Self Sufficiency Blog Series 1-Intro

This is a new blog series that takes a look at what I've done, what I've learned, and what I plan to do in regards to being self sufficient as possible on my ½ acre property. Each post will cover a different topic, but this first one is the intro to the series.

First of all, why? Why go through all the work to be self sufficient when you can buy what you want from the store? And the answer to that is easy: poisons. The food from the large stores are full of poisons. These are in the form of insecticides sprayed on produce to keep bugs off them. They are steroids and antibiotics given to animals to keep them healthy in poor conditions and to make them grow faster. They are in the form of sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners that are causing cancer and obesity in equal amounts. These poisons are in the form of many other ingredients that cause or are suspected of causing health issues like palm oil and dyes. You can't even get real meat from a large store, because it's shot up with saline solution to make it weigh more so that you're buying as much water as meat. There's other reasons to produce some or all of your own food such as food cost, wanting to know how the animals are treated, and economic purposes.

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