Does your Menu Consist of Mystery Ingredients Like GMOs,Pesticides, Hormones & Antibiotics?
Ronald Reagan said the scariest words we can hear are “We’re the government, we’re here to help”…. Are mystery ingredients like Gmos, pesticides,antibiotics and hormones necessary for a safe food supply? How safe IS the food you consume, really? Most people blindly believe that the foods they purchase in the store must be safe. After all, isn’t that what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is for? Don’t they watch over the food and drug manufacturers? Do you want to trust a government agency that is funded, for the most part, by the very companies that they oversee? The federal government supplies roughly 25% of the FDA budget. The rest is supplied by fees paid by the companies the FDA oversees. Kinda scary in my opinion. How impartial is the FDA going to be? ( I gleaned much of this information from a revealing report by Gary W. Lawson, DPA, Ph.D. published in his doctorate thesis May 2005. Sadly,the article that I read seems to be no longer available.) It is important to read ingredient labels on the foods that you buy. Do they contain artificial ingredients, trans fats, hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), mono-sodium glutamate (MSG)? How about the ingredients that you cannot even pronounce? Do you know what they are? Are they safe? Rule of thumb: If you can’t pronounce it or don’t know what it is don’t eat it without researching it first. Read the labels. If the ingredients listed are healthy and natural, they may be safe. If the list contains artificial colors or flavors, artificially derived ingredients or artificial preservatives then put it back on the shelf! Don’t spend your money on what could be poison. You can read the list of ingredients but there are hidden ingredients you will not find listed: PesticidesHormonesAntibioticsIrradiation
Genetically Modified Foods
Supposedly trace amounts of pesticides are considered “safe”. (Keep in mind that the FDA must rely in large part on the research PROVIDED to them by the companies they are regulating d/t short staffing. There is very little independent testing.)This statement about trace elements may or not be true but what is considered “trace”? If trace amounts are in everything that you consume is it still safe? Is it still a "trace"?
Where do we draw the line?.....
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