Posted on 04/25/2016 5:50:54 AM PDT by goodwithagun
On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation's food safety limits.
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This is one reason food origin is an important label on food. I don't buy any food from China. If country of origin isn't shown, I don't buy it.
Marxist dictators have never cared about their population so long as their own living is easy and safe.
Could it be that the radiation standards are too strict? I saw an article about the Chernobyl exclusion zone a few years back that showed basically a nature preserve, full of plants and animals apparently thriving, with no obvious deformities.
And you still end up eating food from China.
I agree. I wish the free market would take care of it; however, this is a national security issue that I’m okay with fed gov addressing. I cringe as I type that : (
If you have an Aldi they have great food that’s sourced from countries who give a crap. We’re huge Aldi fans, which is saying something since we’re also foodies. They have a great organic selection also.
How does that work COO labeling? I'm not following you.
I remember an episode of “Married With Children” where Peggy bought a roasted chicken at the supermarket sold by a company called “Chernobyl Farms.” Bud remarked that it was tasty, however, when you cut off a leg, another one grew back.
I’m saying the problem is so pervasive that its very difficult to avoid eating food from China. Do the companies label properly? Do the companies even know? Their supplier may be lying to them.
Do you go out to eat? The chicken you had may have been processed in China.
I saw a documentary of Nuclear Power that covered Chrnoby. basically people have been living there since a year after the explosion. whole villages of peasants, with no ill effects. Growing crops, raising livestock. They interviewed a priest from a church withing in viewing distance of the pant who says he never evacuated.
In other words, Earth is capable of healing itself without no good do gooders interfering.
Didn’t CONgress recently pass legislation allowing chicken, raised in the US, to be processed in China without the label indicating? The free market has stepped up, though. I rarely buy chicken for our kids, but when I do I notice that some labels state clearly that the product is raised and processed in the US.
How can you say “organic” and “crap” in the same sentence with a straight face?
90+ percent of E-coli outbreaks have been traced to organic foods.
I believe you’re right but I don’t trust them.
The fish you buy is one example. Order a grouper sandwich in a restaurant and there’s a good chance its not really grouper. That shrimp you ordered may not have come from the gulf but instead from one of the slave labor camps in Thailand that feed the shrimp garbage and pollution.
A local journalist recently tested local restaurants claims on where they source their food. Out of ten restaurants that claimed to buy from local producers only one actually did. Most of the vendors/farms named in advertising had never done business with the restaurants.
Because food factories are so much safer...
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Since she's been there, her parents and all of her sisters have converted their households to organic as well. I'm more frightened of what she knows versus E. coli and salmonella. I've built up my immune system, and the immune systems if my family, and much of our food comes from our back yard anyway. Just put a couple dozen raspberry bushes in yesterday, and six more blueberries are going in today. The meat in the freezer was shot, butchered, and processed by my husband and I. Well, he did the shooting.
The crap I was referring to includes, but is not limited to: MSG, HFCS, artificial flavors, artificial colors, and artificial sweeteners. It's amazing how much healthier we are now that we eat freshly prepared food. We never ate a lot of processed stuff, but what little we did eat was pretty bad for us considering how well we are now. Luckily we enjoy cooking and gardening.
I agree, which is why we rarely eat out. There are a few restaurants in Pittsburgh that we go to on rare occasions; however, chains and any place I don’t trust is off the list.
I’m reading a book on Chernobyl now. Some people are affected and some are not. There are obvious health problems but Russians suffer from poor health anyway.
The government tried to get people to leave but eventually gave up. They expected the people to just die off and it didn’t happen as expected.
“Organic” is just a label. What you should eat is locally sourced food. It’s easier to verify authenticity and it is less likely to be “mega-farmed” which includes all kinds of stuff.
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