MIND WHAT YOU EAT!

 

 

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Book Description
Passionate, political, informed and engaging, Bitter Harvest is filled with cautionary facts and statistics that every consumer should know, such as: * nearly 80% of commercially processed chicken is infected with salmonella * in ten years, 95% of our groceries may be consumed within 20 minutes of getting them home * researchers believe that over a third of future cancers will be diet-related - roughly the same now attributable to smoking. Throughout, Cooper argues persuasively why we must begin to change everything from the way food is shipped to the basic components of our diets and offers a comprehensive analysis of the issue of sustainability. In Bitter Harvest, this knowledgeable chef emerges as a political voice to be reckoned with and her manifesto is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our food.

 

Synopsis
Offers analyses of recent controversies such as Europe's campaign against Frankenstein food and the genetic engineering of plants and animals in the United States. Throughout the author takes both a macro and micro approach, examining the effect politics, technology, war, international trade and agribusiness have had on the world's food supply, as well as the changing social patterns which have made a family meal at the table almost a relic of the past.

 


 THE DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT WHAT MOST PEOPLE EAT DAILY ARE HARD TO CONCEIVE 

           The sad truth is, what we buy everyday at our local shops to feed ourselves and our children more often than not, is labeled incorrectly, so the truth about what the common ingredients in food cannot be known by reading the label. Amazingly this is true of even the most basic things such as milk, bread, butter, peanut butter, honey, etc, etc.   

EXAMPLES:

  1. The process of making common honey

  2. For making chewing gum

  3. Peanut butter

  4. Margarine

  5. Cheese

  6. Cottage cheese

  7. Processed cheese

  8. Ice cream

  9. Skim milk

Eg.1

HONEY:

The process used in making honey commercially often involves filtration of nutrients,  heating/ removing more nutrients and adding poisonous chemicals such as: 

Eg.2

CHEWING GUM:

Contains OVER 30 ingredients which are not shown on the label, the FDA does not- require a list of ingredients, which are as follows:

Eg.3

PEANUT BUTTER:

Commercial peanut butter is de-germed (removing the peanut heart before processing to increase its shelf life), and is effectively turned into a colourful brown liquid synthetic chemical slime. Sweeteners such as white sugar, corn syrup, dextrose are added to hide mouldy, inferior and rancid peanuts in addition to hydrogenated oil (i.e. pig lard), emulsifiers and texturizers. The sum total of commercial processing including the use of bleached peanuts which dentures the peanuts and destroys nutrients renders the peanut butter a non-food hence a nutritional robbery and crime against the consumer.

Typical levels of ingredients:

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MARGARINE:

Highly hydrogenated substances are included in margarine. Hydrogenation oils, such as corn oil , soya oil and others that are added to margarine cause arterial deterioration (ie hardening of the arteries) and build-up of fat around the heart hence the high incidence of heart attacks. Furthermore, cotton seed oil, a non-food because of chemical contamination is also added to margarine as well as high amounts of lard and known poisons benegoates and  emulsifiers. The corn oils have to be hydrogenated in order to become solid at room temperature. Margarine is not unlike soap because it is a combination of water and oil combined by a chemical process.

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CHEESE:

Commercial cheeses are made by BLEACHING the cheese (so destroying oil soluble vitamins), DYES,  SORBIC ACID (mould inhibitor) and vitamins are usually added, and the TOXIC CHEMICAL found in the milk, such as PESTICIDE, and PENICILLIN in addition to the POISONS used in the cattle forage. SYNTHETIC VITAMINS deminerizes the bones. (See. The Cheese Book by V. Marquia and P. Haskel)

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COTTAGE CHEESE:

Cottage cheese contains SODIUM HYDOCHLORIDE (which is required to speed up the processing), DIACETYLS (butter flavour), hydrogen peroxide (bleach), COCHINEAL or ANNATTO (toxic dyes), SALT (indigestable), PLASTER OF PARIS cast (plastic hardener), POISON MOULD retarders plus the chemicals found in milk and cattle grass and feed. A Consumer Union study in 1964 revealed DIRT, RANCID, OVERACIDIC, MOULD, BACTERIA, YEAST, CONTAMINATION and poor flavours in cottage cheese.  The FDA recognizes the POISONS used but fails to do anything about them. Storage of cottage cheese in shops and supermarkets promotes BACTERIAL INFESTATIONS and SPOILAGE, which goes undetected by the consumer because of the DEODORIZERS used in the cheese.

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PROCESSED CHEESE: 

Processed cheeses are made by heating cheeses and pumping the slimy mass with air. This cheese is a mixture of low quality green (uncured) or cured cheese, moles, yeast, INFESTED BACTERIA, and RECYCLED cheese of whatever cheeses are around at processing time. These cheeses are ground up, mixed with POISONOUS EMULSIFIERS and other chemicals. They also contain the combined contaminants of milk, treated water, the cattle forage and feed, and processed chemicals. Strictly speaking, it is neither a cheese nor a food.

Eg.8

ICE CREAM: 

Ice cream is totally unsafe. It is made from cheese by-products, butter, butter oil, evaporated milk, condensed milk, all types of buttermilk, all types of skimmed milk, milk treated with SODIUM HYDROXIDE and DISODIUM PROSPHATE, PLASTIC CREAM, DRIED CREAM, cheap POISONOUS THINNERS, PROPYLINE (paint remover, antifreeze), IMITATION FLAVOURS (used as flea killers, embalming fluid, leather tanners), INDUSTRIAL FLAVOUR CHEMICALS(have caution and innocous poison on the labels),  POLYOXYTHYLENES (cancerous), SODIUM A CARBOXYMETHYL cellulose (a cancer inciter), refiners syrup (a cheap by-product with salty taste and off-flavour), gelatin (which increases germ growth) ANTIOXIDANTS, BUFFERS, NEUTRALIZERS, STABLIZERS and other countless dangerous chemicals. These dangerous chemicals have been exempted by the FDA. 

Because of acceptance by the FDA, the chemical content of ice cream does not have to be listed on the label.

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SKIM MILK:

Skim milk is stripped of vitamins D, E, K and denatured. It is a by-product that was once solely fed to hogs. Dry milk is usually dried at high temperatures which reduces or destroys the vitamin, decreases the fatty acids and makes minerals indigestible. The nutritional value of skim milk is altered by SYNTHETIC or fish oil-vitamin and contaminated by SALMONELLA. Canned evaporated milk contains non-nutritional corn syrup and / or white sugar, SYNTHETIC VITAMIN, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, and SODIUM CITRATE which are all dangerous to health.

Skim, dry, evaporated and imitation milk are unsafe for children, pregnant women and breastfeeding women, the poor and the elderly. HORMONES in milk have caused FEMINIZATION of males in studies. 

PETROLEUM wax in milk (and other waxed containers) has cancer causing hydrocarbons in them which the FDA acknowledges but allows their use.

It is known that in ancient Africa fig juice was used as a substitute for human milk. Figs are similar in chemical composition to human milk, It can double the size of an infant in six months. When combined with dates, figs were used to sustain the life of many desert African tribes. Dates were later used by the romans as food for training warriors and building muscles.

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