At Church today, I was once again reminded of my advancing years! The sermon today was based from the parable of the wheat and the weeds - of course, I immediately recognised it as the parable of the wheat and the tares...
After Church, I took my car to the car wash (badly needed); this will have two inevitable effects: the nice shiny car will attract the immediate attention of an overflying albatross and of a a dirty great rain cloud.
Following on I went to a little local supermarket (A***) but there were no disabled parking bays; it is not just the distance to walk that matters but also the need to open the car door wide to allow easy ingress and egress. So, on to big supermarket (T****) where I got what I needed, in other words chicken thighs to make a casserole. I am still not at all sure whether organic is better than free range - in other words, can organic mean horrible shed raised but fed on organic meal? What I really wanted was organic free range and in the end went for organic. I wish I had bought some at the Farmers' Market the other week.
While at T**** I saw strawberries at half price and went to make sure they were Scottish, as were the raspberries, so I bought some of them too.
I am not being xenophobic here, it is merely a matter of food miles. Just to demonstrate this, I bought blackberries from Hants. One of the few disadvantages of the particular veg box to which I subscribe is that you never seem to get soft fruit.
I find it quite amazing how my ideas about food have changed over quite a short number of years, starting with the influence of Farmers' Markets and then of organic veg box deliveries. Some ideas have come from press items, but most is from thinking about things myself.
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I may be wrong, but I thought that organic chickens had also to be free range. Anyway, I remember reading an article - somewhere - that said that the organic food for organic chickens is quite hard to source locally and may itself carry many thousands of food miles.
Food for thought......
Aaargh. a no-win situation.
Except that I worry about the quality of other chickens from supermarkets.
Thanks for your comment on my blog!
I have also gone farmer's market...first prompted by a friend with Crohn's disease who said that she "reacted" to produce from the supermarket but not the farmers market, which got me thinking. Then the food miles....non-organic fruit which is grown down the road is transported to another state, then bought back to be sold in the supermarket a 3x the cost of buying fresher stuff from the greengrocer/farmers market, or equivalent or more expensive than organic. Stoopid. Plus then it goes off sooner...
One of the (many) things I miss about living in the country is keeping my own hens. They were absolutely wonderful. They ate up many of our left-overs (with great glee), they kept the grass under some semblance of control in the area they had, thus the area they had didn't need to be cultivated, they provided more eggs than I knew what to do with, and they provided many happy hours of entertainment. I soon found out that the specially prepared foodstuffs for hens mostly had all sorts of additives, so I changed them on to whole mixed grain, and ultimately on to wheat (because they kept leaving the barley in the mix).
All that, just to get around to saying, there are all sorts of considerations. tbsitw is right, and I do hope her boiler is working again :)
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