Why
fast food is not fit for human consumption
NaturalNews)
While most people are aware that fast food is not the healthiest food around,
they often choose to ignore it in favor of the convenience, taste or cost.
However, fast food is far worse than most people are even remotely aware. In
fact it's so bad, that it's simply not fit for human or even animal
consumption. This is true not only because of the fat or sodium content, but
because the animals themselves are often sick from malnutrition, diseased,
cancer ridden or worse.
In
2002, author Eric Schlosser, a correspondent for the Atlantic Herald, came out
with a ground breaking book called Fast Food Nation which takes us
through a sordid maze of deception, cover up, lies, fraud and both animal and
human cruelty that has unfortunately become all too common in the meat packing
industry today. This was even turned into a 2006 movie release of the same
name.
The
fast food industry came out in strong protest against his book saying that they
don't agree with his conclusions. At the same time when asked if there were any
errors in the book, they said "no" that they could not find any
errors in the book at all.
Animal cruelty
With
the terrible and inhumane way in which the animals themselves are treated which
causes the meat to lose any of its health benefits, coupled with the
contamination of the meat itself during processing, you now have a situation
where this meat is not only providing very little nutrition or bio-energy, but
it can be quite dangerous and deadly.
"Every
day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a food borne disease, 900 are
hospitalized and 14 die. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention), more than a quarter of the American population suffers a
bout of food poisoning each year. Most of these cases are never reported to
authorities or properly diagnosed" - Fast Food Nation, page 195
How
science is used to deceive
The
meat and other foods sold at fast food restaurants bears little to no
resemblance to actual freshly cut meat. Food scientists employ a number of very
deceptive and clever techniques to fool the senses into thinking that such
foods are tasty and healthy. Science has discovered many chemicals that can
exactly emulate the smells of fresh foods found in nature.
For
example; Ethyl-2-methyl butyrate smells just like an apple. Adding
methyl-2-peridylketone makes something taste like popcorn. Ethyl-3-
hydroxybutanoate makes something taste like marshmallow. On and on these
combinations go and it can all be done without effecting the appearance or
nutritional value of the processed foods.
These ingredients can be listed as "natural flavors" on the labels,
even on foods that are listed as "organic."
What color is the food?
Aroma
is not the only tweaking that goes into fast foods. The color of food also has
a lot to do with its perception of flavor. This is by design because we know
that color often indicates whether a food is ripe or rancid. In the early 1970s
an experiment was done where people were given an "oddly tinted" meal
of steak and French fries that appeared normal under the colored lights they
were subjected to. Everyone thought that the food tasted fine that is until the
lighting was changed. As soon as people saw that the steak was actually blue
and the fries were green, people were shocked and several even became ill.
It's
for these reasons that you should avoid fast food at all costs.
Sources
for this article include:
Fast
Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
The
Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing,
Daniel Reid
Food
Enzymes for Health & Longevity, Dr.Edward Howell
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