Shall we continue the topic of "disgusting" products today? All photos in the publication were taken by me in real production.
Yesterday we talked about palm oil, which is hidden in "industrial" products, and today - about wholesome, organic, wonderful farm food grown according to the behests of our distant ancestors.
As I wrote, by occupation I had the opportunity to travel about Russia, to visit many enterprises, both food and agricultural, in culinary workshops... Yes, there are many elsewhere. And by the way, I have visited many farms.
So, after all these trips, I can say a terrible thing: if you choose between a product made by a well-known brand at a large plant and "farm", but about which I have very little idea, I will choose... a product of a large enterprises.
And among the "farm" products, I have more confidence in production close to the industrial level. Because he is well acquainted with the requirements for food production, and at the same time, he is also well familiar with the conditions in which products are made in an artisanal way.
Hygiene and sanitation in industries of the “handicraft-handicraftsman” level is most often observed only in one case - if this handicraftsman-handicraftsman makes a product for himself.
I write and remember - just at the moment, the whole family of a colleague is recovering from such a good food poisoning. It is not possible to prove that they were poisoned, most likely, with cream bought on the market. There is no check, and a nice lady, a little over middle-aged, with dairy products, sent buyers with complaints where to go - they say, I don’t know you, I don’t know you, I have all the papers in my hands (she waved a whole bundle, say).
I confess honestly, if I were in the place of the victims, I would have checked all the papers and made such a noise that it would not seem a little neither the lady herself, nor the management of the market where she traded (it did not happen in Moscow), but... There are people on the brakes lowered. Well, it's your own fault.
They wanted "real milk, so that not water with gouache, as it is now in stores" - got it. The principle “you have to choose a seller with your own cows and cleaner” - did not work. As you know, cows are not taken to the market, to say that the cow is one and his own - everyone can, what certificates and others the seller must have the documents for the products - the buyers do not really know everything early on, but the result - well... three suffered day.
And this is not the first case they have. And among my friends - not the only one.
With dairy so-called "farm" products (I do not mean large farms with mini-processing shops), but small ones, which are "all according to they do it the old fashioned way ", in general, atas - it bears animal so that you can even imagine the taste of manure, then it will turn out to be in the oil of the hair, then something else is just as pleasant will happen.
No, who can argue - there are honest small producers. Colleagues also buy milk every day in the village (they live nearby) - but there is a "farm" from a person - one cow, several goats, a bird... clean, licked so that it shines, the cow stands in a clean barn and is actually fed not only with compound feed - the owner of the grass himself in the summer stores. Customers see all this with their own eyes, and therefore they are calm and they have never had any complaints for several years - in the morning they are waiting for a can of milk of the morning milk yield.
But this is all because they live outside the city - is there such an opportunity in the city? Not. At large enterprises, by the way, there is quality and safety control, private traders do not have it from the word "in general".
I had to deal with the so-called "farmers" who fattened livestock for themselves - separately, for sale - separately, and there was nothing to feed for sale did not differ from the fattening of the "industrial" - the same compound feed, the same additives, only they set the price for the supposedly "eco" meat - mother did not grieve.
And with vegetables and fruits the same story. Fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides - everything is the same. Sometimes even in large quantities to further minimize manual labor. The tale that domestic farmers fertilize their land with manure is just a fairy tale. Chemistry has long and firmly occupied the first place among fertilizers.
So here, too, farm products differ little from those of large farms.
Therefore, I see no reason to chase after the farmer, and even more so to argue that "industrial" is all dirty.
Although, of course, everyone has their own opinion ...