TheThe Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered Americas Food Supply

Factory FarmingThe big names in agriculture America wants its faith strip steak, filet of salmon, scrambled eggs and bacon from a healthy, happy animals bred well, the old family farms. But as more Americans come to realize, behind the perfectly wrapped in cellophane meat, eggs and shiny white plastic gallons of milk is so horrible stories and simply as a shocking surprise, Hollywood is not finished yet a film about it. "Agribusiness is the name given to describe the mass production of meat, poultry, fish, eggs and milk to the USA today, and is the subject of Ken Midkiff of the new book, meat you eat: How How companies agriculture have threatened America's food supply - a book that absolutely all the values of America that his state of health, eat meat, faith in humanity, and / or values in our environment must be more! If you've never heard of a lack of ethics and extreme environmental conditions in the number of farms, or the many unsavory and dangerous additives for meat and animal products, so be ready for a great awakening when you read this remarkable book. And for those who have this book opens our eyes to a real threat in the range of large and incredibly powerful companies that are controlling the supply of food and we offer a solution that can truly use.Unsavory the mass of Agriculture Statistics .. . Did you know? * Some 70 percent of all antibiotics and other medicines produced in the USA are given to livestock and poultry? * The arsenic and selenium are sometimes added to animal feed to stimulate the appetite? * Sanderson Farms, a chicken plant that is ranked 24th on the list of EPA pollute the largest in the country, and that the site says: "100% chicken. Of course, "published 2195343 pounds of toxic waste in the waters nearby? * 3% of farms in the USA generate 62% of all agricultural production * On average, steak of farmed salmon contains almost 10 times more toxic than PCB a salmon fillet? The message "The meat you eat" to go through loud and clear: Big corporations have taken over food production in America and, unless they take control again for small farmers who are proud production of healthy food animals happy, our food, our environment and our own body is suffer.It is quite obvious that Ken Midkiff has done extensive work on the subject (and, as is the Sierra Club Director of clean water campaign, have access to "privileged information" facts), because this book is not a "bitterness", but is supported by all the information that is considered. Some examples mentioned Midkiff: * In McDonald County, Mississippi, where 13 million broiler chickens and hundreds of thousands of turkeys have been produced, each operation is a government body of water affected ".* list odors come from a pig farm, with about 80000 pigs, in Missouri forced many people to buy air conditioners because they could not open their windows for fresh air .* school officials in a city that is home an Ohio chicken plant 15 million chickens who are struggling just to keep the flies away from students.Clearly the environment are not much of such abuse before permanent damage sets in, but if this is the damage the environment, imagine the damage is done to our bodies. Animals on factory farms - which includes cows, pigs and fish - are not raised to provide sources of healthy food? which is raised to the maximum amount possible.Maximum The advantage is why we are fed as a sub-standard food grains, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics to prevent diseases that degenerate in department stores and to grow rapidly. The maximum benefit is why it occurs in toxic environments filled with animal waste and chemicals, and then sometimes, as in the case of milk and eggs are pasteurized or treated with heat to kill dangerous pathogens (in a Initially, because conditions are so toxic). After all, as Midkiff clearly in "meat to eat, the animals suffer, suffer health and safety for you and your loved ones suffers.Let s give our children a ChanceAt this exchange rate, it seems as soon that the factory farm family farms a thing of the past, and our children and future generations will not have access to sources of food that many of us took granted.FarmlandOne the best elements of "Come meat on You "is a resource for the rear section to find small, sustainable farmers in their region. This is the kind of farmers by large enterprises in their drawings product labels, the real "family" farms that our society is in force extinction. There is a list of all state.Aside to be free of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and other chemicals, animals are raised on pasture or in small sustainable farms are happier and healthier: Plant Breeding * Grain-fed cattle are more susceptible to E. coli and other bacterial infections * meat of grazing animals reared are lower in calories and "bad" fats and omega-6 higher than the "good" omega-3 fatty * CLA and eggs of birds reared in a pasture poultry has 10% less fat, 40% more vitamin A and 400% more omega-3 * factory animals live under very stressful and inhumane conditions that predispose to disease and food imports pathogensNo whatever their political affiliation, to encourage all SixWise.com take the time to read the meat you eat - is a quick reading (the chapters are still easily broken down into manageable sections entitled Big pork, chicken and " eggs Big Big, Big milk, meat and Big Big Fish), an important read, and assistance that can lead to positive change, while a large image and personal. "We have a waiver of agro-businesses an essential part of our responsibility as human beings, and now we must consider how to take again. "- Wendell Berry, ForewordFrom the http://www.sixwise.comFREE SixWise.com e-newsletters, web # 1 most read newsletter with original articles in 6 areas of life leads to well-being.