The Weston A. Price Foundation’s 50% Campaign encourages consumers to buy at least 50% of their food directly from farmers and artisan processors to build a local food system, create food security, and ensure farmers’ prosperity
Seventy percent of U.S. chickens are fed arsenic-containing feed, which can convert to inorganic arsenic in the meat, posing potential health risks to consumers. Soy isoflavones and antibiotics in industrial meat can also disrupt human health, with soy compounds acting like estrogen and antibiotics leading to resistance and gut flora disruption
A 2019 study found 92% of conventional corn samples contaminated with mycotoxins, which can cause serious health issues in humans, including cancer and heart problems
The drug ractopamine, used in pig farming to promote lean muscle growth, is banned in many countries due to safety concerns but is still widely used in the U.S.
Consuming supermarket meat, eggs, and dairy products daily can lead to a high load of toxins, especially in children, making it crucial to purchase these foods directly from local, conscientious farmers who use pasture feeding and non-medicated feed
Toxic Load From Meat, Eggs and Dairy Can Be Quite High
Since in America we tend to eat animal foods every day, the load of toxins from supermarket meat, eggs and dairy products can be very high and the effects profound, especially in growing children.
The solution? Purchase your meat, eggs and dairy products directly from a local farmer, one who practices pasture feeding and who uses non-medicated feed (preferably soy-free). In the process of protecting your family, you will also be supporting independent, conscientious farmers and a robust local economy.
- 1 PBS SoCal, October 9, 2013, FDA Finally Bans Most Arsenic in Chicken Feed — Oh, By the Way, There’s Arsenic in Your Chicken
- 2 Eat This, Not That! August 19, 2020, New USDA Ruling Allows for Chicken to Be Produced From Diseased Birds
- 3 Probio, Multiple Mycotoxins Detected in Corn Samples Collected From Five Continents (Archived)
- 4 Live Science, July 26, 2014, Banned in 160 Nations, Why is Ractopamine in U.S. Pork? (Op-Ed)
- 5 Wikipedia, Antibiotic use in livestock
- 6 afsca, Recent developments in antibiotics screening tests (Archived)
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