The Unappetizing Truth About Food Safety
Complete video at: fora.tv Joel Salatin imagines an ideal environment for breeding pathogens and disease, a depiction that shockingly describes most modern industrial agricultural facilities. Stressing the backwardness of regulations, Salatin mockingly explains, “But it’s OK if we zap it with some radiation a thousand miles away out here at the food processing plant. That’s food safety.” —- Joel Salatin has been featured in Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and in the films Fresh and Food Inc. He is also the author of six books including Family Friendly Farming, Salad Bar Beef, and his latest, Everything I Want To Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front. He is a full-time farmer of the highly successful Polyface Farms, and winner of the Heinz International Award for Environmental Leadership.
@demon001 I agree there are too many people in this world. You want to tell religious people to start using proper birth control and that abstinence only education leaves young adults with no knowledge of proper contraception after the programs fail utterly? You want to tell the fundamentalists that abortions are okay? That is what it would take. I do not believe that organic farming is better either. It’s a myth. Just a popular one like Jesus or Santa Claus.
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@MariMayhem
maybe they are too many people in the world. The resources of the earth are finite but human beings dont ever consider maybe slowing down the rate of reproduction. As long as we keep up the current rate of reproduction we should probably shut up about modern farming methods. the old way of farming is great if done properly. the problem isnt less food, its more people.
It made me laugh to see a Pizza 73 ad right by this video.
I’m glad I don’t eat meat, but I think this guy would make a good preacher
People that tend to speak against modern agricultural tend to also be anti-government and anti-capitalist. People used to grow everything organic, but it produced less food, took more land, and was more likely to become a breeding ground for germs that thrive in animal feces. People have this idealized view of the past that blinds them from the simple truths in front of them. The old way of farming sucked and made people go hungry. Common sense tells you that.
@lionelubc if farming was so dangerous as this man says, then farmers would go broke quickly. I think the immune system of many animals is good enough to fend off some things from happening, but humans don’t know what a shitty life it is for the animals, even if they survive.
You wouldn’t spray things down if you wanted pathogens.
Rearrange some letters in his name and you got yourself Joe Stalin.
@yuriythebest - It will eventally effect you. The nasty shit from factory or other farms that overuse corn, hormones, antibiotics and excess shit that doesnt get properly composted overflows and runs into fields that grow plant food products. It also overflows into water supplies that are used to water plant food products. Or it runs into the water supplies used for drinking or recreation. Some of that shit also contains toxic metals. One way or the other its going to affect all of us.
lol @ government “regulation”. More like indirect monopoly enforcement.
Well, fuck.
I worked on the largest dairy farm in Canada and there is a great diversity between species. Cows which become sick are removed and put in a hospital pen so that they can recover and this interups transmission to other livestock. In addition their diets contain more nutrients and are better rounded than if they had been allowed to graze.
This dude is a bit excentric.
“science based”?
What this guy said would have made more sense if he replaced the word “science” with “business” based agriculture. Technology was developed to harbor what was described by the malevolent hand of business. Don’t blame science, blame those who wield unethical technology for the purpose of monetary profit.
World commodities prices are starting to skyrocket?
Quick! Complain about “science” and make producing food more expensive!
aahh…. hmmm…. well, shit. =/
@ThefamousZozo Fucking moron.
can’t Monsanto be in charge of all the food on the planet already?
let’s just get this over with.
CAFO?
@yuriythebest Listen again, what is it he is really talking about?
@ThefamousZozo OMFG HILARIOUS
ahh he’s talking about livestock-doesn’t affect me cause I’m a vegeterian but some of the same stuff applies to plants also.
Rule 1: If corporation could make money by flooding the market with cancer inducing products, they would.
Rule 2: If government is allowed to regulate the economy, it will be bought by the same corporations to prevent money loss.
Rule 3:Corporations are bad. Evil. Malevolent. But they work. They generate wealth, food and happiness in a can.
So shut the F up about trickledown economics, hippy environmental BS and worldwide communist schemes and have, for once, an honest discussion.
Do you really think?….. uh man why im talking to you …. go die in hell