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Skriven 2008-02-12 16:20:26 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2237 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [2]
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Hi Janis,

>> if I see that he really enjoys something, I do make the decision to
>> keep it :)

 JK> > If he really enjoys it, there's no question. If I'm not quite sure
 JK> he > likes it enough to keep, I'll ask. Most of the time, since I know
 JK> his > likes/dislikes, it's a keeper as nothing he dislikes will be in
 JK> the new > dish.

 JK> Sounds about like here :)

I'm glad Steve is willing to try new things; it's fun really breaking
out of the "same old, same old" mode every so often. (G)


>> Oh yuck, that's nasty... I just read an article in the NYTimes about a
>> pork processing plant in Minnestota this Sunday... it's horrid.  So
>> their farms stink to high heaven, and some of their processing plants
>> give people strange diseases... eek. I don't eat pork that often, and

 JK> > Sounds almost like Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" 100 years later.

 JK> Funny

Can you tell I like to read? (G)


 JK> Yes :(  The symptoms these people were getting were very very much
 JK> like the ones that person with MS gets (but more than even that).  The
 JK> scientists in charge or doctors or whatever finally traced the
 JK> problems down to  the method used to take out the pigs' brain (it's
 JK> not used all over the country) and they believe it was caused by brain
 JK> matter spraying on the workers..

Mad pig disease?  That was some sharp medical sleuthing.


 JK> > tho, we've driven by huge beef lots in TX & NM more often but he's
 JK> not > given up beef. Seriously, we have cut way down on our meat
 JK> consumption > and most of it is poultry now.

 JK> Since we've gone the organic route or whatever you want to call it,
 JK> we've been eating more meat than we were before.  But I don't feel bad
 JK> doing it, since I know these animals weren't fed a diet of corn
 JK> products when they were born to eat grass... and I don't worry about
 JK> mad cow as much either.  Just because a farmer doesn't industrialize
 JK> his farming methods, though, doesn't mean you can count on that I
 JK> suppose.  But I am.

Yes, and we should probably go the same route for our eatingtoo.


>> permits, and I'll be giving her my copy to read.. She's got a great
>> book she showed me when we were there last that a nurse in the health
>> department gave her about children's allergies to food and resulting
>> behavior (like she doesn't know (grin))

 JK> > Yes but having another source of information is always handy. That
 JK> way > if she encounters a doctor who's not quite sure so let's
 JK> try......... I > had that happen to me with one in HI and my asthma.
 JK> He learned fast. > (G)

 JK> Yes, you're right!  and glad he learned fast for you :)

Not only me but his other patients.  He's now a better doctor for that
experience. It showed in how he treated me the rest of the time he was
my doctor.


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Ruth
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