Men with Breasts? 5 year olds menstruating? Fast Food Nation Book

[tonyee]

Gotta read this book and watch what you eat!! They interviewed people that work in these big US Chicken farms (where they give them hormones and antibiotics galore) n men developed hooters and their daughters who were around the farms all day started menstruating at 5 or 6!! Aack! Careful with eating too much non organic chicken!! GROSS and scary!! problem is organic chicken is expensive..I have been hitting local farmers markets n buying direct from farmers.

The level of growth hormones given to American meat is not present in british farming.

Admittedly, if I lived in America, I would be a lot more choosy about the meat I buy, but as it is I do trust the British farming industry and I buy RSPCA approved meats.

Yes, I think Soil association holds the reins pretty tightly too. But when I cook some chicken and bacon here and the pan ends up full of water you gotta wonder no???!!!

that's because the meat, once dead, is injected or soaked with water to make it bulkier, so they can sell it at a higher weight than otherwise. here

but that's all it is - water. Not strictly ethical to trick the buyers like that - but not physically harmful either.

I'm really concerned about this.

Shona, that's HORRIBLE

I am seriously thinking about switching to organic milk.

no riven - can you give us the gist?

my sister did a half day in a chicken factory once..only time she ever walked off a job (actually she fainted.)

As it says in the film FOOD inc the best we can do is vote with our forks (and milk glasses!). If everyone bought organic/local it would get cheaper and this trajectory towards food lots may slow down. I always buy organic milk, at least for my kids. I could use bigger boobs.

Same here coldtits.

I read several of those Fast Food Nation type books a few years ago and felt a bit complacent in a couldn't-happen-here sort of way due to EU regulations re: hormones, not having the feed-lot style of cattle farming.

So this was a bit of a wake-up. What the US does we always seem to follow eventually

For the sake of a few pence on a litre of milk.

i have to say i reckon factories in general were very much a matter of who ran them nice boss = nice workplace, areshole boss = crap workplace..

i have never worked anywhere where you couldn't go for a wee at any time, though in many it was discouraged, as you had to stop the line (obviously) thus leaving everyone else standing around waiting...

poor pay is about standard, as again there is little shortage of people who can perform boring repetitive tasks.....

verbal harrassment is entirely down to the people in the place.although most factories, there isn't much talkng over the din of machines & radio......

that said, the job in a meat factory is pretty awful, and i deffo wouldn't want to do it.

When I was in the US, the milk cartons had "no artifical growth hormone" plastered all over the front...God knows what was in them before. It also worried me that the use by date was months away and itw as supposedly "fresh" milk.

I was glad to get back to UK and my organice delivery service!

I agree that whatever happens in the US in agriculture and lots of other instances eventually occurs here.

This book is mindblowing.

When I saw the bbc article headlines I thought it would be about even more brutal practices that happen in meat packing plants in the US.