Freakishly Happy

It gets really hard to write interesting blogs as a housewife. Now I know that there are some really interesting housewives out there, who do fascinating things. Sadly, I am not one of them. I could regale you with stories of what I made last night for dinner, or of what I found growing in the back of the fridge last week when I cleaned it.  So as you see, it is really difficult for me to keep up a blog while I’m not really doing anything.     John and I’ve been having a lot of fun dreaming about the future (moving to Chicago was so last week ;) )  We’re both hooked on a website called HipForums, basically it’s a website all about hippies.  We’re particularly interested in their Alternative Living section- it’s got us dreaming about moving to or starting a sustainable living community (read commune, but not the creepy Kool-Aid drinking variety) or converting and living out of a bus.  Our favorite bus website so far is :  http://www.enchantedgypsy.blogspot.com/  Isn’t that COOL?   Well, I’ve got a busy night ahead of me, so I best be off!   Love, Peace and all the stuff.   j

Ranting:
So I know this is old news for most people, but what *insert favorite explicative here* is going on with the pet food recalls?!?
So if you haven't heard, in the last few months many of the nation's top pet food brand have had to recall thousands (if not millions?) of tons of their dog and cat foods because they were contaminated with poison. Okay, I can maybe understand if one company accidentally got rat poison in one of their batches and maybe 1 or 2 animals was killed. But come on, really- 97 brands of dog food and 82 brands of cat food. Some groups are estimating that over 3600 pets have died because of the neglect and profit mongering of these companies.
How the hell did the poison get in to the food in the first place, you ask? When the rat poison was added to the pet food in the form of glutens, they made the food appear to have a higher percentage of protein then it actually did. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon… rat poison is cheaper than real sources of protein. It all comes down the mighty *kindly add another explicative here*-ing dollar.
And guess what? The story gets better! That’s right. Since thousands of stores across the country had to get rid of thousands (if not millions?) of tons of pet food, and didn’t want to lose too much profit in the deal, guess what they did with it? Well obviously, they sold it to large factory farming corporations to feed to the chickens and the pigs. That PEOPLE are eating. And in the articles it says that researchers don’t THINK it will affect humans. Okay, C’mon.
Does this not seem like a bad idea to any one else?!? Okay, so now the animals in the factory farm are hanging out all day in their own feces, on their huge lots, with thousands of their own kind, often injured or too pumped up with growth hormones to support their own weight, and NOW they are eating rat poison? Now if I wasn’t a vegetarian before, I would seriously consider becoming one now. These corporations don’t give a flying *explicative* about anything or anyone- except for their bottom dollar. I ‘m not going to be surprised in a few years when people start dropping dead because of tainted food passed on to us by these large corporations with a big smiley faced stamp from the FDA
People in this country are far too complacent. We need to start reading labels and start questioning thing. What the hell is all of that stuff that comes after sugar in a bottle of Coke? Where is our food coming from? Why do we have to have food trucked up all the way from Timbuktu, when we can grow similar, fresher, higher quality foods here at home? Why do we allow the lowest price to dictate most of what we do- when it is hurting not only the environment and the people making the product? Not to mention the stuff we are buying is of sub-standard quality (meaning cheap plastic crap) and it causes us to have to spend more to replace it in the first place! Open your eyes people. Start using your dollars and your sense (get it, it’s a pun…) to tell these corporations that we will not stand for this. We will not fall victim to their bottom line.