A great reason to grow your own food....

[Buck]

Scary stuff..... :o :o

"In 2007, American pet owners found out about a large-scale experiment the food industry carried out on our pets. What happens if you streamline, centralize and outsource food production with no goals other than profit? In the case of pet food, the system worked until it didn't. And when it didn't, thousands of dogs and cats died due to eating more than 100 brands of pet food contaminated with melamine and cyanuric acid. Like a dead canary used to alert miners of methane and carbon monoxide, our dead pets are a warning about our own food safety.

Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, recognized the significance of the 2007 pet food crisis immediately. She did what our government should have done: She researched how melamine and cyanuric acid could have entered the pet (and human) food supply under the guise of wheat gluten and chronicled the story........"

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/97989/pet_food_politics%3A_why_our_pets_still_aren%27t_s afe/

154 words.. not including numbers. Be more careful next time

[Toad_Sticker]

A satire I wrote but the message is the same.
Control your own food source.

The FDA in a recent move approved cloned meat "safe" for human consumption.In a seemingly unrelated move Stemagen Corp in La Jolla CA. has claimed to have cloned five human embryos. Finally a Reuters story about a study that will appear in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism explains how a diet high in protein helps keep hunger in check.

I grew up a child of the 70's, watching starving African children on TV and being asked to trick or treat for pennies instead of candy. We were all taught in school that some day mankind in great technological leaps would be able to solve the problem of world hunger.

Call me paranoid but it looks as tho someone unknown is setting us up to clone ourselves for food. I mean haven't you seen Soylent Green? Why else would these three stories appear just one day apart in the news? Sure the name Soylent Green fits right in with our current political bent toward green environmental issues and I've always believed the admonition "you are what you eat" but isn't this going a little too far?

I can see it now 50 years down the road. We could have the polar opposite of a popular current TV commercial.

"Welcome to Soylent Green express can I take your order?"

"Uh, Ya I'd like an order of bulging biceps and a six-pack of abs with a side of a full head of hair."

"Ok. Would you like an order of male enhancement for dessert? We are running a BIG sale."

"Sure that sounds good, Uh . . . could you SUPERSIZE that?"

"No problem. Will there be anything else?"

"No thanks."

"OK that will be $168.67. Please pull around to the sixth window"

Just gives me the shivers to think scientists are spending money this way when we already know how reproduce ourselves.

Cloning takes all the fun out of making people.

http://www.helium.com/items/806500-satire-technology
TS

[Suzy]

we should ALL be growing and preserving as much of our own food as possible....the only thing that saved my two dogs during the pet scare (because WHEN they ate store-bought dog-food it was one of the worst that caused the deaths....) was that they ONLY had the store bought food about one can every week or so....the rest of the time they eat scrambled eggs with garlic and cheese in them and other good stuff I make them from things here on the farm!

So it's the same with people! If you can't grow your own food, find a local farmer that you can buy food from and can or dry it yourself...

[sethwyo]

today i dug up some taters i planted this year, Ill fry them with some onions i also planted, most of my crops didnt do well, no corn or peppers, few tomatos the squish and zukiny didnt do anything. thay tell me that the seeds and plants we buy for planting are hybreds, and not very hardy at all.
I learned a few more things to do and some to not do next year. Make a rule, DONT EAT ANYTHING THAT IS PROSESSED.
Food is being used as a weapon to kill people.
Soylent green was made from recycled dead people, The cost of time and resorces to clone humans for meat wouldnt work. I also get shivers seeing and hearing the sadistic inhuman things that the monsters who run the leaders of the world are doing to people. Thanks again to buck for bringing us this story. knowledge is power.

[GoodDaughter]

Uhmm......Seth? Soylent green is fictional.

And it's not 'Soylent green was made from recycled dead people'. It's "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEEEE-PUUULLLLLLL"!

[WileyCoyote]

Thanks for the link, Buck.

That is why we moved here and started growing and making for ourselves. The water here is the purest (NOTHING in it except H20 - runs thru miles of sand underground) and the beef and pork here is all local grass and local-corn fed - if you buy it from the ranchers, and don't wait until it is shipped to feedlots, "finished off" for six-10 weeks with the hormones and other additives, then butchered in bulk and wrapped all pretty. We are working to become as self-sufficient as possible. I have to say that I am feeling much better, and the food we eat processes in our bodies much more efficiently - no more empty calories and preservatives and who knows what else.

Our dogs DID eat that tainted food, and had some digestive/urinary tract problems, but since even at that time I was using it just to 'bulk out' their scraps diet, it didn't kill them as it did so many around us. If that wasn't a wake-up call, then people are just too set in their ways of easily available food... and Darwin rules. Eventually. The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again (like buying imported food developed purely for profit), and expect different results.

[bigriks300]

At what point do we stop importing poison from China? Several amino acids were taken off the market, for humans, years ago because they came from china and killed people; ENOUGH.

[MotherCharlotte]

At what point do we stop importing poison from China? Several amino acids were taken off the market, for humans, years ago because they came from china and killed people; ENOUGH.

I agree. I am very concerned--and becoming more so all the time--that food I buy in the grocery store may contain ingredients from China. Labelling laws only require manufacturers to state where the product was made; for example a box of granola bars may have 80 percent of the ingredients with Chinese origin, but be packaged in Canada so it says Product of Canada. You can't trust anything anymore.

So I'm trying my best to buy only foods that I can really trust. My grocery store carries organic flours, grains and cereals that are grown right in Southern Ontario where I live, and I am happy to buy these even if they are twice as expensive as the regular store brand. I try to get local produce and meat as much as possible. And I make things from scratch.

But sometimes I wonder how much of what is in my pantry came from China anyway. For example on the French's Mustard jar it says "Imported By..." Does that mean it came from China? Who knows.

I think I posted this somewhere else before, but Heinz Ketchup makes all their ketchup for Canada about an hour's drive from where I live--and in a couple of years they are moving all production to China. So if I want to have ketchup on my fries, and know it's not contaminated with something, I guess I'll have to learn to make it myself.

All this making stuff from scratch gets challenging when you're stuck living in the city as I am. My garden is VERY small. And for some reason I don't understand, we don't have have a decent farmer's market. Oh we have a "farmer's market," where there is a bit of local stuff next to pears from South American and bananas from Mexico. :-[

[leera]

I think I posted this somewhere else before, but Heinz Ketchup makes all their ketchup for Canada about an hour's drive from where I live--and in a couple of years they are moving all production to China. So if I want to have ketchup on my fries, and know it's not contaminated with something, I guess I'll have to learn to make it myself.

I've been making my own for years,along with pickles,relishes,sauces and salsas.....MMMmm good stuff.

If I were raising livestock,I would probably go so far as to make food for my pets,at least I would know where it came from.