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Overfeeding a child is child abuse
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 11:02 — jimIf it hurts the child in obvious fashion, how is overfeeding not child abuse? If 30 percent of children are obese and have a six-fold increase in lifetime mortality, then that is clear harm. Since parents today have no idea what food is or how to eat, it may be unreasonable to expect that they can feed a dependent let alone themselves. In this case, a little bit of extreme response may be needed to correct the overall problem of poor food education and poor diet.
Got cancer?
Tue, 10/07/2008 - 20:51 — jimTurns out real men do eat meat, they just can't get it up because their prostate is shot. The 'association' of meat and dairy products with increased risk of prostate cancer has long been noted and is now the subject of a British study. When the Dairy Board is squealing about soy milk having 'phytoestrogens' in it, they really trying to distract you from the genuine animal hormone IGF-1 present in meat and milk.
The whole problem with the meat diet is that what you eat is too close to what you are, and your body responds to the food as if it is internal. So you pick up hormone effects and immune responses where none would even be suspected.
Mad cow may be the tip of the iceberg in prion disease
Wed, 09/24/2008 - 02:20 — jimA new study by the University of Texas indicates that prion mutations, and cross-species transmission, may be easier and more widespread than ever before. For the first time, rapid-onset spongiform encephalopathy diseases have been created in the laboratory. Claudio Soto, a research scientist, has created totally new strains of wasting diseases.
This raises the specter that any natural reservoir of prion disease - in cattle, sheep, deer, moose, elk and other hoofed ungulates - can serve to infect a wider population in another species. The time is long past to consider that any form of brain wasting disease - not just the feared CJD - but other diseases, such as the current epidemic of dementia, as possible prion infection. Onset of symptoms may take decades, and by that time, the realization that a mad cow (or mad-moose) epidemic is taking place will come as a sudden wave of the utmost human tragedy.
Big Food claims company rights trump consumer health and safety
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 04:01 — jimJust cook the cookie dough and don't ask any questions, Nestle tells the FDA and CDC. Telling the truth about bacterial contamination due to animal products would be bad for business, after all. More and more, the evidence that meat, eggs, milk, fish and shellfish are fundamentally bad for you in so many ways. And if you don't care, just remember not to lick the bowl.
Don't eat the beef, it's recalled
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 04:01 — jimNot all beef is suspect, just 380,000 pounds of it from JBS Swift of Colorado. Of course, the company denies any responsibility. The article also mentions the usual consumer warning to cook beef until all the little contaminants die. Just make sure you use the proper biological hazard containment procedures when handling raw meat, like sterilizing counter tops and washing your hands and avoiding contact with raw or cooked food. Or just skip the meat and make your life simpler.
Tracking cattle and other toxic assets
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 04:01 — jimThe USDA actions to track cattle electronically has stirred rebellion on the range. Nobody wants more regulation, least of all hapless government officials who just want to avoid mayhem in the food chain. Ultimately, the question is, why do we have to track cattle like they were four-legged cesspools? Perhaps they really are too dangerous to have in your back yard.
How to breed a new disease: import pigs from other countries, crowd them and wait
Thu, 06/25/2009 - 04:01 — jimA serious theory says that 2009 H1N1 may have been man-made after all, with pigs bred in Mexico from stock imported from China and the U.S. serving as a living culture medium. This could well be a segway to a brave new world of factory-farmed illnesses. Cows bred a virulent strain of E. Coli, and now birds and pigs have teamed up to build a better flu.
It is past time to pull back from the brink and renounce interference in the lives of harmless creatures. If we fail to cast off animal food production, they will take vengeance on us with their very flesh and bones. They have only one weapon to strike at us, and that is our own cruelty and covetousness. Not this time, but maybe next time, of the time after, they will strike us a mortal wound.
Killing me softly with your food
Wed, 06/24/2009 - 04:01 — jimThe irony of the most bountiful agricultural system on the planet causing a worldwide epidemic is not lost on Nicholas D. Kristof. Even more shocking is the fundamental realization that the only obligation of a food company is to make money, completely aside from your own well-being. Big agribusiness, quite frankly, does not care if you live a healthy, long life or die of congestive heart failure, as long as they can defend their profits.
Now is the time to call for a new culture of responsibility, not just the current scheme foisted on the public, but an ethical responsibility to provide healthy food for all. Otherwise, the global recession we are enduring now is just the first ripple in the coming health care system collapse. Like the President is fond of noting, the number one cause of bankruptcy is the high cost of health care.
Declaration of Vegan Indepedence
Tue, 06/23/2009 - 04:01 — jimBeing vegan is not a burden, but a liberation. In this season of independence, when we celebrate the birth of our great country, I am moved to consider my own personal freedom. For my blessings are many, and I would like to share them.
I am free to be vegan.
I eat food free from animal products. I don't have to worry about cross-contamination, licking the spoon, or the level of antibiotics in my meals.
I am free from heart disease, diverticulitis, allergies, and asthma.
I am free to abstain from promoting cruelty, suffering, and murder. I am free to let the confinement sheds, manure lagoons, and slaughterhouses close for lack of business.
I am free from the stress of constant killing and relentless waste. I don't have to look dinner in the eye before I kill it, and live with the memory of seeing it look back at me in fear. I am free to live without guilt.
I am free to avoid the diseases carried by animals, and to keep from gathering flocks where new germs can breed. I am free to let the wild things go where they may, be they predators or prey.
I am free, and am blessed with the choice to live without consuming the others around me.
God bless America.
Exporting factory farming
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 13:24 — jimExporting the confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) model to Europe has resulted in the destruction of local farm economies in Poland, Romania, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast. So when cheap oil vanishes, and the global economy goes poof, these people will go hungry, either because they will be out of work or without imported meat. That's what progress gets you: the most inequitable, fragile system imaginable. The market rewards risk, as the saying goes. The unspoken collolary is that the market penalizes sustainability at the same time.
