by Catherine Haug
As time goes forward, we learn more and more about the sad state of mainstream food production. The online video of cows being mistreated and abused at an Ohio factory farm signals perhaps a turning point, as it wakes up the minions to the sorry state of affairs in American Ag.
Dr. Mercola featured a video interview of Dr. Shiv Chopra on August 14, 2010. The topic is a review of food safety and how things have gone so awry in the US, Canada and around the world. He cites five toxic substances currently in the mainstream food supply:
- Hormones, by direct treatment and by including in the animals’ food supply;
- Antibiotics, by direct treatment and by including in the animals’ food supply;
- Drug-resistant bacteria (as result of overuse of antibiotics);
- Recycled rendered slaughterhouse waste (fed to other animals);
- GMOs.
Dr. Chopra asserts that these items are rampant in our food supply because of corporate and governmental corruption, and the solution to this corruption and the resulting toxic and inferior food supply, is to refuse to buy foods from the corporate food system. Check out Mercola’s post The Toxic Five: Why Are They Still in our Food?; watch/listen to the video, and/or read the transcript (link provided just below the video screen).
This includes ALL stores that carry foods other than those grown and produced in your own community by people you know. Stores such as WalMart, Super 1, Rosauers, Smith’s, Albertsons, Harvest Foods; even ‘health food’ stores such as Witheys and Mountain Valley Foods sell foods from the corporate food system.
Just one more reason to check out Farm Hands: Who Is Your Farmer? for local businesses raising foods locally. Or for checking out our ESP Stuff Exchange, once we get it developed.