Ever notice the small things that people do or say that suggest deep inner unresolved conflict? For example, people who declare that government should be doing everything possible to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, then complain about $4 a gallon gasoline that has the effect of reducing fossil fuel consumption, while at the same time opposing every practical domestic energy production measure that would increase the supply of oil and then declaring sanctimoniously that we aren’t doing enough to be independent of foreign oil.

Sometimes it’s the small things that catch my attention. Yesterday I was at Schaub’s, a local butcher, picking up some meat and was talking with the counter guy about the cancellation of the salmon season, which means no wild salmon unless you are willing to pay exorbitant prices. I told him that I wouldn’t be eating much salmon this summer if it is going to be farm raised, which IMO is foul stuff.

There was a lady standing next to me who was listening to our little side conversation and commented that we should only eat farm raised fish. I pointed out to her that I had just watched her ask for free range chicken and grass fed beef… so, according to her, beef from a feed lot is bad but fish swimming around in a pen eating food pellets and their own feces is good.