Northern Farmer

In Northern Farmer’s previous post, he talked about how we can enslave ourselves for Medical insurance. My off-farm job is with a health insurance company and I see plenty of things that I don’t like at this company. They promote the sodomite lifestyle, allowing employees to get insurance for same sex “domestic partners”, as they call them. They allow the internal advertisement of “gay and lesbian events”, but will not allow advertisement of an employee conducted Bible Study. They promote political agendas that are ungodly. They dictate what healthcare a person can get, and would never dream of paying for nutritional or herbal treatments. As far as I am concerned the health insurance system is badly flawed. I know of a church whose members chip in to pay each other’s medical costs. The last that I had heard about this church was that the money contributed for the medical costs of members was less than medical insurance would have cost, even at a time when some members had major medical bills.

I can think of other ways that we look to the government and corporations to protect us. Our society looks to the USDA and the FDA to ensure the safety of our food supply. The USDA and FDA never make mistakes like normal people nor do they accept bribes- right? We have a neighbor who gets blemished apples from a local orchard. They have crates and crates of these seconds. Most of these apples are beautiful looking and the reason they can’t be sold is that they have either a small bruise or a small break in the skin. The neighbors are feeding them to their pigs. I was admiring some of these apples, which were about the size of a softball, when it occurred to me to ask how they got them to grow so big. The answer was that when the apples are small they reduce the number of apples on a tree, either by mechanically cutting some off or by chemically treating the tree. When they chemically treat the tree, it partially withers, causing some apples to drop off. Hmm … they semi-poison the tree and they claim this apple is now safe to eat? But the government agencies would never make a mistake when they approved this chemical, would they? The government also maintains the safety of our milk supply - doesn’t it? TnFarmgirl has a post describing what she saw when she and her family visited a number of cow dairies. She definitely did not like what she saw. About a year ago I took my wife’s niece to visit a local confinement dairy, where 700 cows are milked three times a day. I think after that experience she will always at least think twice about buying milk from the store. We watched as someone from the third world milked Holsteins, all with their tails docked, placing the inflations onto teats that were still covered with some sort of blue teat dip, which was obviously going to end up in the milk.

It is time for us to look to the Lord first, rather than to so-called experts, corporations and government agencies.

Jim V

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