Ruth Ann Zimm
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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And but it, you know, as as I said earlier, it evolved into, oh, this chicken tastes a whole lot better and this beef is a whole lot better.
Um so it was a gradual process, but no, we did not start out with, hey, let's raise our own food um because we knew
I know that that's a lot of work.
So I think everybody takes a journey away.
Um and there's generational cycles within the Mennonites, the same as it is in every culture.
except right now where you said you grew up with your parents having jobs and and convenience was a thing.
So that is now more popular in the Mennonite culture.
So I would say they're a they're a good fifty years behind the modern world as far as the p as you know their pendulum swinging.
Um, because I would say my peers within the Mennonite culture are embracing convenience.
yes.
So I see my peers um embracing convenience more than my parents did.
But you know, it's just a matter of within each culture the pendulum still swings.
And um so
I think our personal journey towards convenience was very short lived.
So I would say in the Mennonite culture of my peers, their journey towards convenience is slow because they don't have
Or their journey towards convenience foods is slower than ours was because they have to hitch up their horse and buggy and drive to the grocery store to buy their groceries, right?
So that kind of hinders the how fast they speed toward convenience.
Whereas ours went really fast towards convenience, but then our journey back also went a whole lot quicker because we chose for ourselves.
That
you know, this is not the lifestyle that we want.
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