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Originally Posted by Dottore
This is incorrect for all kinds of reasons—and Food Inc. tries to debunk some of these myths.
One of the subtexts of the films is to promote eating fresh and seasonal foods raised or farmed in the region where you live. Or at least you should aim to do this most of the time.
Instead today your food industry is dominated by four or five conglomerates. You sit in say New York and buy a burger. The meat came from a cow in a feed lot in, say, Nebraska. The cow was fed on feed grown in Texas and shipped to Nebraska. Then it was sent god knows where for slaughtering and processing, before the beef patty was shipped to New York.
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Never mind the hormone use when raising cattle in the US.
Growth hormones are illegal in the EU, that's at least one thing i'm happy about.
Some farmers do still use em, but if caught they go to jail, and quite often another one is busted, and it makes the news..
Nobody in Europe is starving so far... still plenty of beef and pork around...
Hormones are not needed to feed the population.
The US and Canada tried to shove it down our throat's, but the EU kept the ban in place... So the US raised import tarrifs on imports from the US. 100+ million a year...
Why does the US/Canada try to bully the EU citizens into eating hormone meat?
Right, because the Monsanto lobbiests...
They want to make money, and they don't care about public health, it's not their #1 priority, i doubt it's their #2, or #3 priority...
US congress once started an investigation about hormones in milk... for some reason, they never finished it... why would that be?? They are connected in every layer of policy making... The FDA is full of ex Monsanto, or Monsanto related people.... conflict of interest?? who cares, right?