Labels: Conventionally raised beef in the US is given routine antibiotics daily which is beginning to cause all antibiotics to stop working, why never buy or eat conventionally raised beef or grain fed beef
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Why STOP buying most
beef....
Today's Post: Tuesday, 6-25-2013
Buying most beef today is like casting a deciding vote to
bring back the days when life was very short and often ended suddenly and
people spent a lot of their time going to funerals.
The much better news is if you don’t eat that kind of beef
either your health will be dramatically better.
If you think this is totally bogus and an over-reaction, PLEASE
read this post.
It’s completely real.
I truly wish it wasn't so.
But it really is that bad.
My wife is a history buff and loves to read history from
before the revolutionary war to the end of the civil war.
One thing she remarks on occasionally reading about what
life was like then is the number of people with friends or children or
relatives who die rather suddenly at almost any age. And, by today’s standards, the surprising
amount of time people spent going to funerals.
There are two reasons for that.
Since then we've developed public health methods that have
slashed the number of people who get sick.
And, things that, back then, very often caused fatal diseases from
bacterial infection that were once untreatable have mostly been curable with
antibiotics.
1. The factory farms
and processors of various kinds, in the United States, that raise and process
beef have decided that making a bit more money is more important than the side
effect of causing almost all our antibiotics to stop working.
2. The factory farms
and processors of various kinds, in the United States have used their money to
prevent our governmental agencies from doing the right thing and banning these
practices.
A majority of total antibiotic use in the United States now
is to give cattle antibiotics EVERY DAY even when they aren’t sick.
The cattle raised in criminally crowded and filthy conditions
don’t get sick so far. So the growers
and processors can get away with not spending any time or money to provide
healthier and more humane conditions.
And, growers found that when cattle didn’t need to fight off
being sick, they gained weight faster and cost less to feed for that shorter
time.
The problem is that all our antibiotics are now on their way
to NOT working because of the antibiotic proof bacteria this is producing.
Worse, if you eat the beef with the antibiotic resistant or antibiotic
proof bacteria in it, it will tend to cause antibiotics to NOT work in YOU anymore. You eat them and they can teach bacteria you get infected by to stop being
killed by antibiotics too.
So, maybe you saved a quarter on your hamburger. And, there’s lots of it around because the growers
and processors make an extra quarter or so per hamburger too.
For THEM this is a LOT of money.
But for you, it’s totally not worth it!
Are the countries in the rest of the world that stupid?
No.
Denmark found that eliminating this practice did NOT drive
beef producers out of business. They
adapted to healthier ways of raising cattle and it wasn't THAT expensive to do
so.
And the number of other countries that are doing the same is
growing – as it should be!
Don’t count on the FDA or the USDA here to protect you. They clearly should have already done so by
about five years ago!
But the industry has had too much money for them to be able
to regulate.
So, how do you protect yourself?
You actually need to do a lot. Wash your hands more often. Be fanatic about cleaning cuts and keeping a
bandage on them until they heal. Take probiotics. Take at least 500 mg a day of vitamin C and
at least 3,000 iu a day of vitamin D3.
Make a special effort to NOT have surgery if you possibly can.
But the simplest thing is to just stop buying this kind of
beef and stop eating it.
Not only can you do that, it will improve your health
dramatically to do so. That kind of beef
has MANY other health problems you can also avoid.
(That kind of beef is fed, even stuffed with, GMO corn and
soy which are heavily sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. So that kind of beef is sky high in omega 6
oils which helps cause heart disease and many cancers from the high chronic
inflammation it causes. And, the fat has
bioconcentrated pesticides and herbicides.
So, don’t eat that kind of beef ever -- or at the very least eat the
most fat trimmed and lean versions only if you value your health!)
Do you have to eat an all vegetarian diet to do that?
No! You don’t even
need to completely stop eating beef -- because some growers feed their cattle
only grass or organically raised spouts.
Whole Foods carries it. And, you
can buy it online. It costs more, so you
will eat less beef.
But protein from other sources works fine the rest of the
time:
Eating beans and nonfat cottage cheese works well with extra
virgin olive oil and spices. So does
eating eggs from hens fed only on natural pasture and eating wild caught fish. And there are dozens more ways to get health
OK protein foods.
If enough of us vote with our money to eat other foods and far
more sanely raised beef, despite our ineffective government, we CAN make a
difference. Beef growers and processors
are businesses. If half the population
stops buying their stuff, they will pay attention!
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