Since the 1960s, large-scale poultry producers have added arsenic to their poultry feed.
ammonia into “fatty slaughterhouse trimmings” to kill bacteria and render it safe for human consumption.
In factory farms, animals are switched to an unnatural diet based on corn and soy. Many large-scale dairy farmers and feedlot operators save money by feeding the cows “by-product feedstuffs.” In general, this means waste products from the manufacture of human food. In particular, it can mean sterilized city garbage, candy, bubble gum, floor sweepings from plants that manufacture animal food, bakery, potato wastes or a scientific blend of pasta and candy.
Are you ready for transgenic salmon and trout? Fish scientists have succeeded in transferring foreign genes into these popular fish? But these super fish also have a greater tolerance for toxins and are likely to accumulate more in their flesh. Ultimately, those toxins will be ingested by humans. The GM fish also have higher levels of growth hormones than natural fish, which is why they grow so quickly. The effect these hormones will have on consumer health is not known.
People who are exposed to farm chemicals have a much greater rate of Parkinson’s Disease. Whether they are farm workers who are applying the chemicals or people who happen to live nearby, exposure to chemicals such as paraquat or the fungicide “maneb” increases the risk of Parkinsonism by 75 percent.
The majority of the beef sold at the large super markets came from cows that were confined in a feedlot for six months; fattened on GMO corn, candy and stale pastry; and was forced to stand knee-deep in its own manure.
Ring in the new decade with yet another disturbing story about commercial hamburger. A New York Times expose, published on December 30, 2009, revealed that Beef Products, Inc (BPI), a South Dakota meat processor, has been injecting
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Keeping Bossy on grass could prevent more heart attacks than putting people on expensive pharmaceutical drugs with all their troubling side effects. Eggs from hens raised outdoors on pasture have from three to six times more chickens vitamin D than eggs from hens raised in confinement. Pastured hens are exposed to direct sunlight, which their bodies convert to vitamin D and then pass on to the eggs. Meat from cattle raised on pasture had much healthier fats. The researchers concluded that grass-fed meat is “clearly superior” and “remarkably beneficial.” Grazing animals that eat their native diet of grass have more polyunsaturated fat in their meat than animals fed grain and other types of foodstuff. This is one of the reasons that grass-fed meat is better for your health. Typically, a grass-based ranch has fewer than 150 animals, and the owners can identify each animal by sight. Their goal is to make sure all the animals are well fed and cared for and do not experience unnecessary stress during their lives.
In a 1932 experiment conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, breeding hens were taken off pasture and fed a wide variety of feed ingredients. When the birds were fed a diet that was exclusively soy or corn or wheat or cottonseed meal, the chickens didn’t lay eggs or the chicks that developed from the eggs had a high rate of mortality and disease. But when birds were fed these same inadequate diets and put back on pasture, their eggs were perfectly normal. The pasture grasses and the bugs made up for whatever was missing in each of the highly restrictive diets. Everyone benefits from the sweeter grass feed. The ruminants like the taste of the grass and eat more of it. The sugars allow them to make more efficient use of the proteins in the grass. As a result, the animals reach market size weeks earlier, producing less methane overall.
GRASS-FED ANIMALS ARE HEALTHIER, TASTE BETTER, REDUCE METHANE AND GREEN HOUSE GASSES AND ARE HUMANELY TREATED. “News about Pasture-Based Farming.” Eat Wild. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2012. <http://www.eatwild.com/news.html>.