If conscious eating – knowing where your food comes from and how it’s both raised and killed or harvested – is the key to ethical eating, meat labels are the new battleground for your mind and dollars! This post from the blog of author Tim Ferriss gives a fantastic overview of the terms used these days for labeling meat. “This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat will be ... Continue Reading
The Dangers Behind the Big Food Complex
Are you exposing yourself to hidden risks and dangers with your processed food? This post from Salon.com highlights five alarming facts Big Food is hiding from you. From mercury in tuna and wood pulp in parmesan cheese to ground beef treated with ammonia to retard E. coli (“pink slime”), the press does a good job exposing the dangerous and deceptive practices of Big Food. The ... Continue Reading
Processed Meat Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
This article discusses that a person's risk of premature death increases with the amount of processed meat eaten. In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer. One of the difficulties in measuring the effect of eating ... Continue Reading