As you’ve heard me write about many times, I’m a big advocate for eating organic. The word organic encompasses many different practices for different types of foods. As a general rule of thumb, it means that no hormones, anti-biotics, or pesticides were used in the production of that food.

For live stock it means that they weren’t confined and fed a diet(corn) that wasn’t its natural diet. In the case of cattle, they roam freely and eat grass. Hence the commonly used term “grass fed beef”. Fish are caught wildly instead of raised in fish farm tanks. Chickens roam wildly eating worms and their natural diets instead of living in a case or overcrowded dark hen house walking on their own feces and trampling each other to death.

Recently I watched a documentary that has enforced my commitment to eating organically stronger than anything I could have expected. It’s a documentary called “Food Inc.”. In this movie they highlight so many cruel, un-sanitary, and downright ridiculous ways that everyday food is modified in order to increase profit, decrease price, and decrease nutritional value.

Our food has changed more in the last 50 years that it has in the previous 10,000. It is now cheaper to eat a bag of potato chips than a bag of carrots. A trend has been taking place in front of our very eyes where the poor are getting fatter, experiencing more disease than they did 50 years ago. The nutritional education we’ve received as kids and adults is a joke. The truth is that your everyday “conventionally” grown foods are poisoning you. The big food companies just like the big drug companies are doing everything they can to keep this information from getting out.

The US government has subsidized corn farming in the US to where its now they main ingredient in the majority of foods. It’s what we feed cattle, chickens, pigs, etc… Not what they were intended to consume. Anti-biotics and growth hormones are used so that a chicken can reach full maturity(larger than normal) for slaughter in 49 days instead of 90 days.

They actually show a side by side comparison of raising a chicken all the way through the slaughter process in both the conventional fashion and organic natural farming fashion. It’s pretty eye opening.

Check out the trailer for the movie:

I can’t do justice to the information shared with you in that documentary. All I want to say is that if you truly care about what you are putting in your body(and your families). Please watch this documentary. It will change your life.   Go to www.FoodIncMovie.com

Dedicated to your health,

Dennys Passeto, CPT
www.achieve-fitness.com

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