As we move in to the spring and summer months I thought a few words were needed about CLA. What? You’ve not heard of this amazing fat? CLA, or Conjugated linoleic acid, is a type of fat created by the bacteria in the digestive track of ruminant animals. Research shows that it has significant anti-cancer properties and helps the body to lose weight and put on muscle. Yes you read that correctly! Our obsession with the low-fat diet has caused us to overlook this particular nutrient and challenges conventional medicine notions of fat as dangerous.
Now here comes the good part. Dr. Dhiman, a CLA researcher, has found cows who have grain as the predominant part of their diet (the kind whose beef and dairy you find in your grocery store) produce four times less CLA in their milk than cows eating their natural diet, rapidly growing green grass. This also translated to the meat as well.
Perhaps we can start turning the corner on associating red meat with cancer and other ills and see it as a nutrient dense power house. This is especially the case with Florida grass-fed beef, milk and butter. Living in Orlando we can take advantage of the year round sunlight for our health needs.
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CLA- The good fat
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Food Safety Bill and Florida Farm Foods
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009HR 875, a food safety bill, has been introduced in Congress, and while a true need exists, this bill has real potential to limit your access to Florida farm foods. As many of you are aware we have had a slew of food borne illness outbreaks. This is all the consequence of our industrial food system. A food system that routinely keeps animals in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. A food system that in order to keep these animals alive uses 70% of all the antibiotics the US produces. We should not be surprised that these operations are the new breeding ground of mutating pathogens. So what is the response to all these unsafe practices?…Do they proposed to curb antibiotic use? Perhaps regulators what to change the living conditions of these animals? NO! The proposal is to institute far-reaching, potentially repressive laws that threaten your access to Florida farm foods. Lets take a deeper look:
Definitions in Section 1, Section 3 of HR 875
CATEGORY 1 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT- The term `category 1 food establishment’ means a food establishment (other than a seafood processing establishment) that slaughters, for the purpose of producing food, animals that are not subject to inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or poultry that are not subject to inspection under the Poultry Products Inspection Act. (This would include local Florida farmers slaughtering for their families &/or friends & neighbors &/or those doing so at Farmer’s markets, etc. What they really mean is “anyone not currently subject to inspection”….)
CATEGORY 3 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT- The term `category 3 food establishment’ means a food establishment (other than a category 1 or category 2 establishment) that processes cooked, pasteurized, or otherwise ready-to-eat seafood or other animal products, fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form, or other products that pose a risk of hazardous contamination. They don’t say “sells”…only “that processes…fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form…” Once again this would include those growing food for their own family’s consumption, food for consumption by their family &/or friends & neighbors, etc. as well as those selling at local farmer’s markets.)
Sec. 201 (a) (2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food meet their responsibility to prevent or minimize food safety hazards related to their products. (This is one of my favorites “…Persons?” Not companies, but “persons”…)
Raw milk, pastured eggs, local Florida beef, all these are in danger if our local small farmers are forced into this system. They essentially would be priced out of the market. I agree with greater oversight of the offenders and that is huge multinational big business. So regulate the offenders not my local Florida farmers. See the links below for more information:
http://www.ftcldf.org/aa/aa-14mar2009.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92002
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