Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

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Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloom...#ixzz2932O8guK

2.) Michael Pollan on California’s Proposition 37

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/ma...bout-food.html

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Re: Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

Well, regarding food imports from China and the third world, you get what you pay for. If you pay for s**t, then that's what you get. It reminds me of the old one liner from the Deli owner, "You can't make chicken salad from chicken s**t." Once again the insane lust for immediate profit crushes morality and common sense. I'd like to see the owners of the import companies sentenced to eat their own imports.

As far as GM food being dangerous, we shouldn't be concerned. As has been said before the FDA has very generously offered Monsanto and others the free use of the American public for a multi-generational study to determine if there are any ill effects from subsisting on their products. I presume the corporate elites hope that the GM food will first make us stupid so we won't care later that it kills us and/or makes us infertile. Do you think it's possible that it has been engineered to do just that? Uh oh, looks like I'm thinking too much again, I need a coke.

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Re: Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

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Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloom...#ixzz2932O8guK

2.) Michael Pollan on California’s Proposition 37

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/ma...bout-food.html

The subject is misleading. Asian Seafood. What is Asia? Asia includes India, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

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Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

Hey, this is no big deal.

For years, cows in the US have been routinely fed manure, along with other crap like newspapers, sawdust, etc.

The US government regulates the percentages, so don't worry . . . when you sit down to that juicy steak in a fancy restauarant, you can rest easy knowing that the meat your are eating was from a cow eating no more than 20% shit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-..._b_530404.html

One of the most revolting things I learned while researching my new book "Animal Factory" is that some cattle are fattened on rations that include chicken manure. Poultry excrement is loaded with urea, which bovine stomachs are adept at converting into lean, ready-to-grill protein.

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

Today's "broiler" chickens are raised at record speed in massive, mechanized barns that cram tens of thousands of birds into a single confinement. Broilers live just eight weeks. But in that short time, their endless fecal droppings (birds don't urinate) mix into a bedding of woodchips and other material, yielding a thick "cake" of litter that's scraped from the barn after each flock is removed.

What becomes of all that feculence? Its nitrogen and phosphorous content is so high that land application uses are limited. In Maryland's Eastern Shore, litter runoff is helping to fuel fish-choking algal blooms. In Arkansas, traces of arsenic (a growth-promoting feed additive) were found in homes near cropland onto which pulverized litter was spread.

So why not convert that chicken dung into Chateaubriand?

To begin with, cattle were meant to eat grasses, not feces (nor corn, soybeans or other subsidized commodities). But there's another reason why chicken litter should probably be kept away from cattle.

Poultry feed often contains bits of rendered beef byproducts. Chickens are not tidy eaters: they spill copious amounts of food into their litter, which is then fed to cattle. And, as everyone knows, cows that eat cows can go "mad" with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or spongy cow-brain disease).

In 2004, the FDA proposed banning poultry litter in cattle feed, to avoid the spread of BSE. It was already outlawed in Canada. But days later, the agency postponed its change, citing "troubling feedback" from the agricultural sector. Some foreign countries balked at buying US beef, but the Bush Administration held firm, refusing to commit to a deadline.