Mmm... burger!
On NPR they were talking about the livestock industry. Apparently a lot of nasty things go into our food on that we, the eaters, are not aware of. Did you know that arsenic is commonly added to livestock feed? It makes the animals ravenous so they eat nonstop and get to market faster. And guess the main source of protein fed to cattle in this country? Chicken poop! All cows are fed a diet of "high protein and cost effective" chicken poop.
Chicken poop.
Organic meat has much stricter regulation (no poison! no chicken poop!) but there are still some things that get through that are cause for concern. (Dyes mostly, which - compared to arsenic and chicken shit - I'll take.)
Oh, and remember the recalled pet food scare - the stuff that killed all those dogs and cats a few weeks ago? It's currently being fed to our pigs. Pigs that will soon be turned into bacon and sold at your friendly neighborhood grocery store. The way the official explained it, the pet food had to go somewhere and since this is the normal proceedure when they have recalled food... And no, they didn't think it was a problem that humans would be eating the poisoned-food consuming piggies. No problem at all.
What could possibly go wrong?
*This just in from today's paper: "FEDS - FARMED FISH FED POSIONED MEALS: Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone that ate the fish, federal officials said yesterday."
posted by Ali @ 9:12 AM
1 Comments:
So my dog has been sick for a week now – possibly salmonella poisoning from a Dingo bone rawhide treat (this recall notice differs from last month’s mass recall & failed to make our local news as we here in St Louis were all consumed with drunken baseball players crashing themselves to death). My pup is on the mend now with a helluvalot of drugs and the company will assume no liability. It was freighting to see the amount of recalls posted for just the past 60 days when I checked the FDA site. This list should become a part of everyone’s morning paper and coffee routine… (www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html).
And then I see that Monsanto (headquartered here in StL) is now splicing human genes into rice that they’re growing in Kansas. Their claim is to produce an anti-diarrhea drug (who comes up with these ideas?)! Seems to me they should focus on well-balanced nutrition and how not to poison the world. Man, I’m a vegetarian who doesn’t want to my neighbors mixed into my stir-fry! Why a friend’s sister died last year from the human form of Mad-Cow disease –Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in a hospital in Joliet Illinois. That never made the news either.
And Monsanto is now demanding the labeling of rGBH on dairy products be made illegal!! Apparently they are the only producers of this “hormone” and are not happy about so many more folks going organic. You can find a petition against them, “Millions Against Monsanto” on the Organic Consumers Association site (www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm).
The last issue I feel I have to bring up is the problem with the disappearing honeybees… there is a theory that blames the collapse of their colonies on the radiation emitted from our cell phones! It messes up their communication dances. All right, another theory focuses the blame back on Monsanto (perhaps they invented the cell phone theory to throw us off track).
Please don’t call me paranoid, rather GMO’ed.
Post a Comment
<< Home