Here is something to open up the topic. I receive daily raw food inspiration emails. When I opened today's, this is what I read:
"The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has filed a lawsuit to make California restaurants comply with a state law requiring businesses to warn consumers when their products contain a known carcinogen. (Jinjee's notes: The definition of carcinogen is: any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer. According to the FDA all cooked foods contain carcinogens). The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, passed by voters on a ballot initiative in 1986, helps keep toxic industrial pollution out of ground water, and also protects citizens' right to know when a cancer-causing agent is present in other edibles. One of these carcinogens, PhIP, forms when animal flesh is grilled at high temperatures. The most concentrated PhIP levels are found in cooked chicken, and PCRM maintains that the law must require restaurants to post "clear and reasonable warnings" on their food. President and chief
executive of the California Restaurant Association Jot Condie says enforcement of the law would cause many restaurants "to take [chicken] off the menu". (Reuters)"-VegNews Magazine July-August issue
In Joy!
Jinjee
www.TheGardenDiet.com
How much longer are we going to deny that our food is making us sick? I guess we should truly ask, how much longer are we going to believe the mulit billion dollar advertising. How much longer will we hold on to our attachments of the food we are eating and at what cost? I can definitely relate to these feelings. I thought this poster was humorous with the chicken hiding and the title (and my kids love this movie!)
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I am all for eating healthy, but this is just a little over-the-top, IMO. It seems more like a special interest group legislating their values onto others.
Is it really? Over the top? Do people really realize what they are eating? Sometimes I wonder if all the pesticides and toxins in our food had color to show themselves, if we would touch most of the things we eat. If we could see or taste the bleach on chicken breast, or taste and see the pesticides on our fruit or see the toxins that are created when we cooked our food.
I'm not so sure it's over the top. I think the high rate of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and many other diseases in our country and other countries who eat like we do is OVER THE TOP! I think being able to give 2 year olds cholesterol drugs now is over the top. I think what food companies get away with putting in food is over the top and I think our uneducated, rose colored glasses to our food b/c of our attachment to them is over to top. But that is just my opinion...
Love ya!
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