Sunday, March 3, 2013

The USA has the cheapest, least nutritional food in the world. Is this what we want?

We are making an unhealthy nation with selling little kids on unhealthy products.  Cereal is a good example.  Cereals have vitamins added:

 I never really thought about it in much detail, as probably most people don’t. But it turns out that they’re—these vitamins are not coming from the foods that contain them. Like vitamin C does not come from an orange, and vitamin A does not come from a carrot. It’s very far from that. They come from things that really aren’t actually foods. Vitamin D, for instance, was probably the most shocking. It comes from sheep grease, so actually the grease that comes from sheep wool. You have giant barges and container ships that go from Australia and New Zealand over to China, where most of—a lot of our vitamins are produced. About 50 percent of global vitamin production comes from China inside these huge factories, very industrial processes. A lot of vitamins are actually chemical processes.


http://www.alternet.org/food/why-america-has-cheapest-most-addictive-and-most-nutritionally-inferior-food-world

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