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Karmacat... Lol... No
I was prob over thnking/ reacting due to some posts lately, just me being a silly billy
I was saying that I don't think I could be a Muslim woman.. If what I have read on certain sites how Muslim women are treated by Muslim men.
And I asked if this happens in the UK??
Re- mealworms they are really easy to look after and breed.. And the eat any type of meal, oats, wheat bran, weetabix etc..
AND I have tried one!!! Hubby and I said we would eat one if the other did.. So we both put one in our mouths the same time.. I started chewing, and he just took it out of his.. He was just holding it his mouth.. Lol ( git) .. It tasted a bit like a nut.. And very bity because of the outer shell..
I will not be giving up meat to eat them lol...BUT if it was a matter of survival. And very Ltd food supply, then yes I would eat them.Work to live= not live to work0 -
Oh er lummy Missis yer either both completely bonkers or the bravest people I know!!! Well done the pair of you, you'll for certain be SURVIVORS and are an example to all the rest of us, brilliant stuff petal!!!
Maybe the dried mealworms could be ground up and sieved and used as a sort of meal? not intended to be a pun but that might make them a little like ground nuts and you could make small burgers with them and some flavourings, does that sound feasible?0 -
I think if SHTF scenario happened, and food was in short supply, like what happened in WWII, alot of farm animals were killed as there would not have been enough food to feed them, plus alot of land was given over to growing veg etc. Then rearing poultry might be alot harder or more expensive, so rearing mealworms for the high protein level to feed quail, might be a cheap option to rearing meat on a small indoor scale..
You could quite easily house some quails in your house/spare room etc
Hubby is still giggling to himself about it. Flipping git as he is lol..Work to live= not live to work0 -
Buggalugs has just returned, from a 36 hour absence.0
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CTC, any links to resources re breeding mealworms? Not sure I'd want to eat them myself, but The Girls - the ones that live at the end of the garden, in a shed & run - certainly would. What to feed them in a SHTF scenario has often crossed my mind... both sets of my grandparents kept their chicken flocks right through WW2, but they lived rurally & had decent-sized gardens. Ours isn't tiny by modern standards, but isn't really big enough for much food production - fruit, herbs & saladings is about it - never mind for feed.Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0
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I'm sure I've read something about using quail in the veggie garden as part of a permaculture set-up. Can't recall where.
Glad to hear that the errant Buggalugs has returned to eat Bob out of flat and home. Durdy little stop-out (the cat, the cat!:p)Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »I was saying that I don't think I could be a Muslim woman.. If what I have read on certain sites how Muslim women are treated by Muslim men.
And I asked if this happens in the UK??
Not that long ago, 50's/ 60's/ 70's definitely, people just did not get involved in other peoples marriages.
If your relationship was abusive, if your children were being physically 'disciplined', you might get sympathy in private, but people were very reluctant to public say anything.‘A woman’s job is to look after her husband,’ she would say. ‘If a married woman works, she’s taking a job away from a man.’
It was taken for granted that girls would grow up to be housewives and, as such, there was not much point in spending good money on their education.
Lone women were not allowed into many restaurants or hotels, and those who ventured into pubs by themselves were considered ‘fast’ and not quite respectable. Men-only pubs were not uncommon.
A married woman was not allowed to have a mortgage or to sign a hire purchase agreement in her own name, and virtually no woman had her own bank account. Joint accounts did not exist.
Abortion was illegal and unmarried mothers were a disgrace. No such shame was attached to unmarried fathers, of course.
Polite society would also shun a divorced woman, though a divorced man was considered to be rather rakish.
No one ever talked about domestic violence or child abuse; it was as if it never happened, and only years later, did stories come out.
Doesn't sound that much different from the (day-to-day) stories we're told about nowadays?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2137649/Only-Mad-Woman-50s-golden-age-No-career-No-mortgage-No-bank-account-A-husband-wouldnt-lift-finger--dont-started-girdles-A-new-book-says-forget-nostalgia.html
ETA - and the most important point - the reason I wanted to reply in the first place!
Don't mistake being muslim with the culture common in some muslim countries.
Turkey is an excellent example (as is Morocco, Tunisia, Pakistan, and several others) of a predominantly muslim country with great equality trends - including having many well respected female heads of state, low levels of institutional discrimination, and fundamental (to us) rights such as abortion and (same)exuality being legal.That sounds like a classic case of premature extrapolation.
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http://www.westknollfarm.com/Meal-Worms.html
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mealworm+farming&client=tablet-android-pega&biw=600&bih=960&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja6Nu7wrTLAhUB2xoKHV7bCbUQ_AUIBSgB
There is quite alot out there on mealworm farming.
There is also a Facebook group on mealworm farming too
It takes about 4-6 months to get a colony cycle going, and you can't take too many mealworms out in the begining , as you want them to turn to beetles to start breeding...
I bought 500gms for about £7.80 ish. And there must be 8000+ mealworms..
Each beetle can lay up to 500 eggs!!!Work to live= not live to work0 -
When a pal of mine started psychiatric nursing in the early 1970s, some of her patients were little old ladies who'd been in institutions all their lives for having a baby out of wedlock. A whole life of incarceration.
In my Dad's village in the 1950s, there was a married woman who had been incarcerated in a mental institution on the say-so of her husband, because she objected to his adultery. She still wrote to friends in the village and was known to be perfectly sane - just inconvenient to the adulterous spouse.
Ever come across the term 'co-respondant'? It meant someone you could hire to go away for an pretend illicit weekend so that they could be cited as a 'co-respondant' in a divorce case.
When my parents were young (early 1950s) it wasn't unknown for girls who fell pregnant to kill themselves for the shame, if the man wouldn't marry them and legitimise and support their children. Calling someone a !!!!!! really really meant something offensive a couple of generations back, and the children were very stigmatised by it.
In the mid-1960s, older friends who were then young women in the workforce, could be sent home from the office to change their clothes if the boss didn't like what they were wearing. Women couldn't get mortgages in their own name, even if they were earning well, they'd have to have a man (hubby/ father) sign as their guarantor.
In the 1970s, various exciting outdoor activities I wanted to do were closed to me because I was a girl. And schoolgirls wearing trousers as part of their unform? Unthinkable! Perfectly OK for us to play sports on a field beside a busy road in gym skirts designed by and for perverts - just a pleated frill which barely covered our undies, tho.:mad:
In the 1970s and 1980s, when my parents shopped for appliances, the salespeople would look to my Dad when it came time to pay, never my Mum, who was the one doing the choosing and paying with her own hard-earned.
Don't ever aspire to go back to the good old days. Brave women fought long and hard to get us what we've got today, it still isn't enough (i.e. not equal) but we can only build on it.
And if I ever hear a woman IRL, who works for a living, owns her own house, drives her own car, whose had education and opportunities undreamed of by womankind for most of history, snigger that she's not a feminist, I am motivated to murderous rage.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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And if I ever hear a woman IRL, who works for a living, owns her own house, drives her own car, whose had education and opportunities undreamed of by womankind for most of history, snigger that she's not a feminist, I am motivated to murderous rage.
*cough*
Would you object to someone (who really likes you, and respects the fight your generation had) saying they were an equalist?That sounds like a classic case of premature extrapolation.
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