Lesson 2: How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Lesson 2How Does Your Garden Grow?

• Meat and Milk Production

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How is Meat Produced?

• Corporate Controlled
• Huge Corporations Process about 80 of Meat in
  the U.S.
• Tyson
• Cargill
• Swift Co.
• National Beef Packing Co.
• Five Rivers
• Pilgrims Pride
• Butterball

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Use of Antibiotics in Meat Production

• Used to prevent infection in animals.
• Makes animals gain weight faster.
• In June 2010
• FDA urged meat producers to stop using
  antibiotics
• Public Health Issue
• May cause resistance to antibiotics in humans

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FDA Food and Drug Administration

• The U.S. organization responsible for regulating
  human and animal medications, tobacco, the food
  supply, medical devices, cosmetics and dietary
  supplements.

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Large Corporate or Factory Farms
Linked to Inhumane Treatment of Animals
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Food Poisoning Experiences
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Safety Issues With Meat Production

• Contaminated food causes
• 48 Million Illnesses
• 128,000 Hospitalizations
• 3,000 Deaths Annually
• Linked to unsanitary conditions in industrial
  food plants.
• E. coli bacteria is the most dangerous
• Found in ground meat

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Greeley, Colorado 2009

• 380,000 pounds of beef were recalled
• JBS Swift Beef Company

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Greeley, Colorado 2002

• Recalled 19 Million pounds of beef.
• Con-Agra
• Multi-state recall

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August 2011

• Cargill pulled 36 million pounds of ground
  turkey
• Caused salmonella
• Found in chicken, turkey and eggs
• Caused at least 1 death and 77 illnesses
• Largest recall in history
• This strain of salmonella is resistant to
  anti-biotics

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Mad Cow Disease(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
or BSE)

• Neurological disorder in cattle
• Results from feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal
  from infected animals
• In 2010, 184,500 cases of mad cow disease were
  reported
• Three cases were identified in the U.S.

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The Meatrix

• www.themeatrix.com

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How is Milk Produced?

• Produced by a handful of multi-billion-dollar
  companies.
• Many are European owned
• Mega-dairy farms
• Dean Foods owns 40 brands of dairy
• 10 billion dollars a year
• Own Silk and Horizon dairy in Colorado

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Dairy Farms Can Give Cows

• Artificial Hormones
• Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)
• GMO Artificial Hormone
• Artificially increases milk production by
  10-15.
• Antibiotics
• Highly concentrated feed

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Most Cows Raised on Factory Farms

• No grass
• May have 20,000 cattle on a farm
• Close quarters
• Life Expectancy is only 3-4 years
• Compared to 20 years raised in a pasture

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FOOD FACTS

• Dairy cow farms dropped from 648,000 in 1970 to
  75,000 in 2006.
• Total dairy cows fell from 12 million in 1970 to
  9.1 million in 2006.
• The average herd size rose from 19 cows in 1970
  to 120 cows in 2006.
• Milk production doubled from 9,751 in 1970 to
  19,951 in 2006.
• Average milk production per farm increased
  twelvefold.