Posted on 01/07/2013 1:44:15 PM PST by Libertynotfree
Labeling foods is a moral thing to do to keep us from illness. There are so many questionable farming livestock practices which USDA allows, obviously those practices have great potential doing more harm to our body. Excerpt from the Article: Nine examples of what the public isnt supposed to know (1) Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH):Its injected into cows to force more milk production. Monsanto created it by combining cow DNA and E. coli (really). Now Eli Lily owns it. It infects cows udders, causing gross malformations and demands a plethora of antibiotic injections which furthers the creation of antibiotic resistant superbugs. It also leaves small amounts of pus in consumers milk. For a few years, farmers who labeled their milk no rBGH were harassed with legal actions by Monsanto. That level of free speech has been halted, yet rBGH treated milk is not labeled. (2) Toxic drugs in meat:The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has determined that meat inspectors lack the wherewithal to find certain toxic drug residues in meats from factory farming. Parasites and bacteria can be cooked out. Drugs and heavy metals cant be cooked out.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalremediesmatter.com ...
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I have no data to base my opinion on, but here it is, and its worth about two cents...
I choose the former too, but I read the article. If you didn't read it, you're not missing anything. It's nothing but crap designed to scare people who live in fear of things they don't understand.
Yeah, I understand. Most of these articles are. Don’t really understand why so many people make so much effort to create fear out of nothing. There is enough troubles out there that yelling fire when there is none is a pain.
I just was struck by the way you phrased it, thought it was funny.
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