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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Coadie, though no longer Mennonite I still attend the local MCC fund-raisers and still donate.
Growing up we would donate a beef or other animal when they brought the canner in. The irony is, even though we were well below the poverty line ourselves we would never miss the canning days. One of the best things the poor can do is give their time and resources for those less forfunate. It helps keep things in perpsective. Most recently the gubment has outlawed the use of portable canners in our state and they are now doing auctions to raise funds so the canning can be done at other locations.
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I am going to a MCC sale this year.
Mennonites butchering and canning meat are now
OUTLAWSIf they are not running a USDA inspected slaughter operation, they are OUTLAWS in the eyes of Big Gubment.
This ties into another thread where we see
gubment regulation deliberately causes innefficiency. Grain fed beef has a higher cash cost to the farmer than grass fed. The time you buy hanging beef and donate it, you get many less tons of meat for the donation dollar.
Gubment is going into heavy handed food safety regulations which will wipe out small organic farms and farmers markets.
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