I feel once again violated. USDA's statistics gatherers (think Tolkein's crows and harpies) called and have even begun inquiring about how many animals are processed for our own household consumption. Oh, yeah... We need more invasive control of American agriculture because of foodborne illnesses or other such propaganda. This administration sure has brought plenty of "change" and I shiver at the thought of the alternatives of the incumbent executive branch. Left or Right, they're hands of the same System. Reading Chronicles and Kings seems to reveal a foreshadowing of this epoch. We, like Israel and Judah, have turned our backs on Yhwh, our nation is divided, and we have a unabashedly corrupt political leader and a syncretic spiritual grey malaise.
Often I feel like Tirian, surrounded, with his back to the rock and only a few allies at my side. I need to keep my back to the Rock and await the return of the Lion. The real One, not the donkey in a lion's skin... (Not familiar with the story? Read The Silver Chair and The Final Battle by CS Lewis, and also Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Joshua, Ruth, Hosea, Hebrews and the Revelation.)
That sounds familiar to me. In the EU there is always "Big Brother" (You know George Orwell?)watching you. Sometimes it seems crazy, what we have to document and to tell the authoritys. There are a lot of people sitting in Brussels, earning a lot of money, have only theoretical knowledge about keeping animals but they invent a lot of regulations.
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Last time they sent out one of those surveys, we did not fill it out. Got a call from a RUDE woman one evening, demanding and threatening if we did not complete and return it.
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