javaguru
Banned
amywhere where the profit motive can collapse or severely damage a cohesive society. It didnt' use to be this way but food is quickly becoming an area where collectivist cultivation of will become a necessity. Our current food chain is irreperable, it serves merely to infect us. It offers no nutrition because the food companies have squeezed their margins so hard over the last several decades that they can literally grow "something" and call it food. Because people by and large no "nothing" about nutition they see some carbs and protein on teh package and think hey, that's all we need right? Carbs and protein are utterly positively useless without the micronutrients to assimilate them. It's the micronutrients that tell the body what to do with the macro nutrients. Without micronutrients you're just ingesting "matter". Your body will process this matter, at an energy cost to you, but return to you virtually nothing. If the meat industry didn't inject beef with vitamins and minerals, a massively inefficient way to deliver those nutrients, eating meat would be less than a zero sum gain. You would literally expend more energy digesting meat than you got back out of it.
How so? I can purchase grass fed and finished round steak from Eight O'Clock Ranch for $3.95 a pound which is cheaper than government subsidized feed lot beef, my grass fed beef is cheaper because when the government subsidizes something it only makes it more expensive.