| You can get all the nutrition from your | | | | producersIn cows, pigs, and sheep, the |
| supermarket (or from the infamous four food | | | | hormones and antibiotics and other chemicals |
| groups). If you believe this, you are a | | | | ingested by these animals is found largely in |
| candidate to buy a piece of the Brooklyn | | | | fatty tissues. (From cows that browse along |
| Bridge.First, let's destroy that myth of the | | | | highways, high levels of lead - from lead |
| "four food groups". If that were indeed | | | | additives to gas - were found. This is why |
| true, a meal at Burger King would be | | | | bone derived calcium is still not too good in |
| "nutritious". No serious observer believes | | | | the good old USA.). As we eat these meats, we |
| this - but it has all 4 food groups. Would | | | | get these chemicals as well. How do we get |
| you believe that this absurd FFF (four food | | | | rid of them - well, it takes extra vitamins |
| fictions) is STILL being taught in medical | | | | and minerals to excrete them.4. Chickens |
| schools and nutritionist courses in all too | | | | are no longer the chickens our grandparents |
| many colleges? (Nutritionists are those | | | | knew. Now, they're grown to "eating" size in |
| wonderful people who give you those | | | | a small cage, fed a "scientific" diet - not |
| "delicious" meals in schools, prisons, and | | | | for nutrition - but for fastest growth. This |
| hospitals.) Need I say more about this?Next, | | | | results in much more fat and much more |
| why can't we just eat healthy foods from our | | | | chemical input in this fat. When my wife and |
| supermarket? Need a few reasons?1. Fruits | | | | I were cruising around the Caribbean, and |
| and veggies are picked green and artificially | | | | getting food in native markets, the |
| ripened with chemicals. These same fruits | | | | difference in taste amazed us. It was not |
| and veggies are sprayed with insecticides | | | | only the chicken, but also the beef and pork. |
| that are also deadly to us humans. We do | | | | It was often gotten from a shack with a dirt |
| accumulate these, albeit slowly, and it takes | | | | floor, and there were flies everywhere, but I |
| additional nutrition to help our bodies get | | | | know that it was much healthier for us than |
| rid of these chemicals.2. Many growing areas | | | | what we are now getting from our supermarket. |
| in the US are overworked and are more than a | | | | The taste difference was marked, and the lack |
| bit deficient in minerals needed for | | | | of fat was noticeable.There have been many |
| nutrition, and taste. You can easily prove | | | | "disturbing" reports about cancerous growths |
| this - just try growing your own tomatoes, or | | | | and tumors in chicken and turkeys grown in |
| even getting them fresh from some of the | | | | these "factories". In addition, it seems |
| local fruit stands. Bite into it - If the | | | | that the automatic pluckers get chicken feces |
| juice and seeds don't squirt 3-4 feet, it's | | | | into the machinery, and both of these are |
| not really picked ripe. AND THE TASTE! Not | | | | passed on to us, the lucky (???) |
| at all the same as those blobs of red plastic | | | | consumers.5. Any scientist or even any |
| you get from the supermarket3. Food animals | | | | knowledgeable person in the US can tell you |
| are fed hormones to increase their weight. | | | | that our environment is being poisoned by the |
| These hormones are illegal for athletes to | | | | chemicals we are putting into it. Our air, |
| use, but legal for farmers. If that's not | | | | our water, and our soil are not even close to |
| bad enough, consider this - about half of all | | | | what it was 100 years ago. All of these |
| antibiotics in the US are used in food | | | | chemicals are getting into our bodies in ever |
| animals. I lived in Puerto Rico some years | | | | increasing amounts, and it takes ever |
| back, and when I found out about the very | | | | increasing amounts of vitamins and necessary |
| high level of penicillin in the milk. my kids | | | | minerals to excrete them.6. White bread and |
| stopped getting milk. Most of the cows there | | | | "Enriched" flour. This is one of the biggest |
| are tuberculin. Nice hey?This factor of | | | | jokes of all on us consumers. When steel |
| antibiotic use in our food is one of the | | | | rollers were invented around the turn of the |
| prime factors facing us with bacteria | | | | century, the wheat germ and the fiber casing |
| becoming resistant to antibiotics. | | | | were removed. (It was then thought that |
| Antibiotics are way overused and even abused | | | | fiber was not necessary to health because it |
| by the medical profession as well as by food | | | | wasn't absorbed. |