{"id":2267,"date":"2018-05-22T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2018-05-22T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:42:19","slug":"tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate eating tomatoes. \u00a0I have hated eating tomatoes my WHOLE life. \u00a0Ask my parents. \u00a0Better yet, ask my brothers that grew up listening to the ordeals involved with making me eat raw tomatoes. \u00a0I hate them. \u00a0But, I am fine with tomatoes being used in foods as long as they aren&#8217;t chunky pieces.<\/p>\n<p>I love a good salsa&#8211;NOT chunky, and I dang sure don&#8217;t want a tomato taste. \u00a0I want it to taste like jalape\u00f1o, cayenne or habanero peppers with a touch of onion. \u00a0I can&#8217;t stand ketchup that tastes like a crappy tomato. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want a slice of tomato on a burger or sandwich. \u00a0Same with a salad. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want food that has tomato blood all over it. \u00a0I am fine with a salad that has cherry\/grape tomatoes on it. \u00a0That way I can pick them off and give them to a tomato lover. \u00a0Diced tomatoes on a salad&#8211;keep the salad.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch much tv, except between the hours of 2 am and 6 am. \u00a0I don&#8217;t watch cnn or fox news. \u00a0I only occasionally watch the local crap. \u00a0Everything is SO sensationalized and not always true. \u00a0If the weather is actually bad, the radio or this damn phone will let me know. \u00a0Better yet, common sense tells me a lot. \u00a0The news should be straight forward and without a political spin. \u00a0Not in today&#8217;s society.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that the Trumpster is the greatest person ever. \u00a0I DO think that he is better than we have had in a while and that he truly is trying to make things better. \u00a0I do think that we have a lot of politicians that we do not need in our daily diet. \u00a0They are like tomatoes. \u00a0I don&#8217;t need them nor want them. \u00a0Nancy Pelosi would top this list. \u00a0Get that vile thing away from me.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that we need some tomatoes in the house of representatives. \u00a0But this one infects the rest of the recipe like a bunch of diced up tomatoes. \u00a0How she has gotten elected is beyond me and thus the reason that I don&#8217;t want to live near her district.<\/p>\n<p>I could write piles about what I don&#8217;t like about her. \u00a0But her blatant lack of knowledge when it comes to the Farm Bill and its purpose is staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, everyone involved in agriculture understands that the Farm Bill is NOT about agriculture and is more about food stamps, WIC, nutrition programs, etc, etc, etc. \u00a0These politicians use the large $#s associated with the &#8220;farm bill&#8221; to make voters believe that it is actually about agriculture. \u00a0On the other hand, they use the welfare and free programs to sway people to their side. \u00a0And those people vote. \u00a0Why? \u00a0They don&#8217;t have jobs and they don&#8217;t want to lose their free stuff. \u00a0And we aren&#8217;t talking about race when I say those people.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to be aware that they are going to make it illegal to slaughter or eat cats and dogs. \u00a0Who is this aimed at? \u00a0If somebody is that hungry, I don&#8217;t care if they eat a dog. \u00a0As long as it isn&#8217;t my dog. \u00a0Who cares if someone from another culture eats a dog? \u00a0I don&#8217;t. \u00a0In Peru, 10% of their total meat intake is guinea pig. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because guinea pigs are native there. \u00a0It&#8217;s like a cajun eating shrimp or gator, someone from New England eating lobster or my fat ass eating some pig, steak or smoked bologna (which may or may not contain guinea pig, labrador and\/or goat and mutton), \u00a0but Dude, once you season it with some garlic salt and some pecan wood smoke\u2026.who cares? \u00a0 And I tell you what, I&#8217;ve had some bad-ass jalape\u00f1o goat bologna from Tom &amp; Kerensa Kester. \u00a0Ask Dale Cramblett. \u00a0He will back me up on that.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t want to eat a dog. \u00a0But, if I had to\u2026Labradors are probably tasty. \u00a0Just kidding. \u00a0But, in all honesty, I haven&#8217;t ever been that hungry. \u00a0Some cultures are fine with eating some canine. \u00a0I think that I will leave the cat part alone. \u00a0You can sit there with your own thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The horse slaughter ban has not been a good thing for anybody in agriculture. \u00a0In fact, it has probably led to an increase in animal cruelty cases. \u00a0But peta and the hsus got what they wanted. \u00a0And both those organizations have direct ties to the tomato can known as the minority leader of the house of U.S. representatives.<\/p>\n<p>All I really know is that I get to deal with a lot of good kids and good people. \u00a0Our country is not as bad as some want to make it to be. \u00a0But, when you realize that this clown has supporters, it has to scare you. \u00a0You don&#8217;t have to be a fan of Trump. \u00a0But supporting this rotten tomato scares me. \u00a0The attack of the killer tomatoes is not how I want to see this nation end. \u00a0I would rather it be in a fight for the common good. \u00a0Not a splintering of a once proud nation that uses too much tv news, social media and other resources for its political info.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of places to blame for the Dumbing Down of America. \u00a0But, we can look directly to our media and our politicians. \u00a0But in reality, the tomato sauce is on our faces. \u00a0You elected these people and you watch these tv channels that support their agendas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p>For now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate eating tomatoes. \u00a0I have hated eating tomatoes my WHOLE life. \u00a0Ask my parents. \u00a0Better yet, ask my brothers that grew up listening to the ordeals involved with making me eat raw tomatoes. \u00a0I hate them. \u00a0But, I am fine with tomatoes being used in foods as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}