There are 3 kinds of people in this world sheep, predators and watch dogs. In my family we don't have any sheep we don't want any predators and strive to be watch dogs protecting the flock.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Meatless Monday to help environment is a fraud
In the United States, 6 percent of all GHGs are emitted from agriculture. Of that, 3.4 percent of the total are from livestock agriculture while it is believed that roughly 1.4 percent come from beef production. Mitloehner has made the case that if Meatless Monday were to be mandated with all 314 million Americans, the reduction of GHGs would be only 0.2 percent. This is so insignificant in the big picture, and we all need to be armed with facts like this that we can repeat as often as necessary to set the record straight.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner UC-Davis
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Loos Tales airing March 13, 2015 Trent ask Gretchen Carlson please correct what you said wrong about hormones in food
Listen to Trent address the issue on this edition of Loos Tales
Kissing creates more hormones than chicken turkey pork and beef combined. DON"T KISS IF YOU DON'T WANT HORMONES
Hormones all around us
THERE is increasing concern, it seems, about the hormones in our meat and milk, but what about the hormones associated with kissing? Have we fully considered that risk?
The science is now there.
Researchers from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania have found that locking lips actually sparks an increase of hormones to the brain. Through a series of complex chemical processes, those involved in kissing were found to experience a combination of relaxation and excitement.
So, if, as some claim, hormones are not good for us in any way, shape or form, then perhaps for our own safety, kissing must not be allowed to happen.
Not surprisingly, most of the conversations I regularly get involved in as I travel around the country are about hormones in food. People think they want hormone-free everything, yet let us not forget that anything hormone free is not alive.
Misinformation and misunderstanding of the value of hormones to our everyday life have perpetuated the concern over hormones. Some of that has certainly been the result of activists and those attempting to remove technology and efficiency from the food production system. However, some also has been the result of misleading messages from a few in our own industry.
I recently received a note from a rancher in central Montana who was critical of me for publicly presenting the difference between natural and conventional beef. His point was that grass-fed, organic or natural beef are better because they don't have hormones.
The fact of the matter, though, is that a three-ounce serving of beef from an animal that has never been given estrogen-based hormones contains 1.39 nanograms (ng) of estrogen compared with 1.89 ng of estrogen in the same amount of conventionally produced beef from steers that have had two doses of estrogen-based hormones. The differences are basically insignificant.
The greater point for me is that hormone levels in beef and milk are actually considerably lower than some plant-based food sources, yet consumers don't seem at all concerned about that. Take, for example, a tablespoon of soybean oil, which contains 28,000 ng of estrogen. Four ounces of raw cabbage has 2,700 ng of estrogen, and four ounces of raw peas have 454 ng of estrogen.
So, I ask, how can we in animal agriculture continue to complain about the "misinformed" consumer when far too often, people within our own industry are guilty of supplying bad information? I would hope it is a matter of them simply being misinformed and that they are not knowingly putting the entire industry at risk for their personal financial gain.
While it is human nature to want to avoid chemicals and hormones and things we don't truly understand, it is also not wise to do so without the factual knowledge that there is any associated risk.
The researchers from Lafayette College have shown us yet another way hormones regularly improve our lives. That is straight from my lips to yours. Now, take it from your lips to consumers you encounter along the way each day.
Estrogen comparisons
It is important to recognize that many common foods naturally contain estrogen (or phytoestrogen in plants) at levels hundreds or thousands of times higher than the levels in dairy or beef products that come from animals given estrogen hormones.
In addition, estrogen levels in dairy and beef products from hormone-treated animals are essentially the same as products from untreated animals.
The following are some such comparisons:
* 4 ounces of beef from steer given hormones: 1.6 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from untreated steer: 1.2 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from non-pregnant heifer: 1.5 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw cabbage: 2,700 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw peas: 454 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of soybean oil: 168,000 ng of estrogen
* 3.5 ounces of soy protein concentrate: 102,000 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from cow given recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST): 11 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from non-rbST-treated cow: 11 ng of estrogen
Hormones levels in food, hormones are essential but get the facts
Estrogen comparisons
It is important to recognize that many common foods naturally contain estrogen (or phytoestrogen in plants) at levels hundreds or thousands of times higher than the levels in dairy or beef products that come from animals given estrogen hormones.
In addition, estrogen levels in dairy and beef products from hormone-treated animals are essentially the same as products from untreated animals.
The following are some such comparisons:
* 4 ounces of beef from steer given hormones: 1.6 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from untreated steer: 1.2 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of beef from non-pregnant heifer: 1.5 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw cabbage: 2,700 ng of estrogen
* 4 ounces of raw peas: 454 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of soybean oil: 168,000 ng of estrogen
* 3.5 ounces of soy protein concentrate: 102,000 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from cow given recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST): 11 ng of estrogen
* 3 ounces of milk from non-rbST-treated cow: 11 ng of estrogen
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Truth In Food Kevin Murphy nails it on the real Chipot-lies
| Chipot-lies. How the Recent Pork Stoppage Reveals Your Justified Burrito is a Hoax. |  |  |
| Written by Kevin Murphy Last month, the Associated Press published a story about Chipotle, a $4 billion restaurant chain with 1,783 locations halting the sale of pork to one-third of its restaurants due to a "supplier" (aka a farmer), being found raising pigs without providing them access to the outdoors or to deeply bedded barns, a violation of Chipotle's Food With Integrity standards. link to whole story |
Monday, March 02, 2015
De Blasio: St. Pat's Parade still not gay enough for me
Mayor de Blasio said he won't agree to march in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade unless it makes additional changes to welcome gay groups.
The parade, which de Blasio boycotted last year, agreed for the first time this year to let one openly gay group, NBC's LGBT employee contingent, participate in the march.
De Blasio called the parade's policy change "obviously a pretty narrow concession, and I think we'd like to see something that's more inclusive."
Trent's commentary
So let me get this straight. The parade is held up for over an hour because the Mayor is late then this is the best he had to say? Okay would all who give a equine fecal matter please now stand and be counted.
What a joke and people actually elected this buffoon?
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