I know it's been a long time since I've "blogged" but when it comes to this subject, I really think more people need to be aware. The agriculture in this country has changed in the last fifty years, and with it, has brought disease. It's a really sad problem and the government is doing nothing about it. Why? Because the companies that are producing the dangerous foods are giving ridiculously large amounts of money to the government.
I became aware of all of this craziness by watching a ton of documentaries on Netflix. Fat, Sick, & nearly dead, Hungry for Change, Vegucated, Food Fight, Forks over Knives, Foodmatters, Farmagedon, FrankenSteer, and Food, Inc. All of these documentaries have opened my eyes to the horrors occuring in Americas food industry.
Americas agriculture has become a joke. The farmers are being paied per bushel of product they can grow. This means that they are doing everything possible to up the growth of the plants and in doing so, it greatly diminishes the quality of the product and, quite frankly, makes it dangerous for human consumption. The use of chemical pesticides is slowly poisoning our country.
When farmers grow product on one plot of land for years and years, it sucks up the nutrients out of the soil until there is nothing left to sustain the plant. When that happens, the plants natural defenses against disease and bugs is severely compromised and they begin to have problems. The farmers complain and go to chemical companies to get fertilizers and pesticides. It fixes their problem, but creates a deadly one for the American people. But hey, the government doesn't care because of the money it's producing! The more the farmers can produce, the cheaper the produce is.
The biggest crop in America is corn. It's a healthy and tasty veggetable. But when it's messed with scientifically, you get a poisonous product. And unfourtunately, that's what's happening. You can find corn or a corn byproduct in almost everything these days. Yogurt, salad dressing, bubble gum, milk, and much, MUCH more. It's even in things like make up and toothpaste! It's even used to make tires. It's not bad when it's used in the things we don't eat but to put scientificallly modified corn byproducts in the foods humans are going to consume, it becomes poisonous. Why do they do it? Because it allows the production of a wide variety of food products for a ridiculously cheap price. Then they sell the products and make not just millions, but billions. It's the American people who are paying the price.
And even more shocking is the meat industry. FrankenSteer was a very eye opening documentary. They took cows, whos natural diet is grass and started feeding them grain. Doing so can kill a cow if it's not done at a slow pace. They have even gone as far as adding ground up animal meat and bones, including other cows into their feed! That ended up creating Mad Cow Disease! They have taken cows out of pastures and put them in feedlots where they are knee deep in their own fecal matter. That in itself can cause a whole lot of other problems. One of them being E. Coli. Thousands of kids and elderly people have died from E. Coli and no one has solved the issue that causes the problem in the first place. They pump cows full of growth hormones to shorten the time it takes to raise a cow for slaughter. Those hormones remain in the muscle, and we consume it.
The agriculture in America has become an efficient but deadly machine. The only way to change it is to demand change. How can you do that? Buy organic food. Yes, it's more expensive but it will become less expensive if that's what the majority of Americans want. It's all about supply and demand. When you shop at grocery stores, you're essentially voting. Organic or not organic? Natural or processed?
Real change depends on us. Let's take matters into our own hands.
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