Heart disease can be reversed by diet? Former President Bill Clinton on CNN

Thanks to vegsource for posting the entire CNN interview.  Would love to hear what you think!

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Corporate Welfare and Factory Farm Subsidies - EWG Farm Subsidy Database

• $261.9 billion in subsidies 1995-2010.
• $167.3 billion in commodity subsidies.
• $39.2 billion in crop insurance subsidies.
• $35.0 billion in conservation subsidies
• $20.5 billion in disaster subsidies.

- According to EWG Farm Subsidy Database

For more corporate subsidy details visit their web page at:EWG Farm Subsidy Database

Public Debt

Found this quote on the side of a tea box many...many...years ago:


“I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”   - Thomas Jefferson

The Politics of Breast Cancer

Politics of Breast Cancer

Every Mother's Nightmare: Bacteria in Recalled Ground Turkey Is Resistent to Antibiotics

Dear Ms. David,

Great article although (unfortuna­tely) I'm not certain more government funding will stop contaminat­ed food from entering our food supply.

I wager that many more thousands of children and adults were sickened by the ground turkey "meat" since March than reported and those individual­s were sent home from hospitals with "the flu or a 24 hour bug."

Until Americans stop buying highly processed, factory-farmed, franken-fo­od from these so called "farms" and food processors they will continue to manufactur­e and serve us contaminat­ed antibiotic resistant products. The USDA already tells us it's our fault because we under cooked the meat.

We need to feed our families "real" food and focus on the quality not the quantity. Heck, maybe we might even shed a few pounds.

Here's an idea that might solve the problem: What are they going to do with 35 million pounds of recalled ground turkey meat? How about Thursdays are Turkey Taco Day at the USDA and Congressional Cafeterias. Wonder if they'd have a problem eating the ground turkey meat even if we assure them that's it cooked to their standards.

Best health always.
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"All natural" and food labels - what does it really mean?

When food shopping this morning I came across a store roasted chicken that was labeled "all natural".  Not sure what that really means.  Here's a link to some other interesting USDA Meat and Poultry Labeling Terms:


"MEAT" DERIVED BY ADVANCED MEAT/BONE SEPARATION AND MEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS: 

Mechanically separated...
USDA Meat & Poultry Labeling Terms

The definition of "meat" was amended in December 1994 to include as "meat" product derived from advanced meat/bone separation machinery which is comparable in appearance, texture and composition to meat trimmings and similar meat products derived by hand. Product produced by advanced meat recovery (AMR) machinery can be labeled using terms associated with hand-deboned product, e.g., "beef" or "pork" trimmings and ground "beef" or "pork." The AMR machinery cannot grind, crush or pulverize bones to remove edible meat tissue and bones must emerge essentially intact. The meat produced in this manner can contain no more than 150 milligrams of calcium per 100 grams product. Product that exceeds the calcium content limit must be labeled "mechanically separated beef or pork." 




MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT is a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. In 1982, a final rule published by FSIS on mechanically separated meat said it was safe and established a standard of identity for the food product. Some restrictions were made on how much can be used and the type of products in which it can be used. These restrictions were based on concerns for limited intake of certain components in MSM, like calcium. Due to FSIS regulations enacted in 2004 to protect consumers against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food. However, mechanically separated pork is permitted and must be labeled as "mechanically separated pork" in the ingredients statement.




The USDA on Mad Cow disease (same as BSE - stands for bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and why one can no longer feed dead cow ("mammalian protein") to cow's in animal feed:

Ground Turkey Salmonella Recall: Why Did It Take So Long?

Thanks for asking the question no one seems to want to answer...w­hy did it take so long to recall the ground turkey meat?

A few years back a friend experience­d such severe food poisoning that it landed him in the hospital overnight. Although he suspected it was the processed meat he'd eaten that night, he was released from the hospital and told, "it's probably the flu or a 24 hour bug."

Two weeks later...th­e USDA recalled the processed meat he'd eaten while on vacation in Colorado. How is it we could piece it together without an advanced degree in food science engineering or on site inspection­s?

Wonder how many thousands more were told "it's just the flu" and sent home from the emergency rooms and hospitals in 23 states since March? I'm certain if we ask... they remember exactly how they felt after they ate that ground turkey taco or turkey burger from the grill.
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Scary stuff: Arkansas Firm recalls 36 million pounds (36,000,000 lbs) of ground turkey

WASHINGTON, August 3, 2011 - Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 36 million pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a multi-drug resistant strain ofSalmonella Heidelberg, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

...A total of 79 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 26 states between March 1 and August 3, 2011. The outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg is resistant to several commonly prescribed antibiotics. Among the ill persons with available information, 22 (38%) have been hospitalized and 1 death has been reported. As a result of the epidemiologic and traceback investigations, as well as in-plant findings, FSIS determined that there is a link between the Cargill ground turkey products and this illness outbreak.  Link to Cargill - company that processed the ground turkey meat

Link to USDA recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey