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The Truth About Hamburgers
Becoming aware of the practices of the food industry is essential to learn how to make healthy choices for real food. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) raise the majority of animals that end up on the market for human consumption. To keep down their operating costs, a CAFO will purchase corn for feed their animals. Corn has a low cost because it has been subsidized by the government and is produced in massive amounts. Cows naturally eat grass; their digestive system was not designed to digest corn. E. coli is a problem for CAFOs because of the corn in the diet and the fact that the animals live in ankle deep feces. Meat processing plants have gotten larger which makes it hard to inspect and regulate them all. So many cows are processed at the same time so that one hamburger patty may contain meat from hundreds of cows. This is why E. coli is such a problem because one affected cow could mean thousands of pounds of infected meat. E. coli is a severe health problem for humans which could result in death. Surprisingly enough, even if a plant has several cases of E. coli infections, the FDA cannot close the plant down.
Many people are becoming concerned with food in their diets and want to change their diet to one that is healthy and natural. Finding meat from naturally raised animals can be challenging but with the help of REAL Food Blogs it can be done. Blogs that focus on real food and natural choices will give pointers and tips on how to find the ingredients and meats that are used in an organic or real food diet. When you take your first taste of a hamburger made from a naturally raised cow you will realize just how much the food industry has changed the animal.