The fact that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never sleeps should be a cause of our peace of mind, but people concerned for their health know differently.
It seems that they are at it again to make our food supply more dangerous. They want to change the labeling of certain foods that have been “irradiated” to “pasteurized”. Read more in an article by Erin Rosas, “Pasteurized ? Preposterous!“, local Organic Grocers in Ocala, Florida.
“Grass fed beef can’t contain the specific kinds of E-coli that make humans sick, we protested!”
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For more information on this important subject read here… an article from The New York Times “Power Steer” By MICHAEL POLLAN
Here are some excerpts that may be of interest.
“We have come to think of ‘’cornfed'’ as some kind of old-fashioned virtue; we
shouldn’t. Granted, a cornfed cow develops well-marbled flesh, giving it a taste
and texture American consumers have learned to like. Yet this meat is
demonstrably less healthy to eat, since it contains more saturated fat. A recent
study in The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the meat of
grass-fed livestock not only had substantially less fat than grain-fed meat but that
the type of fats found in grass-fed meat were much healthier. (Grass-fed meat
has more omega 3 fatty acids and fewer omega 6, which is believed to promote
heart disease; it also contains betacarotine and CLA, another ‘’good'’ fat.) A
growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated
with eating beef are really problems with cornfed beef. In the same way
ruminants have not evolved to eat grain, humans may not be well adapted to
eating grain-fed animals. Yet the U.S.D.A.’s grading system continues to reward
marbling — that is, intermuscular fat — and thus the feeding of corn to cows.”
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“I thought about the deep pile of manure that No. 534 and I were standing in. We
don’t know much about the hormones in it — where they will end up or what
they might do once they get there — but we do know something about the
bacteria. One particularly lethal bug most probably resided in the manure
beneath my feet. Escherichia coli 0157 is a relatively new strain of a common
intestinal bacteria (it was first isolated in the 1980’s) that is common in feedlot
cattle, more than half of whom carry it in their guts. Ingesting as few as 10 of
these microbes can cause a fatal infection.”
“Most of the microbes that reside in the gut of a cow and find their way into our
food get killed off by the acids in our stomachs, since they originally adapted to
live in a neutral-pH environment. But the digestive tract of the modern feedlot
cow is closer in acidity to our own, and in this new, manmade environment acidresistant
strains of E. coli have developed that can survive our stomach acids –
and go on to kill us. By acidifying a cow’s gut with corn, we have broken down
one of our food chain’s barriers to infection. Yet this process can be reversed:
James Russell, a U.S.D.A. microbiologist, has discovered that switching a cow’s
diet from corn to hay in the final days before slaughter reduces the population of
E. coli 0157 in its manure by as much as 70 percent. Such a change, however, is
considered wildly impractical by the cattle industry.”
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June 19th, 2007 at 7:35 p06
my only surprise is that your quoting the NYTimes.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:35 p06
You are probably aware of my aversion to quoting the Times when it comes to matters of religion.
I thank you for your comment.