Our Food
A thought occurred to me today, as seems to happen if I spend any time driving round town. Anyway, I started to think how far we are removed from our actual food sources, and how most people have no idea what goes into making sure we get fed every day. You see when I was younger I was brought up on a farm where we butchered our own animals grew all of our own vegetables and had a small grove of fruit trees. I still remember seeing my first butchering when I was 5 or 6 years old. Ask a 5 or 6 year old today where the meat comes, his reply would be the supermarket. Butchering of animals has become so clinical that most people would not even think about it. To me it was normal and it took me a few years to get used to the idea of getting meat from the supermarket. Another thing I was thinking about is grains, like rice wheat etc. Back in the old days you lived or died depending on if your crops did well or failed. Today...