The inherent corruption and fraud in the food industry were partially unveiled in December 2012 and January 2013 when authorities in Ireland 🇮🇪, UK 🇬🇧, and later throughout Europe 🇪🇺, uncovered a deep-seated fraud and crime syndicate in the beef industry.
Molecular (DNA) analysis of several ‘beef’ products in major retailers and restaurants identified, to the shocking disbelief of consumers, that they contained more than 33% equine (horse) DNA and/or more than 85% pork DNA. Meaning, most of these ‘beef’ products were but mislabelled and cheaper horse and pig meat being sold expensively as beef. Particularly, ‘beef’ in frozen lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese, made by French🇫🇷 manufacturer Comigel, was 100% horse meat.
Notably, horses are treated with drugs such as phenylbutazone, which is banned from human consumption due to their blood and bone marrow🦴 pathologies. Hence, eating horse meat exposes consumers to these risks. Moreover, there are a large Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe that do not eat pork. Hence, adding pork to beef secretly and feeding it to them was very unethical.
Other chemicals such as nitrates/nitrites, which are used to ‘cure’ pork by making it pink and tasty for bacon, ham, sausage, hotdogs, burgers, etc., were earlier reported to be carcinogenic. However, the food industry fought this finding tooth and nail, paying huge sums to lobby governments and influence alternative ‘scientific’ findings to suppress this truth and reverse a ban on these compounds in foods. Yet, the WHOs International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)🇺🇳 recently concluded that nitrates/nitrites are carcinogenic if exposed to them in the absence of antioxidants: as is the case with processed meat.
Nitrates/nitrites in processed food react in the gut to produce nitrosamines, which destroy cell membranes, proteins, lipids, and DNA, resulting in cancers. Thus, highly processed meat consumption has been associated with higher colonic cancers.
Equally, the fish industry is actively using higher pesticides at alarming rates and levels to treat increasingly resistant sea lice and other parasites while suppressing research showing the ecological and health impacts of these organophosphates. Specifically, these pesticides accumulate in the fish fats/oils, ending up on our plates and foods, predisposing consumers to several forms of cancers and health deformities.
Surely, these partly explain the increasing incidence of health maladies in humanity globally. Further, we cannot trust our health to food industries that are bent on profiteering and regulatory bodies that are easily compromised. The time to be nutritionally literate and self-educated about our health and diet is now.
A happy blessed Sabbath to all the saints of God
