robert

• Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn | Wired Science from Wired.com
  ademel
  10 days ago
  

  This is part of the reason I never trust the cheapest meat from the supermarket.

  My reactions from the article, in no particular order:
  1) $10 billion in subsidies feels like a shockingly high number

  2) Eating antibiotics in my food creeps me out. Could also be part of the reason many Americans are so fat -- you need beneficial bacteria and enzymes in your body to efficiently process food. Antibiotics doesn't just kill off the bad bacteria. And the standard American diet provides no way of getting back those bacteria when everything is ultra-sanitized, ultra-pasteurized, doused in pesticides, anti-bacterial, etc.

  3) If an animal is pumped full of drugs, hormones, and food it doesn't normally eat, with the goals of making the animal as fat as possible as fast as possible, how can that meat not cause similar side effects when eaten by humans?

  Kinda creepy.

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