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