Saturday, 14 March 2009
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"Industrial Pig Farms Breeding MRSA"
...I didn't need any more convincing that industrial farms are counter-productive and all in general awful, but thanks for those mental images. I'll have a strong aversion to industrial farming for the rest of my life, probably.
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When geneticists inject foreign genes into plant or animal cells, they often link them to other genes, called 'trackers'. For experimental reasons, tracker genes are usually resistant to antibiotics
GMO's could be another possible link to antibiotic resistance.
@isaacmarie -
I've been observing a trend of how GMO's affect nature..I've been waiting for more information to come out on their inevitable affects on human health as well, 'cause most of the time...when scientists fool around with this, the proper tests or questions for this science hasn't even crossed their minds to do before they release it out into the wide world.
Already we know that GMO crops...specifically herbicide resistant types is one of the main probable causes for Colony Collapse Disorder in bees. For awhile there, we were wondering if it had started to affect the farm environment for the mysterious deaths of bats...(though this turned out not to be the case, we shouldn't have HAD to wonder).
GMO's usually lead to an increase in usage of chemicles, as well...which as we all well know, can lead to the extinction of entire plant species and depletion of bug species for the surrounding ecosystem of the farms.
So, your point is highly valid as things stand today. It just seems like...more and more recently, we're hearing about how industrial farms are increasingly more often the cause for a ton of potentially very serious diseases, bacterium, and viruses in general. I'm not about to complain, 'cause at least we ARE hearing about it, but it just astounds me how people who care about our health will justify industrial farms and then turn around and rag on organic small time operations.
...and I hope you don't mind that I took your comment as an excuse to ramble on, it just means I really agree with you. ^_^'
P.s. I've been thinking about vegetarianism a little more often lately as well, although it's partially an economics thing and a little bit all this type of thing. I've been asking myself if I can figure out how to buy from local hunters and fisherman, telling myself I'd stick to venison and whatever fish they got and mostly eat veggies, if this is what I decide on doing...not true vegeterianism, but at least getting away from the grocery store...which has been my goal, for awhile now. To say goodbye to the grocery stores for most things (you know, except the occasional treat...like cooking chocolate or a can of soda, something different from the ethnic isle...and the necessities I can't take care of myself, like toilet paper.). 'Cause there's too much that the stores don't tell us and my life's too busy to attempt to keep track of the crap that goes on in the grocery stores...besides, I'd rather support local non-industrial farms and victory gardeners, especially nowadays.
What were you thinking about though, for maybe going vegetarian and how you'd go about it?
@isaacmarie -
Lol, sorry I just deleted and reposted my reply comment, seems I took your advice before you posted it! =)
I thought of a question and...rambled somemore, xD
You're totally right though, there's alot of important things in our world.. and our food, our environment, does rank right up there with the rest of the issues on scale of importance.
Life on planet earth is too wonderfully diverse to live so carelessly!
As far as vegan goes i have been buying directly from local farmers as much as I can. Cheese, milk, eggs, ect. I havent been eating much meat because of the price of meat from the local natural farms. Luckily I am losing those extra pounds i didnt need.
@isaacmarie -
I like to point out to people who hear me discussing my dislike of GMO's that I LOVE science, but THIS science is not just messing around with nature...but messing around with it carelessly. Pure foolishness, obviously.
The fact that Monsanto -ruins- farmers who aren't "with their program" does not improve my opinion at all either.
...When did agriculture become so perilous?!
I see =) it seems we are thinking along the same lines then. Hunters tend to charge slightly less than the farmer's markets do for their meat, but I'm not sure how much that's an option for your area...also, there's always that iffy thing of needing to know if the hunters one buys from is being a responsible hunter, or one that just likes to kill things without minding laws or common sense on animal populations.
Like I said, when did where our food comes from become such a perilous complicated place? O_O
It's a good method of weight loss, *agrees* it makes me wonder if, considering the cost of meat versus veggies these days...in just the regular grocery store especially, if we'll see a reverse trend in the average weight of our nation more quickly than we expected to.
In my opinion we will not see a reverse in the weight trend. The problems with our food go beyond the GMOs. It is also in the processed foods. Think back to the rulers of the world. The kings and such.. They had the money and the access to the best snd plentiful foods. Here in America it is the opposite. The cheap processed foods are in abundance and affordable. I have yet to touch on the subject of all the excitotoxins in all the foods.
@isaacmarie -
Well, that's partly why I wonder...at least here in rural Ohio, processed foods for the first time for as long as I can remember are more -expensive- than vegetables, so I wonder if this is not just something that's happening only here, but elsewhere as well.
(After all, processing is more costly to maintain because it's artificial...whereas veggies just need water, compost, and a watchful eye essentially...it costs more in TIME and effort, than money)
It's just that it's not something mothers or anybody tends to keep track of, so I don't really know.
...so I wonder if this economy may be some of the worst effects of Greed's undoing, just maybe, just maybe. Especially as small organic farms, victory gardeners, and urban farmers are on the rise and the increase of farmer's markets has been significant enough.
Although I suppose it remains to be seen with the Food Safety and Modernization act of 2009 floating about.
Greed will be the un doing of everything!! Thumbs up to the organic frarmers, victory gardens and farmers markets.
NO to hr 875
@isaacmarie -
It's why I heart Mac and Cheese...in a REAL cheese sauce, it's so much more delicious from the rest of the stuffs, it's amazing.
*doesn't even know what the powdered sauces are made of xD or what the heck the ready-made mac and cheeses from most deli's are.* I think the policy of, "If you don't know what's in it, don't buy it" is a good one. [/slightly random] heh.
That's basically my hope. It looks like people care enough now, and that was a major componet of why the problems were let to build for so long...people just didn't care, apathy had them.
Now, what with our world changing so fast...and, like you said, greed undoing things, more people's eyes are open for the first time in a long time.
But yeah; yay to farmers of REAL food, and naaaay to h.r. 875. Like a book once said; The revolution will not be microwaved! ^_^'
Awake equals power! Power to the people!