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27th May 2014, 05:37 AM
May 23, 2014
The meat you get at the supermarket bears little resemblance to the meat our ancestors ate. And this has profound health implications that most people don’t realize.
The Meat Our Ancestors Ate
Throughout most of human history, if you wanted meat for dinner, some of your tribesmen had to go hunting. Eventually humans figured out how to domesticate animals. Then, if you wanted meat for dinner, you had easy access to a cow, sheep, or goat that had spent its life grazing on wild grasses and other natural food sources.
You can see from this timeline that it wasn’t terribly long ago that we stopped relying totally on hunting. For example, it was only 8,000 years ago that we domesticated the cow. Our ancestors could then have organic, grass-fed beef for dinner anytime they wanted!
The Meat We Eat Now
After World War II, American meat production became a big business. Free-range animals eating the food that nature intended for them became a thing of the past. Most cattle now spend their days in feed lots and are given hormones designed to get them fatter faster. The lucky ones are fed a diet of corn, or maybe soybeans.
However, most mass-produced cattle and other farm animals are regularly fed diseased animals (sometimes of the same species), manure, and even plastic. They legally can be fed road kill, dead horses, and euthanized cats and dogs.
This sick food leads to sick livestock, which is why antibiotics are needed to keep them alive until they make it to slaughter.
There was a news item recently about a farmer feeding the cattle candy because corn had gotten too expensive! How nutritious do you think that beef will be for the humans that consume it?
MORE
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/23/alarming-truth-supermarket-meat/
The meat you get at the supermarket bears little resemblance to the meat our ancestors ate. And this has profound health implications that most people don’t realize.
The Meat Our Ancestors Ate
Throughout most of human history, if you wanted meat for dinner, some of your tribesmen had to go hunting. Eventually humans figured out how to domesticate animals. Then, if you wanted meat for dinner, you had easy access to a cow, sheep, or goat that had spent its life grazing on wild grasses and other natural food sources.
You can see from this timeline that it wasn’t terribly long ago that we stopped relying totally on hunting. For example, it was only 8,000 years ago that we domesticated the cow. Our ancestors could then have organic, grass-fed beef for dinner anytime they wanted!
The Meat We Eat Now
After World War II, American meat production became a big business. Free-range animals eating the food that nature intended for them became a thing of the past. Most cattle now spend their days in feed lots and are given hormones designed to get them fatter faster. The lucky ones are fed a diet of corn, or maybe soybeans.
However, most mass-produced cattle and other farm animals are regularly fed diseased animals (sometimes of the same species), manure, and even plastic. They legally can be fed road kill, dead horses, and euthanized cats and dogs.
This sick food leads to sick livestock, which is why antibiotics are needed to keep them alive until they make it to slaughter.
There was a news item recently about a farmer feeding the cattle candy because corn had gotten too expensive! How nutritious do you think that beef will be for the humans that consume it?
MORE
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/23/alarming-truth-supermarket-meat/