Page 10 - Spring2008

Letters

is exposed to seeds via birds or wind, PRISON FOOD total serving. The soy oil causes all man-
and baby weeds take root. Whacking Thank you for sending the WAPF ner of intestinal problems.
controls weeds and discourages them, materials including information on the We are able to purchase many items
but doesn’t prevent them or clear their dangers of soy. This will be helpful as I from our commissary to supplement the
roots. take steps to get the soy removed from unacceptable diet the state provides for
Prevention and clearing only come our prison food. From past experience, us, but unfortunately, after an analysis of
from moss. Eventually I got smart. I took I’ve found that the authorities usually the product ingredients, I fi nd that almost
a small piece of moss from the north side cave under the weight of overwhelming everything contains soy.
of my house, broke it up into pieces, and evidence. I believe that the soy in the Name Withheld
put it between the bricks in several spots. prison food is what led to my thyroid
Planting moss is like eating live culture cancer and the removal of my thyroid We strongly recommend eating the skin
foods. If I were really smart, I would gland. and “disgusting” parts of the fi sh, which
plant moss all the time. But as I said, I You might be interested to know would provide much-needed fat-soluble
can be a lazy landscape gardener. Lucky that there is no butter at all available for vitamins in an otherwise defi cient prison
for me, the moss took hold, and is slowly purchase or served to us. The only dairy diet.
inching its way between the bricks. product we get is skim milk made from
My moss is so beautiful in winter, powder, or reconstituted. I have had no VANISHED TINS OF FAT
bright green in a barren world. Winter is dairy products other than skim milk in Now in my 80s, I have eaten butter
when the mossy zones slowly encroach 17 years. The only meat we are served all my life, not just a little smear, but
on the weedy zones of my path while is ground beef loaded with TVP as an I have plastered that so-called yellow
the weed roots are resting and the weed extender, pork once every other week, poison on my bread, my toast, mashed
seeds are waiting for spring. In winter, chicken leg quarters once or twice a potatoes, you name it, I have always
moss is thriving. Winter is a special week, turkey (well, they tell us it’s turkey applied it with a heavy hand. And I will
niche season for moss. Setting up a niche but it could be almost anything because not buy meat unless it has fat on it. My
environment for our human good fl ora it’s all mixed up in some Frankensauce) blood pressure is normal and I am as
may mean going on a low-carb diet, or and fi sh. active and mentally alert as someone in

raising body temperature, or exercising, The fish is not like any fish you have their 50s.

or sitting in the sunshine. ever had. We are served the portion-con- Back in the 1940s, the doctors
It has been ten years since we built trol scraps. This is the trimmings after told my great grandmother not to eat
the path. I look out over my curving the center has been removed for some fat—they were doing it even then. “But
brick walk. The emerald green moss restaurant. These scraps are seriously I like fat,” she said, as she sliced through
gives a quiet, ordered, ancient feel. There dredged in several kinds of fl our and a rolled roast of beef. She ignored them
are still some naked spots where weeds fried in soy oil. Because the skin and and lived to an advanced age.
will come up this spring. It isn’t an easy many truly disgusting parts of the fi sh are When I was young, fat was never

thing to create a protective flora. It may simply left in the mess, most men refuse wasted. Drippings from the roast were
be a lifelong challenge. to eat the abomination. I really love fi sh kept in one tin and fat from the bacon in
Renee Cyr and spend most of the time in the chow another. They were later used for frying,
Pepperell, Massachusetts hall trying to pick the white flesh of the smeared on bread and for making suet

fish from the breading and skin, etc. The puddings and many other delicious edi-

total fi sh flesh that I am able to consume bles. We did not use oils, except for cod
is about 25 percent of the weight of the liver oil. We drank full fat milk and in
10 Wise Traditions SPRING 2008