Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”
So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” So the people rested on the seventh day.

• Exodus 16:19-30

I have been seeing commercials about health foods lately, and I may have found the source of the insanity of our present upside-down world.  Or maybe it is just another symptom.

If you saved manna overnight, it spoiled.  But if it was the day before the Sabbath, it would not spoil.  This was a test of faith so that the Israelites would keep the Sabbath holy.

But these days, we have gotten crazy about health food that is not food at all.

I loved listening to Jerry Clower when I was a young adult.  One of his comedy routines was on clabber.  He told the story about how they might forget a bucket of milk, back in the depression, and the milk might sour.  It would turn into something that Jerry’s grandparents called clabber.  He said that clabber was the sourest tasting thing you ever put in your mouth, but throwing it out was sinful.  It was wasting good food.  So they would eat that stuff.  Now, they put enough sugar in it to mask the sour taste.  They will add a little fruit. They will put it in a tiny plastic cup and sell it as health food.  Today it is called “yogurt.”

But I did an internet research on clabber.  They now call clabber a residue of soured milk with a yogurt-like consistency.  The thing is that they manufacture something from a milk culture and call that yogurt.  It is just like clabber, in consistency and chemical formula, but it is more neutral in taste so that all you taste is the additive.  If you buy yogurt for cooking, non-flavored, you might buy it for about three dollars per pound.  It will have a slight sour taste, because it has been chemically modified.

So, why is the natural material sour, and bad for us while the artificial yogurt, chemically altered in a chemical process, called health food?

I was told that a daily multiple vitamin is nice.  They are usually very inexpensive, but they are not nearly as effective as eating the fruits and vegetables that contain those vitamins and minerals – specifically the raw food, since the cooking process rids the food of some of those nutrients.  But, the same advisor said that the expensive vitamins at the health store are not better for you; they only create expensive urine.  Maybe they are better now, but I can never believe that something produced in a chemical plant is better for you than the fruit or vegetable itself.

Sure, let’s wash off the poisons that keep the bugs off the fruit, but artificial is not better.  It is not healthy.

What brought this on were commercials about whey.  This young woman gets so excited about how this was pure whey in every way.  She opens the plastic tub and pours a powder onto her hands and shows how uniform each granule is.

I have no idea what she is talking about.  I grew up hearing the nursery rhyme about Little Miss Muffet who was eating curds and whey.  The two come together until you separate them.  If you add acid, an enzyme, or bacteria to the milk that is separating (non-homogenized), it will separate into curds and whey.  The curd if properly cultured can be separated out and pressed (in many cases) to make cheese.  Soft cheeses are not pressed.  If the milk is fermented, you get yogurt instead.  But the whey has traditionally been thrown out when making cheese.  The curd is their focus.  But now they realize that the liquid that you strain away is heavy in proteins.  And with these vegetarian or vegan diets, they need a source of protein.

But how does a liquid which is pure whey become a crystal in a plastic tub?  It goes through chemical processes to “purify” the whey and evaporation to remove the moisture.  If you do it at home, forget that and use the liquid whey in other dishes to improve the protein content.

What they sell as whey is not whey.  What they sell as yogurt may meet the dictionary definition, but the definition has changed so that yogurt is not a naturally made substance.  Yogurt is chemically produced in a chemical process and may have had some yogurt in it at some point.

But I would love to see these health “experts” that sell these supplements go to a farm and be fed true whey and clabber.

They would look at you and say, “This is not fit to eat.”

But it is natural compared to the chemical materials that they sell on the shelves of their health stores, calling it natural, calling it health food.

Like Hitler said, you tell a lie with confidence often enough, and people will start believing it.  Either that or you change the definitions in the dictionary to hoodwink the public even faster.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.