finished <\/em><\/span>beef has the health-giving, truly-natural properties you have a right to expect in all your food.\u00a0 And sadly, we do know farmers even in this grass finished field who give their cows “just a little” grain at the very end to “improve the taste” or “increase the marbling”.\u00a0 As we have said before, “just a little” grain is like “just a little pregnancy”.\u00a0 There’s no such thing.<\/p>\nAnd of course, you can claim your meat is grass finished and still spray poisons and chemical fertilizers on your pastures and\u00a0inject your cows with a whole array of unnatural agents.\u00a0 We know farmers who do all that and still claim they’re “natural” producers.<\/p>\n
Sadly, you can’t believe labels, even the fancy USDA-inspected labels we all put on our products.\u00a0 You are at the mercy of the farmer and the processors who supply your food.\u00a0 Big Ag’s food may be a little cheaper, though\u00a0that’s less true today, \u00a0but it’s no coincidence that our health care is far more expensive.\u00a0 Nor is the epidemic of diseases our young people face a coincidence…everything from attention deficit disorder to obesity and diabetes in between.<\/p>\n
We are poisoning ourselves, whether to make a buck or to save a few, and ignoring the far higher price we are inflicting on our families.<\/p>\n
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We’ve made the point before that the organic label has been seriously corrupted.\u00a0 Big agriculture industry giants (Big Ag) have infiltrated the organic field and, with their accomplices in government, are doing all they can to blur the differences between our contaminated supermarket food supply and safe food.\u00a0 Again, Democrats and Republicans alike in Washington are the culprits in this story. You would think, of course, that “organic” means entirely natural; it grows and we eat it unadulterated except for what we may add as we prepare it.\u00a0 Well, that’s not true.\u00a0 Something like 300 additives,\u00a0some carcinogenic,\u00a0have already been cleared by the “watchdog” government agency for use in organic food and still retain the label. How can that be?\u00a0 Well, faced with the competition from small truly organic farmers, Big Ag has managed to put its lackeys on the “watchdog” agency…under the guise that they’re farmers, or scientists or consumer representatives.\u00a0 Not surprising since the Secretary of Agriculture, and some top White House officials, are Big Ag supporters who can be counted on to support things like confinement of animals and genetic modification of produce.\u00a0 The so-called efficent, modern way of farming. A number of organic\u00a0labels that you have seen on the shelves for some time, like Muir canned tomatoes and\u00a0Niman Ranch Beef, long ago were absorbed by Big Ag.\u00a0 Once the take-over was complete and attention moved on, the new owners have been part of the lobby to see that the organic label is no more than a marketing gimmick.\u00a0 There’s more money to be made if you’re not tied down by “slow food”. We hope you’ll take the trouble to go to the link. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/05\/20\/kastel-organic-foods.aspx?e_cid=20120520_SNL_Art_1 This is why some of us say grass fed is “even better than organic”.\u00a0 In fact, organic beef is generally finished with corn just as is conventional beef.\u00a0 It’s just that they use organic corn.\u00a0 But that is the problem: organic or regular, corn has the same Omega problems, the same saturated fat hazards. Only grass-finished beef has the health-giving, truly-natural properties you have a right to expect in all your food.\u00a0 And sadly, we do know farmers even in this grass finished field who give their cows “just a little” grain at the very end to “improve the taste” or “increase the marbling”.\u00a0 As we have said before, “just a little” grain is like “just a little pregnancy”.\u00a0 There’s no such thing. And of course, you can claim your meat is grass finished and still spray poisons and chemical fertilizers on your pastures and\u00a0inject your cows with a whole array of unnatural agents.\u00a0 We know farmers who do all that and still claim they’re “natural” producers. Sadly, you can’t believe labels, even the fancy USDA-inspected labels we all put on our products.\u00a0 You are at the mercy of the farmer and the processors who supply your food.\u00a0 Big Ag’s food may be a little cheaper, though\u00a0that’s less true today, \u00a0but it’s no coincidence that our health care is far more expensive.\u00a0 Nor is the epidemic of diseases our young people face a coincidence…everything from attention deficit disorder to obesity and diabetes in between. 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