What
has the corporate world given us? Well for starters, beef, pork and
poultry that has more pesticides than any plant food, also containing
antibiotics, drugs and hormones. Ocean fish is largely contaminated
with heavy metals, mercury, etc.. Fresh water fish are showing high
levels of pesticides. Milk cheese and butter carry the same
pesticides as meat, plus growth hormones and antibiotics.
Well
how about fresh fruit? Strawberries, raspberries and cherries, they
are loaded with pesticides, strawberries being the worst with 300
pounds of various pesticides per acre as opposed to 35 pounds per acre for
others. This is a cocktail of 36 different chemicals and 90% of
strawberries tested were found to be above the safe level.
As
for apples and pears, they are treated with 36 different chemicals,
half of which are neurotoxins, meaning that they cause brain damage.
Apples being as badly polluted as strawberries. Tomatoes fair no
better, being treated with a variety of 30 different chemicals. Their
thin skin doesn't prevent the chemicals entering the fruit, so
peeling isn't the answer. The humble potato gets the same treatment,
with 29 different pesticides and 79% of those tested were above the
safe level of multiple pesticides.
Well
you could always just have a Pepsi, ah, but there has been a
suggested link with Pepsi and pancreatic cancer. Well
there you have it, all the advantages of factory farming and food
production. The corporate food industry is now no more than a branch
of the corporate chemical industry.
This
information is from tests done by the American FDA and the USDA and
apply to America. The chemical pesticides detected in these studies
are known to cause cancer, birth defects, nervous system and brain
damage, and developmental problems in children. In other words, if
it isn't organic, I think you should be getting worried. However,
though this is an American study, I don't think that factory farming
and food production is much different in any part of the corporate
world of food production
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.
