Organic Food The Way To Go

For those of us baby boomers or those who were born between 1955 and 1975, we were mostly raised on organic food types, that is, food that is grown naturally and without harmful pesticides. These include grains and farm grown vegetables such as corn, wheat, soy, beans, etc. Meat and meat products such as bovine, port and chicken, when bred organically as said to be free range and are not fed any hormones or antibiotics to promote growth or in the case of dairy or milk products, are not fed hormones or anti-biotics to increase milk or egg production. TAQW4K973HQP

I love ice cream and I love milk. I have never, ever been diagnosed as being lactose intolerant and this is not something that grows on you. Either you are lactose intolerant or you aren't lactose intolerant. About 10 years ago, I stopped drinking store purchased milk from such chains as Pathmark, Shop Rite and Keyfood, simply because I felt (but without supportive proof) that I was drinking milk that came from cows which were bred with anti-biotics and hormones. I would always feel bloated or simply get sick, so I stopped drinking milk and milk products.

I wasn't going to switch to soy milk because that prospect was not enticing to me. One of the main hormones that dairy cattle are fed to produce more milk is Bovine somatotropin. The http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm130360.htm states that drinking milk that has come from cows that have been injected with this hormone, in a word, will produce no ill or side effects from this consumption.

As I stated previously, I stopped drinking milk from some of the larger store chains, since I felt that their milk is not organic. I have since started shopping at an organic store and have been purchasing dairy and dairy products including milk, eggs and ice cream and I have not experienced the bloating and digestive distress that I had experienced when drinking non-organic milk.

This past weekend I began to shop at Trader Joes and Whole Foods for my meat products and the feeling that I have experienced after consuming their organic, grain and free range meat products is remarkable. Let me use some examples: I used to eat, every now and again, at Dallas BBQs around New York City. I stopped eating there because I started experiencing this bloated feeling. Further, when a chicken wing is larger than a chicken breast, thigh or drumstick, something is wrong. I personally believe that with balance, such as eating red meat once or twice a week or even going a week or so without it's consumption is not a bad thing. Balancing the diet with fish, a vegetable only meal or poultry and balancing each meal with a starch and vegetable, is sound eating.

One of the main reasons for not consuming beef, pork or chickens which have been treated with or fed hormones and anti-biotics is the bovine disease, Mad Cow Disease. The British government performed research and found that this disease is caused by feeding a normally herbivore animal, such as a cow, the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM). This means that by feeding bovine the remains of other bovine, you are making the recipient bovine creature a cannibal. These animals were kept in the food chain and some human consumption of these Mad Cow disease tainted bovine occurred and the human variation of mad cow disease occurred.

Some of what companies are doing and what the USDA do are to perform food inspection using large x-ray type machines which scan food for improprieties and obvious diseases. These machines are industrial and require a lot of energy and high voltage power supplies for food inspection devices.

These examples are what I have experienced and may differ from person to person but simply put, each person should be aware of and watch what they eat.