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Space Cadet
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: are you what you eat? |
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this is the typical diet of the animals that are reared in todays factory farms, which makes up 90% of the animal products found in our diet. this includes EVERYTHING bought in grocery stores, (meat, dairy, eggs, potato chips with cheese or sour cream, etc..) also this includes foods found in all restaurants.
basically, if you are not a vegan, you have eaten animals fed this:
1. body parts of same and other farmed species, including hooves, fur, feathers, feet, bones, organs, and cancerous material.
2. fillers, including sawdust, concrete and paper pulp.
3. own waste, and waste of other farmed animals.
4. unnatural amounts of grains, especially for cows. cows are grazers, they need cellulose-rich foods, like grass. grains are hard for them to digest, and they are very inefficient at it.
5. antibiotic cocktails.
6. growth hormones.
7. polluted water.
one independent environmental group did a study on a grocery chain's supply of raw chicken meat, 50% of it was infected with deadly strains of bacteria, such as e.coli. over 80% of it was immune
to antibiotics
a sample of pig waste revealed it to be full of toxic heavy metals, high in nitrates, and some was even radio active.
here are a few links on the subject.
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/sustainable_food/they-eat-what.html
http://www.factoryfarming.com/health.htm
this site talks about cows being fed bubble gum still in the wrapper
http://www.eatwild.com/articles/youare.html |
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Icdedppul
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Joined: 31 Dec 2006
Posts: 255
Location: Salt Lake City
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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OMG, I'll have to turn into a Vegan!  |
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Little Linds
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Joined: 31 Dec 2006
Posts: 76
Location: Salt Lake City
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Read the book Fast Food Nation, and I guarantee you will NEVER want to eat ANYTHING again. |
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