Welcome To The Bubble World...

If you have ever had a wonderful, fresh, straight from the farm, free range chicken egg, you know there is a WORLD of difference. The color is darker, the taste is better - they even stay fresher longer. As a child, I remember my grandmother keeping their fresh eggs out on the windowsill. My mom always kept ours in the fridge, but I expect that was more from having two crazy kids running around the house, rather than a safety issue.

While I have some germophobe issues (mostly due to my immune system being weak) and do clean daily, I don't have panic attacks about my daughter playing in the dirt. (Well, unless she's wearing something she's not supposed to. LOL) I encourage it. In fact, I handed her a little shovel and let her and the dogs go to town yesterday. She gets slobbered on by our pets, carries around cats, and yeah, she doesn't wash her hands always after touching them, either. So sue me!

Every time I hear about recalls and fresh foods, it's almost always because people didn't clean their food properly before eating or serving it. Most of the time, it's because of factory farms - not little guys like you and me. Yeah, if you have 1,000+ chickens stuck in dirty cages where they never see sunlight - hey, a co-inky dink, sunlight is a green disinfectant! - you're going to have filthy eggs. Joe Schmoe the little organic farmer, with 20 gorgeous bantys roaming around the yard, is going to have hens free of being sick - no need for antibiotics! - and those eggs are going to be gorgeous. Sure, they need cleaned up before you eat them, but all eggs do!

Why am I ranting? Because I just received a media pitch in my inbox for pasteurized eggs. As if pasteurized milk wasn't bad enough - now they are doing the same thing to eggs!

If you wonder why your immune system is falling apart, it's because you're eating CRAP. You're eating genetically modified corn, milk that's not really milk anymore (seriously, check out the difference between raw milk and the junk you find at your supermarket!), and now eggs that might as well be popped out of a machine. Good grief!

At the park the other day, we overheard a conversation between a group of elderly women that was discussing a granddaughter's upcoming birthday party at school, and not being allowed to bring in any homebaked goods for fear of someone getting sick from either allergies or contaminants! The ladies were chiming in that no one had any allergies like peanuts or gluten back then, and one even came out and said it's because of the way our food is these days!

That was one smart lady! (I would have adopted any of them!) If you put yourself in a germ free bubble, your immune system cannot learn to fight even the smallest things - and that's how you end up with life threatening illnesses and allergies. You can't spray disinfectant on everything and expect superbugs not to grow - and the cycle begins again, only with much stronger germs. Ditto our food. You're setting your immune system up for failure!

But this is America, and as much as I am cringing at those pasteurized eggs, I also understand that you on the other end of this beautiful Internet might disagree and think they are the best thing ever. Great! Just don't turn around and take away my right to give my family raw milk and good ol' fashioned farm eggs just because you're paranoid and I'm not.

(Speaking of eggs: we went to the farm store this week and saw the baby chicks. My daughter was in LOVE. I told her when we move that she could have three. She was all excited and asked if we could have more. I said sure - you can have as many as you'd like (totally not thinking! LOL) She comes back asking if she could have 70 (!!!!). I have no clue where she got that number from, but in a swift moment of panic, I told her she could have as many chicks as she could name AND remember their name as they came up to her. She backtracked and said five was good. WHEW! LOL!!!!)