posted by schmuckraker @ 11/18/2008 07:13:00 PM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, November 15, 2008
New study on fast food burgers show high influence of corn
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN reporting on new study that was conducted of fast food burgers .. The conclusion seems to be that the cows processed into meat are not being fed grass, but instead lots and lots of corn. Even more:
"And it isn't only cows that are eating corn. There is also evidence of a corn diet in chicken sandwiches, and even French fries get a good slathering of the fat that makes them so tasty from being fried in corn oil"The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN story summarizes that no health concerns have been raised related to the overabundance of corn (yet) but the environment has seen some less that positive affects with humans relying more on corn.. Ethanol use has been criticized in various quarters recently due to environmental problems and food shortage fears across the globe.. This part of the story struck me:
It's also hard on cows, whose stomachs are specially designed to break down the cellulose in grass, leading to an epidemic of antibiotic use. Also, humans may lose out on beneficial omega-3 fatty acids—important for development of the nervous system and heart health—when they consume corn-fed as opposed to grass-fed beef. "Instead of eating a predominantly whole grains, fruits and vegetables, we are diverting the grain supply to feeding the animals," Lawrence says, arguing for a diet that treats meat as a garnish rather than the main course and corn for human consumption rather than cows. "Corn-finished beef does add to what has become a preferred taste for the American palate. We've acquired that taste at our own peril."A video worth watching from the summer of '08
PHOTO ABOVE: Cattle hang in a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of Montevideo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. The price of beef in Uruguay's domestic market fell 10% as a consequence of the fall in beef exports due to the world economic crisis, according to local news reports. Russia and the E.U. suspended shipments. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
posted by schmuckraker @ 11/15/2008 09:38:00 AM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, October 4, 2008
USDA has to remind people to cook their food!
posted by schmuckraker @ 10/04/2008 09:55:00 AM
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All the news unfit to print for Thursday, October 2, 2008
EAT UP!
CONSUMER REPORTS tells us that some breakfast cereals markets to kids are more than half sugar!
GOLDEN CRISP from Post and Kellog's HONEY SMACKS are more than half sugar.. MORE than half.
posted by schmuckraker @ 10/02/2008 06:02:00 PM
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Labels: chemicals, China, Food, Made in China
posted by schmuckraker @ 10/02/2008 05:06:00 PM
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All the news unfit to print for Friday, September 26, 2008
WHITE RABBIT CANDY LINKED TO TAINTED MILK
The Chinese tainted milk crisis grows--and now more products being hit.. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended Friday that consumers not eat White Rabbit candy and that retailers remove it from sale. The agency also recommended avoiding Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products
Labels: Breaking news, chemicals, China, Food
posted by schmuckraker @ 9/26/2008 07:46:00 PM
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All the news unfit to print for Thursday, September 25, 2008
WE ALL SCREAM "AT" ICE CREAM: MOM'S MILK??
You're never too old for ice cream.. right?
Well..
PETA argues that human breast milk should be used to make ice cream!
PETA officials say a move to breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their calves on factory farms and benefit human health
Forget the cows! You want to do this to women? If it's torture to you to do this to livestock, why would it be any kinder to get human women to herd together and get milked?
Can't we go back to PETA's old fashioned argument of just stopping milk and dairy consumption?
Ben and Jerry came to the rescue in a statement:
Ben & Jerry's said: "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child."
I'll stick with the cows, too...
posted by schmuckraker @ 9/25/2008 08:24:00 PM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, September 20, 2008
TOXIC MILK MOUSTACHES IN CHINA: DOING BODIES NOT SO GOOD
A crisis of epic proportions taking place in China, as a tainted milk scandal becomes worse by the day.. The latest news: Chinese authorities have urged all provinces to set up 24-hour crisis hotlines to provide everyone with information about milk; the Chinese government also ordering doctors to provide free medical care to babies that got kidney stones from contaminated milk.
They may as well eat the Chinese dog food..?
The milk was laced with melamine and has been blamed for killing four infants, but sickening over 6,000 more (that we know of.)
Starbucks has pulled its products made with milk from its more than 300 stores..
Other nations are banning imports of Chinese milk, including Singapore, Japan, Malaysia. and Burma..
The United States is stepping up its own inspections to try to avert the tainted milk making it to America: According to the AP, "The Food and Drug Administration has widened its inspections at ports of entry to focus on shipments of bulk food ingredients from Asia that are derived from milk, such as milk concentrate and whole milk powder. Spokeswoman Judy Leon also said the agency will issue an alert this weekend warning consumers not to buy milk products from China on the Internet.".. Words of warning for the future: Buy a cow..
Labels: Breaking news, chemicals, China, Made in China, Medical, organic
posted by schmuckraker @ 9/20/2008 01:14:00 PM
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Blue sky, Barfy burgers. .chem trails!
I have a few personal favorites when it comes to holidays and seasons.. I love July 4, followed by Halloween, then Christmas, and then Thanksgiving.. The other holidays nad special days end up lower on the list.. July 4 is the perfect time of year: Summer nights, fireworks, and the celebration of what it means to be an American, which all too often involves way too much alchohol and an odd American desire to eat hot dogs..
Halloween's my second favorite most likely because it takes place during my favorite season: Fall. A magical time of year.. really, I believe it is. There's something about fall that has a certain spirit--at least if you live in an area that is getting increasingly chillier at night like my areas is..
I woke up this morning, walked outside, smelled the clean air, looked up at the blue skies overtop of the still green but changing trees, and what to my wondering eyes should appear: But a few dozen chem trails littering the air.The jet airliner's fecal release of chemicals clouds, following behind the jet that is long gone..
I don't necessarily fall into the conspiritorial mindset when it comes to these, but it does make me wonder.. As I look up at the sky..
Whether they're harmful or not to earth and human besides, they ruined a perfectly gorgeous morning today by littering the blue sky with white snakes.. They'll go away..to come back another day?
PHOTO: SCHMUCKRAKER
posted by schmuckraker @ 9/20/2008 09:41:00 AM
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All the news unfit to print for Sunday, August 17, 2008
NO BULL: RED BULL WARNING
A study of 30 college students aged between 20 and 24-years-old found that drinking just one 250ml sugar-free can of the caffeinated energy drink increased the risk of blood clots!
MORE
According to Australian researchers: By drinking one can, the college participants had shown a 'cardiovascular profile similar to that of someone with heart disease'..
The American media has largely ignored the study.. the British media has gone hard on it, putting it on front pages and high on websites..
The INDEPENDENT, the TELEGRAPH, REUTERS.. But not much elsewhere.
I had Red Bull last night, but it didn't make my hyper. However, after reading up on the Australian study, I'll have two aspirins before work today.. just in case.
posted by schmuckraker @ 8/17/2008 09:53:00 AM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, July 26, 2008
All the news unfit to print for Monday, July 21, 2008
It's the peppers!
I think?
FDA finds salmonella strain in jalapeno pepper..
Grown in Mexico
Labels: Breaking news, chemicals, Food
posted by schmuckraker @ 7/21/2008 06:24:00 PM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, January 19, 2008
SEND IN THE CLONES..
Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, requested an ongoing "voluntary moratorium" to buy time for "an acceptance process" that Knight said consumers in the United States and abroad will need, "given the emotional nature of this issue."Should we really have an acceptance process for our food!? Should a different brand be an "emotional" change of nature? When dealing with clones yes. I guess there's no other way of describing it. Gone are the days of the small town butcher slaughtering animals and grinding leftovers from one animal into hamburgers.. Here are the days of mass produced slaughterhouses in which cows, chickens, and pigs are fattened up, shackled away for their short life, and cut up in blood vats. Here are the days of one hamburger containing the meat of more than a hundred, maybe a thousand animals.. And the only way we can go from here is further down the road to hell. Cloned meats. Cloned cows. Cloned chickens. We'll never run out. Every bite of your cloned T-Bone steak .. Mmmmmmmm..
More from the POST: Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies conceded yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a years-old request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending completion of the agency's safety report.Great! We're not even sure. Fries with that? Shouldn't food be food? Shouldn't we be able to treat our animals at least with a little respect.. I know we're carnivorous by nature. And I enjoy a good steak, grilled to perfection, or chicken Marsala, or even pork ribs.. But really..how they get to my plate isn't right. The free roaming farms of yesteryear are just thought: Gone and quickly becoming forgotten. The interesting thing about the USDA's wording that we need to slowly put the clones into the market is that they seem to realize something important about marketing and people: Incremental steps to hell seem to be much better than the giant leap for mankind.
PHOTO: REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)
posted by schmuckraker @ 1/19/2008 09:20:00 AM
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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, January 12, 2008
It's good to start the weekend with a health warning..
New fears and warnings over sugar-free gun..Study shows it may lead to diarrhoea and abdominal pains. Could lead to damaging weight loss..
Wrigley's does admit that more than 40 grams of sorbitol could be excessive and lead to laxative-type effects..
We're living in an artificial world. If you want to taste something fresh, get ready for "natural flavoring".. It's a brave new world. Or not a brave one. Or not a new one?
I am going to also do a bit of advertising here, not really something I normally do. Just got done a great book, it actually came out over a year ago: Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food..
You may never eat the same again.
But don't cut down by chewing more gum. As we now know from the study spoke about above, you may be losing more than gaining..
Labels: chemicals, Medical, Random rakings
posted by schmuckraker @ 1/12/2008 09:33:00 AM
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