You're strolling past the meat counter, wondering what to grill this weekend, and you see all of those labels: organic, free range, natural. Natural? What does "natural" mean, anyway? As it turns out, a few of these labels are more than just marketing -- the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has some strict rules about what these labels should mean.
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If you are willing to change your diet to buy these cost-reducing and health-promoting foods and then supplement with the slightly more expensive organic meats/eggs/dairy, you really might not see a difference in your overall bill. Not to mention your state of being.
Ractopamine (Optaflexx) is also used in beef and dairy cattle.
It is very disturbing, and encompasses all aspects of corporate meat packing and farming, and what they do to wield power. The part about Clarence Thomas is VERY interesting.
This is the ultimate in ecologically-responsible beef, chicken, and egg farming as practiced by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm (featured in Food, Inc.) and a growing number of emulators.
Management-intensive grazing is the most efficient way to use photosynthesis to sequester atmospheric carbon in soil organic matter while producing nutrient-dense food.
Second, if you'd bothered to read the article you would have learned that there is no reason to abuse the animals under the various meanings of different labels. If everyone chose the best method of raising the animals for the persons' own health, the animals under those descriptions are well fed, well cared for, and kept in open fields to live naturally.
3rd, the issue of whether or not to eat beef, is based upon what? The belief that all living things have an essence or live force. If one extends that belief beyond fish & mammals, as plants are also living things, and science has shown that plant live does respond to negative input, shouldn't we also cease harvesting of plants & vegetables? Maybe you've never seen fields burnt yearly.
As I believe in reincarnation, I believe that allowing animals to starve, because of a lack of sustainable habitat, overgrowth of the herd, inadequate rainfall for growth of grazing foods to be cruel.
I also beleive harvesting animals for food & putting them down humanely, is better than the herd being culled by predators chasing them down and ripping out their throats while the animal dies in agony.
Live out in the country for a few years, watch the herds of Mule Deers during their winter migration face starvation & death by packs of coyotes, hear their screams as their lives are ended savagely, then talk to
Its not a joke when it is sometimes a life or death question.
"...eating factory farmed meat fuels antibiotic-resistant disease.
It's hard to believe, but according to a study published in October, 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were close to 100,000 cases of invasive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the United States in 2005, which lead to more than 18,600 deaths.
HIV/AIDS, meanwhile, killed 17,000 people that same year. "
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/10/overuse-of-antibiotics-spurs-vicious-cycle.aspx
antibiotics help save many lives. but they stop working if people overuse them.