An odd day.

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I keep expecting it to heat up.  And, it might, any day.  But not today.  It got up to 74, the warmest I saw it.  It is cooling already, even an hour or two ago it started going down.  It has become partly to mostly overcast, but... lightly.  The clouds are big, thick, but... nearly see through, give or take.  Still?  As wonderful a day as one could order up.  More so since it wasn't just freezing, or burning, so this isn't a jump one way or the other.  A very gentle warming.

I'll take it as long as it will give it.  This is almost an unimaginably gentle start to June.  I expected 90, maybe even a pop into the 100s.  No, I won't complain.  Even if it jumps to that, mother nature has been more than kind.  And, if that doesn't happen, I won't worry.  As to food production, and else?  While everything is going crazy?  It... isn't what it seems.

The prices are going crazy, because all food production is connected, and government involved.  Why do you think they put sugar in everything?  It's because the government is subsidizing sugar, which makes it too expensive, but the government ends up with warehouses of the stuff.  It has to get rid of it, and does.  You are the governments sugar dump... as an example.  

What, I think, has happened, is people have stopped buying whatever they are selling.  Their jars and boxes and else of chemical who-knows-what just isn't good.  From plastics in our genomes, from it, to diabetes we can't seem to beat, cancer at a crazy rate, and other illnesses, we know it's the food.  Any major non-viral illness increase is food related, especially one from years, decades, in the making.

So, people have gone to trying to eat from raw.  Not sure why that isn't working, I am beginning to wonder if they aren't literally poisoning meats and veggies, even the raw, somehow.  Either it's in livestock feed, or some part of the processing.  Adding sugars, somehow?  What I am sure of?  The big companies are not going to let people go without a fight.  If we won't eat their poison, we will eat poison... one way or the other.

They are going broke printing food as good as the dollar they are spending, borrowing, to become rich?  Everything is upside down.  And, yes, they hate us for this.  They don't want you to cook, not real food.  They want you to cook and eat whatever it is they give you, provide for you, cheaply.  Even if you can't pronounce half the ingredients in a can of corn?  Not their, or your, problem... according to them.  But it is.  And, while people are just barely awake, or even like me barely alive, we know.  That food isn't food.

I may not have figured out how to eat better.  I try.  But from raw hasn't really proven out.  Which means, to me, the rot in the food industry is much deeper.  I don't know what to do about it.  I can't garden, or I would try that.  Though, to be honest, to garden enough to even just manage vegetable needs, for one, for a year?  Well... assuming, as any farmer knows, that the crop comes in, doesn't get hailed out, or eaten by bugs or animals... or unkind neighbors?  That... much crop, just for one, would take... two to three days a week of work, for pretty much three to four months, or more, just to grow, weed, water, and otherwise manage.  To process?  Add another three or four days a month?  At least.  

Sure.  A couple days... say fifteen to twenty hours a week, plus another week or two for processing, over a summer, could get you pretty well on the way.  But it wouldn't do for a full year, total supply.  Then again, unless you live in Hawaii or some parts of California or such, you... won't garden enough to feed yourself year around.  Winters, here, would preclude almost everything.  I'm not sure if a greenhouse could get some things or not, but I have doubts.

Well, and... what are you using for fertilizers, pesticides, and how good is the water you are using?  Have you actually tested it?  And the soil you are using?  Has it been tested?  You'd be surprised how toxic some areas are.

All I am saying is, growing it yourself isn't possible, without more than a solo operation.  Keeping it secure, even worse.  Then, of course, storing it takes skills, time, money, energy.  For someone like me, there... really isn't an option.  I can try to watch what is coming in.  I can be somewhat cautious with this or that.  But...  Even so, even me?  I am enraging the food corporations.  I am demanding, and finding, better.  Doing my best.  If still, somehow, losing.

That is what a lot of the problems are.  It has nothing to do with availability.  People have put their feet down, and corporations and governments are fighting against that.  While I don't believe in organic, I do recommend farmers market (which supplies organic and real produce).  The thing is, if the government and corpo-cronies can't break your will to better food, they can break your bank, and backs.  That is what is happening.

Anyway...  I'll keep at it, keep trying.  And enjoy the days, as possible.  I cleaned the pots and pans, and will get to a bit of cooking and roasting tonight.  I am hoping to make several things, for through the week.  Another roast, some chops for tonight, and burger crumble for taco salads, and such.  Ugh.  I have the last bits of fresh veggies, as well.  Yes, chops and veggies, for supper.  The rest for through the week.  I'll do my best, if my best doesn't seem to be doing all that well.  Later.