Money Walks and Talks, No Chickens Say So

Fallacy: Meats at Whole Foods or other similar markets cost more. Truth: Not if you shop it right.
This is not a plug for Whole Foods Market, but I have been buying my meats at Whole Foods for years and people tell me that they don't because it is too expensive. I do not agree because I always buy what is on sale or go to their store location where the economy/family packs are available. When I do so, I don't have to wait for a sale but buy in bulk packs of 3lbs or more and get the reduction on the price per pound by 30 cents or even more.
If you want to know why you should buy chicken there, simply visit online video sites such as Google Videos or You Tube and see how non-organic fed and factory farmed (soon-to-be supermarket) chickens are raised and treated. This will help you decide if you still want to support that industry. Chickens are the least protected livestock, for some strange reason, and since there are no laws, regulations etc. to enforce, they are grossly taken advantage of. Feed your family or yourself healthy poultry. How? You might begin by looking at the price of chicken regular retail in your supermarket and comparing it to Whole Foods Market (or a similar market's) at a reduced price or in a family value bulk pack. Can you see that there's not much difference? You also will see, when you get home, a huge difference in the quality. Buy some chicken from the conventional supermarket and boil it (for example to make chicken salad) and get a good whiff of the steam as it is cooking. Next, buy a Whole Foods (or similar strict guidelines non-factory-farmed organic meat market) bird and do the same, notice the aroma, notice the difference. Decide now where your dollar will go. Remember, "where the money goes so goes the supermarkets" and you may even, in the process of deciding, make some poor chickens really happy birds. I have included a video link, not to some horrible graphics of abused chickens but of rescued birds behaving normally in good free range conditions. They are eating grass, lettuce, cabbage and interacting peaceably as they should when put in normal outdoor conditions. This is the way their lives should be, before we even think about them becoming our food. You have heard that "you are what you eat". To view video: click here for Rescued Cage Free Birds And, for an very very short film without any narration to see a marginal show of abuse side by side with the beauty of normal birds (and with musical score) see video: click here for PART ONE and for a new narrated video: click here for the NEW ENGLAND - USA area (newly added).
Please ask yourself, "How much money am I saving by buying caged factory-farmed chickens?" You decide what is on your plate by deciding where your dollar goes, we have the power to end all abuse. Remembering that: "we are what we eat", let's all get "unconventional" about what we allow be set before us in our markets and make changes for the better. Things can change, your very dollar will determine the future food, our very vital corporate health, and the kind treatment of God's helpless creatures, chickens and baby chicks.

No Moot Just a Hoot for Mousse

Why is it amazing? You will get a hoot watching this couple present a video recipe for the most amazing chocolate mousse you will ever make in the blink of an eye. Now about the amazing part, here is why. When you have a teenager in the home, and you are a health food nut, he or she will become very suspicious of you when you are in the kitchen. After all, if it does not look and feel like ordinary junk foods, or at least what they are accustomed to seeing as daily food fare in typical restaurants and markets, their eyebrows will rise and "no thanks" will be the response that you surely will get. Well I can promise you raised eyebrows but not from your teenager but from an amorous couple that make this presentation. The mousse is made using chocolate powder, I would stick to raw cacao powder for the max nutritional value, and to keep your blood sugar from spiking use raw dark agave (or yacon syrup) for a sweetener, I did and it was awesome. Of course, if you add the dairy whipped topping, you might consider using conventional powdered cocoa, as dairy will block the avalanche of health benefits found in powdered raw chocolate; cacao. I filled some funky wine glasses with the mousse and made 4 servings. Depending on how large the avacados and goblets the serving size can vary from 4 to 6 servings. Now if you are raw vegan, then you will surely say that I cheated by whipping up some fresh organic whipping cream with some added vanilla extract sweetened with again, agave as a topping. If you really whip your cream to the firmest consistency, but not dry, it will hold in your fridge for a day or two. Now back to my teenager, he thanked me and said he liked it, he NEVER knew that it came from the world of raw foods --(yes!). So enjoy! Recipe is simple, see the video at http://www.icyou.com/topics/nutrition/healthy-raw-chocolate-mousse-recipe+