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Toxic Food: The Harsh Reality About the Foods We Consume
Butter laced with flame-retardants, tainted children’s cereals, Snow White’s poison apple becomes reality, and toxic foodpackaging that puts your health at risk? Sounds a bit crazy but scientific studies and the depletion of societal health overall puts these concepts into the “I Really Wanted to Believe It Was Butter” category. Injecting animals with growth hormones and genetically modified foods are unfortunately becoming accepted by society, and these two practices only begin to touch the surface of our toxic food world. After all, 70% of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables have detectable levels of pesticides present.
Food Chain Breakdowns Contribute to Toxic Food
Not only do our farmers feel pressure to inject livestock with hormones, but they often feed their animals subpar foods and grains from depleted soils that really don’t provide any nutritional value beyond adding to the creature for additional profits at slaughter. Understandable when much of their government funding relies on production. However, these animals are typically consuming water and food that is already tainted and full of toxins, which ultimately accumulates in their fatty tissue. Upon consumption of the meat or milk the animal produces, the ingesting individual’s system also becomes tainted with the toxic chemicals that were harbored in the animal’s body…..[Clink Here to Continue Reading]
