Day 14 - they died by way of food, now that was unnecessary

Years ago this country relied on farmers.  We relied on them to feed our families (now we rely on big mass production companies that feed us some food, preservatives and chemicals).  Farmers then had smaller crops that were more easily controlled.  These farmers sold locally and not nationally and therefore there was not as much focus on the shipment going bad.  The soil was better, the produce healthier because they had less or no pesticides.  But with a growing country and farm land being bought up to build more homes for a growing population, processes changed.  Changes in processes enabled farmers to grow more produce and ship it across the country.  Hindsight is 20/20.  What seemed like a safe way to process more produce and keep the produce from spoiling, years later is showing up as food-borne illnesses.  You can read it in the newspaper, you can read about it online, you can watch it on the news.  It is getting worse and worse as water is contaminated, soil is filled with chemicals and so on and so forth.  Our food supply has changed and continues to change. 


Our body was built to restore itself to healthy but it can't if it is filled with chemicals and pesticides.  We need to fill our bodies with whole foods but buying them from the store is no longer safe nor or they full of the same nutrients that they used to be.  Yes I still buy produce at the store or local farmers market but I do wash it with Veggie Rinse.  But the rest of my day has to be filled with whole herbal concentrates.  Herbal concentrates provide your body the nutrients it needs to regenerate itself.  Tomorrow we will discuss more about whole foods vs processed foods vs concentrates.  Today i just wanted to start you thinking about what you are feeding your body and your family.  
Report from the CDC - "To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources. We estimate that approximately food-borne diseases cause 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. Known pathogens account for an estimated 14 million illnesses, 60,000 hospitalizations, and 1,800 deaths. Three pathogens, Salmonella, Listeria, and Toxoplasma, are responsible for 1,500 deaths each year, more than 75% of those caused by known pathogens, while unknown agents account for the remaining 62 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 3,200 deaths. Overall, foodborne diseases appear to cause more illnesses but fewer deaths than previously estimated.

More than 200 known diseases are transmitted through food (1). The causes of foodborne illness include viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxins, metals, and prions....."
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm

What foods are most associated with foodborne illness? 

Raw foods of animal origin are the most likely to be contaminated; that is, raw meat and poultry, raw eggs, unpasteurized milk, and raw shellfish.  Because filter-feeding shellfish strain microbes from the sea over many months, they are particularly likely to be contaminated if there are any pathogens in the seawater.   Foods that mingle the products of many individual animals, such as bulk raw milk, pooled raw eggs, or ground beef, are particularly hazardous because a pathogen present in any one of the animals may contaminate the whole batch.  A single hamburger may contain meat from hundreds of animals.  [DISGUSTING] A single restaurant omelet may contain eggs from hundreds of chickens.  A glass of raw milk may contain milk from hundreds of cows.   A broiler chicken carcass can be exposed to the drippings and juices of many thousands of other birds that went through the same cold water tank after slaughter. [REALLY? REALLY? GROSS]

Fruits and vegetables consumed raw are a particular concern.  Washing can decrease but not eliminate contamination, so the consumers can do little to protect themselves.  Recently, a number of outbreak have been traced to fresh fruits and vegetables that were processed under less than sanitary conditions.  These outbreaks show that the quality of the water used for washing and chilling the produce after it is harvested is critical.  Using water that is not clean can contaminate many boxes of produce.  Fresh manure used to fertilize vegetables can also contaminate them.  Alfalfa sprouts and other raw sprouts pose a particular challenge, as the conditions under which they are sprouted are ideal for growing microbes as well as sprouts, and because they are eaten without further cooking.  That means that a few bacteria present on the seeds can grow to high numbers of pathogens on the sprouts.   Unpasteurized fruit juice can also be contaminated if there are pathogens in or on the fruit that is used to make it. 

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/foodborneinfections_g.htm

I ate three meals today and didn't have by sunbars so it wasn't by best day for that.  The food choices weren't bad.  I did drink my Fortune and take my Quinary, Metashaper and Metabooster.

And I decided today I needed to get my girls up top some new coverage.  Now the last time I ventured down this road I was much smaller so when they told me what I needed I said "Shut Up".  I mean I knew my girls needed some more coverage but dang I gave them each their own damn home. I wasn't sure if I was going to need to take out a loan or get some insurance.  :o)  

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