How Healthy Is The Meat You Are Consuming?

Companies who use subsidized corn products to feed these animals have no qualms about inhumane conditions of living quarters or slaughter house techniques. To counteract crowded stabling and barns where disease is exacerbated (in the same way a room jammed full of tuberculosis patients would infect everyone in sneezing distance) profuse amounts of antibiotics are needed for all three meat sources. The final consumer gets a bit of antibiotic right along with the BBQ sauce.

We are grossly misled by pictures of cattle in idyllic pastures with calves sitting lovingly next to their mothers. If people knew, or cared at all, about the sources of the shiny wrapped "fresh" products in the supermarket there would be a radical increase in vegetarianism. The only way to change the practices is to be informed. Catch a bus to your bookstore or library. The information is available but not enough voices are speaking out. Large distributors of these products carry such intense political clout, people need to mark an X to demand changes. That steak, chicken thigh, or pork roast on the table is tainted by politics and limp regulations.

Recent information revealed that a new man-made sugar (can't be named here) is now allowed in our food and can still be called organic. This allows producers to augment poor feed for their cattle and not include the information in the label. The product is known to be toxic, but permitted under law.

Find an exception. Though more difficult in dense urban areas, it's possible to find ranchers who raise their beef without chemicals, without the force-fed practices to up the weight and quicken the time to the slaughterhouse. Seek out these ranchers, support their efforts, see your dinner walking around, understand the process, know that the death will be humane. Walk down the road to the pig farmer, become friendly with those who raise chickens. Then when company comes for dinner at your house and a guest asks, " How healthy is the meat you are consuming?" you can say, "Not bad, I know the farmer. Theirs is organic meat, do you want the phone number?"