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Clapotis With Super Model Dog


Still working away on Clapotis II for Charlotte. It now covers lovely Luna. Slug. Sleeps until noon. Except for when she is being her Super Model self. Which, as you can see, she still sleeps though.

Please, I'm Sleeping Here!!


I can pretty much do Clapotis ANYWHERE at this point. Amazing since if you remember from last year, it was was a hair-pulling-0ut experience for me to learn how to do some of the stitches for the first time!!! Now, cake walk!!!

Though I still use a life line in case something stupid should happen. I really don't feel like tempting the Knitting Goddess, you know? And it's a well traveled Clapotis at this point. It's traveled to TWO states already!! And lots of different places at home. It seems to be happiest when it's closest to Luna though.

Love Of My Life


I'm sure when it finally gets up to Charlotte, her wolf-puppy Lobo, will love it!! And Charlotte too.

As to other things, I swear, I'm just going to stop eating. Our 'food' isn't really FOOD anymore. Check this out. Did you know this? I had NO CLUE!

From Kate Hopkins at the Accidental Hedonist - Carbon Monoxide and Meat comes this delightful information:

From the New York Times comes this tidbit of a story:

If some of the meat in supermarkets is looking rosier than it used to, the reason is that a growing number of markets are selling it in airtight packages treated with a touch of carbon monoxide to help the product stay red for weeks.

This form of "modified atmosphere packaging," a technique in which other gases replace oxygen, has become more widely used as supermarkets eliminate their butchers and buy precut, "case-ready" meat from processing plants.

Carbon Monoxide was allowed via an end around of our food laws. You see, US department of agriculture's regulations prohibit the introduction of ingredients in fresh meat that function to conceal damage or inferiority, or give the appearance the product is of better or greater value. So how did the meat industry get around this?

They went to the Food and Drug Administration instead. This is akin to a child asking permission to go to a party from the mother, because they know that the father well say no.

The FDA accepted then accepted this process as "Generally Recognized As Safe", meaning since no one has been proven to become ill from this gassing technique, then it's probably okay.

Of course, companies aren't required to tell you that they've gassed your meat. Why? Because we probably wouldn't buy it.

Meanwhile, other countries of the world have banned the practice. The European Union has prohibited the use of carbon monoxide for meat and tuna products, stating that "the stable cherry-colour can last beyond the microbial shelf life of the meat and thus mask spoilage." Japan, Canada and Singapore have also banned the use of carbon monoxide.

At the very least, consumers should have the right to know which products have been gassed, safe or not. But even safety may be an issue. As was reported in the Times, one study found that when meat in modified packages that included carbon monoxide was stored at 10 degrees above the proper temperature, salmonella grew more easily than if left untreated.

Isn't nice when food industries have more say over our food supply?

As always, let me remind you all of the one way to avoid this sort of stuff -- Find a butcher you know and trust and have them cut the meat in front of you. 99% of all of the crap that the agri-business pulls will be avoided this way.

Food now requires an education. How sad is that? Really, since when is half of what most Americans put in their mouth now real, unprocessed, unmessed with FOOD? Have you had any REAL food lately?

Accidental Hedonist's "Bucatini All'Amatriciana"

Spiritual Law of the Day -- Tuesday"The Law of Karma"
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. Choosing actions that bring happiness and success to others ensures the flow of happiness and success to you.
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."-- W. C. Fields