Washing chicken, we all do it. We grew up watching our grandmothers and mothers strategically wash them one by one. Well according to some not so new information that is bad….very bad. Especially for young ones and those who are pregnant. Why? Read below and let us know your thoughts.
Though it may seem like good hygiene to wash chicken before cooking it, researchers at Drexel University say people have that all wrong. They’ve developed a campaign to try to change the misperception, called “Don’t Wash Your Chicken.”
“People are attached to the idea of washing raw poultry,” Jennifer Quinlan, Associate Professor in the Nutrition Science Department at Drexel University, said in program materials. “Some think they’re cleaning off germs. Some just want to get slime off, or feel like it’s dirty.”
Much of the chicken purchased at the supermarket, regardless of which parts or whether or not it has skin, comes with campylobacter or salmonella bacteria. Neither cold or warm water, nor fruit acids will kill those bacteria, which can sometimes cause severe cases of food-borne illness.
The way to make chicken safe to eat is to cook it thoroughly. The internal temperature of the chicken should reach 165 °F as measured with a food thermometer, according to FDA guidelines. Whether it’s grilled, baked, fried or slow-cooked, it’s the exposure to high heat that kills all the bacteria.
The “Don’t Wash Your Chicken” program website says: “If germs were visible to the naked eye, you would see that washing poultry just splashes bacteria all over you, your kitchen towels, your countertops, and any other food you have nearby, such as raw foods or salads. This can make people sick, especially young children, pregnant women, older adults and the immunocompromised.”
To illustrate the risk, a mock infrared animation of “Germ-vision” shows how these tiny particles of bacteria can spray far and wide when chicken is washed — a process called aerosolization.
Quinlan said she discovered how prevalent chicken washing is through the course of her research on the quality and safety of food in minority populations, as part of a USDA-funded program. Through surveys and focus groups in the Philadelphia area, the research team found that washing chicken before cooking was common to several groups. Expanded research showed that the practice is almost universal.
The goal of the campaign is to educate people about the dangers of spreading bacteria and cross-contaminating other foods by washing chicken.
For those who want to take an extra cleaning step to remove sliminess before cooking, the FDA recommends wiping chicken with a disposable paper towel. Then be careful to wash any utensils, plates, cutting boards or kitchen counters that came in contact with raw chicken to avoid spreading the bacteria while you finish cooking.
Getting the energy to get up and moving can be a hard task. Especially with our insane schedules pulling us in different directions. Let’s look at some small things that we can do to get on the road to a healthier lifestyle.
Partner Workouts
Working out with a partner can give us a lot of motivation. Not only do we have someone pushing us, but you can also be an inspiration also. We can see a difference in our endurance when we feed off each others energy. This can be a quick run in the park, or a Zumba class.
Making Better Choices
Let’s face it, ranch dressing goes with just about everything know to man. It’s is just SO good! Is there a better choice? Yes, balsamic vinegar. You can pretty much get away with only using a few teaspoons before you overpower your dish. So a little bit goes a long way and its delish! Did I mention the calories are low? 🙂
Motivation
Music is the key! Create your own playlist in advance or invest in some really great headphones. Working out is mental! Your mind will give out before your body does, so be sure to get yourself pumped to get through the hard days!
Diet Fads
Let’s make this one as simple as we can. Drinking a lot of water triggers your body to release fluid. Drinking small amounts of water causes your body to retain fluid. Why? Because your body is built to protect you. If you are not giving it what it needs, it will hold on to it for future use.
Eating a lot (at least 5 times a day) will trigger your body to burn carbs and speed up your metabolism. Not eating enough will cause your body to hold on to fat. Why? Because again, your body is built to protect you. If you are not giving it what it needs, it will hold on to it (fat) for future use. So do not listen to these “I’m only going to eat one meal a day so I can lose weight fads”. Portion control several times a day is better than one big meal one time a day.
Simple enough right? 😉
Alcohol
Limit the amount of alcohol you are consuming during the week. Alcoholic beverages can hold a lot of unwanted calories. Especially beer, it is full of empty calories and packs on pounds.
Cheat Meals
5 words. Cheat meal, not cheat day
Cardio
It takes 15 minutes for your body to begin metabolizing. So shoot for 45 minutes.
Scales
Stay away from scales they are the biggest liars. Pay attention to your clothes and how they fit.
Relax
After it is all said and done, relax! Your body needs to rest. If you need to work out, do something simple and light.
When babies are born they are given the best nutrition for their bodies….a mother’s milk. What happens when they are able to now eat solid food? There are many brands that sell themselves as organic, but can we really trust them? Well there is an alternative. If we are already practicing a clean diet there is a way to make sure our young ones are benefiting in the same way. If you have heard of the Nutri-bullet than you know there is one for babies also. (https://www.babybullet.com) This allows parents to make sure their children are getting all of the needed vitamins without the extra chemicals that extend shelf life.
Benefits of making your own baby food
You know exactly what you’re feeding your baby.
It’s more economical than buying pre-packaged foods (although some parents note that this is not always the case).
They can choose their own fruits, vegetables, and other foods for purees, instead of relying on the flavors chosen by manufacturers. You’re not going to find melons or avocados in the baby food section of the supermarket.
It gets the baby used to eating the same food as the rest of the family — just in puree form.
Jarred food is cooked at extremely high temperatures to kill bacteria for longer storage, at the same time taking out many of the foods vitamins and nutrients and taste. You can roast, steam, boil veggies or fruit on the weekends and puree in a mini food processor as mentioned above. This also paves the way for a healthier future as your child gets older! Yes it is more work and less convenient but even as adults it is easier to stop past Mcdonald’s vs cooking a healthy home meal. Which is better for our bodies in the long run? A great book for reference is “100 top baby purees”
A step-by-step guide to making and storing food for your baby.
Healthy Homemade: How to Make Baby Food in 6 Easy Steps
Bake, steam, roast, or microwave until tender (steaming and microwaving preserve the most nutrients).
Puree in a food processor with a little liquid (water,breast milk, or formula), or mash if your baby can handle more texture.
Store in the refrigerator or freezer, in airtight containers. (Packaged baby foods can be stored in the cupboard until they’re opened; because they’re fresh, homemade baby foods can’t.)
Rewarm when it’s time to eat and allow to cool.
There are a number of storage containers sold specifically for refrigerating and freezing small serving-sized amounts of baby food; you can also just use an ice cube tray.
In addition to fruits and vegetables, you can puree foods such as cooked meats (fully cooked, with no pink, and remove fat, skin, and connective tissue), beans, and cooked eggs.
Leave comments below if you have tried this! Or let us know if you do!
While speaking to the public we realized not everyone knows what holistic medicine is. Some have never heard of it. Let’s answer some common questions first about alternative methods of healing.
What is Holistic Medicine?
The basis of Holistic Medical practice is a belief in the intimate links between the brain, the body, and behavior. It takes into account not just your physical health, but how emotional, spiritual, social, and behavioral factors in your life can affect your body. Holistic Medicine also works in a preventative way. Mind-body interventions include yoga, relaxation response therapy, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation,, tai chi, behavioral therapy, and prayer.
Does the mind control the body or does body control the mind?
Have you ever wondered why it seems as though those who WANT to get pregnant have a hard time conceiving and those who could care less have a houseful? The mind is a powerful thing and stress levels can cause adverse effects on our fertility. Also take into account “Pseudocyesis” better known as “False Pregnancies”. This is the belief that you are expecting when you are not really carrying a child. People with Pseudocyesis have many, if not all, symptoms of pregnancy — with the exception of an actual fetus. When a woman feels an intense desire to get pregnant, which may be because of infertility, repeat miscarriages, impending menopause, or a desire to get married, her body may produce some pregnancy signs (such as a swollen belly, enlarged breasts, and even the sensation of fetal movement). The woman’s brain then misinterprets those signals as pregnancy, and triggers the release of hormones (such as estrogen and prolactin) that lead to actual pregnancy symptoms. It has even been shown that men can develop false pregnancies when their significant other is expecting! Some men adopt back pain, nausea and other mild symptoms of pregnancy.
We say all of this to bring out how POWERFUL the mind is! The mind can be a healing tool, you just need to learn how to make it work in your favor in a positive way.
What about RAW diets for healing?
What if your doctor told you your blood pressure is too high so here take this medicine? In some cases it would be advantageous for one to do so. In MOST cases simply changing your diet and exercising can help greatly.
Are diets and exercise the only things we should be worried about in terms of our health and wellness?
A healthy diet and daily exercise are core components of an optimal health program. Other areas that should be attended to include appropriate stress management, getting adequate sleep, maintaining a strong social network of family and friends, and limiting exposure to environmental toxins, including cigarette smoke. Read More..
What are some of the least healthy or damaging habits Americans have?
The worst habit Americans have is eating too much highly processed, manufactured food (including fast food). People in this country are also too often sedentary and, as mentioned earlier, spend too much time on the Internet. Read More..
I hope you have a better understanding of Alternative Medicine/Holistic Medicine. The research is endless! So feel free to dive in and research for yourself. So people relax, eat clean, and lower your stress levels. Until next time!
“A patient can live without doctors but a doctor cannot live without a patient”
In today’s day and age, it is in the doctor’s best interest to do what is best to make the most money. According to B.M Hegde most of what doctors are doing is causing detrimental harm on the human race.
The “whole person healing” was probably the original concept of human medicine. Hippocrates said : Cure rarely, comfort mostly, console always.
He states when we go to the doctor for something as simple as fluid replacement what they do is counterproductive. Unfortunately, sometimes we survive in spite of the doctors.
Example: There was a study done on the comparison of greatly injured victims of the Vietnam War and victims of the Falkland War. In Vietnam thy set up a five-star hospital in Saigon, and the grievously hurt patients were in Saigon within 5-10 min. Even in the helicopter that took them there, there was a five-star hospital with top-notch technology.
Falklands did not have anything around them! They did not have a hospital, medical facilities, or helicopters around. Some of the wounded soldiers were left in the snow for as long as 24-48 hours (this was during Oct-Nov so the snow was not at record levels fortunately). After 24-48 hours they were then transported to the facilities some 16 hours back to England for treatment…..by vehicle.
With that being said retrospective data shows that the per capita death of seriously injured patients with all other parameters being equal was twice that in Vietnam as compared to Falklands where nature did a lot of healing. More died with the five-star hospitals than those who had no medical facilities? Let that sink in.
“If you think you are well at any given point in time you are well”. Now we all know about the sugar pill syndrome. Someone says “Oh I have THE worst headache”- you give them a sugar pill saying it’s Percocet and all of a sudden they are all better. “Wow that works fast!” If you work in the medical field you may be familiar with generic drugs and name brand drugs. According to the FDA the only difference between name brand and generic is that the paten was lifted. Most drugs only have a year’s paten on the drug. When a generic becomes available it is ‘supposed’ to be the same exact drug but it does not have rights to the actual name.
“The difference between a brand-name product and a generic one is designed to be transparent. Once the patent life expires on a brand-name drug product, it is eligible to be made into a “generic drug.” To do this, the generic drug manufacturer must ensure that the drug they are producing contains the same active ingredient(s) as the brand-name product, in the same dosage form, at the same dose or concentration, and for the same route of administration (for example, amoxicillin 500 milligram (oral) capsule). The drug may differ in color, shape, taste, inactive ingredients, preservatives and packaging, however. Because of these differences, the generic drug manufacturers are required to submit additional paperwork to the FDA to prove that their product is manufactured in accordance with good manufacturing practices (GMPs), and is as pure and stable as the brand-name product. Additionally, the generic needs to meet pharmacokinetic parameters in the body, which means it must dissolve (in a beaker) at the same rate and to the same extent as the original. This process ensures that the two products are bioequivalent because if product A and product B dissolve in a virtually identical manner, then they should behave the same in the body.”
The issue is people swear up and down that the generic just does not work only the name brand works. We cannot say for sure if this is true because we are not going through what their body is dealing with. It does make this lecture interesting because what if it’s all mental? What if we have been so conditioned into thinking that the molecular makeup of something is better for us just because it cost more and has a popular name attached to it? Let’s get back to the lecture
We need to preserve this feeling of wellness to make ourselves well. B.M Hedge speaks of a sham surgery that was done. For fun let’s call it the SPS “Sugar Pill Surgery”. The doctors only put a skin incision; they did not open the chest at all. They stitched them up and it had the same effect as CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery).
(Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a type of surgery that improves blood flow to the heart. Surgeons use CABG to treat people who have severe coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries.)
New England journal of Medicine Sep 1997 page 2213 , written by a professor of Cardiology called Harlan Krumholz in Yale, he states cardiac interventions are the ones that make the most money and get billions of dollars in cash, prestige, television interviews, status symbol for doctors, hospitals and manufacturers of the drugs and technology.
The mind can control how your body reacts to ailments. Remember the phrase “Stress will kill you”? Well it can. If a doctor were to tell you “You are going to die a couple of weeks, your life expectancy goes down. Some become so stressed from the news they can die sooner from heart attacks or stress alone.
So what can help us boost our immune system?
Immune Boosters
Fruits and Vegetables
Good Protein
Ayurveda
Exercise
Social Support
One of our partners Salahdeen Asad of Urban Kryptonite has some other immune boosters beneficial to us!!
Proper hydration (Drinking ½ your body in ounces of water or more depending on activity level)
Adding more fiber to the body
Staying away from harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco or any substances that has been extracted/concentrated from it’s natural state constituting it to be a drug. Especially vaccinations.
Most modern medicine has failed. The institute of Medicine reported in the United States of America said the causes of death are as follows
Heart Attack
Cancer
Hospitals and doctors
Adverse drug reaction from drugs the doctors prescribed
Strokes and other things ect ect
350k people die annually because of doctor intervention
We are not promoting zero doctor intervention. Doctors have saved lives! We are simply stating facts and encouraging research on most practices.
These are just a few things we gathered from Dr. Sebi’s lecture. We did not pull from the entire lecture just enough to wet your appetite! So please watch in it entirety!
Dr. Sebi prides himself on ‘knowing how to live’. He says the zoo keeper does not feed the gorilla the food of the polar bear so why do we eat other ethnic food not specific to our dna?
When you pursue money it cannot elongate your life! The only thing that can elongate your life is the gift of healing and eating the food GOD made.
When they removed us from Africa did they bring our food to us? NO. So how will the FDA know how to care for us?
Africans (we) lived for a very long time without money, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals. Now they are saying we need money to fight aids.
Dr. Sebi said ” If I had gone to school to be a scientist I would not have been able to cure aids because scientist do not cure aids. So why should we rely on schools to teach us how to save lives? *We believe in the progression of personal intellect, Dr. Sebi is simply saying that our Ancestors did not use modern day education for healing purposes although we do agree modern day education has saved lives!!*
Asking Dr. Sebi how do you cure aids is like asking a Gorilla how do you keep yourself healthy without hospitals and medicine? Nature feeds off nature.
Dr.Sebi went to multiple doctors to figure out why he was so sick and no one could tell him what was wrong. Feeling desperate he went to Mexico and they said he was dying because he is disobedient. They showed him a bible verse
to honor his mother and his father. He says well how am I supposed to honor them if I do not know what they are about? When a elephant is born he follows his mother and does as she does. The point? We have to educate ourselves on what our ancestors were eating to be able to do as they do and did to survive.
The bible says herbs are for the healing of the nations, but people of god go to the doctors for chemical injections to heal them. There are so many outlets for healing advice. http://www.dhealthstore.com/
Benefits of Alkaline based nutrients
Anything that has the PH of 7 plus is alkaline anything that has less is acid
Science has taught us in the past that if something is subjected to an environment long enough, it WILL adapt. Maybe not today or tomorrow but eventually it will become accustomed to it’s current situation. Let’s take our bodies for example, our bodies can hit something called a plateau (and forgive me if this is a horrible example), but it’s my daytime job to put things in laymen’s terms so forgive me I actually enjoy this *smile*. So! have you ever gone so hard in the gym and lost an amazing amount of weight? What happens the next month still going strong, maybe not as many pounds lost as the first month but it’s something. Well, the third month crawls around and you could have sworn the scale said 130 lbs last month also! Why are you still the same weight? This is because your body has become accustomed to the vigorous workout you have put it through. You are doing the same exact exercise, at the same pace. Your body is no longer affected. This is in a sense what has been happening with the three leading farms feeding our chicken, pork, and other meats human antibiotics. Antibiotics are meant for sick humans, and when we take this medicine the bacteria in our system should never see what’s coming and be quickly done away with. Instead they are multiplying! Our body can’t react to something it’s already used to! Our food has already been given and raised on mass amounts of what is supposed to help us in our time of need. If our bodies are already accustomed to these antibiotics and our bodies won’t budge then it causes death. The bacteria that is supposed to scatter has already figured out a way to fight these antibiotics before it even it our plates. It has had time to adjust during the lifetime of the livestock for generations.
So what’s my point?
Antibiotic resistance in the population is costing the health care system $20 billion and leading to 23,000 deaths annually. So who are the top three culprits?
Tyson
Pilgrim’s Pride
Perdue
With these companies being so big they’re all moving forward to an antibiotic free future. What other choice do you have when you’re in the limelight? So there is some good news. Unfortunately there are a mass amount of smaller companies that have no plans to stop feeding their livestock antibiotics for growth promotion.
*Note: Tyson is also putting resources toward researching alternatives to antibiotics*
Research has shown that probiotics, including the strains of bacteria found in yogurt, and antimicrobial plants like oregano can be highly effective in controlling salmonella and campylobacter infections in poultry.Read More
So while the problem is being semi fixed what can we do in the meantime to protect ourselves? We can support local markets and farms that produce humanly raised and untreated animals. I’ve came up with a list of farms in the local area. Some actually have open markets on some days. I’ve listed my favorites in blue. 🙂
Farmers Markets:farm@Petersburg Farmers Market, 7am–12 noon, Saturdays, May thru October, and 9am–noon Saturdays, November thru April.
Dolce Vita Farm, Kerry Giannotti, PO Box 43, Sutherland VA 23885. (804) 721-3256
::Another great store that I have mentioned before is Ellwood Thompson::
Deciding against the minimum standard of a 400 mile radius to be considered locally grown, they only use farms within a 100 mile radius. How awesome is that! Ellwood Thompson is located on Cary Street right in the heart of RVA! Here is a listing of their farms.
I would like to take this time to introduce our followers and supporters to Cochise Tarak-Saa and Salahdeen Asad of Urban Kryptonite. If you have heard of them awesome, if not you’re in for a treat! In a wondrous way the universe put us in alignment. From that we have decided to band together and raise awareness by having a public showing of Urban Kryptonite later this summer. Tickets will be sold for this event so please stay tuned and follow us @Riseuprva on IG to stay connected and up to date.
We chose to link up with Urban Kryptonite for several different reasons. One of those reasons being their passion with helping the black community. We share the same passion, to give the African American community a different lens to look through than what they have been given. This documentary examines the subject of health in OUR BLACK community, something that has not been done yet. Yes we see the Food, Inc and Forks over Knives documentaries, which are beneficial, but they do not hone in on our culture or ethnic group. Urban Kryptonite also brings out that learning what is best for our bodies through mainstream nutritional sources is and always has been a bad idea. Why? Our cellular makeup is completely different. The information we have been taught is not based on our biology.
African American men have far higher death rates from prostate cancer than any other racial or ethnic group.
African Americans with cancer have a shorter survival than whites in all stages of diagnoses.
Black people with diabetes experience kidney failure about four times more often than diabetic whites, making the death rate 40% higher than other races and cultures.
80% of all black people over the age of 45 have high blood pressure “The silent killer”. Black healers have holistic treatments and cures at black alternative and black holistic clinics.
-Dr. Afrika
Urban Kryptonite Overview
Urban Kryptonite – African Roots, Foreign Disease is a Dhealthstore.com production in conjunction with Cochise Tarak Saa and Style Connected, Inc. and is the single most important documentary on the health and diet of African-Americans and through a list of knowledgeable health luminaries that include Dr. Llaila O‘ Afrika, Doctah B. Sirius, Djehuty Ma’at-Ra, Abundance Child, Min. Enqi Sangreal, Kshamica Nimalasuriya, M.D., Nubia Sutton, Queen Vida, Dr. Ali Muhammad, Dr. Aris Latham, LaShana-Nicole, Keisha Harris, et. al. explains why African-Americans are gravely sick and lead in certain diseases that have become endemic to African-Americans (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer, high cholesterol, fibroid tumors, etc.) and also some common sense measures they can take to heal themselves naturally.
Did you know Richmond Va is the hub for great restaurants and amazing food festivals? Here is a listing of some healthy choices while eating out. One of the restaurants on the list is my favorite “The Daily” – if you have not been I highly recommend them! Via Visitrichmondva.com, many locally-owned and operated restaurants call the Richmond Region home. These green restaurants use local produce, provide customers with healthier choices and boost the local economy as well. And with many of these restaurants receiving national recognition for their culinary expertise and delicious dishes, there’s no doubt that green tastes good! Taste for yourself at any of the Virginia Green certified restaurants listed below.
Today’s post is all about “You can’t do better until you know better”. That being said, I’m not perfect and we all have things to work on. I just want to let you know there are options….so I’ll get to it….
When people say “I don’t eat pork or beef” most are not just saying it to be ‘fake aware’ or to get cookie points for being cognizant of the issues at hand. It’s not to nag just for the sake of it.
One day I was searching the internet and came across a Peta video. What I saw might as well have been the animal version of a Dangerous Drug Cartel. Either these workers in the “Farms” were plucking tails off pigs like shrimp shells, slicing LIVE cows throats in an effort to drain them upside down, or they were cutting the beaks off LIVE chickens in an assembly line, which by the way are full of nerves. Whatever happened to just cutting the chickens head off and getting it over with quickly? That was not even the end of it. The conditions the animals were kept in appalled me. The chickens were growing so fast they never learned to walk, so they just sat there, day after day never moving. Now again I’m not perfect, I’m just trying to promote some type of balance. We all do unhealthy things, but how often and how much? Where are we buying our meat from? Are we making sure our meat is free roaming, wild caught, or free of steroids? Let’s think about this, have you ever seen a KFC, Bojangles, Chick Fil A, or any major chicken chain’s drive through line without a car in it? No. Not unless they are closed. Think about amount of chicken that comes in one meal and how many meals they sell in an hour. OK, now times that by the amount of hours they are open…..Got it? OK now times that by the amount of days they are open, you see where I’m going? This can go on adding weeks months and finally coming up to a year. Do you know how many chickens it takes to make that amount of food? Georgia ALONE processes over 26 million pounds of chicken a day! That’s equivalent to 1,625 male elephants each weighing 8 tons!! Now only 100,000 workers are inspecting these chickens and the job’s are declining. People that went to school to get their associates degree can’t find a job in the meat inspection dept. Yes there is an associates degree for meat science, there are people who have a passion for making sure fresh meat is the #1 priority. With so few workers. do you think they have enough time to properly inspect each one? The way a local butcher or farm could properly inspect his smaller amount? Many have filed work complaints against Tyson due to ‘toxic’ working conditions. Other states have complained about the shortages of inspectors, some complaining that some meats may not have been inspected prior to hitting shelves. See news article -> (http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article1615736.html).
Perdue and Tyson are worth researching. Trust me. Now that we know that little piece let’s go back to these chicken chains and think deeply about how much chicken just one store sells in a day. Then we can look on an even larger scale and realize that that is just one of many chains, selling a countless amount of meat every second, every hour, every day. How many franchises are there in America again? “Let it sink in”. This is not an attack on these chains. I am just trying to put it in perspective for you to see how unreasonable it is to believe that all this meat is being properly inspected and to call for more inspectors.
Think about all the diseases we have. Think about how cancer is ransacking our homes. ‘Free roaming farms” are a thing of the past. Now… I’m not saying don’t eat meat. I tried going vegan and lasted for about 6 months, but I was vegetarian for 3 years. I’m still trying to figure out how to properly feed my body with protein without meat. When I’m out I try to supplement with Tofu or Salmon. Even when I cook at home I feel like I’ve been put in this jail because I have not educated myself enough to learn a mass amount of meals that are Pescetarian or Vegetarian. That’s my fault and I’m working on it. I also eat Wild Caught Salmon not farm raised. I say ALLLL of this to say, if you have to partake in meat simply research where you’re getting your meat from. Try to buy at local markets that have preset standards, and PLEASE cut back on indulging in fast food. It’s called fast for a reason, because that’s how FAST it probably goes through the factory to get to you. If you think by ANY chance I’m being unreasonable check out the Documentaries below. Also watch “Forks over Knives”.
My local store I trust is Ellwood Thompson and these are some of their standards. Please click on the link below to see all standards posted on not only meat but ALL products.
Irradiation is a process used to kill bacteria found in meat products. Not only does irradiation give treated meats unnatural flavor and texture, it can also be used to mask unsanitary conditions in slaughterhouses leaving behind risks of E. Coli and Salmonella contamination. These diseases and others can be spread through the feces and urine that irradiation hides. We won’t sell you meat products exposed to irradiation…ever.
No Factory-Farmed Meat Products
Just as we do not offer factory-farmed dairy products, we also do not offer factory-farmed meat products. We refuse to condone inhumane and cruel ways of animal raising practiced by companies who only focus on the bottom line of their ledger.
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Fun Facts:
Diets high in pork have been linked in population studies to higher risks of esophageal, thyroid, lung, pancreatic, liver, bladder, colorectal, and prostate cancer, as well as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Breast cancer risk has been found to increase with increasing consumption of pork in several population studies
But there’s hope for those who just ‘have’ to eat these things…
Freshly prepared chicken, other poultry, fish, lean beef, and pork are “safer” than processed meats. Processed means smoked, cured, and salted meats, such as hot dogs, sausages, salami, bologna, bratwurst, bacon, salt pork, cold cuts and lunch meat, ham, pastrami, pepperoni, smoked fish, corned beef, and jerky. It turns out that when processed, cancer-causing (carcinogenic) chemicals are created in meat. These chemicals, when eaten, increase colon cancer risk. Sourcehttp://coloncancer.about.com/od/nutritionanddiet/a/meatcolcan.htm
Please see 2014 story
Chicken plant workers say chemicals sprayed on carcasses making them sick
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