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Innately I think we all know eating natural is always better. We know food without flavorings, colorings and additives is always preferred. I just don’t think anyone in the right frame of mind for whatever reason (other than monetary) would of one’s free choice pick something that’s “fake” and “souped up” and feed it to their family or loved ones let alone eating it themselves. I really don’t believe any parent would feed knowingly a newborn food loaded with additives and enhanced flavors. This is an instinctive preference, almost primitive, without the influence of savvy marketing communication. Somehow conveniences, urban living, consumerism even capitalism have seemingly steered us into this predicament of consuming more and more of the unnecessary. To meet this demand from a worldwide boom of the middle-class, someone has to keep up its production, in the name of advancement, we turn to technologies to solve some the pressing issues created by this demand.
Junk food is cheap. Literally and figuratively. Deliberately made affordable compare to real food - organic fresh greens and fruits. People end up buy more junk because it is affordable. No surprises if the working class is a majority among those diagnosed chronically sicked every year. We stuffed ourselves with bags and bags of junk but our body is really starving because it have had no real food and in some cases for a long time. Sickly body and obesity just a a price we pay for modern conveniences.
Taste best when fresh
The past week I’ve learned that cloned meat has already “secretly” made its way to our retail shelves, and we the consumers aren’t even informed or aware of what we are paying with our money.
LONDON – Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow in the United States entered the British food chain without official authorization, the UK’s Food Standards Agency said Tuesday. The agency carried out its investigation after media reports said milk from a cow produced from a cloned parent was sold in Britain…
Read the complete news here.
Cloned meat? Fresh meat made in the laboratory? Great. Another genius way to mass produce food and make it cheaper I guess. Only a true genius would have thought of that. We cannot afford to stray so far from common sense. Dear scientists, please help – my common sense tells me natural is better.
If milk does the heart good, it might do the heart better if it comes from dairy cows grazed on grass instead of on feedlots, according to a new study.
Earlier experiments have shown that cows on a diet of fresh grass produce milk with five times as much of an unsaturated fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than do cows fed processed grains. Studies in animals have suggested that CLAs can protect the heart, and help in weight loss.
Read the whole report here.
This is no more a cogent scenairo than it is a koan of the time and age we live in. Someone just said to me “The revolution to change the way we eat has already began.” The sad reality about our food chain these days is that there are more “fakes”, “artificial”, “enhanced”, “chemicals”, “hormones” than there are what is Fresh, Natural, Ethical and Truthful.
Natural, organic, farming, health, nutrition, GM Food, ethical trade, hunger, poverty and simple old fashion values – I think the people is ready for Home Economics 2.0.
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Latest: As I was writing this entry I got news that since cloned meat was discovered in UK, it now seemed US law-makers are also helplessly stretching their heads if it may have made its way into North America.
OTTAWA — The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Tuesday said he doesn’t know whether cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply. But Tom Vilsack, in Ottawa to talk trade with food exporters and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, emphasized that if they have, the animals are safe to eat.
“I can’t say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don’t know..
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