38 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  3. My bird died so theres no need to buy a cage liner anymore, one usually lasted 2 weeks with the bird covering up the lies instead of the writers of the liners doing it for the lefties they support. Soon these newspapers will be given out free at funerals and weddings along with hotels.

  4. To be fair, she is writing down to the level of her audience – stupids, government workers, newspaper readers – and over time, from my reading, I’ve gotten the impression that there is an enormous amount of wasted food thrown out of homes by a large portion of our communities – the stupids, the government workers, newspaper readers – who mindlessly wander through the abundance of our grocery stores filling up their carts with impulse purchases that they will not have the time to cook and eat… “oh better buy that, just in case…”
    My little family does not have the luxury of a government pay cheque and we’re not stupid. No food ever goes into our garbage. We study the grocery flyers on the internet, make lists, vary our produce purchases with the seasons, our annual grocery budget is in the $7500 range and must therefore be very carefully managed.

  5. I think it’s amusing.
    It’s like reading someone else’s diary.
    Or maybe it’s simply prep work for a Mommy Blogger journal entry.
    Or maybe it for one of those Facebook posts from that vegan/crossfit/glutenfree/hasahomeremedyforallailments/paleo person who knows all about everything and NEEDS to share it.

  6. Because government subsidies make food so cheap the true cost is skewed. Years ago the US and Europe subsidized their agr-industries to the tune of $300B. French farmers, by North American standards are inefficent but at the first whiff of any agri-reforms then shutdown Paris with hundreds of lorries. Iowa, the bellweather of US elections may also be just that for US food aid. And the net effect is that Africa is shut out of one of the few industries that they could compete. As we know, out of work, idle idividuals are prime recruits for all sorts of mischief. Here, between grocery stores, restaurants and households we waste about a third of our food.

  7. I even recycle some kitchen scraps. During winter, the rabbits that live in my area of the city are scrounging for food. I see them often on the grounds of the apartment complex where I live digging through the snow to get down to the grass.
    Years ago, I decided to save my carrot peelings and leave them for the rabbits at a secure spot across the street. It doesn’t take long for the stuff to disappear. For them, it’s free food and they don’t have to work hard to find it.
    It turns out I’m not the only one who does that. I’ve noticed that other tenants do the same and leave something for them at different spots.

  8. Hee!!! At least the wench remembers her grandmother.
    Goat cheese with cauliflower! How perfectly Eloi. Cauliflower is best just steamed, with a touch of melted butter. My Dad had the knack, bless him; I never did. It does require a degree of skill.
    It is fun to watch people’s discomfiture with the world they made. I voted Conservative; God bless Stephen Harper.
    The other problem is with the obscenity in Washington. Previously, Saudi Arabia was a good citizen and cut production as needed to maintain oil prices. But they aren’t going to do anything for that piece of filth Obama.
    Enjoy, Eloi, it’s going to get worse. Depend on it.

  9. It is a good article with a lot of truth. Despite a spike in cauliflower and celery and a lot of produce, food is plentiful and inexpensive. And if cauliflower is too much for the brain to absorb, there are so many great inexpensive alternatives. We do not need grapes from Chile or peppers from Israel.
    We buy good food, but we also eat cabbage. It is about $3 or $4 for a head, but there are many meals in one head and it keeps for a long time. Steamed cabbage is so tasty. Shredded cabbage and carrot salad with homemade canola oil, vinegar and honey mustard dressing. Yum. Then there is boiled rutabaga. Delish.
    Cabbage, potatoes, rice, carrots, rutabaga, apples..all good and all generally inexpensive.
    As eluded to here, there sure is a LOT of hype and silliness with new-age, high antioxidant fare. Quinoa .. WTF is quinoa other than absurdly expensive?
    And Canadians still eat a lot of meals out of the house and whine at the cost of food. Expensive restaurant meals are not “expensive” food. They are expensive maid service.
    Reluctantly, my wife and I recently ate at a fancy local restaurant with friends. The meal was good, but it cost $120 for just the two of us! Absurd. Never again. That buys food for about ten days for the two of us at home.

  10. If one buys strawberries in winter in Canada yet tells us we must reduce our use of petrol to save the planet.
    then that person must be a liberal.
    For the under-informed or dumb liberals reading this and not getting it;
    For strawberries from California or Mexico to reach Canada, they have to travel on a truck for thousands and thousands of kilometers. Trucks run on petrol, thousands of liters of petrol.
    Your strawberries ( to name one ) have a gigantic carbon footprint that a few LED lights in your home will not offset.

  11. Speakng of ‘carbon footprint’ years ago the UK urged people to buy local lambs. It turned out that NZ, because of its comparative advantage in lambs, could still produce, ship, and deliver lamb to the UK using fewer ‘earth miles’ than their UK competitors. So, I don’t really buy the ‘shop local – support your local farmer’ argument when the stated purpose is that it helps the Earth.

  13. Hey B! Try saving your bacon fat in recyclable used cans in your freezer. In winter melt the fat and mix with bird seed… the cheap stuff and then let freeze again on your balcony in a used small plastic container. Stick a string in the mix and tie it from a tree branch. Saves fats from going in the sewer and provides high energy to birds.

  14. PS…. when the brain mentioned in her story “I could fill my fridge with a week’s worth of food for two for $100, and today I’m weighing every cucumber” she has either learned nothing, knew nothing, or both. WEIGHING a cucumber????????????? Where does she ‘shop’? She must be single.
    Somehow I don’t think I’m going to learn anything from her.

  15. “Droughts end. We think. I hope.”
    I hope she doesn’t think California’s wrong environmental water policies have nothing to do with the drought and the price of produce.

  16. Personally, I feel that if you pay for your food, you can do anything you want with it. Eat it, toss it out, burn it on your front porch etc. No Leftie is going to tell me what to do with it nor make me feel guilty about it.

  17. I’ve been doing something like that for several years. I use a wild bird seed mixture which has something for just about any local species.
    I hung the last one I made in a spruce tree near my apartment. I pass it whenever I go to buy groceries at a shopping centre close by. I’ve noticed that something’s been nibbling at it, so I guess some critters must like what’s there.
    I also scattered some of that same seed on the ground by some other trees. A few days later, I noticed rabbit tracks there, so I guess they must have gone after the sunflower seeds. (I’ve heard those are good for their coats.)

  19. There is a cartoon waiting to be drawn of Putin flashing zoolander who is cowering in shock wetting himself and the caption is “This is how big a Mig 21 is'”
    He has a big nose and it is only getting bigger.

  21. B | January 25, 2016 10:40 AM | Reply
    “I even recycle some kitchen scraps. During winter, the rabbits that live in my area of the city are scrounging for food.”
    I’m with TheTooner on this one. Unless you’re a rural sort who shoots and eats those rabbits, don’t feed em’.
    In our town, we have real problems with rabbits, geese and deer – especially the deer. Every so often there’s a debate on initiating a cull, which is immediately followed by a noisy and self righteous outcry from our moral betters about how the critters were ‘here first’ and we should adapt to them by stepping around the goose crap in the parks and on the beaches while planting only ‘deer resistant’ plants on our property.
    The brilliant solution the University of Victoria arrived at was to ship SOME of the bunnies to a ‘rescue shelter’ in Texas. Meanwhile the remaining bunnies did what bunnies do: create an endless supply of new bunnies.
    Venison, goose and rabbit would all make ‘good healthy food’ for our ample supply of west coast ‘homeless’ but apparently that’s less moral than buying them processed food from far away places using tax dollars.

  22. Do people rally eat plants? I thought they just bought them to feel virtuous. You buy them, put them in the fridge, leave them there till they rot than throw them out. Every day you look in the crisper drawer, find some half rotten produce, then decide its not good enough to eat but to good to throw out. Then on garbage day you throw everything out and start the cycle over again.

  23. I suspect that the rabbits live in a nearby cemetery and they wander out from there to feed as I’ve seen them in some of the other residential areas in my neighbourhood. As well, I’m sure some of them come up from the bush along a creek that’s located a few clicks from where I live.
    We also have a thriving local wild bird population and it can get quite noisy here during the summer. We’ve got magpies, ravens, and jays and many of them make their nests close by. Imagine how much fun it is to have some of them pay one a visit on the balcony several floors up.
    Feeding them during the winter is one way we express our gratitude to them for being here. They have just as much right to be in the territory as we do and make living in a large city much more pleasant.

  24. Every time I hear some tax and spend liberal whine about how poor people cannot afford healthy, fresh food because it is too expensive … I want to SCREAM ! There is nothing cheaper than fresh fruit and vegetables throughout the US. I can purchase massive volumes of the freshest, most healthy foods ever available to mankind in the history of the planet ! For far Cheaper than any frozen, or prepared food ! It is prepared foods that dominate the grocery shelves and that are so expensive. Not broccoli (or even cauliflower) Why ? Because of fossil fuels. Modern fertilizers, farm equipment, and mass farming techniques have delivered the greatest variety, volume, and quality food in the history of the the planet ! For the cheapest (relative to income) prices EVER ! Fossil fuels and CHEAP transportation prices have allowed those fresh foods to be delivered from one hemisphere to another. There is virtually no such thing as growing seasons in my local produce dept. The other thing that has delivered the CHEAPEST fresh food EVER … is GIANT Farm, Shipping, and Grocery CORPORATIONS. Their power of volume purchasing has driven down the cost of getting the greatest food to consumer EVER in the history of mankind. Leftists HATE that FACT. They have prophesied about famine for as long as I have been alive … yet the ONLY place on the planet where people go hungry are in Totalitarian Socialist countries (see: N.Korea, Venezuela, Cuba … old Soviet Union bread lines) . And THAT is exactly what these leftist tools want America to become. Effen IDIOTS !

  26. “You have to understand, I always took cauliflower for granted.”
    Didn’t the NP just layoff a whole bunch of people? Who’s running that paper – the NDP?

  27. Right on! I volunteer at a food bank and there’s always FREE fruit and veg available, thanks
    to our local farmers and grocery stores. Here in Ontario farmers get a tax break for the value of the produce they donate to food banks. There is NO reason anyone should do without.

  28. The leftist war on women. I already spend far too much energy on recycling and now I’m supposed to do canning and preserving. If you want to for your own satisfaction, fine, but not more tasks in the day if you are in the sandwich generation.

  29. The food situation is a little better in the US than here. HOWever, it is good here.
    Have a laugh at the leftist Eloi. They are here to provide amusement for us, and eventually food for the Morlocks.

  30. Be careful about feeding rabbits with seeds on the ground. You may well be feeding rats as well.

  31. Yeah…noticed that. Along with the other mindless drivel of this supposed ‘journalist’. This woman is basically an idiot.

  32. Thank you. I am sick and tired of seeing my Facebook ‘friends’ telling me how great being a vegetarian or vegan is. Well, good for them. Frankly I don’t give Fuuuk. Eat what you want. I don’t give a Fuuuk. At the same time I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever seen a story on TV or the internet about a 100 year old who said they never ate meat. Most of the useless effers are dead long before that.
    I am about to respond to them with all the meat meals I eat and remind them that I’m feeling great and that humans aren’t designed to be vegetarians….and that no humans on the planet historically are vegetarians…except the mindless idiots that have become so in the past 20 years.

  34. Being a paleo-vegetarian, I enjoy consuming my vegetation after it has been processed through a ruminant, porker, or farmyard fowl.
    Cheers

  35. I live in Alberta, which is supposed to be free of rats. (I’m sure that someone will claim there are a few that go about on 2 legs…..)

  36. Vegans–weren’t they the people who sent the message that Jodie Foster’s character received in the movie “Contact”?
    The next time someone identifies themselves as vegetarian, maybe I should ask them which diocese or synod they belong to.

  37. veganism is a political statement, not a nutritional statement.
    I tried to stick to fruit, grains and veggies once. migod no matter how much or what I stuffed down, and topped up with lots of water, I never felt full. I just had to dive into a roast or fried chicken or something with some friggin meat protein. even a couple tins of sardines (I’ve always loved the ‘fishy’ taste of a can of sardines) felt better.
    I strongly suspect some time in our lifetimes, men are going to beat each other unconscious for a stale sandwich. food is going to get scarce for whatever the reason. my hunch is it will have to do with insect pests.

  38. when I was a kid the winter vegetables were, potatoes, carrots, turnip, cabbage, parsnip, lettuce, tomatoes and other greens were not imported as they are today. I am still pretty healthy and my mother is 95. Apples were one of the primary fruits available.

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