Heart Disease Is Not From Fat! What Creates Heart Disease

I do agree. Sadly the crap food is massively cheaper than the good food. Something I always found a little odd. Especially when a vast majority of people, here anyway, have very little money to spend on expensive but healthy foods.

I'd love to have my milk direct from a cow too but like most people in a city, that's a bit difficult, on a daily basis anyway.

I do agree with almost everything you said. I just think it's mostly irrelevant unless you either live in a more rural area or you have enough disposable income to pay for purely organic foods. I don't think most people can do that. (Again, I'm talking about here, so this may not be the case where you are).

Personally I try to do as you say but it does cost me a great deal. I buy my meat from a very nice farm shop out of town but the cost is huge compared to a local supermarket and the fact is, I am able to afford it and only just. Organic food is, for me, always more expensive than any other option.

It would be nice if they could switch that around a bit so the less well off could afford to eat healthily. They have to eat and if the only option available is crap, they'll still have to eat it.

Education is, I feel, the biggest issue. Most people either don't know or don't care what they eat.

Then of course you have unscrupulous suppliers and vendors. You did hear about the horse meat scandal here didn't you? That was a disgrace.

This interested me Sal. If the cow is already full of chemicals, antibiotics and GMO feed, what would the milk be like for consumption if it wasn't pasteurized?

I think I know, I'm just asking you as you appear to know.

Excellent points you made though, I'm just by and large against the fact that the healthy food section seems to be a very well run and profitable business over here. Is it that way in the States or is healthier food more widely available and more importantly, affordable?

The other thing is the portions and lack of portion control by parents. Mom or Dad
giving their 5 year old a 16 or 20 ounce can of Ice Tea - the kind that has a ton of corn syrup added...

Pasteurization is still required for things like the on the shelf organic juices.
A few years back some people died because they got something (salmonella maybe?)
from the unpasteurized stuff. I was in a Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers store tonight
and read a label on an organic juice. It boasted that they used something like a cold pasteurization process.

Dan

Thanks Sal,

Definitely an education thing and to a great degree, in the case of suppliers, they need to check too. It worries me so many people simply don't care, so long as they can afford it. That's fine but it's not fine if they've kids to feed

I read in the article linked to here that in the US, if a product has under 0.5% transfat, that can be put down as 0%.

Over here they put horse in food and said it was beef or lamb etc! I still can't believe they got away with that and big supermarkets were selling it (It was limited to pre made nonsense so I don't think I ate any and to be honest, it was probably healthier than the cow and lamb we have on offer anyway)

In reality I think living a less affluent life and saving our bodies, like you do, is the answer and the more I look at bought food, the more I want to grow my own veg and go out into the country and hunt venison on the weekends.