Big Agriculture's Big Secrets: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat

 

'Many farmers and agricultural professionals are miffed that the days of "it's-none-of-your-business" farming are over. Once upon a time, consumers cared only about the price and wholesomeness of food and didn't worry about - or videotape - its origins and "disassembly." Now consumers increasingly want to know how an animal lived, died, and even what it ate in between. Some of the newly engaged consumers are motivated by health, wanting to avoid hormones in milk, antibiotics in beef, arsenic in chicken, and who knows what in seafood. But many are also motivated by humane concerns.

Here are some shocking facts that Big Food would like to mute with Ag-Gag and food defamation laws:' 


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