Food for Thought

Modern ag production gets called all kinds of nasty things from "factory farming" to raising "frankenfood".

Here are a couple of interesting articles about food safety.

Study shows more pathogens in antibiotic-free pigs

Research at The Ohio State University indicates that meat from free-range hogs raised without antibiotics carries more pathogens and parasites than meat from conventionally raised hogs fed low levels of antibiotics. More than half of the pigs on antibiotic-free farms tested positive for Salmonella and two tested positive for Trichinella spiralis. Full story.



Natural toxins in organic foods



People who eat organic foods are about eight times more likely to be attacked by the deadly E.coli bacteria than are people who eat mainstream foods. Organic consumers are at increased risk from natural toxins produced by fungi, some of which cause cancer. Organic foods also carry far more dangerous bacteria (salmonella, campylobacter and Listeria) that kill thousands of people every year. Full story.

I have said this before and I'll say it again.
The production practices of the modern American farmer yields the safest, cheapest, and most abundant food supply in the world! But there never has been perfection and there never will be. We rich whining Americans (thanks, Phil Gramm) expect the government to deliver perfection into our laps (or mouths).


And we forget that life is temporal and we are just passing thru.