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I’ve been drinking raw milk most of my life and never ever gotten sick. That’s more than I can say for what happens to me when I drink the stuff passed off as milk in a supermarket. My cow is boarded on an organic dairy run by two veterinarians. Most of their milk supply from their 400 cows goes to one of the largest organic milk packagers in the States. The cows graze on buffalo grass which has natural antibiotic properties and minimizes the use of pharmaceuticals to keep the cows healthy. If I couldn’t get raw milk, I’d never touch the stuff. Any reason to drink milk at all is destroyed by the pasteurization of it. When it’s homogenized it’s impossible to derive the nutrients from the butterfat — Vitamin E, Omega3’s, and CLA.
Hey, Saltwater — all those things you listed are reasons for me to MOVE there — one, the beef is not cornfed in a feedlot — it is grassfed. Cornfed beef is very acid and that’s not good for you. Grassfed beef has more nutrients, including CLA which is almost nonexistant in feedlot cattle, and it’s NOT loaded up on all those antibiotics and steroids that the meat has in the US so cattle can live in deplorable conditions; I can get raw unpasteurized milk from the farmer up the road from me –here in the STates raw milk is illegal in most places, except if you own a cow as I do in Colorado. All those cold cuts are loaded with nitrites and other preservatives no to mention the things we don’t know about. Come on down to Costa Rica and lead Pura Vida with fresh and healthy food. You will live a lot longer there than in the US! The life expecatancy in Costa Rica will surpass the US very soon considering that the population of the US is the fattest and sickest of all industrialized nations. As for what I miss while I’m in Costa Rica? Absolutely nothing! I don’t buy any packaged food at all in the States, so when I’m in Costa Rica I shop at the farmer’s markets and buy all fresh fruit and vegetables and fish for a fraction of what I pay in the states.
Seeds of Change is where I’ve gotten most of my non-GMO organic seed supply. I have no idea where you’d get like product in Costa Rica. Maybe Naturastyle.com would have them. Someone should know. Or maybe contacting an organic farm near you.
I’m afraid to read it for fear of what they have planned for our food supply. I’m determined to stay as far away from adulterated food as I can get and that includes anything in a package that’s been processed or modified in any way. Worse yet, in Costa Rica margarine and Omega-6 oils are in everything, so I’m almost forced to grow and prepare my own food to insure it’s purity! LOL
Some of us are NOT asleep at the wheel. One only has to look at the scenario to see that escape has become necessary. I joke that I hope I get out before they close the borders with this fictitious avian flu, but maybe it isn’t really a joke at all. I regard Costa Rica as a safe haven and hope that it will be protected from the infringing elements. It’s probably wishful thinking, so I’ll just hole up in my mountain retreat and garden with all those seeds I brought. LOL BTW, I read Confessions of an Economic Hit Many a couple of years ago. It reinforced everything I had already thought to be true but couldn’t really prove.
It’s time to start hoarding seeds that are not genetically modified ( something I’ve been doing for years!) I fear for the future of CR crops if the farmers don’t start boycotting the GM grains they will be forced to buy from the multinationals. Besides the devastation to the local CR farmer, we don’t even have any idea how ingesting those GM products will affect our longterm health. it can’t be a good thing, and in almost every processed food product where corn (or soybeans)is an ingredient, those grains are GMd! In Mexico the multinationals created a frankenfood that causes women to abort and men to become sterile if they ingest that particular strain of corn. UGH! It’s why I’m going to start growing my own food in CR. on my last trip I managed to get my huge bag of organic seeds through customs — and I plan to collect the seeds from those plants for future plantings. No frankenfoods for me!
Paul Volcker stated in 1993, regarding NAFTA, “Trade agreements are not about trade at all. They are about the expansion of the New World Order and globalization.” One of the reasons we have so many Mexican immigrants in this country is that the multinationals gobbled up the little farms, displaced the residents, and took away their ability to grow their own food and sell what was left over at market. Take a look at India — in some places they have the highest suicide rates EVER because the agribusinesses came in and took the land and now those little farmers who were growing their own food are now working for ADM and growing cotton. You can’t eat cotton! Costa Rica is indebted to the IMF and World Bank. Those two monsters will hammer the administration until they sign on to CAFTA. it will be the kiss of death for many of the small farms in CR and the markets will be flooded with GMO crops, something we should all rail against. Look what the IMF and the WB did in Argentina, Ecuador, and any other place they have their tentacles. I hope it doesn’t happen, but the multinationals will make sure that it does because they don’t care about anything except money.
All of the above is why I didn’t move to Baja California, where I still own property. The attitude there from the locals is that the gringos are a blight — they are like leaf-cutter ants, detroying everything in their path. When I hear people talking about their investment in Costa Rica and how they are in it for the money, I cringe. It will only be a matter of time before the coastline of Costa Rica looks like Baja California, and that’s primarily why I chose an area of Costa Rica that is too far away from what people perceive to be gold coast real estate. Look what happened to the Yucatan Peninsula — I lived there in the early 80’s; it’s unrecognizable now, and even back then there were abandoned projects littering the coastline. Now it’s massive development all the way to the border of Belize, and the condo I thought about buying then for $18,000 is now $300,000. If a place is considered paradise, the devlopers WILL destroy it — that’s just what they do, and to the peril of the locals, the environment, and anything else in their path.
The people in half-million dollar houses are probably guarded to the max and live behind high metal fences with a security guard. They also probably have an elaborate security system in their house The rule in San Jose is to NOT wear even a wedding ring or earrings because you risk getting robbed at knife-point. That risk is less so in the community where I live and I have routinely worn my diamond watch and wedding ring, but took them off when I went to San Jose. Having these things is problematic in a country such as CR. I’m bringing my art collection because it’s not likely to get stolen. But as for my jewelry, one whole box of which is ivory collected over the years, I will put it in a safety deposit box, so I don’t have to worry. I guess a wall safe or floor safe would suffice, but I forgot to have it added during construction.
Bad idea, driving down with that menagerie. You have to cross five borders of five different countries, each with different health requirements. Any way you look at it, it’s going to cost a bundle to move them.
Fill in the blanks? Whatever do you mean by that? My plans were complete — all 6 pages of them or they would never have been signed off on at the muni. $1300 was last year’s price. This year it’s $1600, and my architect is very very good, and by some accounts, famous in Costa Rica.
Erin van Rheenen says in her book “Living Abroad in Costa Rica,” regarding purchasing property, “If you wouldn’t do it in the States, don’t do it Costa Rica.” Just out of curiosity, who in the States forks out a huge sum of money in order to have the privilege of viewing property? Don’t care how legit the biz is, or whatever blah blah the developers spout, it seems like a really whacked out idea to me, but hey, what do I know?
Don’t be so logical! Didn’t you know that Costa Rica is like Malibu in the 50’s and you’d better buy something, anything, before there’s no more land or it’s so expensive that you couldn’t buy even one square meter! jejejeje
I bought outside San Ramon because it is quiet, and not a tourist destination, the weather is temperate — not too hot in the day and cool at night — and is not (yet) overrun by gringos. Property appreciation was NOT my prime concern. Living a quiet and peaceful life was my main motivation.
We went to Termales del Bosque last week but they had reached their quota of soakers so they told us to come back in two hours. When we said we couldn’t really do that, they recommended another hot springs 200 mts up the road, which only cost c1000 but you had to walk a kilometer down to the river. it had a lovely hot waterfall and lots of little pools around the edges of the river where the hot water flowed into the cold water. We were the only gringos there. I think it’s called Toucanito and my suggestion is don’t carry a lot of stuff with you because the hike to the river is all downhill but uphill on the way back!
