Health, food industry & foodstuffs

[Rusco]

I met recently my cousin whose family are fulltime farmers. They have vast fields, all the accessory needed, four tractors and tens of cattle, cows and bulls. They've provided milk for food industry for ages.

Farmers are often anti-EU due to demands EU requires the farmers to expand production facilities, accessories, herd size and all that. It's a very complicated jungle to go through all those official articles... Often when I see my cousin (twice in a year) we sit down and have a chat about life and our works. They are interesting moments.

Well, last time they told they're worried about antibiotics that food industry feed to chickens. Not in here, but in some other places of the world (they said). When consumers digest broiler they eat the antibiotics too. So in future there's gonna be a massive problem about superviruses that are eager to take over the antibiotics.
Now ain't that something that should be disputed?

...Ok, I thought here we could discuss if there are something that worries us about health and food industry in general. Word is free.

Cheers

[Amandistan]

In America they do. If it's labeled organic, It be be maybe 10 percent Organic. 
Therefore we have little choice to eat chemicals unless we can grow our own food. Not all can.

[Bunny]

Personally. For the food industry, read tobacco industry from the 40's onwards. I understand that it is difficult to feed the world. However the mass production of processed foods, heavily sugared, is the reason the uk in particular has an obesity problem. Added to that, you can buy two pizza's for the price of say, two punnets of fruit....well what is a family on a budget going to do? Snack or feed? It isnt people the health professionals need to go for but the industry that feeds them shite.

Rant over 

[Rusco]

In America they do. If it's labeled organic, It be be maybe 10 percent Organic. 
Therefore we have little choice to eat chemicals unless we can grow our own food. Not all can.

I don't mean to blame consumers what they buy. If the firms can't quarantee sanitary at working conditions and instead stuff the chickens with drugs it's their fault. 

That's a shame for the food industry if they can't indemnify organic to be really organic. But thinking about a future, will it lead to that everywhere in the world, who knows. Hopefully not. Somehow it looks like that the origins of products are getting more and more confusing. Big companies like Monsanto confound the picture and profits about it.

[Pol]

Its a complicated issue, firstly there is a lot of needing to be feed ( 7 billion + apparently) and there is only so much land to grow crops and keep livestock . Farmers keep getting their profits squeezed by the supermarkets and so course were all demanding low as possible prices. Recent weather changes have made it a lot harder for some farmers as well. Of course we should be worried about the use of antibiotics in our food and the increased risk of super bugs.
Ps Alexander Fleming went to Kilmarnock academy same as me ( and no not at the same time cheeky swines lol)