FOOD INC. What Government and Monopolies are doing to our Food???

[ByLoSellHi]

Quote from Optionspoet:

Finally! The truth comes out! I would tell this to people all the time and they would look at me like I'm crazed. Anything to make a profit right?

"A 1998 Food and Drug Administration report titled The Use of Recycled Animal Waste in Animal Feed states, "Animal wastes have been deliberately incorporated into animal diets for their nutrient properties" for 40 years as a "viable alternative to ... landfill." The World Health Organization estimates nearly 10 million metric tons of slaughterhouse sewerage are fed to livestock every year. (Europe followed WHO's recommendations and in 2001 outlawed the feeding of all slaughterhouse and animal waste to livestock.)

In this country alone there are 14,000-plus companies that produce more than 308 billion pounds of animal chow annually. FDA-approved ingredients include "dried poultry waste, a processed animal waste product composed primarily of feces from commercial poultry" (also offered with part or all of the urine removed), and "dried poultry litter, a processed combination of feces from commercial poultry together with litter that was present in the floor production." Excrement accounts for about 60 percent of "litter"; the rest comprises bedding, dirt, feathers, and other debris scooped from the floors of broiler sheds. A Virginia Tech professor of animal and poultry sciences has estimated that up to four billion pounds of poultry litter are fed to beef cattle each year."

Thanks for clearing that up.

I said hog and cattle shit was fed to chickens, and the reverse is true.

Either way, it's nasty.

There's a reason why factory farm animals get weird diseases and sick at a high rate.

Mad Cow Disease was caused by feeding cattle spinal and brain tissue of other cows and animals in their feed.

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

Quantity over quality.

So what if we have to eat 25x the amount of vegetable or fruits to get the same nutritional content of 50 years ago (and can't even get the same nutritional content at those levels) because the soil is so depleted (mineral content in soil is literally gone), and enjoy that tasty rBGH in your milk and dairy products (injected into cows to increase milk production, even though it causes infections and cancers in cattle, and passes directly into the milk), even though it's banned as a known carcinogen in Canada and Europe.

Genetically modified seed, literally kept under lock and key by Monsanto?...tasty. Frankenseed. Once it's released, and cross-pollinates with naturally growing crops or plants, the sky is the limit.

This is why they can breed seed bearing crops that are resistant to the nastiest pesticides and herbicides - the kind that actually has harmful effects on the human body.

Most fruits and vegetables are bred to be easy to ship and large, the two criteria that are important when people buy based on appearance thousands of miles from where the crops are produced.

Enjoy those factory-farm hogs, cows and chickens, too - the ones that wallow knee deep in their own feces in small pens, and cannibalize each other when the infected and sick die.

Those chickens you buy in the store - the broilers with the huge sections of breast meat? They aren't the product of natural sex. They're artificially inseminated and initially grown in vitro. Chickens with freakish breasts can not naturally reproduce - it's literally physically impossible.

When economics meets the food we put into our bodies, we seem to not care about the consequences, because the food is cheap and fast, just like modern society, even though it's making us sick.

growing population is part of the problem. If they were to grow everything organically we'd have to pay 10 fold of what we pay now. Organic food as it is is double right now and it has a slowly growing demand. Imagine everything having to be grown organically, where would the price of products shoot up to.

I know, I know. I buy greenwise and most of my stuff organic, but just imagine every cow having to go through grass grown cycle...as opposed to getting a calf to 1500 lbs in 3 weeks...:eek:

everything we eat has shit in it. Even the stuff that reads organic on the label is very often not truely organic. when one reads the label in a real organic product there might be 3 things in it.

the flouride in paste is bad, the chlorine in the water we bathe in is bad for us, suntan lotion is probably what is causing our skin cancer and not the sun ( ever think of that). The list is endless....but in the end what are ya gonna do....did you know the teflon on your non stick pan realses smoke that is cancer causing...get close to it and smell it while u are frying something next time..

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from Optionspoet:

Finally! The truth comes out! I would tell this to people all the time and they would look at me like I'm crazed. Anything to make a profit right?

"A 1998 Food and Drug Administration report titled The Use of Recycled Animal Waste in Animal Feed states, "Animal wastes have been deliberately incorporated into animal diets for their nutrient properties" for 40 years as a "viable alternative to ... landfill." The World Health Organization estimates nearly 10 million metric tons of slaughterhouse sewerage are fed to livestock every year. (Europe followed WHO's recommendations and in 2001 outlawed the feeding of all slaughterhouse and animal waste to livestock.)

In this country alone there are 14,000-plus companies that produce more than 308 billion pounds of animal chow annually. FDA-approved ingredients include "dried poultry waste, a processed animal waste product composed primarily of feces from commercial poultry" (also offered with part or all of the urine removed), and "dried poultry litter, a processed combination of feces from commercial poultry together with litter that was present in the floor production." Excrement accounts for about 60 percent of "litter"; the rest comprises bedding, dirt, feathers, and other debris scooped from the floors of broiler sheds. A Virginia Tech professor of animal and poultry sciences has estimated that up to four billion pounds of poultry litter are fed to beef cattle each year."

human teeth were not develop to shred through meat, like for example a sharks teeth, or tigers, lions....our teeth were made to grind food not shred meat....perhaps less meat and more berries...

 

[TraderZones]

Quote from ElCubano:

human teeth were not develop to shred through meat, like for example a sharks teeth, or tigers, lions....our teeth were made to grind food not shred meat....perhaps less meat and more berries...

yes our teeth were made for meat. Our teeth are well-adapted as omnivores, our ancestors ate lot of meat (although modern humans' teeth have shrunk a lot since), and the human stomach is more similar to a wolf's than a monkey's (higher acid level)

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from TraderZones:

yes our teeth were made for meat. Our teeth are well-adapted as omnivores, our ancestors ate lot of meat (although modern humans' teeth have shrunk a lot since), and the human stomach is more similar to a wolf's than a monkey's (higher acid level)

not from what i've read. but you seem to be well versed kid, so I will take your word on it. thanks

http://www.rense.com/general20/meant.htm

http://www.alternet.org/story/14064...utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from TraderZones:

yes our teeth were made for meat. Our teeth are well-adapted as omnivores, our ancestors ate lot of meat (although modern humans' teeth have shrunk a lot since), and the human stomach is more similar to a wolf's than a monkey's (higher acid level)

another example of the lengths the religious types will go to try to discredit the fact that humans are primates and deny evolution because the bible tells them that man was created from dirt 6000 years ago.

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from vhehn:

another example of the lengths the religious types will go to try to discredit the fact that humans are primates and deny evolution because the bible tells them that man was created from dirt 6000 years ago.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from ElCubano:

do i have to spell it out for you? traderzones is a religious nut that believes in special creation. he comes up with some nonsense about a human stomach being more like a wolf than a monkey because that fits his religious view on evolution.

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from vhehn:

do i have to spell it out for you? traderzones is a religious nut that believes in special creation. he comes up with some nonsense about a human stomach being more like a wolf than a monkey because that fits his religious view on evolution.

I thought you meant me, since I also believe in a creator. That's a whole other forum though.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from ElCubano:

I thought you meant me, since I also believe in a creator. That's a whole other forum though.

which one? zues, apollo, wizard of oz, Nun or the christian god? i kind of like this one:
There are several creation stories in Egypt, attached to rival gods. The most common one begins with Nun, the primeval ocean, from which Amen rises in splendour. He takes the name Re, thus in effect merging two rival deities. By an act of masturbation (described as such in the temple texts) he produces a divine son and daughter. These two breed a race of gods, while the tears of Amen-Re become mankind - appropriately enough, for man's behaviour soon persuades the creator to withdraw from earthly affairs. He retires to the heavens, where he reigns as the sun.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab83#ixzz0JHD03USr&D