Shocking Food Industry Secrets

[PaulaJoAnne]

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If I had to guess I eat about 1/3 of a pound of cheese a day average.

How much of that increase is real cheese, or fake?
Of course, just a "layman" thought process here, but I would venture to say that the consumption rise has to do with the body craving the real thing.

Now, traditional Swiss cultures probably ate way more then 33 pounds per person, along with their sourdough, milk and fermented veges.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

http://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2010/11/6/the-mystery-of-the-morningland-dairy-garlic-colby-cheeseslop.html

The first thing that strikes one as extremely odd about the lab test report is that it fails to cite the name of the company in the product description. Secondly, there are no batch numbers for the cheese. These indicate the production date of food and help isolate potential problem areas. Thirdly, while they cite two types of cheese, there are two photocopies of the same one-pound block of Morningland Dairy Garlic Colby (this is yet a third type in addition to the two cited previously) showing its weight as .87 lb.

The invoices indicate that Rawesome (invoiced to James Stewart) purchased cheese in October and November of 2009, and May and June of 2010. The invoices reveal Rawesome purchased Morningland Dairy Hot Pepper Colby in ½ pound blocks, but there was no picture of this cheese with the CDFA lab report. The majority of cheese purchased by Rawesome from Morningland Dairy was goat cheese, which runs under Morningland’s Ozark Hills label. All cheeses invoiced to Rawesome were in ½ pound packages, and Morningland had sold no “Morningland Dairy Garlic Colby” to Rawesome at all. So where did this one-pound block of Garlic Colby in the CDFA picture come from?

Those of you that have blogs and facebook and Twitter, do this company a favor and get this stuff spread around fast!!!!!

ETA: www.kellythekitchenkop has agreed to set up a special Media blitz day, to help get the word out about the stuff above.
Visit her site, get your posts ready in draft if you want to join, and watch for the announed day.​

 

[BlackBart]

Not GMO rice too

http://www.economist.com/node/15579956

 

[Organics North]

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GOOOD POINT!!!!!

My dollar is on less real cheese is being consumed, and more fake processed garbage is being used.

Of course the body craves the what is in the real thing, while the processed stuff has things like salt, oil and flavor enhancers to make our taste buds think it is good..

How did we allow this to happen to ourselves???????????????????????????? It is scary if you step back and look at what passes for food these days.

We make and eat whole milk yogurt. I made reduced fat yogurt a few times. It left us hungry in a few hours, only to go eat some more.

ON

 

[BlackBart]

Real food versus real looking/tasting food.

I hear a lot of people say that their Grandparents or Parents ate everything and lived to be ripe old ages. So they are going to eat what they want and not worry what is in the food.
If they are talking about relatives that are in their 70's 80's 90's yeah they were eating "real" food not all this stuff plumped up full of artificial flavors, colors, chemicals and mystery food products.

A friend of mine raised his three children on home raised beef, pork, chicken, eggs, lamb. He had raw milk, made his own butter, cheese and had a huge veggie garden.

I said to him that I felt it was a incredible gift he gave them. To give them such a healthy start in life.
For the average person to do that would be very expensive. He had the acreage and knowledge.
At times it seems a overwhelming battle because at every turn some company is going the technological way. Cutting quality for profit.
Sometimes you can only do what you can do but a least it is something.

 

[BlackBart]

Jon Stewart against GM Foods and Bill S 510 ? who knew? also info on Codex Alimentarius
Information, links, what you can do if you disagree plus who to contact with the contact info

Way to go Jon !

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=139921682722629

 

[Cowgirl71]

Oooooooh, somehow I missed the raw milk chat on this thread!

Well, here's my two cents worth... My Dad grew up on a farm, and drank a lot of raw milk from their milk cow. He'd drink 2 gallons or more a day in the heat of summer during haying season. Now, he's back on a farm with his wife and four kids (including me

). We got our first milk cow in July of 2007. Currently, we're milking three cows twice a day. Our family has drank well over 1,000 gallons of raw milk since then, plus many gallons of raw yogurt (yes, we measure our yogurt in gallons

), and many pounds of raw butter and cheese, and have NEVER become sick from it.

Raw milk has many health benefits, as several of you know. Plus, it's delicious! I can no longer drink "store milk." That stuff is one of the most nasty things in the grocery store.

But, if the big commercial dairies were to suddenly stop pasteurizing their milk, and not change their procedures, there would be a LOT of people getting sick. Their milk is not kept clean. I've heard of many dairy employees with the attitude of "Well, they pasteurize it anyway." They strain out any noticeable chunks of "stuff," and then pasteurize the heck out of it to kill EVERYTHING, both good and bad. Then they homogenize it, so that it won't separate into cream and skim milk (homogenizing is a VERY unhealthy-for-you process, BTW). Then they sell it, and say it's a very healthy source of calcium.

Also, I hate their line about "Good milk comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California."

They paint this picture of cows out in the sunshine grazing on lush green pastures, when really this is so far from the truth. They are crowded together in filthy pens, fed hay, grain, hormones, and constant antibiotics just to keep them alive, and then have a short lifespan of about six years.

By contrast, our three cows are ages six, seven, and ten. The ten year old (our original milk cow

) is starting to act old and turn grey, but the other two are still acting very young, sometimes kicking up their heals just for the fun of it in their pasture.

They are fed no antibiotics, no hormones, and minimal grain only during milking. We keep them on pasture with free-choice hay during the winter. They have clean running creek water to drink, and several shade trees. They also have company in each other, without being at all crowded. I think America would be so much healthier if they drank fresh raw milk from small farmers.

Chicken2010: I very much agree with BirdBrain... "I can appreciate your enthusiasm for a subject that you are studying. It reminds me a bit of myself in nursing school. I was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the stuff I was being fed as gospel truth was in fact just that. I didn't know that I was being fed a pack of half truths and some outright lies by very well intentioned good people who had been trained by the same system."

 

[Amyable]

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Precisely. That's what so many people, particularly FDA-types, don't understand about raw milk. The environment and diet of the cows is paramount.

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I hate those commercials too, but only 'cause they run them here in WI, America's Dairyland!

No self-respecting Cheesehead is going to let a single slice of Cali cheese pass their lips. Unfortunately, we have quite a lot of confinement dairies too. They have become the norm. My family is lucky to be able to support a grass-based dairy in the area, who make milk the better way.

 

[BlackBart]

Below is the link to the petition to have Genetically Modified food labeled.

http://www.causes.com/causes/62120?from_petition=535

 

[cassie]

We could go back to the good old days around 1900 when formalin was routinely added to milk to keep it from spoiling........