Tashi_Aunt wrote:

> A vegetarian diet would be very bad for me owing to a medical
> condition. As long as I limit the amount of vegetables I eat,
> everything is fine. My diet has to be well balanced between meat and
> vegetables and grains. I need a lot of protein. So, I happily eat
> cows, pigs, chickens, fish, lambs, and eggs. So, Mr. Vegetarian, not
> everyone can or wants to be a vegetarian. I think it is great that you
> are raising most of your food, but be aware that diseases and molds
> that affect plants can also affect people.



Rye, infected with a
> particular spore, will drive you mad. All foods can be dangerous.
ERGOT is hardly a common spore. I would rather be driven mad by a spore
than by a cow.
When we raise our own produce we have control over every aspect of the
plant nutrition and its care.