The meat you eat: how endangered the food supply to companies farming of America

Industrial agriculture

American agriculture big names like you to believe that the strip steak, fillet of salmon, mkoshksht, Bacon came to healthy, happy animals on farms. But, as more Americans are realizing, behind these meat wraps perfectly clear cellophane to plastic milk eggs vglon are stories so that the gruesome and disgusting are decorated by shocking that this surprise still to make a movie about it.

"Pyramid", the term can describe the mass production of meat, chicken, fish, eggs and milk in America today, and it is the subject of a new book of Ken Midkiff, meat you eat: how corporate farming has endangered America's food supply-book completely all American who values health, Eat meat, believes in humanity, and/or our environment entries must read!

If you have never heard the extreme environmental toll of factory farms, or dubious and many additives and unethical to animal products and mass-produced, then prepare for a huge wake up call when reading this book is important. And for those that have, this book will open your eyes to a real problem-large corporations and powerful hand that control the supply of food that really offer you a solution.

Statistics of dubious mass agriculture Did you know

* About 70 percent of all antibiotics and drugs is produced in the United States are livestock and chicken

* Arsenic and selenium sometimes more to stimulate the appetite for pellets?

* Sanderson farms, chicken plant that is now EPA COMPLIANT 24 of the list of the largest polluters in the country, saying that the site, the "chicken and 100%. Naturally, "he went to shoot 2,195,343 of toxic waste into the water nearby

* 3% of u.s. farms produce 62% of all agricultural production

* Average farmed salmon steak contains PCBs almost ten times more toxic than wild salmon steak

The message of "the meat you eat" is obvious: large corporations have taken over the production of food in America, but accepting the control back to the small farmers who take pride in producing healthy food from animals happy, our food providers, our and our environment will suffer.

It is quite apparent that Ken Midkiff has done extensive homework on the subject (and, as it is clean water campaign Director, Sierra Club, has access to several facts "face"), this book is not "rant about" but instead it supports around researched insights. Here are just a few examples which Midkiff quoting:

* In Mississippi, where Macdonald, broiler chickens and hundreds of thousands of 13 million India uses are manufactured, each stream is in the "water vision" of the Government.

* The pork smells came from some hogs and rabbits, with 80,000, Missouri forced many residents to buy air conditioners because they no longer had their Windows open.

* School officials in Ohio-home of the chicken plant with 15 million chickens struggling just to keep the flies away from the students.

Clearly the environment do not take too much of this ill-treatment before irreversible damage determines this, but if the damage done to the environment, imagine the damage done to our bodies. Factory farm animals including cows, pigs and fish-off to provide healthy food sources. They are raised to make the maximum possible amount of money.

The maximum profit is why they entered sub-par foods like grains, and pumped full of antibiotics and owner of major diseases and pus bmhasnim and make them grow quickly. The maximum profit is why they highlighted full of life and eliminate waste and toxic environments, and then sometimes, as in the case of milk and eggs are pasteurized, or pathogens of heat treated to kill dangerous (a priori because conditions are so toxic).

Eventually, Midkiff are clear in the meat you eat ", the animals, the environment is suffering, and you and your health.

Let's give our children a chance

In this lesson, it appears that factory farms soon becomes a thing of the past, our farms and the generations to come will not be able to access clean sources of food for many of us took for granted.

Farmland

One of the best parts of the meat you eat "is a resource section to find the back of the small farmers, sustainable in your area. These are the kinds of big corporate farmers draws pictures of their product labels; The guest a true "family" that our society is to enforce the endangered. There is no listing for each State.

Besides being free of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and chemicals, and other animals could be sometimes pasture, or small farm, sustainable they are happier and healthy:

* Is a factory-farm grain fed cattle are sensitive to more e Coli, bacterial infections.

* Meat from animals raised pasture is lower calories, fats and Omega-6 "bad" or "good" Omega-3 and CLA fats

* Bmspoa has picked up a flight of eggs and 10% less fat, 40% more vitamin a and 400% more Omega-3

* Is a factory farm animals live very tense conditions, human, making them predisposed to the disease in food-borne pathogens

No matter what your political affiliation, personal calls everyone SixWise.com taking the time to read the meat you eat-this is a quick read (chapters are divided into even pieces easily large pig, chicken, and egg gdolahalv, big big meat and fish), important reading, And one that can help bring about positive change both in terms of the big picture and personal.

"They gave to a crucial part of corporate lsobsidiot our responsibility as human beings, we think you should take it back now ways."

Wendell Berry, from the foreword