It seems that all these plant fires are large or involved in commercial growing. The most recent in from Saturday was a soybean manufacturer that makes feed for chickens if I’m understanding correctly.
It’s deft odd but I’m leaning towards the belief that the bad guys are destroying evidence of some type.
I think they’re scared we will find out what they’re putting in our food/ or what they’re putting in commercial meat feed/chicken feed/, etc etc.
These aren’t small processing plants from my understanding.
Just a thought? There’s def fuckery afoot.
The problem with local farmers markets is the cost. Everything is easily 3x the price at the super market.
Quality food should be a priority, otherwise you pay out your ass later at the doctor
Gardening is also an option and a great way to lessen the financial blow of food costs
I prioritize my food budget, so regardless of how expensive healthy food it, I still buy it, even if it means I don't buy other things. My extended family members however have brand new everything, spend money on furniture, electronics, unnecessary purchases, and going out, then bitch about how they can't afford healthy food as an excuse for why they eat like shit.
Meanwhile my husband and I both drive around in used and paid off cars, and spend what would have been 2 car notes on healthy food instead. Priorities.
Also, my mother, and I love this example, will spend money every damn morning on overpriced starbucks coffee, while simultaneously complaining about not being able to afford healthy food options at the grocery store.
And one more example, my BIL who was our CPA for a while, looked at our grocery bills and freaked out by how much we spent at the grocery store in one year and said that's way above average and unaffordable. We then asked him to add up how much he spent at the grocery store, plus restaurants, plus boos at the bar, plus snacks at gas stations, plus fast food, and any other "consumables" he'd purchased and guess what..... when you compare his consumables (for one man) in one year with our consumables (for a family of 4) in one year, he was spending more than we were. It's all about priorities. We don't eat out, ever, at all. We always cook from scratch. We don't blow money on shit from starbucks, gas stations, fast food, alcohol, none of that. And that's how we can afford to eat healthy. It's more affordable than people realize, people just don't want to give up their expensive bad habits to pay for it.
And please know I'm not talking about people in poverty, I'm talking about your average middle class american. The vast majority of which will blow their money on shit they don't need while complaining about healthy food being "unaffordable".
Food should be expensive. It's labor intensive. Our warped view of what food should cost is based on decades of the availability of nutritionally void and fake food.
That’s not necessarily true. The farmers markets where I live are for the most part cheaper that the grocery stores. As an example, heirloom tomatoes at the farmers markets are $4 a pound but $6 at the grocery stores.
I generally get frozen vegetables because it fits well with the way I cook. Fresh green beans at the farmers market worked out to be $8 a pound for mediocre at best beans. The frozen ones were better and about a quarter of the price.