August 12, 2024

I did not write a column last week. I also missed finishing my adventures in Foodland where I nearly bought the farm. I’m sorry. Hopefully, after reading this you will understand and forgive me. You will also understand what flute music has to do with cow pies. I am always on board to educate. It…

July 25, 2024

An Idiots Guide to Spotting a Scam Now I know I ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I got my friend good the other day. He’s that odd guy who reads books that I told you about in the episode about the Tiny Vampire Season. Well, he ran into my yard as excited…

July 23, 2024

My last post featured my work at a TV dinner plant . The indiscretions I mentioned mostly involved meat. But meat production is not the only place where one will find problems in the food chain. One summer, I worked in a vegetable plant freezing and packaging vegetables and fruits. I performed cleaned-up and other…

July 18, 2024

I wasn’t going to write a column this week. I don’t feel witty or humorous at all. The recent assassination attempt on Trump, while not totally unexpected, shocked me as I am sure it shocked you. We live in a country where violence is used when bribery, shaming, blackmail, and indicting don’t work. Violence is…

July 11, 2024

What does this article have to do with the price of beans? If you stick to the end, I’m sure you will figure it out. My steak and hamburger have been hanging on the edge of danger since they decided to move us away from meat and serve bugs, fake meat, and lab grown meat…

July 7, 2024

Some of my personal experiences in the food processing industry shine a light on how awful it can be and some of the reasons. This is not to say that all food processing plants engage in bad practices. I worked at a number of smaller plants, medium sized plants and even a few large plants…

July 3, 2024

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