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Reply #30 - Sep 18th, 2023 at 6:43pm
 
Papillion ate cockroaches you know Bobby.
There is always hope.
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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Reply #31 - Sep 18th, 2023 at 8:56pm
 
Where I am we have very little to choose from, but the management is trying to give us a decent selection- that has only just started- its been pretty bad for quite a while now-he is also jazzing up the store- so we look very out of character for a small town, I rather like it though- paying a bit extra is not so bad if you can see the money being spent on the store- My point is none of you have any idea how expensive it can get UNTIL you live in a remote place- even though looking through here I felt a bit better as we have nowhere to compare our super market too.
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Reply #32 - Sep 18th, 2023 at 9:48pm
 
You might have a bulk butcher, a vege market, a decent bakery not that far away.
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Reply #33 - Sep 18th, 2023 at 9:54pm
 
I need to clean out and organise the freezer then might buy half a pig, cut up into chops, belly pork, shoulder and picnic roasts etc.
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Reply #34 - Sep 23rd, 2023 at 2:15am
 
Gordon wrote on Sep 6th, 2023 at 2:15pm:
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Sep 6th, 2023 at 1:12pm:
Gordon wrote on Sep 6th, 2023 at 1:05pm:
I hear people moaning and groaning about the price of groceries, this bounty of fresh health food cost $14.00

https://i.ibb.co/ry5Y3Cg/20230906-130152-copy-1960x2505.jpg


Where the heck did you get all that for that price?????????? I just got 1/3 of that for 32 bucks!

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From an up-market beautify appointed shop in a suburb ranked as #2 in highest incomes in Australia.


Harris Park, eh?

Try the Midnight Bazaar in Granville, dear. Prices to die for.
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Reply #35 - Sep 23rd, 2023 at 2:18am
 
aquascoot wrote on Sep 18th, 2023 at 6:28am:
Despite the fact that the organic food industry is full of charlatans

There is some good emerging evidence that current methods of food production are not ideal

Whilst it is very good for the bottom line to saturate the field in roundup and then plant a roundup ready crop
You have to remember that the roundup really does kill a lot of the biology in the soil

Fungi and microbes grow on the roots of all plants
And are to a large extent responsible for making micronutrients available to the plant
When you have essentially a dead soil
You can still get the corn or soya beans to grow quickly
But you are essentially using artificial fertilizers to promote this
And a lot of the soil micro nutrients are not getting incorporated

I would be fairly sure that a piece of corn or a carrot or a cabbage grown in your backyard using chicken manure and compost is going to contain a higher ratio of micro nutrients then one bought from Coles or Woolworths

You have to remember that most of the people who are going to comment on this and most of the people in positions of power
In exactly the same way as those in the health industry

They are captured by big food in the same way health regulators are captured by big pharma
And so they are going to just sprook the narrative they are paid to sprook

More and more farmers are going the diversity no till
Cover crop organic root

The problem is really that the consumer can be easily conned by people pretending to be organic when they are nothing of the sort


Ever get the feeling you've been farmed?
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