You don't have to (be) Lily White to make good Biscuits

Hah! So there! Take that Mary B! You see, I am against hypocracy, and for truth. In advertising, I may as well be tilting at windmills...it won't help. However, in my own private corner, I can justify my truth, and call the corporate man (or woman) what they are: big, fat, dirty LIARS. Home made biscuits? Hey, you can't disparage my battlefronts, I didn't start this war. However, you can be a soldier, too, if you know what you are fighting for. You see, it all started over a hundred years ago, when some guy thought to himself, "Hey, I can make a buck by putting non-food items in food to make food easier to cook, with more consistently mediocre results, not only will people buy it over and over, they will eventually forget that food is better for you when its not contaminated with non-food, and they will forget that food is not all that hard to cook, and they will not even think to blame their heath problems on their food." Okay, so he didn't think all that, he just thought about making a buck, and really didn't give a shit about anything else. So we have Kellogg making our breakfast (instead of bug-eatin' chickens and slop-eatin' hogs and grannies wielding cast-iron frypans) and since processed grain cereals are so nutritionally vacuous that they must be fortified, we have changed one meal from natural to completely artificial. Then we had Kayser from P'n'G who 'crystalized' cottonseed oil and made Crisco and sold it with cookbooks, so that we could make our own baked good without harming a pig, plus the demonizing of lard by the government and we have another 30% of our food that completely adulterated. And then there are the frozen, boxed meals, and we have got the whole day covered. I know, I bought plenty of frozen meals in my day, eaten more than my share of Oreos, and I am still not completely clean in my shopping. The difference now, is, I am aware and becoming more so. I recently realized I was buying a certain brand of flour just to 'make sure' my buttermilk biscuits were as light and fluffy as they could be....why??? Why am I eating bleaching agents? And DH is no better, buying the above brand frozen biscuits, ostensibly to make it easier on me not to work a little bit to make them from scratch. Why? Why eat aluminum? Why eat partially hydrogenated anything for any reason? You can make biscuits from Butter Flour Baking Powder (go for the old brands, like Clabber Girl) and Buttermilk They come out great, and I like their lumpy non-uniform personalities as well. Why the fuck must biscuits be round? That wastes dough for what...prettiness? I made jam this past weekend, and all that was in it was : Berries, Pectin, Sugar so F U J. M. & Co.. I'm not saying everything is easy. But a lot of things are far easier to cook from whole, natural ingredients than I ever suspected, because I grew up with the mindset that all cooking is NOT easy. Once you cook a little (hey, it really is just chemistry), you can cook more, you can make better, and you can do it without the addition of NON-FOOD. It IS a revolution...join me!