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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...