It's Called Efficiency!!!

       What have we become, or, what has capitalism made us? In capitalist terms, this maximises profit and is efficient food production.

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A Living Thing, Or A Marketable Product For Profit.

       Chickens, ducks, cattle, salmon and many more species are not treated as living things, but merely as marketable products, farmed in factories in totally unacceptable, cruel and barbaric conditions to produce the best cash return for large organisations. Perhaps we should watch a few of these films before we go shopping for our daily food.

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A Chemical Breakfast & An Antibiotic Lunch.

      The recent "horse meat in our food" scandal seems to have left the front pages of our babbling brook of bullshit, the media, without any prosecutions of course. My main concern was not the horse meat, it was the fact that apparently nobody new it was there and nobody new how it got there. That being the case, what else is in our food that they don't know about and don't know how it got there?
      Mixing meats and labeling it wrongly is one thing, but shoving in all sorts of inedible substances, is quite another.

      We are not informed what the manufacturing process adds to our food, they use vague terms and subterfuge to conceal the array of chemicals they pump in to lengthen its self life, or to make it look "nicer" or whatever. However it doesn't stop there, no matter what you eat, be it meat, chicken, fish or veg.. before it reaches the processing factory, it will have been, in the case of the meat, fish, mostly farmed, chicken products, they will have been turned into antibiotic drug addicts by the chemical cocktail that they are feed from birth to slaughter, to make them grow faster, bigger and less likely to catch anything and be more docile. As for fruit and veg, well they are plastered with an amazing array of fertilisers, and pesticides that keep the chemical industry very busy. 

      I have for years been proclaiming the the food industry is in no way associated with nature, it is just another arm of the chemical industry. Long gone are the days of down on the farm, was where we got our food. It is factory farming, fish farms, (factories), and chemically controlled fruit and veg. all with devastating effects on our bodies and the environment.

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TOMORROW’S WORLD!!

See the fat cat’s grinning smile

as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,

Chasing profit as it goes

firing millions of ordinary folk.

Raping and polluting land after land,

starting bloody wars.

Toxic waste, sweat shop wages

and oil covered sea shores.

Where have all the flowers gone

beneath this ozone free sky?

To join the birds, to join the fox

on yonder plutonium field to die.

Mercury fish, strontium lamb

trees that never show a leaf,

radio active beaches, toxic streams

good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.

In a world of epidemic, plague and famine

it’s bottled water and chemical food.

Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice

so you know its got to be good.

Beneath a sky that’s always black,

hurricane winds and endless drought,

its oxygen masks for the toxic air,

corporate profit’s what its all about. 

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

Graphic from Void Network:

TOMORROW’S WORLD!!

See the fat cat’s grinning smile

as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,

Chasing profit as it goes

firing millions of ordinary folk.

Raping and polluting land after land,

starting bloody wars.

Toxic waste, sweat shop wages

and oil covered sea shores.

Where have all the flowers gone

beneath this ozone free sky?

To join the birds, to join the fox

on yonder plutonium field to die.

Mercury fish, strontium lamb

trees that never show a leaf,

radio active beaches, toxic streams

good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.

In a world of epidemic, plague and famine

it’s bottled water and chemical food.

Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice

so you know its got to be good.

Beneath a sky that’s always black,

hurricane winds and endless drought,

its oxygen masks for the toxic air,

corporate profit’s what its all about. 

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ONE BILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY.

     Some facts that might interest you and perhaps encourage you to take direct action.

This from Raw info:

Food inequality

Factory farming breaks our food systems, taking grain and other precious resources from those that need it most.

There is a huge gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' when it comes to the distribution of food around the world; around 1 billion people do not have enough to eat and this crisis currently kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined¹. In stark contrast, around 1.5 billion people in the Western world are classified as overweight, around a third of whom are obese². The situation is challenging efforts to achieve the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger³. Although small-scale livestock farming plays a vital role in developing countries, contributing to the wellbeing of more than 800 million poor smallholders⁴, large-scale factory farming is actually compounding the food crisis.

Raising the demand for feed

Around two thirds of farm animals worldwide are currently factory farmed, reared in systems that are dependent on cereal and soya feeds for fast growth and high yields. Although dairy cows are naturally adapted to grazing and eating grasses, they are now being bred to be more dependent on cereal and soya feeds too. This demand for feed essentially means that we are putting humans in competition with farm animals; we're literally taking high-quality, nutrient-rich foods that people could eat and feeding them to our farm animals.

Over 90% of soya meal and 60% of maize (corn) and barley are grown for animal feed.

Read the full article HERE:

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SYNTHETIC MEAT FACTORY!!!

      For many years I have been ranting that the food industry no longer has a connection with agriculture as we envisage it, The food industry is now part and parcel of the chemical industry. Everything we eat, has been processed through a multitude of chemicals, some for flavour, (who wants natural flavours) colouring, (who wants natural colour) and shelf life (who wants fresh food). Then of course there is the production end, the fields and the animals. Everything that grows is treated with pesticides, chemical fertilisers and growth enhancers. The animals and farmed fish are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics to the extent that we are now being faced with bacteria that is resistant to any of our known antibiotics, leaving us to face diseases that we can't treat. What might surprise you is that of all the antibiotics sold in America, only about 20% goes to sick people, most of the rest finds its way to the farmed animals and fish. All this is done for profit, not for our health and well being. The image of farms with animals being cared for and tended with a touch of humanity and fed on natural produce is an illusion, it is factory farming on a vast scale for the vast majority of livestock.

       Not content with turning animals and fish into factory produced items, we now have the news that a Dutch university has managed to come up with the first laboratory produce synthetic “meat”. Muscle fibre produced from stem cells has been grown in their laboratory, they commented that “unfortunately it is white”, but they are planning to mix it with blood, (from who or what?) and fat, (from who or what?) and by August they hope to have a hamburger. Any takers for the first bite??

       How far from the natural world will they take our diet? Can you imagine a world where you can be shown round the pork making factory and next door is the meat making factory, while down the road is the fish making factory and the fruit making factory. Of course they are all in very close proximity to the corporate chemical plant. Is this the world you want to leave to your grand kids? Well like it or not, that is the road we are going, unless we change the system, but don't expect that change to come from those who stand to gain billions from this bizarre and unnatural route, there will always be enough fresh natural food at a price for them.

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