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wow, this story reminds me of why we put up our gate!
those types of people are plentiful...
I had child protective services called on me 25 yrs ago by a "concerned" neighbor for feeding my kids "dirty" eggs from a chicken coop!
and seems we can't sell an egg as people either are "worried" about them, or they taste funny...and they are soooo orangy colored...
the giant food corps have done a real fine job of making sure people are afraid of real food and thus dependent on them to provide it.
I think it was Stalin who said...control the food supply and you control the people...
scary mentality when they start butting into your life!
that would of really made me mad and am impressed you didn't throw her off your property with a swift kick.
you can try to educate, but you can't fix stoopid.
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05/31/11, 09:02 AM
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Your SIL's friend is, umm, sadly misinformed (hey, I'm trying to be polite here!  ). One hopes that not all of her FB friends are as misinformed, and will point out to her that milk gone bad does not have "slime" but in fact, curdles and separates.
I was at work one day, had made myself a cup of tea and was putting milk into it. One of my co-workers said "oh, your milk has curdled!" I had to point out that, no, it had not curdled but had little clots of cream.
I do feel sorry for that woman's kids. 
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05/31/11, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Ellie Mae
wow, this story reminds me of why we put up our gate!
those types of people are plentiful...
I had child protective services called on me 25 yrs ago by a "concerned" neighbor for feeding my kids "dirty" eggs from a chicken coop!
and seems we can't sell an egg as people either are "worried" about them, or they taste funny...and they are soooo orangy colored...
the giant food corps have done a real fine job of making sure people are afraid of real food and thus dependent on them to provide it.
I think it was Stalin who said...control the food supply and you control the people...
scary mentality when they start butting into your life!
that would of really made me mad and am impressed you didn't throw her off your property with a swift kick.
you can try to educate, but you can't fix stoopid.
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All I can say it WOW WOW WOW - over eggs?! If they saw how an actual commercial egg facility is run, they might throw up!!! Do people know that some actual BLOOD ends up in the milk supply of some commercial dairys as it just can't be completely avoided in mass production - thus the reason for the actual need for pasturization!! One woman who came with her daughter to visit my farm said the orange yolks freaked her out too - strange people.
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05/31/11, 09:35 AM
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Actually, it was Henry Kissinger in 1970. One of OUR guys.  He is right, and that's the way our government is going now.
Henry Kissinger said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."
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05/31/11, 09:52 AM
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Actually, it was Henry Kissinger in 1970. One of OUR guys. He is right, and that's the way our government is going now.
Henry Kissinger said: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." |
thanks Alice,
I couldn't remember who said it, but have never forgotten it and especially coming from someone with power influence over us "useless eaters"..
think I will go eat some dirty eggs and drink slime, who'd a thought that would ever sound delicious..
might have a new advertising gimmick, lol
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05/31/11, 10:14 AM
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Wow Ellie Mae!! How dare you feed your kids dirty eggs??!! Don't you know your supposed to buy pasteurized eggs from the store?? (I really feel silly there..... I had no idea there were pasteurized whole eggs until yesterday)
I dunno what the problem is with this woman. I would expect this drama if I would have had a royal temper fit on her.....but I didn't & she's on a rampage. She'd probably freak out if she knew my son snuck her kids a nasty chick to hold.
I'm 100% ok with her choices.... if she only feels safe with pasteurized eggs & slime free milk, that's fine... I won't condemn her for those choices, won't force my choices on her.....& I dang sure wouldn't dump her milk or trash her pasteurized eggs!
I want to think her dumping the milk was purely from ignorance & not her being intentionally nasty.......But given her whole FB fiasco & her blowing everything out of proportion, I dunno now...
SIL said she deleted all the links/info that she posted for me contradicting her claims... Hopefully some of her friend's read it & don't think fresh milk is this horrible, slime coated substance.....Either way, I'm done with the whole thing
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05/31/11, 10:46 AM
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She's embarrassed. I think.
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05/31/11, 11:07 AM
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She's embarrassed. I think.
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Perhaps... if she was embarased though, why didn't she just accept my explanation about the cream (which was done very politely in the best way I could without making her feel bad) instead of attacking me with rude comments about feeding my kids nasty things & putting them at risk for getting diseases from handling the goats? I would have laughed the whole thing off (& was trying too) if she hadn't attacked me in my own home.
Perhaps she's overly defensive & instead of accepting her mistake & moving on she's defensive & personal attacks make her feel less embarrassed??
Who knows......
The whole thing was just weird........I hope she's over it by now.
I realize now why I rarely socialize anymore......lol My kids & goats are far better company 
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05/31/11, 11:15 AM
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Oh....on a positive note...
I must have beat Lilly (Sabrina's March kid who nurses 24/7) to the punch this morning! Sabrina was doing the "Oh so full" waddle as my daughter calls it & milked 5.6lbs this morning & Tootsie (the mini alpine) milked right at 3lbs even, so my milk stash wil be back up in no time......Then we'll have lots 'o slimey milk for that pudding recipe I wanted to try
Love my goats! 
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05/31/11, 11:57 AM
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Ugh sorry!
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05/31/11, 12:12 PM
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Wow Ellie Mae!! How dare you feed your kids dirty eggs??!! Don't you know your supposed to buy pasteurized eggs from the store?? (I really feel silly there..... I had no idea there were pasteurized whole eggs until yesterday)
I dunno what the problem is with this woman. I would expect this drama if I would have had a royal temper fit on her.....but I didn't & she's on a rampage. She'd probably freak out if she knew my son snuck her kids a nasty chick to hold.
I'm 100% ok with her choices.... if she only feels safe with pasteurized eggs & slime free milk, that's fine... I won't condemn her for those choices, won't force my choices on her.....& I dang sure wouldn't dump her milk or trash her pasteurized eggs!
I want to think her dumping the milk was purely from ignorance & not her being intentionally nasty.......But given her whole FB fiasco & her blowing everything out of proportion, I dunno now...
SIL said she deleted all the links/info that she posted for me contradicting her claims... Hopefully some of her friend's read it & don't think fresh milk is this horrible, slime coated substance.....Either way, I'm done with the whole thing
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LTC,
in the 70's, I was part of the "back to the land" movement.. we were "green"
(I hate that word, lol) before it was cool, hip & groovy, but I dropped alot of so called friends who were always high and mighty and got downright hateful if you didn't believe or do exactly the way they did.
I was a vegetarian, but didn't care if others ate meat, now we butcher our own chickens, can imagine their faces and that makes me laugh...
One such friend screeched at me for feeding my kids plain alfalfa sprouts one day instead of a mix like the one she liked, and those types are the ones who try to shove legislation down our throats to MAKE us live like they think...
scary people...
That type of mentality can get very petty and you may be done, but I have a feeling she gonna go on a mission to "educate" people about the dangers of eating real food so she can feel justified about her own opinions.
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05/31/11, 12:39 PM
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Kool aid is so much better for kids, you know? "They don't like tap water". Oy.
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But it's man-made so it must be better. 
I made soap out of goat slime once....and I liked it!
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05/31/11, 02:41 PM
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Wow. You are far more tolerant than me. I would have let her have it. Then I would have brought a baby goat in the house and let it romp around.
I just can't get over the rudeness of getting into someone else's fridge and throwing out the food in there.
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05/31/11, 02:53 PM
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Wow. You are far more tolerant than me. I would have let her have it. Then I would have brought a baby goat in the house and let it romp around.
I just can't get over the rudeness of getting into someone else's fridge and throwing out the food in there.
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LOL If I would have brought one of the goats inside she would have had a panic attack I think
I think I could understand her attitude if this was a big metropolitan area where livestock was uncommon. But she went to a small town Texas school where FFA & HS football were the biggest things....She lives in the "big town" of our area, but its surrounded in tiny farming towns.....Granted it's mostly beef cattle, cotton, wheat or meat goats & dairy goats are not that common, but there is no way the concept of raising livestock is foreign to her.
Wouldn't she have a fit if I told her we put two goats in the freezer this year?
I guess I didn't realize just how many people were so disconnected from their food source until I read replies on her FB. Sad actually....
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05/31/11, 05:29 PM
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gee, now you're going to have to disinfect your freezer. seriously - you put goats in it?
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05/31/11, 05:34 PM
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gee, now you're going to have to disinfect your freezer. seriously - you put goats in it?
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Naw.... we're gross and like to keep our goat cooties..even the frozen ones
Made AWESOME fajitas & goat tacos out of one and even let the kids eats 'em!!
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05/31/11, 05:58 PM
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I guess I didn't realize just how many people were so disconnected from their food source until I read replies on her FB. Sad actually....
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It's crazy! I've offered eggs to people who have REFUSED them because they're BROWN... and they heard that BROWN eggs come out of a chicken's bum.  Really?!?!?! I was totally floored... and asked "And... white eggs...?"
"Oh" I was assured. "White eggs come from the STORE."
I so badly wished that I had a few white egg layers right then!
I won't be getting milk from my goats till next year, but I'm already bracing myself for the flood of comments that my MIL will have when she finds out I plan to drink it and (horrors!!) let my children drink it!...
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05/31/11, 08:04 PM
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That's nine kinds of annoying. I agree with what others have said...regardless of her opinion of your slimey milk, you don't go around dumping stuff out of other people's refrigerators!
I have a lady that I sell milk to that has said a couple of times she opens the jars and the milk clings to the sides...um yeah, that's just the cream. Apparently it skeeves her out.
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05/31/11, 08:19 PM
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It's crazy! I've offered eggs to people who have REFUSED them because they're BROWN... and they heard that BROWN eggs come out of a chicken's bum. Really?!?!?! I was totally floored... and asked "And... white eggs...?"
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Which begs the question: Which came first,the egg or the store?
Wonder what those people would have said if you had offered any blue,green or pink chicken eggs.
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05/31/11, 09:40 PM
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MIL has a friend that goes on about how she wishes we could sell our milk and cheese to her. She loves goat milk, and would love to get it raw. She's an RN too, and knows the benefits.
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