Out of touch w/the world

[prof fate]

I prefer to be more out of touch. I dont use Facebook to record my life and tell everyone where I am going and show pictures of what I eat.

I just dont get the 'sea salt over regular mined salt. If you want the minerals from salt, just buy bulk road salt and grind it yourself-it has all the minerals still in it.

I dont get some of the issues with organic over regular like organic milk for instance. Does it taste better than milk from a cow that eats grass that is not organically fertilized? My opinion on organic anything is that it is mostly hype and is no different from any other thing that you eat and mostly is just more expensive.

to be organic, it must be certified organic - so you just can't use the word. There is a legal definition of it. It's not cheap to get either.

So EVERYTHING in the foodchain needs to be organic for the milk to be - so no growth hormones, no roundup in the pastures, etc, etc. Other than the natural growth hormones that are in all cows milk to make baby cows grow...so avoid dairy is the best thing. Grown ANYTHING doesn't consume ANY milk..other than people.

It's not about taste on organics, but 'ingredients'. To be organic food (say, a tomato or hay for that cow) it can't have anything synthetic on the ground (fertilizer, pesticide, etc) for at least 5 years.

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As for sea salt, juice infused, etc - with 100 companies making stuff how do you make YOUR stuff sound better, sell better, sell for more money?

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Influencers are a social media/millenial thing...I don't get it either.

You see it with the farm videos from that family with the mahindra tractors... it's not 'advertising' in the traditional sense like a commercial. With no newspapers, everyone watching netflix and youtube, how do you advertise your 'sea juice infused lemon balm' these days?

 

[5030]

Yesterday, for unimportant reasons, I had to go to a grocery store and pick up some prepackaged food for lunch today. One of the items I bought was a little container called "Balanced Breaks". It contains
Natural Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Sea- Salted Cashews & Cherry juiced infused Dried Cranberries.
Natural cheese? Sea salted cashews? Juice infused Cranberries? WTHeck is juice infused? and is regular salt no longer available? And it was $$$$.
Also yesterday I read a blurb about a "Social Influencer" What exactly is a social influencer?

I am becoming more out of touch every day.

Being 'out of touch' isn't all bad, in fact my wife and I enjoy it. Living on a remote rural location, everything stays basically the same, day in and day out. If I want to partake in the issues of the world, I can do that by jumping on the net and looking or ignoring whatever I want to.

Fine with me. The major reason we moved out here, besides farming. 4 seasons, winter to let the land rest, spring to plant, summer to grow and fall to harvest. Been the same for the last 34 years and I don't want it to change. Being a hermit has it's advantages.

 

[widefat]

Maybe I do listen to social influencers - Tractor Mike and Hickock45?

 

[kuschneider]

Social media influencers in reality are no different that the celebrities that endorsed products years ago on TV commercials. You had Arnold Palmer pushing Penzoil for eons, he was a social influencer. He was paid to act like he gave a flying rat's you know what about oil. They paid him to say it, and we watched it during every commercial break when watching Murder She wrote or Matlock. Then people went out and bought up that oil when it was time for an oil change. Same thing with tools, cars, hunting and fishing equipment, farm equipment etc etc.

Just a different way of accomplishing the same goal. Pushing your product.

I am an official review for Home Depot. I get free stuff to evaluate and put my review on Home Depot's website. Companies need reviews of new products to help them sell. A lot easier to send products to someone to use/wear and have them post in on Social Media than to sign endorsement contracts and film commercials and what not. My wife sister and her husband are good friends with a former MLB Cy Young pitcher. He gets all sorts of free crap from companies hoping that he will wear or use their stuff and include in social media posts.

 

[kuschneider]

widefat......exactly. The slightly older folks like to call everyone sheep and brainwashed, but in reality logging onto Youtube to watch your favorite channels is No different

 

[Industrial Toys]

Can you even eat Jello without thinking of that really nice, decent, funny Cosby guy?

People were always sheep. Just think of the Hoola Hoop!

I sure hope the aspects of the Internet said to be so robust are more so than the back-up systems at a nucler facility. Let's put our back up generators at ground level, where they can be taken out by a tital wave! Most people have their head so far in the sand, that they don't even realize that Fukashima is on-going and the worst of the damage hasn't even occured yet!

 

[Sono]

Sea Salt is supposedly healthier BUT most don't know that the average container of sea salt has no iodine added. So if you switch to sea salt get the one that contain iodine .
Sea salt tastes better in my opinion and iodine keeps you from becoming anemic.

But all that infused stuff, is just added flavors and mostly those health freaks buy it such as the Organic produce.

 

[k0ua]

Maybe I do listen to social influencers - Tractor Mike and Hickock45?

Yes, they are. The difference is they are not young and brainless like most social influencers. They actually have life experiences and skills.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Sea Salt is supposedly healthier BUT most don't know that the average container of sea salt has no iodine added. So if you switch to sea salt get the one that contain iodine .
Sea salt tastes better in my opinion and iodine keeps you from becoming anemic.

But all that infused stuff, is just added flavors and mostly those health freaks buy it such as the Organic produce.

Actually Iodine is essential for thyroid function.

 

[Sono]

Actually Iodine is essential for thyroid function.

Yes. Very true.