Right on, Nameless Opinion Person, but I think it’s probably even scarier and more dire than you’ve painted above. Not only has big business created one of the most toxic food supplies on the planet (that’s right folks, I referring to the US food supply), there are big agra factions constantly trying to change our laws to outlaw anyone growing our own organic, pesticide-free food in our own back yards. And if they ever succeed, people like me can be arrested for NOT polluting our own gardens with the poisons that companies like Monsanto peddle! Big brother is trying to invade our own backyards! Why? Because if a large number of people did backyard farming, we could break the mass market food stranglehold that had so damaged our food supply.

I urge anyone who cares about their health to keep an eye on Washington so you can monitor your freedoms that are being sold down the river on a daily basis. There’s a John McClain bill he’s trying to pass now that would totally obliterate your access to vitamins and other safe nutrients to YOUR detriment. Write your congressmen: Just Say NO!!! And that’s not the only scary bill trying to make it through congress right now. Hit the Center For Food Safety website if you are at all curious. I constatly monitor and write my congressmen. I’m sure they are sick of me by now. Maybe hearing from some new voices would help.

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So don’t eat a damned whopper, who cares.
Whatever doesn’t kill us just makes us stronger.

I care Mateo because that Whopper is driving the market in the direction to where I might eventually be unable to purchase organic beef. That IS MY PROBLEM! And if you ever decide you no longer want to eat the polluted stuff and seek organic, you may not find it.

The fact that that burger may kill you or yours IS your problem, even if you want to live with your head in the sand. Just check out all the lawsuits filed by bereft parents whose 3 and 4 year old children DIED after eating that fast food burger. Ignore the problem to your detriment but I choose to act…

Bro, Zach…. Nice article. It would be much easier if you just told people to watch the documentary Food Inc. Inwhich all of these arguments are covered and even elaborated. Besides, visual stuff is more convincing

Cee is a great example of how to lead the charge against infected food. His individual choice is a start, and it is absurd that he would face government obstacles to establishing more of an organic food program. The FDA limits his freedoms.

Had we eliminated the ridiculous farm subsidies, the farming lobby, and (slowly) the FDA, we would see a great boon to organic farming and new ways to develop healthy foods. But for now, we are chained to a government that linits us to what they see as fit to consume.

Farm subsidies to not grow food is really an absurd economic concept until you figure out that it pushes the small farmer out of business and turns all the food growing over to corporate farms.This is what corporate America wants so now it makes perfect economic sense.

I fear that healthy food is almost a thing of the past. What is really scary is that most of us who don’t eat at fast food restaurants and eat at home believe that we are doing ourselves a big healthy favor. But, we are buying the same anti-biotic and steroid loaded meat and veggies at the supermarket that we get at Burger King. To re-phrase an “Animal House” quote, going through life fat, infected and diabetic is no way to live.

damian, your assertions that the FDA limits personal freedom is laughable at best. Sure, the FDA is inept, mostly due to a combination of under-funding as well regulation parameters placed on it which render it nearly useless. granted, the government does control it, and it is our senators who are responsible for under-funding and over-regulating it, but the question to ask is why. the ‘why’ is because our pals in the ‘free-market’ want it to go away, they want to not be regulated, and have succeeded by effectively neutering the FDA. So, in effect, the freedom that you contend is being taken away from consumers by the FDA is the actually the freedom taken away by the ‘free-market’. markets will regulate themselves, i would not argue that, but i would rather not have to watch a loved one die, or be killed my self by bad food or experimental drugs when the FDA could have run some tests which would have prevented that outcome. the lawsuit resulting from my hypothetical death would force the company that killed me to rethink its continued sale of the product that got it sued, but that is a step which can be avoided all-together with strong and coherent government regulation and occasional intervention. your logic that because something is corrupt, or corruptible and hence should be destroyed (without thought to fixing it first) is bordering on insane. if we extended that logic, there would be no institution, public or private, left. where ever we have power and money, the door will be open for corruption, but i don’t think we should do away with power and money, do you?

Connor,

Why laugh about the FDA’s ridiculous service? What has the FDA really protected you from that a company wouldn’t do already? Don’t you think that there is integrity to be had? Look at Toyota. They are losing big and you were not protected. It is already against the law to harm people, so why the FDA? Why can’t we simply prosecute companies that release harmful products? Won’t that keep them in line? Do you actually believe that the FDA is filled with some superior scientists that know which products are best for Americans? Do you think that they can protect you from all cases? Do you know how many cancer patients suffer and die because they cannot get experimental treatments, even if they are consenting? Why do you laugh at this? It is cruel and inhumane at all levels.

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Damian: Amen, brother! The FDA is a failed agency that merely promotes big pharma and big agra agendas at the cost of OUR health and well being, Why does the FDA go after Amish milk producers who don’t even market to consumers and homeopathic doctors and naturopaths? Could these entities possibly do the harm of one VIOXX? I think not, yet the FDA goes after people who are trying to “do no harm” without the drugs and chemicals. Never ceases to astound me…

Thats absolutely right cee. The FDA wont even look at all the young developing good pharma companies just because they cannot afford to comply with their regulations.

Welcome the path of liberty and individual choice. We are each entitled to make our OWN decisions, not what the idiot politicians choose for us.

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As I mentioned it previously, I blame American fast-food restaurants(McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, Sonic, Carl’s Jr., Taco Bell) for the obesity epidemic that has swept across our country. Have you seen how BIG these hamburgers are getting?? Like the 6-dollar burger from Carl’s Jr…talk about America’s infatuation with tainted beef.

These drive-thru restaurants are producing so much artery-clogging food that they should genuinely be ASHAMED of themselves! They deep-fry everything…and not to mention that our grocery-store food is replete with so many chemicals(like MSG) that our bodies don’t need.

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Thanks for the opine, Zach. I enjoyed your article, although I’m not sure what in the hell washing counters with Clorox has to do with Ammonia-doused, antibiotic laden beef. I try to only eat meat that I buy from Keller’s or some other organic butcher. I notice, however, that regardless of the source, I still feel a little sick when all I eat is meat… just more sick when I eat non-organic beef.

Intereting European R&D project: http://bit.ly/a30LoL

What we’ve let happen to our food supply is absurd — and dangerous. I like your point about the interconnectedness of American consumers: even though I don’t eat meat myself, I’m affected by the pollution from industrial meat production (e.coli contamination of spinach, tomatoes, peanuts, etc.). Whether talking about meat or plant production, our industrial food production system has become a monster — a problem for farmers as well as for consumers.

There’s some more info about this at http://www.ecovore.org/blog/?p=285, or http://www.ecovore.org/blog/?p=365… I’m glad more people are thinking about this troubling issue. Our food production system in the US is due for a major overhaul!

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It is a little ridiculous all the things we blame on McDonalds and burger king. We are fat because we make the choice to eat too much and excercise too little. I eat there often and do not get sick form the products. The fact is you ar more likely to get sick from eating organic foods that conventionally raised foods. Look it up. I am not against eating organic or natural foods. That is your right and no one should take it away. Not all people want to pay more for these types of foods though.I raise cattle and I know they are safe to eat and are not toxic. Most farms in the US are family owned, like mine and our food supply in the US is the safest in the world.

WOW!!!! This is the biggest pile of garbage I have ever seen. There is not on bit of fact in this article and the references are all activist groups that are making money spreading lies getting college kids to send them money. It is embarrassing that UNM lets students that are so gullible and uneducated into its school. It doesn’t say much about the school. America does have the safest food supply in the world and the people that raise your food are the hardest working best people you will ever meet. This organic talk is ridiculous. We have access to more food with more nutrients than we did in 1945, not less. And in 1901 almost half of everyone that died, died from food borne pathogens. Now it is less than a half of a percent. You are college students; make us proud and do some research, instead of being spoon fed “crap” from groups like Union of Concerned Scientists.

“The fact is you ar more likely to get sick from eating organic foods that conventionally raised foods.”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trashing_organic_foods