I regularly eat steak with butter, salt, and pepper. Green beans, asparagus, maybe some Brussels sprouts, all cooked and seasoned by me. That's probably five meals in the past month right there. Swap out the steak with chicken and the butter with nothing, there's another three or four. I make almost everything myself, and if I don't make it I personally vet the ingredients.
So a conservative estimate for the last month at this point is eight, and I've just described two mainstays for dinner. I also regularly make soups, always from scratch, except for the stock which I always buy as low ingredient as possible. If it has anything other than salt and meat in it, I don't want it.
For snacking, I've had mixed nuts, some tofu with unsweetened soy sauce, hard boiled eggs with salt, rice with meat and beans, oatmeal with agave syrup, or smoked fish on crackers, just to name some of my favorites. The crackers contain no corn. I just checked.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most factory farmed animals are fed a grain diet. This means they're probably fed lots of corn. The crap those animals eat affects their products (meat, fat, milk, and eggs). To get truly corn free animal products, you need to buy the ones that specifically say they're organic, naturally raised (free graze) and fed, without hormones or antibiotics.
The original tweet specifically says that an animal that ate corn doesn't count as "eating corn". If it does, we might as well just say that corn touched the same planet as our food and therefore everything we eat is corn, because there is essentially no material in or on this planet that hasn't interacted with corn, or any other plant, in some "six degrees of schizophrenia" way.
Except we know that diet (natural grazing versus grain/corn fed), lifestyle (natural grazing versus pens or lots, some where the animal sees no sunshine), injections (hormones and antibiotics), and the like can affect animal products. As to the rest, stop being hyperbolic. I'm simply pointing out that most of the factory farmed animals are fed grain/corn diets, which ends up as most of the packaged meat, milk, and eggs in our grocery stores.
However, there is some merit to how large factory farming affects the entire world. For example, it's now almost impossible to find wheat or flour which isn't contaminated with glyphosate. Officially it's used as an herbicide. Unofficially, farmers use it as a desiccant, to dry the crops out, so they can harvest it all at once. It's a laziness factor. Some crops are so heavily laden with it that it has to be tested so it doesn't ruin downstream products. One example is hops and beer. If hops have too much glyposate, it will kill off the yeast and prevent fermentation (meaning no beer). Anyway, glyphosate is so heavily used with wheat, that the spray ends up in neighboring farms (even ones that don't use chemical sprays). There are very very few places left that are producing glyphosate free wheat. It's not just wheat, corn, and hops either. They spray that shit on fucking everything. Some produce you can get most of it off with baking soda soaks, but many others you can't, and it's used in lots of processed foods you can't get it out of.
I don't doubt that corn-fed cows are less tasty than free range. In fact, I know they are, because I eat free range when available and it's much better. But the original argument was that everyone in America eats corn for every meal with virtually no exceptions. It's a bad, borderline psychotic argument and I was just pointing out why.
I'm as anti-factory farming as anyone else. I buy local when I can, free range when I can, and avoid globalist corps when I can. I'm not calling the guy a schizo because I love big ag. I'm calling him a schizo because he said some schizo shit.
Also, for what it's worth, I didn't downvote you. I don't know who did.
Organic can have chemical sprays too, but they're generally more controlled. However, to be safe, all produce should be soaked in baking soda for at least 15 minutes and washed off. It doesn't remove everything, as chemical sprays can leach deeper into the produce than what the baking soda can neutralize, but it can remove most of it. The safest bet will always be to grow your own produce.
Given that you're intentionally trying to throw off the conversation, it still led to a constructive outlet for information sharing. Thanks.
I regularly eat steak with butter, salt, and pepper. Green beans, asparagus, maybe some Brussels sprouts, all cooked and seasoned by me. That's probably five meals in the past month right there. Swap out the steak with chicken and the butter with nothing, there's another three or four. I make almost everything myself, and if I don't make it I personally vet the ingredients.
So a conservative estimate for the last month at this point is eight, and I've just described two mainstays for dinner. I also regularly make soups, always from scratch, except for the stock which I always buy as low ingredient as possible. If it has anything other than salt and meat in it, I don't want it.
For snacking, I've had mixed nuts, some tofu with unsweetened soy sauce, hard boiled eggs with salt, rice with meat and beans, oatmeal with agave syrup, or smoked fish on crackers, just to name some of my favorites. The crackers contain no corn. I just checked.
I hate to burst your bubble, but most factory farmed animals are fed a grain diet. This means they're probably fed lots of corn. The crap those animals eat affects their products (meat, fat, milk, and eggs). To get truly corn free animal products, you need to buy the ones that specifically say they're organic, naturally raised (free graze) and fed, without hormones or antibiotics.
The original tweet specifically says that an animal that ate corn doesn't count as "eating corn". If it does, we might as well just say that corn touched the same planet as our food and therefore everything we eat is corn, because there is essentially no material in or on this planet that hasn't interacted with corn, or any other plant, in some "six degrees of schizophrenia" way.
Except we know that diet (natural grazing versus grain/corn fed), lifestyle (natural grazing versus pens or lots, some where the animal sees no sunshine), injections (hormones and antibiotics), and the like can affect animal products. As to the rest, stop being hyperbolic. I'm simply pointing out that most of the factory farmed animals are fed grain/corn diets, which ends up as most of the packaged meat, milk, and eggs in our grocery stores.
However, there is some merit to how large factory farming affects the entire world. For example, it's now almost impossible to find wheat or flour which isn't contaminated with glyphosate. Officially it's used as an herbicide. Unofficially, farmers use it as a desiccant, to dry the crops out, so they can harvest it all at once. It's a laziness factor. Some crops are so heavily laden with it that it has to be tested so it doesn't ruin downstream products. One example is hops and beer. If hops have too much glyposate, it will kill off the yeast and prevent fermentation (meaning no beer). Anyway, glyphosate is so heavily used with wheat, that the spray ends up in neighboring farms (even ones that don't use chemical sprays). There are very very few places left that are producing glyphosate free wheat. It's not just wheat, corn, and hops either. They spray that shit on fucking everything. Some produce you can get most of it off with baking soda soaks, but many others you can't, and it's used in lots of processed foods you can't get it out of.
I don't doubt that corn-fed cows are less tasty than free range. In fact, I know they are, because I eat free range when available and it's much better. But the original argument was that everyone in America eats corn for every meal with virtually no exceptions. It's a bad, borderline psychotic argument and I was just pointing out why.
I'm as anti-factory farming as anyone else. I buy local when I can, free range when I can, and avoid globalist corps when I can. I'm not calling the guy a schizo because I love big ag. I'm calling him a schizo because he said some schizo shit.
Also, for what it's worth, I didn't downvote you. I don't know who did.
Try organic, it has more pesticides :)
Organic can have chemical sprays too, but they're generally more controlled. However, to be safe, all produce should be soaked in baking soda for at least 15 minutes and washed off. It doesn't remove everything, as chemical sprays can leach deeper into the produce than what the baking soda can neutralize, but it can remove most of it. The safest bet will always be to grow your own produce.
Given that you're intentionally trying to throw off the conversation, it still led to a constructive outlet for information sharing. Thanks.
Way, way, way more pesticides.
Want me to send you a list of the pesticides, FDA approved!
They are less efficient, more toxic too. Way more than the conventional ones. But I assume you don't care, since you are very antiscience.