Eggs - The Other Tainted Meat

I'm climbing onto my soapbox.

Where do you get your eggs? Wal*Mart? Some other faceless corporate food empire? I know where I get my eggs. Every week Breezy Knoll Farms in Gap Mills, West Virginia provides me with one dozen of the most perfect, enormous, ultra-fresh, vegetarian fed, truly free range chicken eggs I have ever had the delight of  shoveling down my gullet. If I ever get sick from eggs they sell me, I can drive down there and beat the ever loving shit out of someone. More likely they would apologize all over themselves and happily refund my paltry $3 for the bad carton (they even recycle their own cartons). Can you do that? It takes something fairly special to fuck up one of natures perfect foods. Eggs are packed with protein and some yummy bad fats all encapsulated in protective nearly impenetrable hard white shell. It took the laziness and greed of corporate foods to find a way to give us disease from this delicious bounty. There are 2,000 of us seriously ill with salmonella RIGHT NOW because they don't have the luxury of keeping their egg farmer honest with threats of physical violence.

It's past time that I pimp a film that changed my life. Food Inc is the movie that pushed this lifestyle shift into overdrive. It is not a grotesque look at the meat industry trying to sway you to veganism. It is not a commie film telling you to live on a commune and save the environment. It is a very clever film that did it's homework on corporate foods. And if you care about your body, your children's bodies, it will scare the fuck out of you.

2 comments:

Autumn Dawn said...

Mine come outta chicken butts in my own backyard!!!~Autumn PS great blog & pimp away, they should show that movie in grade school!

Corey Lake said...

Yes, ma'am, I agree. The reason that people eat the horrible shit they eat is ignorance. Ignorance of what it's doing to them and ignorance of taste.