Can we trust the food we eat?

Do you really know what you are eating? Just because you purchased a food item, be it meat, vegetable or packaged product from your local supermarket, does not mean it is a healthy product to eat. Does it have any taste? When was it picked? How fresh is it? Is it a GM product; has it been crossed with a chemical gene, or maybe a fish or human gene? How many times has it been sprayed? Is it full of antibiotics? Maybe it has been zapped with radiation, to make it look fresh? What additives have been used during processing? Does it have any nourishment?
Why is it one in three people have or get cancer? Why? Is it because of what we eat, is it the air we breathe or the water we drink or is it modern day stress. The truth is that the medical fraternity do not know or will not say why one in three people get cancer. The answer could be anything - even your family genes.
People who smoke do have a choice whether they smoke or not. By smoking they are increasing their chances of getting cancer. But I know of people that have lung cancer, who have never smoked. We all know of people who have died at ninety odd, who have smoked all their lives and never been in hospital.
I have cancer or should I say I had cancer, cancer to the esophagus two years ago. I underwent Radium and Chemotherapy and a nine-hour operation. Why me? - I (or should I say we) don't know, maybe stress?
After the initial shock we knew we just had to get on with it. As far as my wife and I were concerned it was a matter of life and death. As to what we eat, we are now vegetarian, in other words we do not eat any animal or bird meats, but we do occasionally have a feed of fresh fish.
We are also into making homemade bread, wine and tomato relish, and pickling, preserving and freezing our food which allows us to have our own home grown organic food when they are out of season.
Most of us do not have a choice as to what we eat, drink or breathe. We are too busy trying to make a living, trying to put food on the table and a smile on the boss's face, and think that we do not have the time to grow our own food. You should find time to grow your own vegetables. Get your hands dirty working in the dirt, de-stress yourself, even if it's only growing a tomato plant or a couple of lettuces. I guarantee you, once you require the taste of real food, food that has not been forced fed with artificial fertilisers you will be digging up the back lawn. After all you can not eat the lawn.
With meats, beef cattle, pigs and meat chickens are given substantial amounts of antibiotics and hormones, either mixed with their food or by injection.
Antibiotics and hormones promote their growth and prevent diseases. Even fish and prawns from the local fish farm are given antibiotics, which dilutes in the water and is washed out to rivers or sea affecting fish and other sea creatures.
Battery hens are not fed hormones to promote growth, but are given antibiotics to prevent the diseases they are vulnerable to when confined in battery cages. Residues from the antibiotics can be found in the eggs.
You, the public should be concerned about your health and the health of your families. Be aware of what you are eating and what meat products may contain, be conscious of the use of antibiotics and hormones on farms and the recycling of unwanted animals body parts back into animal food.
When you get a cold, the flu or worse, and the antibiotics the doctor prescribes to you do not work, it may be because your body is all ready full of antibiotics. Is this why it takes so long to get rid of a cold or flu? The affects on older persons are more so than the young.
It is known that young females can develop breasts and menstruate prematurely because of consuming a lot of meat, mainly meat chickens which have been force fed with huge amounts of hormones to promote their growth in the shortest time possible.
If you are going to consume meat it would be much healthier for you to eat lamb as lambs are brought up on their mothers milk and then on pasture. There is very little 'done' to lambs other than having their tails docked and being drenched for worms.
We are what we eat and need to look after our bodies, if you don't have time to grow some of your own food at least try to buy fresh organic food, or find a friend or local gardener who has a back yard vegetable garden.
Buy fresh fruit and vegetables often as they loose they vitamins by the day, when buying processed food read the labels, there is a book available on codes.
People seem to buy the cheaper foods rather than buy food that is much healthier for them, why not get a few friends together and form a co-op and buy directly from a market, it's fresher and half the price you will pay over the counter.
Some won't even eat a tomato out of a backyard garden as it may have a grub in it. As long as it does not have a half a grub in it you don't have to worry!