Healthy nutritional content is concerned with the fatty acid composition of foods. Meat is one of the big culprits. Grass fed beef and pork is a winner every time. The contrast between these and that from concentrated animal feeding operations is significant. Human consumption and impact on humans is the most significant.
Runoffs from animal wastes produced in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations poses a threat of pollution causing diseases, especially from E.Coli. The food that these animals are fed is despicable, including any type of waste products that are not wanted and are disposed of in this way. This includes unfit meats, their own wastes, and plastics which are fed to them to replace the fiber that is missing because of the lack of grass and such. In addition, they are given antibiotics and other things which are supposed to help them gain weight.
Antibiotics in the animal is another concern. Most of the antibiotic usage in the U. S. Is fed to animals to protect them from disease due to the atrocious conditions in which they live. These antibiotics cause mutation of microbes into ones that are resistant to the antibiotic. This causes there to be great numbers of microbes that are difficult or impossible to treat. These germs pass through the meat eaten by humans and causes them to also have the antibiotic resistant germs, making illnesses caused by them difficult to control.
The type of food that the factory/farm raised animals is a major issue as well. The foods contain arsenic in an attempt to increase the growth and improve the color of the meat. It is consumed in small amounts, but even in small amounts appears in the meat that is eaten. Even these small amounts exceed the 2 micrograms/kg/day daily that is the safety limit the World Health Organization considers safe.
Although pigs require food beside just grass, they do have natural diet needs. Since they eat other things, they are termed, not grass fed, but pastured. This means they are raised in an open pasture where they are free to roam and dig up things that are preferable to them naturally.
The amount and type of fat is an issue in pork as it is in beef. When allowed to pasture and eat as they wish, they naturally eat foods that are low in Omega-3 fats. When fed in concentrated feeding situations, they are fed mostly corn or soybean meal. These foods contain a lot of Omega-6. This makes their meat have high levels of Omega-6, which is not good for humans. Omega-6 is a inflammatory, and Omega-3 is an anti-inflammatory. The best ratio of 06:03 is 1:1 to 4:1.
The benefits to pastured pigs is evident from a couple of studies done. The pastured pigs have a lot more Omega-3's. Acorns, a natural food preferred by pastured pigs, is a high source of Omega-3 that barn-raised pigs don't get. The natural diet of these pigs gave them much more benefit than the foods chosen for commercial pigs or barn-raised ones that are raised to fatten them up.
A study of two groups of pigs that were fed different foods showed the benefit of pasture fed animals. One group had a food high in Omega-3, linseed oil, and another group of barn raised pigs were fed foods high in Omega-6. The ratio of 03:06 was 2:1 for ham from the group fed linseed oil and was 12:1 in the ham of those in the barn raised group. Obviously there is an advantage to feeding the pigs with the more natural high Omega-3 foods.
Runoffs from animal wastes produced in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations poses a threat of pollution causing diseases, especially from E.Coli. The food that these animals are fed is despicable, including any type of waste products that are not wanted and are disposed of in this way. This includes unfit meats, their own wastes, and plastics which are fed to them to replace the fiber that is missing because of the lack of grass and such. In addition, they are given antibiotics and other things which are supposed to help them gain weight.
Antibiotics in the animal is another concern. Most of the antibiotic usage in the U. S. Is fed to animals to protect them from disease due to the atrocious conditions in which they live. These antibiotics cause mutation of microbes into ones that are resistant to the antibiotic. This causes there to be great numbers of microbes that are difficult or impossible to treat. These germs pass through the meat eaten by humans and causes them to also have the antibiotic resistant germs, making illnesses caused by them difficult to control.
The type of food that the factory/farm raised animals is a major issue as well. The foods contain arsenic in an attempt to increase the growth and improve the color of the meat. It is consumed in small amounts, but even in small amounts appears in the meat that is eaten. Even these small amounts exceed the 2 micrograms/kg/day daily that is the safety limit the World Health Organization considers safe.
Although pigs require food beside just grass, they do have natural diet needs. Since they eat other things, they are termed, not grass fed, but pastured. This means they are raised in an open pasture where they are free to roam and dig up things that are preferable to them naturally.
The amount and type of fat is an issue in pork as it is in beef. When allowed to pasture and eat as they wish, they naturally eat foods that are low in Omega-3 fats. When fed in concentrated feeding situations, they are fed mostly corn or soybean meal. These foods contain a lot of Omega-6. This makes their meat have high levels of Omega-6, which is not good for humans. Omega-6 is a inflammatory, and Omega-3 is an anti-inflammatory. The best ratio of 06:03 is 1:1 to 4:1.
The benefits to pastured pigs is evident from a couple of studies done. The pastured pigs have a lot more Omega-3's. Acorns, a natural food preferred by pastured pigs, is a high source of Omega-3 that barn-raised pigs don't get. The natural diet of these pigs gave them much more benefit than the foods chosen for commercial pigs or barn-raised ones that are raised to fatten them up.
A study of two groups of pigs that were fed different foods showed the benefit of pasture fed animals. One group had a food high in Omega-3, linseed oil, and another group of barn raised pigs were fed foods high in Omega-6. The ratio of 03:06 was 2:1 for ham from the group fed linseed oil and was 12:1 in the ham of those in the barn raised group. Obviously there is an advantage to feeding the pigs with the more natural high Omega-3 foods.
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