Eat like a Brasilian!!!!

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by redshift

Wow. http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_am..._products.html

If you watch the movie Food Inc you can watch where they go into the BPI plant and show this processing. Of all the things you get to see, sadly this is not the most disgusting. Good movie, if you have netflix you can stream it online.
The owner of BPI claimed in the movie that 40% of the hamburger in the US contained his shit, and expected to reach well above that in the years to come.

Originally Posted by lutach

The people in this beautiful country should do something and put an end to all of this toxic chemicals in food, medicines and every other thing we put in our bodies. The US might need a big scare to make people think twice and start asking questions. I'm working on something that will start to shine the light on some things. It will take a while.

Its really disturbing how dirty our food has become. Not just in the things that are in it, but how its raised and grown and how much people are conspired against to remain ignorant of what their food really is and where it comes from.

What is just shocking to me, coming from a medical products industry regulated by the FDA, is what a complete dichotomy there is when it comes to regulations and enforcement. We make things that don't even go in your body, and we are constantly and vigorously inspected and monitored by FDA agents, who are very willing to micromanage and change our processes on the most remote possibility that a defect or inconsistency may occur in the process. Mind you, not in the product even, but a defect that may occur that would cause us to scrap the product well before it even left the door (and even if it did, not likely to cause any harm.)

OTOH, food processors can get away with bloody murder putting god knows what toxic crap in the food because its so soaked in bacteria and animal shit, proper labeling of the food is forbidden, and every effort is made to protect the industry and keep their practices secret, all at the expense of our health and tax dollars. EG, remember all the fights recently whether or not meat and veggies should can even be labeled as GMO or having undergone gamma irradiation prior to packaging? (because the food is so loaded with fecal bacteria, e coli, it needs to be irradiated just to be safe. Spinach anyone?)

I stopped buying the majority of the meat I buy at grocery stores a while ago as I knew some of this, and from previous experience growing up in a big Ag state and having a cousin owning a small ranch. I worked on it one summer in HS, and even took some animals to a local sm slaughterhouse and got to see a lot of shit no one ever gets/wants to see. The prepacked little slices of meat we see in the grocery is so far removed from its source its amazing.


I'm fortunate to have a very good farm market just down the road that sells excellent meat from animals living on their 450 acre farm across the street which I can see, visit, know the farmers and know what the animals are eating and how they are raised and fed. Not only that, the meat is marginally more expensive, but much higher quality and has tastes that grocery meat from factory farms never has. My cousins meat too would be considered sustainable/organic/whatever (tho his gun-toting redneck republican ass would never admit it, lest he be a loony liberal hippie) and the lab tests he had done it showed way lower levels of fat and cholesterol, and much higher levels of iron and vitamins that store bought beef. No antibiotics, hormones, animal products or other unnatural crap in the feed either and it also always tasted amazing.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by Finnster

If you watch the movie Food Inc you can watch where they go into the BPI plant and show this processing. Of all the things you get to see, sadly this is not the most disgusting. Good movie, if you have netflix you can stream it online.
The owner of BPI claimed in the movie that 40% of the hamburger in the US contained his shit, and expected to reach well above that in the years to come.




Its really disturbing how dirty our food has become. Not just in the things that are in it, but how its raised and grown and how much people are conspired against to remain ignorant of what their food really is and where it comes from.

What is just shocking to me, coming from a medical products industry regulated by the FDA, is what a complete dichotomy there is when it comes to regulations and enforcement. We make things that don't even go in your body, and we are constantly and vigorously inspected and monitored by FDA agents, who are very willing to micromanage and change our processes on the most remote possibility that a defect or inconsistency may occur in the process. Mind you, not in the product even, but a defect that may occur that would cause us to scrap the product well before it even left the door (and even if it did, not likely to cause any harm.)

OTOH, food processors can get away with bloody murder putting god knows what toxic crap in the food because its so soaked in bacteria and animal shit, proper labeling of the food is forbidden, and every effort is made to protect the industry and keep their practices secret, all at the expense of our health and tax dollars. EG, remember all the fights recently whether or not meat and veggies should can even be labeled as GMO or having undergone gamma irradiation prior to packaging? (because the food is so loaded with fecal bacteria, e coli, it needs to be irradiated just to be safe. Spinach anyone?)

I stopped buying the majority of the meat I buy at grocery stores a while ago as I knew some of this, and from previous experience growing up in a big Ag state and having a cousin owning a small ranch. I worked on it one summer in HS, and even took some animals to a local sm slaughterhouse and got to see a lot of shit no one ever gets/wants to see. The prepacked little slices of meat we see in the grocery is so far removed from its source its amazing.


I'm fortunate to have a very good farm market just down the road that sells excellent meat from animals living on their 450 acre farm across the street which I can see, visit, know the farmers and know what the animals are eating and how they are raised and fed. Not only that, the meat is marginally more expensive, but much higher quality and has tastes that grocery meat from factory farms never has. My cousins meat too would be considered sustainable/organic/whatever (tho his gun-toting redneck republican ass would never admit it, lest he be a loony liberal hippie) and the lab tests he had done it showed way lower levels of fat and cholesterol, and much higher levels of iron and vitamins that store bought beef. No antibiotics, hormones, animal products or other unnatural crap in the feed either and it also always tasted amazing.

I hope people will have the opportunity to go to Brasil for the Olympics and taste our great food. The fruits are full of taste, the meat taste absolutely amazing. You can actually taste the freshness. Since you're in PA, could you e-mail me (brasuca2478@hotmail.com) price for different cuts of meat from your local farm Finnster. Ask them if it's possible to ship it to NJ. If possible, I don't want to be a pain. I like to keep the traditional diet in my house and I buy a lot of products from Brasil at the local Brasilian store. I prepare my rice and beans from scratch and eat a lot of the fish that I know comes from good places. The chicken I get from my uncle who buys it from a farmer he knows. The meat is the only thing I question, even though it says organic, it doesn't taste like the meats I used to eat in Brasil.