dont go fishing

DONT GO FISHING


dont worry
we wont be fishing any at our house

my wife she wont let me have those orange goldfish in our cupboards
why
you ask
well
because ill eat all of them

thanks to her saying no it appears that i want get a salmonellla infection
heck
i may have been cycloed as i wrote about in a previous blog
titled was i cyclo
from cyclsporosis causing gi symptoms

now i do have access to goldfish
no i dont have a secret stash somewhere
ms b has some at her house
when she is good or eats well etc she can have some as a reward
if i am there i like to be the one that goes to the cupboard to get
her some goldfish
i usually will get 15 out of the box
she only gets 5 of them

i always carefully wipe the yellow stuff off my mouth and off my hands so ms be cant see it

if you have heard
if you got goldfish in your cupboard
you might want to chunk them
since
they may be contaminated with salmonella
which can cause
fever
diarrhea
belly ache
headache
body aches
joint pains

it usually clears itself out on its own
no pun intended

those at risk are
immunocompromised folks like new babies old folks like my wife she and i folks with hiv or cancer or folks on drugs that suppress the immune system

at worse it can cause joint infections or meningitis or severe dehydration and in some cases death in those folks

it seems this stuff was found in whey used to make the goldfish
whey is one of the proteins in milk

you remember the kid song
little ms muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey
thats the stuff

maybe it should say
little ms muffet sat on her potty after eating her curds and whey

it also is used in some ritz crackers

in this article there are the names of those recalled foods

how does this germ get in whey
somebodies didnt wash their hands real good

another source of salmonella is chickens and eggs
chicken should always be cooked well
dont eat raw cookie dough since there is a risk of catching this and other germs from the uncooked eggs in the dough

my wife she please read that last sentence

if you raise your own eggs
be sure and wash your hands well after gathering the eggs
i always suggest to my wife she that she wash off the eggs right before she uses them then wash her hands real good

now when we gathered our eggs we didnt refrigerate them since we left them in the cartons on the cabinet unwashed
washing them removes a protective barrier that keeps the eggs sterile
if you wash them they need to be refrigerated

you should also wipe down your countertops where you handled any raw chicken
as well as wash your hands well

maybe
they should suggest that those folks who process that whey powder do the same
there really is no excuse for this happening
but
it seems to happen all too frequently in the processed food world

ill never look at a goldfish the same in the future

the organicgreen doctor

the egg

THE EGG
the egg has been much maligned in the past few years
causing problems with cholesterol for one thing
thats all been much disproved since then
especially
if you eat a free range egg thats recently been laid

now some companies call theirs free range but somehow
the rules get bent some so they can call them free range


here at the country n our girls lay legs that are true
free range eggs
they get the full range of 10 acres of land thats all natural
and of course all organic
bugs worms grasshoppers
right now a lot of grasshoppers
seeds and grasses

as they make our compost from the leaves some of you
have given me they carefully pick out all the weed seeds
from the leaves so whats left is a weed seed free compost
good job girls
and
they give us those delicious free range eggs

we have a friend who we have tried to give her a dozen
of these eggs
now people beg for theses eggs
we usually give away any extras we have
except during the walk to end alzheimers fundraising time
then we give them away asking for a donation

she wont take them
well once we gave her some that werent cleaned real good
my wife she usually adds a feather in the carton just for
decoration
she did not want any of that
so
we still bring her the eggs which are quickly scooped up by
one of her sons
he knows how good they are


occasionally we have to buy eggs from the store
they im sorry even those labeled organic free range
taste like cardboard


if youve eaten a fresh egg you know what i mean
the yolk is even a darker orange color

here she goes to the store and finds them refrigerated usually
next to the milk
we in the us pasteurize our eggs steaming them to over 90 degrees
washing them real good
spraying them with a chemical sanitizer
that doesnt sound good does it
wonder if that stuff gets inside the egg
once thats done they have to be refrigerated
sometimes for months before you get them

now in europe
why do they seem to do things better than we do sometimes
they dont pasteurize their eggs
they leave that important cuticle that the girls put on them as
they are laid
this acts as a barrier to keep bacteria out of the egg
they do a better job of having a cleaner living areas for
the hens
here in the us have you been to a commercial laying house
the hens there are all also vaccinated against salmonella
which isnt done much in the us
so
their eggs will be found eg in the can good section or dry good
section of the store

the us eggs would not be allowed to be sold in europe

so which do you think might be a better tasting egg
the us egg or the european egg

i think i know from personal experience here at the country n
where we leave our eggs out on the shelf for days
a little chicken feather and a little debris doesnt bother us

i wonder if our friend ate eggs when she went to europe
i bet she did
and
she had no idea

the organicgreen doctor