Eileen, I got a great kick out of that. Wanna make an issue of it? Nope. I do what I do and everyone else gets to do what they want and I don't get to make other people's choices.

I grow and eat my own grass fed beef, organic vegetables, pastured chickens. Why? Because I like them and because my Dad did and his Dad and his Dad's Dad.

Is it healthier and a better life for my animals? Oh yeah. Double bonus.

Am I ever going to be a vegetarian? Nope. Am I going to give up sugar or artificial sweetener or throw out milk the minute it hits the sell by date because the government says to? Nope. Am I going to obsess about how I might have forgotten to add a bit of citric acid to my homecanned tomatoes and stock antibacterial cleanser in every room because of germs. Nope. (Besides, I already had H1N1 last year!)

I am going to continue to drink my locally roasted Paramount coffee because Michigan businesses need all the help they can get. I'm going to continue to garden and can because I like it. And I'm going to continue to grow beef because it tastes better to me.

Will I change the world? Nope. Think globally, act locally. I do the best I can but I can't and don't care to "make" anyone else do it.

Annie

Wanta make an issue of it? Nope! With 'tongue in cheek'...Am I going to mope around and whine because Annie has a farm and raises chickens and cattle and has a seemingly endless amount of energy to do everything for any and everybody? Nope, I'm just going to envy her, admire her for what she is and what she does and admit that when I was 25 years younger and her age I still couldn't do what she does. Way to go Annie...my hat's off to you!

We do grow organic vegetables and I do can and I'm grateful I can do that.. Life is too short to make an issue of everything that comes down the pike.

I hope this sounds the way I intended....kind and complimentary...the written word often doesn't appear the way the spoken word does.

jude

Hilarious. Thanks, Eileen.