Did any of you watch this week’s Oprah episode on the documentary Food Inc.? Here’s the Oprah clip:
The Food Inc. Trailer:
“Everything we’ve done in modern agriculture is to grow it Faster, Fatter, Bigger, Cheaper”.
“If you can grow a chicken in 49 days, why would you want one you gotta grow in 3 months?”
It really makes me rethink what I put in my mouth, especially hormone-infused beef and chicken. Have you ever wondered why Americans grow up to be bigger and taller than children from most other countries? As an Asian-American, I’ve always been well aware of the huge difference in structure and size between Asians raised in America vs Asians from our motherlands. It’s all those growth hormones we get from our food!
Did you know that our cows are being fed:
- Gelatin (rendered from the hooves of cattle and other species)
- Fats, oils, grease, and tallow (again, from cattle and other species)
- Poultry and poultry by products (um, cows were meant to be vegetarian creatures – think grass)
- Rendered pork and horse protein
I guess one upside is that they’re no longer fed cattle brain and spinal tissue (yaaay) – that was banned by the FDA in 2007. If our beef is eating this stuff, and we’re eating the beef that is eating this stuff… then, indirectly, it’s kind of like we’re eating this stuff.
I think I just lost my appetite.
M* says:
Not just growth hormones… but maybe because Asians nowadays are having a better [nutritionally wise] diet that modern Asians are bigger sized / taller than previous generations?
I say this because I live in Malaysia and stand at 160cm while my brother, who is 7 years younger and has had a better diet that I did now stands at nearly 6′. [oh the injustice!]
29th January 2010 at 8:52 pm
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