Just what is in the Food we eat?

[birminghamborn]

My daughter had an Indian takeaway tonight, vastly overpriced and full of crap in my opinion (I am a grumpy old man type) what she couldn't eat she gave to the dog, now he is an "Eat it and ask questions later" kind of Labrador, but he wouldn't touch it!!

His nose told him something ain't right!

My good mate who I actually went to school with in Brum, is now a pig farmer in Suffolk , he bought a truck load of mishaped supermarket parsnips to feed to the pigs (pigs eat anything) no way mate, we ain't eating them!!

It turned out that the parsnips had been cleaned with bleach, not very nice to a pig!!

[yubbywelch]

I lot of people in Oz are now growing their own fruit and vege patches, more and more people are harvesting chickens.

I know personally my body can't handle the hormone inducted milk, the chemical filled bread etc.

I'm now using natural milk and my body copes with it again.

[MissWinnie]

Yes, I think if we humans had the same high level sense of smell as some animals, we'd be a lot more choosy about what we eat too ...

High levels of antibiotics routinely fed to cattle and chickens etc is another concern, as it has led to issues with antibiotic resistant bacteria being passed onto humans via animal produce.

So much of the fresh fruit and veggies we buy would normally perish and become inedible after a few days after picking, yet scarily, they seem to go on for ever ... Slowly killing us all without us realising it ...

[bongosdad]

Maybe we should have a villamad farm. BB can grow chickens. Winnie can grow potatoes, Dazzy can grow cucumber, I grew cress in school and recently tomatoes. Yubby can grow milk.

[ozfan]

Problem is food manufacturers don't want us to know. Fierce lobbying against the proper labeling of food so consumers can make informed choices. Then you have the ******* corporation Monsanto and if you don't know much about them then Google is your friend.

Interestingly and a coincidence to this topic I bought a loaf of bread today and noticed the best before date is October 12th. Since when did bread stay fresh for 13 days ??

[stateside]

Recently I went out west with the family and my daughters best friend. In Idaho there are loads of farms and lots of cows. They were actually out in fields belieing (is that a word?) the stories that cows are kept in swallow conditions that the liberals love to feed us.

My daughters friend seemed to know way too much stuff about the livestock. Turns out her first year in college she was going for vetinary surgeon and took frequent field trips.

She said they had come up with a radiation treatment on the meat which of course we gave her faces of derision. I asked if she meant irradiation, but she said no. But she said the public had the same reaction as us, so politicians banned it. She said it was totally safe and would have eradicated any disease in the meat.

Of course my opinion is still they told us microwaves were safe until some 12 yr old girl killed a plant by watering it with microwaved water. :-(

[xchurchVilla]

Some of you will have heard my views previously on the food market.

Firstly, I have to say, going back to the original comment - my lab'loves curry and his favourite meal is chilli rice.

I work for a company supplying food to the local hotel and catering industry in Dorset, Three weeks a go I forgot to bring home some veg for the weekend so I grabbed a pack of spring greens in a well known supermarket. I was able to use the remains of that pkt with half a leg of lamb this Sunday.

When I bring home veg from work, sometimes it can look a little bit ropey here and there. It's all grown locally and if I don't use it within five days its usually only fit to be thrown out.

Which do you think is the genuine/better for you?

[MissWinnie]

Ditto Churchy. I get most of my veg delivered by a company specialising in selling organic, locally grown produce but do need to supplement sometimes from the local supermarket. If I'm stuck with having to get non organic - what a difference! Strawberries and spinach that would normally last no more than a couple of days in my fridge are scarily still going strong 10 days later if uneaten. Unfortunately, I don't think that whatever they spray them with will preserve us humans quite so well!

[ozfan]

Unfortunately with humans in plague proportions and now approaching 9 Billion population, lives are simply expendable. We are being poisoned, of that, I have no doubt whatsoever.

Food companies are now behaving like tobacco did thirty years ago. Denial,denial,denial.

[xchurchVilla]

Ditto Churchy. I get most of my veg delivered by a company specialising in selling organic, locally grown produce but do need to supplement sometimes from the local supermarket. If I'm stuck with having to get non organic - what a difference! Strawberries and spinach that would normally last no more than a couple of days in my fridge are scarily still going strong 10 days later if uneaten. Unfortunately, I don't think that whatever they spray them with will preserve us humans quite so well!

My thoughts too Win