Welcome to our new and returning members! Glad to have you in our group!
In reading some books recently on health, I am again reminded of the reason we go to such lengths to get our food. Between the pharmaceutical stranglehold on the medical profession and the criminal state of our food production, getting and eating truly clean (free of toxic chemicals, estrogenic chemicals and heavy metals, and more) nutrient dense food is challenging at best. We ended up with the Amish because what we could get commercially would help us maintain health, but was not good enough to regain health and rebuild bodies. That requires food absolutely grown/raised and eaten the way it would be in Nature.
Even so, living in Los Angeles, we are exposed to a lot that tears our bodies down again. Some of us move to the country to get the milk right as it comes from the udder, which is the most healing, and to control what really goes into the animals and plants we eat.
Eggs eaten raw are the most complete and digestible protein for human consumption. In fact, any omnivorous or carnivorous animal that is sick will eat raw eggs. In any culture of humans, after tea and burned toast (charcoal), raw or soft boiled egg is the first food of choice. Raw eggs are the early morning food, or build up food for fighters and people who really work out.
Getting good eggs can be a real challenge. We all know it would be best if they ate their natural food. Most people think corn and grains are the natural food for chickens, since that’s what we feed them. Exclusively in commercial farms. Just like with cows and pigs, grains will help them grow fast, and put on fat, which we like the taste of, but it does so at a cost.
Grain carbohydrates create inflammation and have a higher percentage of Omega 6 oils, which are also inflammatory. Chicken in the wild live in jungles, or at the edge of them. They don’t live in large open grassy areas, even though the favorite eggs of today are from pastured chickens. They do like some grass, and naturally eat 20% of their diet as leaves (tender ones, like weeds) and some grass. Most of their natural diet is insects. Bugs and larvae, especially larvae. (Humans also like larvae when they get a chance to eat them.) Sixty percent of their diet is insects naturally. They will also eat meat, and seeds; grains are like candy. And they love milk. They basically eat the same food we do. Or are supposed to. (Our systems are actually very good at digesting raw larvae.)
My point wasn’t to suggest you eat larvae, (although they make really good survival food!) but to point out that chicken is actually a really good food for us. And they live on things we would really rather not have too many of. My ideal scene would be for every yard to have chickens, instead of insecticide. Chickens love spiders, flies and fly larvae. What a great way to recycle and use our resources!
Every yard, no matter how small, can be planted with a lot of good food, and there are bug trap things for getting soldier flies to lay eggs in and generate larva for chickens to eat. Compost attracts the big green beetles, which generate really large, really tasty larvae who also aerate your ground! Two jobs in one! I used to get them to surface for the chickens by soaking the ground a while. When I used sheet compost and covered my yard with old wheatgrass flats, I had holes every inch or two all over my yard.
The idea of us having our own chicken ranch has been coming up again. Our local chicken source will be needing replacement by next summer, about a year from now. Maybe sooner! Please look around at what farms are available to us to get eggs from, like biodynamic, and also at something we could take over, partner with, or create.
I still like the idea of a farm for us to retire to, where we help grow our food and have each other to help. We haven’t talked about this in a long time. Eggs are something it is really hard to get right, for some reason. I worked hard at it for a year. And to be able to go somewhere for the weekend or ? And drink milk fresh from the udder, which is said to be extra healing possibly with stem cell stimulation? Having full control to feed our animals the right way. Priceless.
Aajonus wanted us to get our own farm. We worked at it for quite a while years ago. I just wanted to open the subject again, and encourage everyone to have as much of a farm as they can right where they live. It feeds the soul.
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Marilyn at RA
