Thanks to the internet, many are starting to learn the true status of mass produced food.

Read a good article today that discusses how up to 15% of US poultry weight consists of "fecal soup":

• "Part of the problem is the hellish overcrowded conditions that the birds live in, where they wade in each other’s feces and vomit."

• Furthermore, "Thousands of dirty chickens are bathed together in a chill tank, creating a mixture known as fecal soup that spreads contamination from bird to bird"

About a year ago I had a patient who worked in a processing plant for one of the largest poultry companies in the U.S. He told me matter-of-factly the majority of chicken you eat has lots of fecal matter on it. The thing is, however, you can’t easily see it because the chemicals used to "wash" and treat the birds turns the fecal matter "white", blending it in with the meat.

Furthermore, just this week we learn that an untold percentage of poultry in this country is being fed the same toxic "pet food" (imported from China and contaminated with industrial chemicals) that’s killing thousands of pets across the country.

What is incredibly scary, however, is that the imported ingredients

• wheat gluten
• rice protein
• soy protein
• corn meal
• corn gluten

are also actually used as components in human food! From the above article:

Since mid-March, the Menu Foods recall has taken 60 million cans and pouches of pet food off store shelves. But the recall could have easily included human food, ChemNutra testified before Congress. The gluten
was certified as suitable for human consumption.

When we also read that China’s famed Yangtze (the 3rd largest river in the world) is turning "cancerous" with pollution and dying and:

"Cities along the Yangtze annually dump at least 14.2 billion tons of waste into China’s longest waterway — which accounts for 35 percent of the country’s fresh water resources"

it’s no wonder many people are becoming reluctant to buy food products from China.

The story, however, doesn’t end with chicken: this earlier post discusses the incredibly sad, tortured existence of pigs before they’re slaughtered and the huge range of chemicals they’re infused with.

Not sure what the solution is, but since you are what your animals eat, the best bet for truly healthy food is to buy local and homegrown. If you’re new to this concept, and would like to learn more, an excellent resource is Jo Robinson’s eatwild.com.

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