Posted on 07/31/2009 12:35:56 PM PDT by Gabz
Ping to the Gardener’s List.
Thought some of you might be interested in this “review” in light of some of the things we’ve been discussing in regard to the various farm bills and corporate farming.
And there you see the Socialist agenda. The message is that our food will be so much better once it is all produced on government owned collective farms.
Doesn't that say it all? Maybe a Beef Czar, a Pork Czar, a Corn Czar and a Seed Czar and then they can DO something about this!!
Yes, it IS a Michael Moore type film - in that it has a very strong bias and agenda.
Freedom and the free-market that these people hate so much have given us a dizzying choice of food, so much so that we are getting fat.
These lib elites hate fructose, for example - but why does fructose even exist? Because the Gov’t has insisted on trying to prop-up/control the sugar market and politically connected sugar processors for the last 50 years!
Can a conservative hate fructose too?
Can a conservative hate fructose too?
Yes, I hereby declare you may do so!
This is a bunch of hooey.
The recent deaths of people due to E. coli is because they ate meat contaminated with the fecal products of cattle. This is a standard result of the slaughter process and is not a problem if the meat is cooked properly. Rare hamburgers are a bad idea.
It can be argued that feeding cattle on corn is not a good idea, but it doesn't create new strains of bacteria. The basic issue is that while all mammals have E. coli in the intestines, humans don't do well when they ingest some of the varieties carried by cattle, deer, etc.
Can I keep my fructose in my - Fresh Apples, Pears, Corn, Grapes, Figs, Yams, Beets, Bananas and on and on?
I don’t know why we conservatives leave this sort of awareness to the liberals so they get the reputation for being green and health conscious.
Follow the money trail to understand government corruption.
Whatever probems this may cause, the government will never take a hand in their solution; on the contrary, with the inheritance tax quickly eliminating the traditional American family farm, corporate interests are sure to make rapid progress in co-opting to an even greater extent all food production in the United States.
Moreover, with the major food corprations maintaining huge lobbying firms and making consistent and maximal contributions to election funds, our bought-and-paid-for legislators can be counted on only to fall into line with whatever policies they’re told to establish and keep in place.
These people are nuts.
Corn IS grass; corn kernels are grass seeds.
Cows can’t eat grass; their gut isn’t able to digest it, so they grow a huge population of symbiotic bacteria that DO “eat” grass, and feed them the grass.
The bacteria then pass their byproducts, which the cow can digest, along to the next stop along the digestive tract.
Yea, cause that's worked out sooooo well in the past.
Idiot.
It's been over 10 years since her libelous remarks. Where is the so called American mad-cow?
Not all meat is bad and not all veggies are safe. Ecoli scares hit the produce world all the time.
And when it comes to overprocessed foodstuffs, fake “vegan” meat substitutes are completely “unnatural” no matter what is used to make the foodstuff paste and preserve it.
my ultimate goal is to acquire a place of my own where I can raise enough food for myself and my family...since I moved to the city a number of years ago, I have very rarely drank milk or eaten beef...mainly this is because it does not come close to the sort that I was raised on...oh that I could provide the same good food for my children...
You can also get a butcher to grind up any cut of meat at the shop fresh. You may be less likely to get fecal or brain matter mixed in with your meat that way.
Unless the Left wants to make the charge that steaks are also contaminated meat.
Robert Lockwood Junior was a bluesman. He grew up in America. He was raised by Robert Johnson and learned guitar from Charlie Patton.
He lived into his 90s and continued to tour and perform.
A reporter asked him what the secret to his longevity was. He said that he didn’t eat that crap you city folks get at the store, he went to Amish country to get unadulterated meats and dairy products.
If you are in the right location, you may not need to run the farm yourself to still get foods that adhere to the old methods.
believe me...Floriduh is not the right location...except for citrus in the winter time...and if you get far enough south for mangoes as well...
Steaks can indeed be contaminated and grinding it up can make a non-problem into a problem. Here’s why.
A steak may have the problematic bacteria on the outside of the meat as a normal part of the butchering process. Nobody has to have been sloppy or anything. It just happens.
Cook that steak, even very rare, and the bacteria on the outside, exposed to direct heat, are quickly killed.
Grind that same steak up, and some of the bacteria formerly on the outside are now on the inside. Make a patty out of this same meat and cook it rare, and you may not kill some of the bacteria that are now on the inside.
Result: potentially fatal dysentery.
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