, as an excuse. We buy our milk and cream directly from the dairy (raw) and I make our butter with the cream. I’m greatly concerned that I’ll have to buy these things at the supermarket in the future.
Haha you are?
Great post Samantha. I also did a post a while back about GMO's and surprised at those who had no idea. Although, the newer labelling requirements of bioengineered ingredients seemed to have caused some concern now for some. Little did people know that those foods have been in the system for a while now, just under the GMO heading. Awareness of where your food is coming from is so important.
Thanks Danni! I’ve written about them before as well and don’t want to belabor the topic, but I came across several completely uninformed people last week and just had to write it.
Ideally, growing one’s own food as we do each season, preserving it in various ways, and using organic principles is best. But I realize not everyone can do that. My biggest encouragement to others, even those in an apartment is to at least grow something — even if it’s just culinary herbs on your balcony.
Heading to your page to see if I can find your GMO article.
Sadie — Thank you so much for your kind words. And, yes, she was a Cluster-B GMO storm and probably DEI as well! All we can do is try, love, and I think you’re doing great.
We’ve been hearing about the water issues in your area. Here’s a clue (and I know nothing): it’s all about the cobalt mine and it’s in the “Inflation Reduction Act.” People are on the take. I pray pray pray that I’m wrong, but Gov Little may be one of them.
We order a LOT of things from Azure Standard. They are amazing. There’s a similar one we haven’t tried, but when I find the name, I’ll let you know.
Heading to read the story you linked.
Love you, sis! Pray for us — for the DS to pull the trigger on our home before end of year.
Thanks for that! Praying for you guys. There is a huge copper mine being formed not too far away from us. Hercules Metals has held town hall meetings around here, but they are just 800 of the 3K claims that have been filed on our mountain. God only knows who the other 2200 claims belong to! I have played cards with ole Brad. He used to be just a rancher, but it seems everyone is open to corruption and I am so sick of it. Yes, they want to put in a truck stop at the base of Midvale Hill, oh hwy 95. We fought and fought and P&Z denied the rezone but the county commissioners passed it anyway. So dirty, even in this little county.
That’s so disturbing, Sadie. I know corruption has been around forever, but I think it has really become almost ubiquitous these days. The cobalt mine is really bothersome. I hadn’t heard about the copper mine. I need to read about it.
Hello! So sorry about your damage from that bitch Beryl. Pretty sure she was a GMO hurricane. I am almost literally pulling my hair out trying to find food that has not been altered and degraded and adulterated. I am out of 100% cream for my coffee this morning, so things are tough. I TRY to eat nothing processed. There is a great store in Boise, but I am 2 hours from there. Would love to grow my own, but our season is short and the water is an issue. We are inundated with smoke from wildfires currently, which makes being outdoors super awful. My daughter is also on the hunt for food that is better. I tell you....geographic location has everything to do with how well you can or can't eat. In Florida it is so great and simple to find food. Here? These old ranchers are not having it. I did find this site and ordered from them last week. I was very pleased. azurestandard.com Good to see you girlie, even if you are a body in a freezer. Haha! I just wrote this recently. I am so frustrated with what they have done to our food. If you visit another country the food is MUCH better than food here in the USA. I just read that over 73% of American food is ultra processed and I believe it!! https://sadiejay.substack.com/p/the-food-the-bad-and-the-ugly
Please see my reply at the top. Not sure how that happened. 😘
Nice ice bath Gluck! Hot and then cold therapy are vastly under-used and under-appreciated. I just take hot showers and cold showers. Do you do any form of hot therapy? Maybe just live in Houston and spend an hour outside in the afternoon.
We’ll have a sauna when we move to our acreage in Idaho. For now, just training outside this time of year is enough! Haha I also practice Wim Hof breathing method each day.
Wim Hof breathing method: eleven minutes well spent each morning. I can hold my breath so much longer than I ever could in the past. I can feel my lungs getting stronger.
Same here Lawdog! And it relieves all types of stress, elevates mood, and so many other positive things. The ice baths have been a huge blessing for me as well — 3 minutes out of my day (now that I’m no longer making, buying and hauling ice to my bathtub) and it’s life-changing!
Interesting article. thank you. Ice baths? Go you. I follow this couple in sweden (cabin in the woods type of thing - in case I have to implement my Plan B which is a cabin in the....)
Here is their method of ice bath i thought you'd be interested in....God not for me...
https://youtu.be/EVV29PN76eU?t=760
Thanks for the video! I’ll check it out once I submit this reply. The man I follow for the amazing breathing technique AND ice baths is Wim Hof. He’s in the Netherlands. You might get something out of his breathing and breath hold technique. He’s on YouTube. If you decide to check it out, make certain you get to his actual channel. There are a lot of copycats out there.
As for the ice baths, your reaction is most people’s reaction, understandably. But you only need to stay in 2 minutes to get the benefits. I happen to be up to 3 minutes at this point and have an immediate goal of 5 minutes, which will ultimately end up at 10 or 12 minutes. I know, go ahead and say what you think: This person is a freak! I’ve heard it before haha.
Heading to check out Swedish couple now!
Thanks. Truthfully, i wish to get 'there'. ie to a stage where 'im in control' ie be able to take the ice bath and 'function' and extract the benefits from such conscious decisons (this is good, do it). A bit like you and your awarness on Frankinstein foods that you refer to. They are our choices to make. Sinn Fein (as we say in Gaelic, which means, 'I alone').
So yea, well done. One day, more so if Plan B comes to fruition as I think it probably will which is a cabin in the woods by a lake (ice baths) in Sweden. It rains a lot here in Ireland young Lady but it frigging snows like it rains here in Ireland in fecking Sweden. ;-)
Regards to husband. I looked after someone here in ireland for over a year, he had two hips replaced. ICE ICE ICE PACKS where the key. Even using them months afterwards.
Anyways, follow that sweden couple, very insightful and there is something about nature/forest and enjoying such including growing your own that lures me to such. And def not the dogman in the woods they have.
Anyways, thanks for replying. regards, Johnny. Ireland.
Hi Johnny — I understand about plan B and I think that scenario is on our heels at present. We’re moving from Texas to 70 acres in Idaho. We’re going to start a whole new adventure out there. But, we’ve been planning this prior to things getting so bad (that is prior to 2019). Now it all makes sense.
I’d love to visit Sweden/Norway/Denmark, etc., someday. I’m been to Europe (mostly eastern), but that was many years ago. We had plans to travel to Greece and Italy (had bought tickets and everything) right when the “troubles” began in 2020, so that got scrapped. You know what French say: c’est la vie!
I’m not fretting over it. We’re very fortunate in this life. Thank you for your regards to DS (that’s a sort of nickname — most people call him DS). He’s all better now, but full recovery took six weeks. I love Gaelic. Of course, as you know, Scot Gaelic is different. One side of my family is from Tain Scotland (Ross and Cromarty County), so I did my best to teach our children some Gaelic and all about where their grand-papa came from.
So GLAD you followed Wim Hof. I subscribed to that Swedish channel. I can’t wait to show it to DS when he gets home this evening. He’ll love it.
Thank you, as well, for the discussion. Some of the very best conversations happen in the comment sections of Substack.
Thanks Kindly for your words. Gaelic's not that different and strangely is. Even here in ireland, each county (all 32 of them) have their own forms of dialet and strays. But I speak piegon Gaelic truthfully. Yes, I see what you mean by Texas to 70 acres in Idaho. Similar problem here, as I rent, though due inhertenance at some stage, wont get me this cottage by the sea where I live nor a cabin in the woods in rural ireland. But it will in Sweden. Get this....this is true, saw this 2 weeks ago, 34 acres, Sweden, in woods, backs onto lake, you have 4 out houses (falling down but hey), a jetty for lake access, an old house, in need of repairs, and this includes your own fecking Island.
How much? £20 thousand pounds or there abouts. Yep, £20k. Now, you'd need to know how to get shit done to get it right (which is where i lack) but hey. So, cabin in the woods which is why i am following that couple, very interesting insights to that quite life (im slightly older than DS) and on my own (daugher in England) and ever married.
I need a plan B and no disrespect, I cant live in a country where you can walk into a shop to buy milk and pickup an AR15 at the same time. Just so not me but hey, if your in the wild, you need something to protect family from wildlife etc. I get that.
So, it will be a cottage by the sea in Ireland (not looking good) or a cabin in the woods, which is very very very tempting. Work from laptop and go visit Santa every fecking year in Lapland. I mean, like thats cool right?
Thanks again. Keep in touch. later. Johnny. Slán go fóill mo Chara. Go raibth agat.
Just subscribed to Wim Hof. thanks for tip. enjoy
I just messaged Roshni via Telegram. Need to stock up on some stuff. It's 2 or 3 am there so probably won't hear back right away. Thanks very much for the tip!
That's awful about your crops, just a crying shame. I'm so sorry. But I'm glad your power is back on. Sorry I didn't have the presence of mind to check on you sooner. I trust DS is doing well?
By the way, I take ice baths after long training runs. Helps with recovery and avoiding what I believe are called 'oxidative stress' muscle injuries. Here in NM I actually have to go buy ice. But at my place in CO the water comes out of the tap year-round at 46*F, already colder than I can stand, so I have to run a little warm water to get it to 50*, which is about my lower limit.
Jack, what’s your telegram handle? (You can DM if you don’t want to publish it publicly)
Yes he’s sleeping haha, but he ALWAYS follows up. And you’re welcome for the tip. Ordering regularly from him has been a great blessing for us.
Yes it’s disappointing about the crops, Jack, but it’s just one of those things that happens sometimes. We had harvested several hundred pounds so far before the hurricane. Only a few things survived and we were set to harvest 300 more pounds, but c’est la vie!
I used to make loads of ice AND buy ice and use my big bathtub. I’ve been doing the baths daily since January 30 this year. All the hailing ice got to be so much. Wim Hof himself (Netherlands) uses a chest freezer himself. That’s where we got the idea. So, sweet DS bought me a 15 cu ft chest freezer for Mother’s Day.
The temp is 33* to 34*. I stay in 3:00 to 3:30 minutes — not nearly as long as I stayed in the warmer bathtub ice bath!
Welcome back Sam...you were missed!
Thanks Doc! Between DS’ surgery and getting back on track after his 5 weeks out of work, THEN Beryl jusssst as we were getting back to normal — yeah, it’s been an unusually busy time. Can’t complain though — not really — MANY people we know got much worse destruction from Beryl.
Thanks for reading, Doc!
Your equanimity about the hurricane is a big inspiration! The very best to you both.
You are ALWAYS so kind, Ishmael. Thank you. I imagine you get hurricanes, on occasion over there, is that right?
We don’t have hurricanes, but there is often flooding; when buying land, height above sea level is a big concern. And, on the coast, tsunamis are a danger.
That seems scary, but it is the world we live in. God bless you and your family — to the heights
As a boy, I told one of my teachers I was an anarchist. She responded that this was understandable, given what human governments were like, but that another government kept the stars in their places. Looking out from our cottage at the vast sky with its slow-moving clouds of iron, that other government seems very near!
Agree completely with all your points, especially Apeel.
The Founders used the phrase ‘eternal vigiliance.”
Yes, Doc! The Apeel compound (and the way it’s marketed) is quite deceptive and suspect. I mean, GMO is dark and evil and destructive and all that, but, for thinking people, it’s more difficult to conceal the real and present dangers associated with it.
However, with Apeel, they claim things like “all included compounds are safe and natural.” But what many people — even those who aren’t overly dull — could be fooled.
I stopped before my thought was finished — it involved a sweaty man and power tools and a near mishap haha!
Anyway, even relatively sharp people might actually read the official website and come away assured of safety.
Excellent article. 👍
Thank you, Troy. You are always so sweet to me.