Americans consume more potatoes than any other food behind dairy products and wheat flour. In 1960, the typical american ate 81 lbs of fresh potatoes and 4 lbs of frozen french fries in one year. Today, we eat 49 lbs of fresh potatoes and 30 lbs of frozen french fries per year. 90% of these …
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Jun
24
I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself: John Robbins
The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, John Robbins was groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps, but chose to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented to “…pursue the deeper American Dream…the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives …
Jun
21
Fast Food Facts
In 1970, Americans spent $6 billion on fast food. In 2001, we spent $110 billion. Americans spend more money on fast food than on higher education, new cars, personal computers, or computer software. We spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and music, combined. On any given day, about one-quarter …
Jun
17
Rules And Regulations
To address a question I received… How can the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) possibly allow crap-filled meat to enter the market? Well, the meat industry is regulated by the USDA (US Department of Agriculture), not the FDA. And unfortunately, the USDA is operating under a conflicted mission: to promote the sale of American beef …
Jun
12
Meat's Not Green
To most people, “going green” means recycling, switching to energy-efficient light bulbs, using cloth grocery bags, and carpooling. What most people don’t know is that eating vegetarian is just about the greenest thing you can do. The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook states that “refusing meat” is “the single most effective thing you can …
Jun
12
Meet Your Meat: Cows
This video pretty much sums it up – please watch it: The one thing the video leaves out is how we’ve even turned something as simple as feeding the cows into an act of abuse and cruelty. For more on what we feed our cows and how it makes them sick, see my posts Feeding …
Jun
10
What's Really In Your Hamburger
In the early 1900′s hamburgers had a reputation similar to hot dogs: tainted, unsafe to eat, food for the poor, sold only at carnivals (not in restaurants), made from old meat, laced with preservatives. In the 1920′s, White Castle, the nation’s first hamburger chain, worked extremely hard to reverse this image, even naming their chain …
Jun
09
Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?
A new ad campaign in DC’s metro trains informs the public about the nontheraputic use of antibiotics in our CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations). The ads say that 70% of human antibiotics are fed to livestock, promoting antibiotic-resistant bacterial mutations that can be dangerous to humans. Antibiotic-resistant infections cost the U.S. health care system at …
Jun
07
Home On The Range
Cowboys, ranchers, and farmers are American icons, symbols of freedom, independence, self-reliance, and hard work. But, the American rancher is a disappearing breed. In the past 20 years, over 500,000 ranchers sold off their livestock and quit the business. The remaining 800,000 are struggling to survive. The hard-working ranchers idealized in cowboy legends are likely …
Jun
03
Meet Your Meat: Chickens and Turkeys
Chickens and turkeys are by far the most abused animals on the planet. They are crammed into dark, windowless, overcrowded sheds with as many as 40,000 birds per shed. These sheds are filthy with excrement and reek of ammonia. A writer for The New Yorker visited a chicken shed and wrote, “I was almost knocked …
