Only problem is that, usually, organic foods cost more and have been proven to be no healther than non-organic foods.
No, I did not see the video, but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that this thread eventually gets around to it; meat is risky, don’t eat meat, eating meat is cruel to animals, etc. etc. I’ll eat my words (pun intended
) if it doesn’t.I’ll likely bring home plenty of deer and wild hog. Much leaner and healthier than their commercialized counterparts.
I was there last weekend. Great time.I’d say kill your meat yourself, even if you have to beat that wild hog to death with your bare hands. That will avoid the issue of factory contaminated meat.No, I did not see the video, but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that this thread eventually gets around to it; meat is risky, don’t eat meat, eating meat is cruel to animals, etc. etc. I’ll eat my words (pun intended
Have you gone through a hunter safety course yet?
Yes, I know someone who used to work in restaurants who is a *maniac *about cleanliness in the kitchen. In restaurants, you have to be very careful about where you prepare the food, so if you cut up some raw meat on a cutting board, you cannot also use it for something that will be served raw like salad, *precisely *because of the chance that the meat, which will be cooked, will leave some germs which will get on the salad, which will not be cooked.
The feedlot feeding of cows will kill them because they need hay or grass to keep everything in balance. Feeding them all that grain throws their system out of balance.
This is simply not true, and I say that as a veterinarian. They would not produce as well as they do if “their system (was) out of balance”. Your statement is a gross misunderstanding of ruminant physiology.
I have no idea what a javascript issue is, but if you can’t access the video from the link, you can go directly to CNN.com. The name of the video is Is Meat Safe? It is a shortened version of the Larry King Show that was on a few nights ago. There are some parents and grandparents on, whose children died from eating E.coli tainted meat. One interesting case is that of a young child who died, not from eating the hamburger, but from visiting someone in the hospital who was recovering from E.coli poisoning. I was not aware that you could contract it from a person who is sick with it. Anyone familiar with this type of transference?
Hospitals have all sorts of resistant, nasty bacteria around, which despite their best efforts can be spread through direct contact or contact with contaminated bedding, furniture, etc. E. coli is normally found only in the lower intestinal tract, but can infect other areas of the body.
This can happen to any type of food. A food company near where I live in Michigan just had their alfepha sprouts recalled because of ecoli. So please don’t make this a vegatarianism is best arguement.
Despite her misunderstanding of ruminant physiology, is it not correct that cow’s have difficulty digesting corn as opposed to grass–and that they produce more bacteria in response to the digestive difficulties?
I don’t know the details, but often when a crop is contaminated, it is because of animal products either in the groundwater or in fertilizers.
Yes, exactly. And it all points back to the modern agri-business methods used to maximize profit at the cost of human health/lives. Feeding cattle corn increases E.coli in their guts, and ends up in the meat. Prior to WWII all cattle were grass fed (their natural food). This is not the case TODAY.
The meat could be sterile and the cook could contaminate it. He or she pretty much has control over whether the meat is safe to eat, regardless of whether or not it comes contaminated from the producer. As I mentioned before, one can eat pus safely if it’s cooked correctly.
