HOW SAFE IS YOUR FOOD? -What Are We Doing to Our Food?

MAKING changes to our food is  not a new idea. In fact, for generations man has been skilled at altering foods. Careful breeding techniques have resulted  in many new variations of crops, cattle, and sheep.  Indeed, a representative of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated that "virtually every food you buy has been altered by traditional breeding." 

Note: Not sure I trust this technique, especially when the government has anything to do with it. The government wants to control us, so what is stopping them from poisoning us or using chemicals to make us all sick one way or another. They will do whatever it takes to do so. 

Breeding is not the only way to alter food.  The food industry has developed many procedures to treat and process food, whether to enhance its flavor or color or to standardize  and preserve it. People are accustomed to eating food that has been altered in one way or another.

But a growing number of consumers are alarmed at what is now being done to our food. Why? Some fear that modern techniques presently in use are compromising the safety of food. Is this alarm justified?  Let us examine three areas of concern. 

Next time: What Are We Doing To Our Food? -Hormones and Antibiotics

From the AWAKE! magazine, 2001