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Quite prophetic. Being 69, I lived happily and built a large biz w/out the Internet. Rejoin Rotary, local CofCs, etc.
Went to our local Farmer’s Market in Port Royal today. Got the last parking space after a 5 min circling. Too many pseudo-hippies though. One wearing a t-shirt that wanted to “kill capitalism”. How ironic at that venue.
Like you LC, I built businesses without the techy stuff of today and in my dotage look forward to building a local economy and avoiding all the crap out there today. The young will come round to it after the coming economic collapse. This is my solution:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
You can’t imagine how much time and effort you can save by going carnivore and leaving the veggies to animals better suited to consuming them. My shopping consists of going to the garage, opening the freezer, and selecting a package of grass-fed beef to thaw out for tomorrow’s easy to prepare meal.
Once in a while I go to the local coop to pick up four gallons of raw milk that I also stick in the freezer to use as needed. I do buy a little fruit, coffee, and order raw honey in forty-pound buckets. I patronize the local Ace Hardware store for whatever I can, but do order a few items like refrigerator water filters, supplements, and clothing online. I rarely eat out and don’t miss that at all as my own food is delicious and nutritious! Saves on gas, too!
I owned my own businesses for most of my life, but did become president of a small Nasdaq-traded food company later in life, mostly because as an independent broker I was selling more product in my territory of LA than the rest of the country combined. It was more fun to be independent and not have to deal with Boards and analysts! Keep it simple is my advice.
Wouldn’t freezing destroy some of the beneficial qualities, live cells etc in the raw milk though? Serious question.
A down vote for asking a question doesn’t seem right. While Whole milk has beneficial bacterium that is good for the gut, it can be effected by freezing it. Anyone who has frozen whole milk knows that the milk will separate in an unusual way. The whey will will rise to the top as the cream settles to the bottom. This is the reverse of churned whole milk, the old saying the cream will always rise to the top kind of thing. When you freeze milk there is separation that occurs never the less. It will kill some good bacteria in the milk, it exhibits some of the same phenomenon of running it through a centrifuge(separator). However, it is still quite nutritious. Frozen whole milk thawed will not last long before it sours. I recommend breaking it down to smaller containers when freezing unless you are consuming milk pretty fast. It will spoil much faster than fresh raw milk. If you churn thawed frozen milk it can prove to have difficulties not realized with fresh milk . Molecules separated in the freezing process do not recombine completely by simply shaking it. IMO freezing is still a good mid to long term solution for raw milk storage.
Not my downvote!
Svarga, yes I do believe some degradation occurs, but I do not consume a great amount of milk. Some of it gets turned into kefir, which keeps very well and adds good bacteria back into the milk. One other important factor is that the milk I buy is from cows that produce A2 proteins. The milk in the supermarkets is always A1 protein, because some time ago the dairy people found out that these cows produce more milk than the A2 cows do. Research tells us A1 protein is not fit for humans. As for going sour, I and my wife go through a gallon a week with no spoilage problems at all. Takes a good 24 hours to thaw out a gallon.
Rope-a-dopamine. Pass the hopium. Sally Fields’ Oscar acceptance speech. That same hunger-driven-thirsty monkey on bare(ly there)backs. Did “pong” & “pac-man” find a lot of addicts in waiting? I think maybe those vid-mesmers did. Master-bation, slave-donation, lifetime probation.
How many introverts flipped (out) to extroverts “online?” In the meta, nobody can see you, & hear you scream; alienation. I scream you scream we all scream for meta-scream…which ain’t bacon ice cream.
Prosthetic life. Crutches & training wheels. Other-motivated/sufficient/disciplined. Meet the new rot’i’cism, same as the old, but it takes a wired up village to tie me kangaroo Gulliver down, sport…& now not even physical wires so much. 5geez-whiz…way to abuse a Philly cheese steak.
Fuddy-duddy Luddites ain’t all right but they took a bite of tech-wreck & spit it out: mostly bathwater, baby. Most everybody else: drowning in “progress.”