Do You Eat Meat? Probably Junk Food Too
Posted on August 24th, 2008 in eating meat, food, junk food | 2 Comments »
If you’re a meat eater, you’re probably a junk food eater as well. Here’s how I got there.
You see the best food for cattle is grass. Cows thrive on green grasses and naturally fed meat is said to be the best available.
But since raising cattle on grass is expensive, most ranches feed their cows corn, exclusively. Corn helps cows grow fast and makes the beef fattier. This makes the cows more suceptible to disease, makes their bones weaker and generally is not good for the health of the cow. Good for the ranchers, but not good for your health. But it’s cheaper than natural grass grazing, so it’s good for the bottom line. And much of that corn is genetically modified, but that’s for another day.
But now with the rising prices of corn, cattle ranchers are getting creative. They are feeding their herds with ‘blends’ of food that include potato chips and M&M’s. One blend that includes chocolate shells is made by Hersheys and if they’re selling it to ranchers, you know it’s probably not their best stuff. We’re probably talking about scraps, extras, pieces that fell on the floor, too old to sell to stores… or something similar, right? I mean this is made for animal feed, so….
Now think about this.
You are what you eat, right? If the animal you’re eating has eaten junk food, you’re eating junk food. The animal isn’t getting nutrition from fresh grasses like it’s meant to, so you’re not getting yours either.
Why do you eat meat in the first place? For the protein? For the taste? Of course never mind the huge costs of raising meat for food to the environment, your health and our world.
Well now your meat may taste a little ’sweeter and saltier’ and be even worse for your health. Although eating meat isn’t healthy that’s been proven time and again by both research and experience, if you’re going to eat meat, don’t you want the best and healthiest meat available? Or is just some cheap slabs of junk food fed cows good enough for you? That’s what you may get the next time you eat out or pick up at your local grocery store. Of course, you’ll never know.
Watch the video to learn more:
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- Obesity, High Cholesterol and Breast Cancer Linked To Animal Protein
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- 37 Free Weight Loss Tips
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[...] cooked foods in particular, you not only avoid the antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals and junk that are fed to cattle to increase yield and control diseases, but you also allow your body to get the essential amino [...]
Seems like we have to know the source of our meat. Local meat in my area cost more than those imported ones. The cows are reared by small time business enterprises or individuals and fed on grass.