Do You Know What's In Your Food?

Do you know what's in your food? Well, you really should start paying attention!

Why?

Most of our food supply is handled by a small number of mega corporations that are developing practices to insure mega profits instead of quality food. And much of this comes at the expense of the animals in how they live prior to slaughter.

For example, did you know the E-coli scare with hamburger, is really due to cattle being fed corn products instead of natural plants? The corn is cheaper. Our US government subsidizes corn, and most of the big farms are mandated to use it for feed. However, cows don't naturally eat corn products and their body reacts to it by producing this super strain of E-coli. And because the cows are penned in very tightly, with little room for movement, they basically stand in their excrement all day long, where the E-coli bacteria thrive. Prior to butchering the cattle, they get "dipped" but it's almost impossible to kill all the bacteria, so eventually it ends up in our hamburger meat.

Instead of allowing the cows to roam and eat natural plant food, which would eliminate the problem almost immediately, the manufacturers soak the hamburger meat in Ammonia, which tends to kill most of the bacteria, but unfortunately, not all. There have been a number of deaths in the US related to E-coli.

In addition, the cows are being given growth hormones, which basically speeds up the timeline for when the cattle are ready to be slaughtered. And because they are packed in so tight, the cattle get cut and nicked up all the time, so they are constantly injected with antibiotics.

So, by the time you are ready to purchase that hamburger at your favorite fast food place, that beef has been tainted with growth hormones, antibiotics, E-coli and Ammonia.

I don't know about you, but this makes me mad and I now do everything I can to NOT eat hamburgers anymore!  In fact, there really is a strong argument to go vegetarian, but that's another challenge.

Here is the trailer for a powerful documentary, called Food Inc. which I believe does an excellent job showing us what is going on in the food industry and why are government is failing to regulate our industry (can you say lobbyist?) the way it needs to!

If you are so inclined, I would encourage you to support the pledge below:

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! Tommy Smothers


Sensei Chris Feldt
Samurai Karate Studio
803-462-9425