January 13, 2026

It’s not often a single word can trigger me. I have constructed a skin tough as a titanium shield that keeps me in my zone while deflecting any words that might disturb me. My goal is to stay mellow and unaffected by all the nonsense that infests our society these days. By doing this I…

November 25, 2024

I was going to write about how Thanksgiving is the time for families to get together to share love and a good meal. It was going to be all gooshey, and sticky sweet, like many other posts written this time of year. To me, it’s the best holiday of them all because you have the…

August 15, 2024

Food production is not always a walk in the park. Sometimes people get hurt and sometimes people get killed. Besides the rare incident of being shot at, there are employees you get on the wrong side of, and they won’t shoot you, but there will be a chance of injury. One day, I had a…

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 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…

June 25, 2024

Now I know you all are already enjoying eating the bugs. I like the ones that are made into a breakfast cereal much like Rice Krispies. So good with maggot milk! But the fake meat isn’t bad either though I like the lab grown meat better. Well, have I got news for you. There is…