abcgrad, you are right to be concerned!
The topic isn't concern over food production in general, the topic at hand is the movie "Food, Inc". The movie is mostly myth.
On the topic of being concerned over food production, I likewise concur that all should have concer and excercise proper care and choices.
My research showed me that food is laden with stuff we do NOT want in our growing kids. Hormones, antibiotics, and the quality of meats themselves were major issues...feed supplements and such that turn cows into carnivores is NOT good or healthy. Certain pesticides are horrible to ingest.
I don't disagree, but these sort of blanket statements are a dime a dozen. I just recently completed my "burger" experiment which dispelled the "preserved burger" myth.
Now that we no longer have as much access to organic/natural foods, the mood swings are baaaccckkk. AGH!
You realize, don't you, that foods labeled organic aren't much different than foods that aren't labeled organic. I was an avid consumer of organic products for years, until I did some long term research than any individual can do. What I foudn out wasn't that organic foods are bad for you (they're not, they're great), but that the claims made by organic food suppliers and proponents about nonorganic foods are frequently anecdotal, typically overinflated, and often fabricated.
For example, did you know that there is no hormone usage in the rearing and production of chickens, turkeys, ducks or swine. Yet organic food proponents often claim that these meats are laden with hormones. In beef, numerous studies (incuding numerous FDA and Cornell University studies, such as their 2000 Consumer Concern study, show that the level of hormones in beef is not significantly higher between cattle who are subject to hormones and cattle that are not, and that they are nearly identical. This has to do with the fact that the hormones in question are soluble, and not stored in the body of the slaughtered animal. Steroid hormones in food are often suspected to cause early puberty in girls, but numerous public and private studies have been conducted to see if a connection between early puberty and the use of hormones in cattle. No connection has been found to date, and exposure to higher than natural levels of steroid hormones through hormone-treated meat or poultry has never been documented.
So now you already have the knowledge that a lot of the stuff we buy is not as healthy and normal as we think. The next step is figuring out what to do about it!
That's not what she said. She said it was cruel to the animal, and concluded that an animal in such a condition probably isn't good for human consumption.
I can't imagine it being too difficult to find someone with chickens to buy eggs off of, or who sells chickens.
Funny you shoudl mention that. A coworker of mine has his own chicken coop, the lucky man! He sells eggs to us for $150 a carton, and they're the best eggs ever when they're new! Store-bought eggs are several days older, so some of the freshness goes away.
A lot of stuff that happens with commercial farming is inhumane. Trust your heart.
The heart is fickle. Better to trust the facts. The facts indicate that the claims of inhumaine treatment of animals in farms is generally overblown. Where they are valid, of course they shoudl be addressed. But to make blanket statements of accusing industries as a whole is not only in error, it's bearing false witness, and being a bad christian example.
The movie
Food, Inc was a good movie, but it is an example of bearing false witness and being a lousy Christian example.
