Mint Creek Farm Happenings
Last week I found myself doubled over in excruciating gut pain, barely able to stand. Was this the flu, something I ate, or some more serious problem? Gwen rushed me to the hospital and I spent the next six hours getting checked out. Never having been to the emergency room under these conditions before I encountered many firsts. My first intravenous feed, morphine, CT scan, chest x-ray's etc. All tests came back good and it was decided that it was something I ate! Leaving, I felt grateful to not be in pain. I am now "back in the saddle". I recently heard about a local feedlot that had been feeding truckloads of waste from a large local agribusiness vegetable processor. 800 cattle got sick and died. The way our food system is set up it favors agribusiness that finds cheaper ways of feeding animals that hopefully does not kill them. This becomes a race to the bottom. The most resourceful and innovative cost saver wins with the lowest cost, highest margin product. Then we get to eat this, under the guise of wholesome pure natural farms label. As a nation our health care costs keep rising, threatening to bankrupt us. My little visit to the hospital made this abundantly clear. In six hours, one MD, three physicians assistants, four nurses, and a host of other people that I have no idea what they were there for waited on me. What this will cost is left for you to guess. That possible race to the bottom food I ate just got a little more expensive. We are experiencing this culturally on a grand scale. Yet we don't seem to get it. What will it take? This experience makes me want to double down and direct Mint Creek Farm products to a race to the top. Yes, they are expensive but way, way, way cheaper than hospital visits. We, to the best of our ability need to keep asking how we can improve and grow healthier food. More than we care to realize we are what we eat. Aren't we worth the expense? Harry | 
