Poisons in Our Food
Do you know that vegetable farmers, cattle farmers,chicken farmers and food companies poison our food with preservatives and chemicals that can cause disease and death. It can cause early puberty in children and stunt their growth, bring on cancer, liver damage and many other health problems. These chemicals can and do kill us. Our only recourse seems to be reading labels, and everything isn’t labeled.
Is that real food you are eating? Look on the label. If you are chowing down on packaged pea soup you’ll find it contains green peas, potato starch, spices, onion powder, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed plant protein, vegetable gum, and artificial flavoring. And what about the powdered orange juice you drink. Look on the label. Sugar, citric acid, gum arabic, cellulose, calcium. phosphate, sodium citrate, chemical vitamin C and A, hydrogenated vegetable oil, artificial flavor, U.S. certified colors and BHA preservative.
And do you remember the last time you ate real peanut butter, which is mushed up peanuts. Now it’s hardened vegetable oil and seasoned with dextrose. Would you knowingly eat pesticides, fungicides, defoliants, thickeners, extenders, dyes, emulsifiers, bleaches, disinfectants, and dyes? Probably not, yet it’s in so much of our food that we hardly notice.
Crops are dusted with pesticides during the growing season and after they are harvested, then a third time during shipment. But sometimes pesticides aren’t used. Organic phosphates are used instead. These were developed during WW11 to use for nerve gas. During the packing of vegetables, other ingredients are used, coal tar for color, and carcinogenic paraffin waxed onto peels to prevent spoilage.
Dairy products aren’t off the hook either. Milk contains Strontium 90 from hydrogen fallout. Processed cheese is combination of various chemicals, stabilizers such as sodium carboxymethyl, used in printing ink, artificial thickeners, such as methyl cellulose, used in adhesives, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors. Domestic blue cheese is made with cow’s milk bleached white by the chemical benzoyl peroxide which destroys vitamin A. Butter didn’t get away scott free either. Tar dye is used to create that rich yellow color, which contains betanaphylamine that causes bladder cancer. It’s also added to margarine.
In animal farming, natural methods of raising, mating and reproductions have virtually been done away with. To extract sperm from bulls, an artificial cow vagina is presented to them. Antibiotics are fed to milk cattle. Poultry are dipped into antibiotics baths, and tranquilizers are given to cows so they wont panic while routed to the slaughterhouse on closely packed trains. Animals suffer and the consumer keeps paying for unhealthy products.
Another chemical that’s used for meat production is the artificial sex hormone, stilbesterol. When mixed with feed, cows gain weight 15% faster on less feed. This chemical is passed on in the meat. That means more toxins for the human body to deal with. These sex hormones effect the development of sexual organs. It can bring on early menstrual bleeding and arrest the growth in children. It can also cause sterility and cancer.
Stilbesterol pellets are inserted below the the base brain in chickens because it adds to the weight and water content, this chemical remains in the chicken to be cooked and eaten by your family. Something else used to put on weight in meat animals is antibiotics. They are also used as preservatives and are passed on to consumers. The danger of antibiotics in that it kills the good bacteria in the intestines.
Chicken farmers put methedrine in feed to step up egg productions. Certain feeds use arsenic as an added ingredient. Other chemicals are added just to make the meat look good. Sodium nitrate and nitrites are used to hype up the color of luncheon meat and franks. During the curing of hams, boric acid is used to keep the flies away. Sausage contains synthetic resins, rubber and wood pulp, while the sausage is composed of by products that contain cancer causing carcinogenic and coal tar dyes to bring out color.
This isn’t all the bad news, but my article is becoming too long. This should give you an idea of all the poisons we are putting into our bodies and the bodies of our children every day. Some of it we can avoid by reading labels, some of it we can’t, unless we keep our own cow and chickens and raise our own fruit and vegetables. That is impossible for the majority, so what do we do?
A good indication
I read a pamphlet once about all the antibiotics in a fast food restaurant burger. It is pretty scary.
Great advice. We have to read labels and try our best to avoid poisons as much as possible.
When you look-into what goes into modern food it really is
frightening. With an exploding world population what is the answer?, I just don’t know.
Thanks for this well researched article.
This is truly rampant and very scary.
I have watched many documentaries on this same topic. The President really needs to do something about the food industry. It’s the same food he’s eating. Good article. I am reposting it on my Facebook to share with others and Twitter.
Lets just be cautious ..good thoughts in here.
It’s bad. Makes you think twice about where you get your food.
This is an excellent article. I read labels all of the time because you never know what you are eating anymore. Thanks for letting us know what to look out for when we are reading the labels.
While the majoridy of people can’t raise their own cows and chickens, you can still control what you put into your body. Visiting local farm markets is a great way to ensure you’re getting healthy food. A lot of the small farmers don’t spray their veggies or drug their animals, they usually have a sign out on their table saying such. And don’t just go for something that says “Organic.” That word is controlled by the government so naturally there are loopholes and people abuse it putting some pretty nasty stuff on their “organic” produce. Instead look for the people may not be “certified organic,” but who put out a sign saying they use NO sprays or animal drugs.
Proverb is – people dies not for less eating, but over eating..
most interesting
Some are dependent for these kind of foods.
And unfortunately , we are victims of diseases like cancers , diabetes and many more. i don’t know where it would end up.
Another sad fact of life, Ruby. We need to read labels and thanks to your article, we now know more of what to look for, and then we just do the best we can.
Good advice. Thanks for the share.
It seems like nothing is safe to eat.
I had read Rachael Carson book about this since they named a bridge in Pittsburgh after her. I did not think that it was as Bsd as you descrribrd. Thankss for the warning, will read labels from noe on.