How Sick is This!

[ml]

no honey? ekkk

ml

 

[suenrob]

Jello?????What kinda animal product is in Jello??

 

[coffeemama]

gelatin

 

[Dennis1979]

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Starvation of people in the third world is a completely different issue. In that regard we are no doubt better off.

My point is that our system of food production, which was radically changed about 30 or 40 years ago, produces a lot of food at a low dollar cost but a very high cost in terms of what it does to our health, as well as other things like soil erosion, pollution and destruction of the small farm and farming communities all accross America. 40 years ago Americans spent 30% to 40% of their income on food. Eating beef was a luxury. Today we spend about 15% of our income on food - that includes all the eating out we do - and we consume beef on a daily basis rather than only now and then.

The problem is that we produce and consume a staggering amount of processed and highly processed foods which barely resemble the food described on the packaging. We grain feed all our meat which substantially increases the amount of bad things in the meat like saturated fat and reduces the amount of good things like Omega 3's. Cheap beef, chicken and corn oil have been a real boom to the fast food industry which is where many people get all of their meals. Cheap calories are the fattest and least nutritious calories and the Wal-Marts of the world are selling those cheap calories like there was no tomorrow. If you watch the news you understand that we have an epidemic of obesity in this country. Adult Onset Diabetes had to be re-named to Type II Diabetes because so many children now contract the disease. Heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer are all on the rise due mostly to what we eat.

70% of all the antibiotics used in this country are fed to cattle in the feed lots. All of your store-bought chicken floats in a fecal soup called a chill tank before it is wrapped and sent to your grocer. The fecal matter is sometimes a foot deep in the chill tanks and the chickens in those tanks soak up as much as 10% of their weight in that fecal water. It’s absorbed into the meat like a sponge. To help kill the e-coli they will dip the chicken in chlorine or irradiate it before they send it to you. Chlorine is believed to be a cause of breast cancer in woman (there is most likely chlorine in your drinking water too).

I can go on and on. The more that agri-business and the USDA try to mechanize the farm, the feed lot, and the chicken house all into one big assembly line of food production, the more problems it causes. These problems are typically addressed by using more chemicals or drugs or whatever which further increases the toxicity, for lack of a better word, of the product.

I began to research this after someone close to me was diagnosed with cancer. We were trying to understand what some of the causes of the cancer could be. We kept getting directed to nutrition as a factor and the more we learned about the food we eat everyday, the more shocked we were at the things that are actually going on out there. I honestly never knew. Maybe I heard some things but didn't want to know, whatever, but now that I do know I can't go back.

Dennis

 

[MandyH]

Oh, holy cra p, I see now why I don't eat chicken. Fecal Soup!!?!?!?!!! I am only 1 ribeye away from being a vegetarian, I cannot eat ground up meat, only solid pieces like ribeyes and pork chops. I also agree with YOU Dennis on our country's food going down the crapper, it seems the USDA only gets involved AFTER something goes wrong.

 

[coffeelady3]

Dennis,

You must have read The Omnivore's Dilemma. (Who knew that corn could be so evil!) The food supply these days is pretty dysfunctional. I'll be glad when my girls start laying so that I can stop buying store eggs. As for the meat eating thing, I just don't miss it enough to take it up again. I do have the up-most respect for those of you on this site though. Even though these animals are going to end up on the dinner table, it's comforting to know that, up until that point, they will have a happy, healthy, natural existence. That says a lot about all of you, and you deserve to be commended.

 

[coffeelady3]

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Literally, it seems!

 

[coffeelady3]

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The gelatin is made from collagen that is collected from bones, skin, connective tissue, etc. Whatever happens to be left over.

 

[shmooborp]

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The gelatin is made from collagen that is collected from bones, skin, connective tissue, etc. Whatever happens to be left over.

and marshmellos too right?

 

[coffeelady3]

Unfortunately!