My mother and I were talking about this very same thing one day.  I grew up
on 5 acres and we raised our own chickens, bought raw milk from the
neighbors, had a pig and a steer that grazed and grew our own vegetables.
My mom bought very few groceries, although we did eat cereal.  We did not
eat most other junk foods.  We didn't realize how lucky we were back then.

Kim

On Jan 28, 2008 5:20 PM, Gale <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>  I grew up in a rural community eating pastured and free-range animals,
> farm fresh eggs etc. (we didn't know we were so cutting edge).  We purchased
> half a steer and half a pig every year and my mother rendered the fat and
> used it for cooking.  That history has provided mixed results for the entire
> family from a health and body fat perspective (although I sure would like to
> be able to go back to those days and eat that food - it was delicious).
>
>  Hope some of that helps and not just muddies the waters.  But we are
> living in muddied - waters time and there is much investigation to be done
> to clarify our H2O.
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>  gale
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