The beef in my freezer was bottle fed by me. I know what they ate and how they lived.
Food is going to be an enormous world problem in the future. 'Organic' food can't be grown in the quantity to feed an overpopulated world. Though I purchase a lot of 'organic' vegetables and beef. I especially like to get products from farmers markets and I love to get stuff from my granddad's farm. He doesn't sell beef anymore. His current cows are all like pets to him.
I have been just sick about all the damage done by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a lot worse than y'all know. The government has been really downplaying the damage. A UGA scientific study proved that it is much worse. The media barely reported that. They are just lackeys for government propaganda.
But even worse than the BP oil spill is all the fertilizer damage coming down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. There already was a huge dead zone spreading out from the Mississippi River delta into the Gulf. The Corn Lobby is one of the most powerful in the USA and as long as they grow mass amounts of corn for non-food products they will continue to pollute the ground with mass amounts of fertilizer and insecticides and allowing it to flow into the Mississippi River basin, and the Gulf of Mexico. The damage is shocking! Once that pollution makes its way around the tip of Florida and gets into the Gulf Stream it will greatly speed up the melting of the ice in the North Atlantic and add shrinking ice around the North Pole. It will help kill the Atlantic Ocean currents and create more Atlantic super hurricanes along with warming up the temperatures of Europe and North America.
The thing is that corn is not the best vegetable for those non-food products. Soybeans are. Soybeans require much less fertilizer and insecticides and don't drain the soil of nutrients like corn does. Soybeans are a much eco-friendlier source but changing to soybeans would hurt the economy of the American Midwest very badly.
It's an assbackwards fucked up world y'all and its getting worse.
It is scary isn't it? That old saying "you are what you eat" causes me to pause for thought.
I agree with Nicola too, regarding GM foods, but I think the dollar will rule there and we'll see more of it.
I doubt I'll eat another prawn again after latest news articles.
I don't buy any imported food and try to buy organic. I think Australia is still fairly strict on what producers can get away with. We have labeling rules that keep us informed as to what's in any given processed food, but how many hormones are fed to livestock is another matter.
I remember back in the day when bread was dry after just one day, now it keeps for ages. Something called humectants are added. These days, I don't eat bread.
I work in a bakery, and have customers complain that the bread got moldy after 3 or 4 days. We don't use preservatives, but most have gotten accustomed to to the commercial bread with a 2 week shelf life. Yes, it stays in the same state for 2 weeks, but is that a state you want your food in? Stores now have to identify the country of origin on their produce, but who knows what is in the processed foods or where it came from.
Most have chosen convenience foods and fast food take out over nutrition, flavor and environment. Not many read a label these days.
Like I said before I purchase as much organic food as possible.
One major problem with organic food is that there is a higher chance of it being dirty. So you will need to spend more time washing it.
If you know the seller you should be better off but many sources of organic food don't meet the same inspection standards as food grown on mass corporate farms and processed at industrial food processing plants. That is true here in the USA anyhow. It might be different in other nations.
Washing the vegetables thoroughly can prevent severe cases of diarrhea and food poisoning. That's good incentive for me.
i have no clue where my foof comes from. if i have a coupon for something i'll buy it.
fruit and veges grown outside my back door,
beef and Lamb organic farmer down the road
Chicken....now this is the problem. i don't have chickens but i do buy organic free range Chickens from the supermarket, i can only hope the laws here make sure that they are indeed organically raised.
We grow as much as we can, fruits vegetables and berries. Canning, freezing and drying so that we can have fresh homegrown products all winter. It is Really important to understand hat I in your foods. I also only feed my dogs holistic foods.
Well, from many places. My pastas come from Italy as do my San Marzano canned tomatoes. My produce, milk, and eggs are mostly local, though the latest crop of blackberries are from Mexico. For fresh vegetables and fruit, I base purchases on aroma because if it has no scent, it won't taste either.
FUCK OFF, YOU MISERABLE SHITSTABBING CUNTS!
A lot from Ireland and the Eastern Block countries.
