Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 1/19/16


“The produce, meat and fish that’s on your plate may look wholesome and fresh,” according to CNN’s new documentary on the production of cereal, salad, fish and meat. “But here’s the truth: Those raw ingredients have been gassed, manipulated and mutated in an industrial process designed to push the limits.”

In CNNMoney’s new 35-minute investigative series “Raw Ingredients,” America’s food producers are queried about pushing “the limits of what [the U.S. food production system] can produce as dinner plates and stomachs grow. Instead of producing food, America is engineering and importing it. Farmers pump barren soil with chemicals, polluted fisheries remain outside the reach of U.S. regulators and meat producers help foment the next superbug.”

The producers allege the system causes illness and disease and strips America’s food of both nutrition and taste.

The CNN video claims that animal feed has a “secret formula,” and that “some elements to the mix are even unknown to the farmer” and that “America’s livestock are just corn conversion machines,” being fed “lots and lots” of corn.

CNN says that consuming 4 ounces of beef or lamb releases the same amount of greenhouse gas as driving more than 6 miles.
The environmental impact of the meat industry has declined considerably over the last four decades. For example, the beef industry has produced 13 percent more total beef from 30 percent fewer animals, using 19 percent less feed; 33 percent less land; 12 percent less water; and nine percent less fossil fuel energy with an overall carbon footprint reduction of 16 percent.

To watch the video, click here.

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