Les
Posts: 6,139 
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
January 23rd, 2007, 07:21 PM
Quoting s_lone
Not lucky. I made a point of having good food that I can access. It was work, not luck. I lived in Okanagan cities for more years than I'd like, but I still hunted and fished and my cousin with the beef was actually closer then than now. Even got my milk from a friend that had Jerseys near Kelowna. I know several people in cities that made a point about meeting farmers and ranchers in the area just to have sources for decent food.
You are one lucky fellow! And it does suck to be cityfied... Not always but sometimes...
Les
Posts: 6,139
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
January 23rd, 2007, 07:29 PM
Quoting karrie
I still think I'll pass on the stuff. Never could figure out why people at the coast farm Atlantic salmon instead of indigenous salmon. That seems unethical to me, especially since BC has about a half dozen different species of salmon. Why would we need a foreign fish? A couple times a year a fella comes round here with a reefer truck with freshly frozen seafood. He carries all sorts of critters.
You can buy 'un-dyed' farmed salmon. Tastes better, and who cares how pink it is? It's still nicer looking than the breaded fish sticks I grew up with thinking they were 'good fish'.
Not on the Asian food, just on the tofu.
January 23rd, 2007, 07:32 PM
Quoting L Gilbert
Well, being in the North, I really have no choice in seafood options. But, I do try to avoid dyes and bull**** like that in the stuff I can get my hands on up here.
I still think I'll pass on the stuff. Never could figure out why people at the coast farm Atlantic salmon instead of indigenous salmon. That seems unethical to me, especially since BC has about a half dozen different species of salmon. Why would we need a foreign fish? A couple times a year a fella comes round here with a reefer truck with freshly frozen seafood. He carries all sorts of critters.
Les
Posts: 6,139
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
January 23rd, 2007, 07:41 PM
??? Alaska is in the north and those people get seafood. I love Alaskan King crab, for instance. They have King salmon, Coho salmon, Arctic Silverbright salmon, Sockeye, halibut, char, Snow crab, scallops, Black cod, etc. A lot of those critters are also in NWT and Yukon, too.
??? Alaska is in the north and those people get seafood. I love Alaskan King crab, for instance. They have King salmon, Coho salmon, Arctic Silverbright salmon, Sockeye, halibut, char, Snow crab, scallops, Black cod, etc. A lot of those critters are also in NWT and Yukon, too.
January 23rd, 2007, 07:51 PM
Quoting L Gilbert
I'm practically at the Alberta border, and what we get here for seafood is frozen and pricey, or fresh, pricey, and sketchy.
??? Alaska is in the north and those people get seafood. I love Alaskan King crab, for instance. They have King salmon, Coho salmon, Arctic Silverbright salmon, Sockeye, halibut, char, Snow crab, scallops, Black cod, etc. A lot of those critters are also in NWT and Yukon, too.
Les
Posts: 6,139
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
January 23rd, 2007, 08:17 PM
Ah. Ever thought of online ordering? I love Finnan Haddie but I can't find it here so I get it from a fishery in Atlantic Canada. Comes in a cardboard box lined with styrofoam with frozen gel packs in it. All the pacjaging I can recycle and the tasty tidbits of smoked haddock, I eat.
Ah. Ever thought of online ordering? I love Finnan Haddie but I can't find it here so I get it from a fishery in Atlantic Canada. Comes in a cardboard box lined with styrofoam with frozen gel packs in it. All the pacjaging I can recycle and the tasty tidbits of smoked haddock, I eat.
January 23rd, 2007, 08:27 PM
Quoting L Gilbert
No, I've never thought to order. I've found that most on-line ordering requires a house address for shipping, and I only have a mailbox in town. Not even a post office box but rather one of those little roadside deals. I'd look into it if hubby wans't so limited in his diet. No more seafood except for salmon. And we're not too picky about salmon, since we've never been spoiled like you folks down in the southern parts of the province *lol* The fillets of salmon Safeway has are good enough when you bake them in a good marinade.
Ah. Ever thought of online ordering? I love Finnan Haddie but I can't find it here so I get it from a fishery in Atlantic Canada. Comes in a cardboard box lined with styrofoam with frozen gel packs in it. All the pacjaging I can recycle and the tasty tidbits of smoked haddock, I eat.
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Location: Alberta
Location: Alberta
January 23rd, 2007, 08:40 PM
Quoting s_lone
We don't need more food though. All we need to do is share what's already produced and develop better ways of distributing what we produce.
Meat...
2: If all the energy and ressources put into feeding the animals that are to be eaten by us was put into producing alternative food sources we would end up with MORE food for MORE people.
2: If all the energy and ressources put into feeding the animals that are to be eaten by us was put into producing alternative food sources we would end up with MORE food for MORE people.
Les
Posts: 6,139
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
January 23rd, 2007, 09:43 PM
Sounds like me. My tastebuds hate me when I eat meat from a store. Specially some of that meat that's been "smoked". I get smoked stuff from people who actually have smokers so I think some of that storebought crap is chemically smoked because it tastes like ashtrays smell to me. F'n rude.
Sounds like me. My tastebuds hate me when I eat meat from a store. Specially some of that meat that's been "smoked". I get smoked stuff from people who actually have smokers so I think some of that storebought crap is chemically smoked because it tastes like ashtrays smell to me. F'n rude.
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Location: Saint John, N.B.
Location: Saint John, N.B.
January 24th, 2007, 12:37 AM
Quoting karrie
The only real "free range" animals are the truely wild...........anyone for a good deer hunt?
Free range animals is one area of 'meat ethics'. Also, shipping guidelines and slaughter issues. Some slaughterhouses ship animals long distances, in intense heat or cold with no food or water, just to run them through a slaughter house that doesn't kill them efficiently or humanely. Animals raised free range, and slaughtered in areas that don't require such duress, tend to actually taste better.
