But it’s the pelvic thrusts, that really drive them insane. The pelvis is a bone, right?
Maybe you roast the bones first and maybe you don’t, but either way, boil it a while. Done:
Simple Tips for Stocks & Broths – Kitchen Conundrums with Thomas Joseph
From the angle of politics or maybe just green anarchy involving itself in the weirdest places:
Lead Contamination in Bone Broth
The cited study, from a decade ago, argues that even if you use organic meat and do everything right, you can be doing as much harm as good, and there’s no cure for it.
A commenter fires back: “Other research shows that grass fed free range beef broth made with reverse osmosis water and lead-free cookware had no lead”.
Maybe. But regardless:
In the end, it doesn’t matter what you eat, or how lovingly that food was grown or processed. Civilization has spread so many kinds of evil shit so far and wide that there is no longer any way of avoiding it. You can only mitigate the damage on the margins. Perfect organic rice from Texas is loaded with arsenic because decades ago those rice fields were cotton fields, and the arsenic used to ‘treat’ the cotton lingers in the soil regardless of ‘organic’. So you cross your fingers and buy Californian instead, and good luck to us all.
Meanwhile, microplastics in your drinking water now abide in your child’s liver, and it was your very success within the System that put those plastics there.
That’s what Anthropocene means. Nothing is pure, everything is fucked to some extent, and we did this to ourselves in the name of progress. Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven any more. Lifting yourself out of the proletariat so that you can afford to save yourself from the foundational badness of civilization is a fool’s errand. Absurdism is the order of the day, and that was inevitable even long before the bomb tests starting going off, beginning with Trinity, and Hiroshima.
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Let’s begin again with the olive oil. The good news is that some stuff is better than others.
Best Olive Oils to Buy Right Now
My pick from their picks:
And now you know what I want for Christmas in my greedy grasping way.
The bad news is the same of course, and even worse (because: mafiaCapitalism), but I have video anyway because it led me down an interesting tangential rabbit hole.
Your Olive Oil is (probably) a Lie
The guy that did this video is fascinating. Apparently he’s a viral phenomenon and I’m late to the celebration of him, this Johnny Harris journalist person. He’s big enough that there are plenty of videos out there telling you why he’s bad–a liar, a thief, a grifter. Again .. sure maybe. But he’s doing a lot of things really right too, by my own personal standards of right, which as we saw yesterday is the only possible correct interpretation of Rightness.
In April, he released this:
It’s a concise explanation of how (and why) we fucked and continue to fuck the original human inhabitants of this place we call home.
It’s embedded in a Playlist that goes into much greater detail on the same subject. The playlist is called How The US Stole, and there are videos on how ‘we’ stole Hawaii, the Philippines, Oklahoma, Iraq, and lots of other places. Dude really gets it.
Months after the April video, weeks after October 7th, someone came along and commented on it thusly:
I came (to this video) after what’s happening in Gaza. I’ve noticed that they’re using the same tactics it’s make me so sad to know what’s happened to these beautiful people and their beautiful culture we must prevent it from happening again thank you so much I loved the way you showed us everything like document’s ,paintings that’s what I was looking for god bless you
The same tactics indeed.
A week or so after that, just a couple days ago, Johnny Harris came through for his commenter by posting another video:
9 November 23
The War is Spreading
The good guy rebels of the USA, the ‘colonists’, pioneered modern techniques of imperialism. They used them against their black slaves. They used them against the natives here on Turtle Island, and turned it into North America. They turned their attention to the rest of the world and finally became what they had always wanted to become: Unipolar Hegemon of the whole bleeding world, without significant remorse for any of it.
Their own upstart colony in the Middle East, the manufactured nation of Israel, is only doing what they learned from Daddy–kill and kill, and take and take, so that our lovely white sons and daughters can go to college and get good jobs, maybe over in the World Trade Center, or some other wing of the Empire, by exploitation and over all the little brown corpses of people who had the bad luck to be born in their way.
So that those well-dressed super-smart white children can study up on the beauty of bone broth and research what makes a really fine olive oil, while the olive trees on the West Bank burn and die, and the olive farmers are driven out of Eden and onto the scorched police state plains.
Tell me the one about shitholes again.
Tell me how blessed by birth you and I are, darling.
Don’t talk about complicity; you know how I hate it when you do that.
Yeah.
Parts of me hate it too.
But I can’t not say what I see with my own blinking third eye.
That would not be Right.