[or-roots] Peace on yers or some such

[Leslie Chapman]

Now that everyone has paused to collectively take a breath after chastising
Connie for her, perhaps ill considerd, jape; I would like to point out a few
"facts":

If you read department of Ag specs for what is "acceptable" levels of
contamination in the food that they allow our Safeways etc to sell to us, if
you have ever been involved in commercial production of foodstuff of any
type, of if you consider a lot of the practices of our meat industries as a
whole in terms of how meat is produced;

If you ever REALLY did any of these things!

You would probably never be able to eat anything you didn't yourself grow or
butcher again.

Fortunately we have tremendous ability to ignore or tune out things we DON'T
want to think about, and despite all the icky things that go in our food
every day, because most of it is processed at some high temperature, or we
cook it quite thoroughly when we bring it home, most of the time it doesn't
hurt us.

While personally my opinion of PETA has a lot to do with a certain portion
of a horses anatomy very like what they are claiming goes in our burger, I
have butchered and eaten my own meat from a large number of different
species of animals, and in fact I have eaten just about every part of most
of those critters that was edible, edible being defined as capable of being
chewed and swallowed, not necessarily digested.  A lot of those things I
HAVE eaten would probably make cow rectum look pretty appetizing to most of
you if I were to hand you a good flour dipped and fried strip of said cow
part and some of these other dishes too you I would bet you'd think the
rectum looked pretty good unless I told you what it was.

I am reminded here of when my Mom used to feed mutton stew to all the
Grangers at Hebron Grange and those folks that "hated" mutton would ooh and
aah over mom's "veal" or "venison" stew because they knew it couldn't be
mutton because the absolutely hated mutton.

While this whole discussion has been somewhat "off topic" it is a part of
who and what "we" are today and hence at some future date will be very much
"history."

Allright I'll quit preaching and get back to genealogy. Watch this space.

Les Chapman khanjehgil at presys.com
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