Tag: CAFO

WHAT FARMED FISH CAN WE EAT WITH SAFETY?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | November 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

              THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL PART OF THE FARMED FISH STORY AQUA BOUNTY-(HUNTER) FARMS Recently, the prospect of genetically modified salmon that can grow six times faster than normal fish has heightened anxiety. Aqua Bounty Farms Inc., of Waltham, Mass., is seeking U.S. and Canadian approval to […]

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FARMED SALMON THEY’RE LIKE FLOATING PIG FARMS

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | November 13, 2012 | 2 Comments

  This is part two of a three part series where we explore the Farmed Fish Industry. Pesticides are fed to fish and toxic copper sulfate is used to keep the fish nets free of algal growth are building up on the sea floor as well. Antibiotics are used which have contributed to resistant strains […]

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Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | November 4, 2012 |

FARMED FISH THE NEW FEED LOT BEEF We all thought that farmed fish would be the answer to feeding a nation starved for more healthy foods didn’t we? Everyone has been saying to eat more healthy seafood and we listened-to the detriment of our oceans fish supply. The market response was to start farming fish […]

SHOULD WE DIE OF CANCER JUST TO HAVE PINK NITRITE MEAT?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 28, 2012 | 6 Comments

SHOULD WE DIE OF CANCER JUST TO HAVE PINK NITRITE MEAT? CURED MEATS AND NITRITE PRESERVATIVES If you walk into any grocery store, specialty boutique or even a place like Dean and Deluca’s you will encounter nitrite treated meats when you buy any red appearing deli meat, sausage or smoked product. It’s pretty much unavoidable […]

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IS ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE VARIANT CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

    IS ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE vCJD? In my last installment on the CAFO industry I cover the other two cannibal circuits that leave our meat industry wide open for a disaster. Also, we do have evidence that some forms of Alzheimer’s disease are indeed vCJD. However, we simply do not know the true prevalence of […]

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MAD COW MUST BE IN THE PIGS AS WELL AS THE CATTLE

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

BUT WAIT IT GETS MUCH WORSE I’ve been setting the stage in this series of articles to demonstrate how theoretically mad cow could indeed be flourishing in the USA’s beef industry. We’ve discussed the CAFO process and the role of the rendering industry. According to several Nobel Laureates (both experts in prion diseases) there are […]

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RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW DISEASE AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | October 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA There’s this little protein thingy called a PRION. …the “most intriguing, unsolved puzzle in modern biology” (Phillips, 1991). Why because they aren’t even alive by any stretch of the imagination. At least with a virus you can pretend-even though purified it’s a crystalline powder-it’s alive and […]

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BODYBUILDING CAFO COWS Are Fattened Up With Many Powerful Steroid Hormones.

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | September 23, 2012 | 12 Comments

STEER AFTER STEER-OIDS BODYBUILDING COWS part two of CAFO and Mad Cow: Big Meat’s Tale of Two Shitties This post  is an excerpt from my upcoming book it is a continuation of the feed lot journey picking up after feeding cows Neotame and cull candy. Industry does this because with such narrow profit margins a […]

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CAFO BEEF AND MAD COW. BIG MEAT’S TALE OF TWO SHITTIES

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | September 21, 2012 | 5 Comments

CAFO BEEF AND MAD COW. BIG MEAT’S TALE OF TWO SHITTIES This article is from my upcoming book titled InflaNATION: Industrial Diners and a Doc in the Box. One of my chapters reveals the appalling nature to which Big Meat will go in providing us with cheap beef while maintaining maximal profits. Because of this […]

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IRRADIATED MEAT? Duh?

Christopher Rasmussen MD, MS (aka "Reality Renegade") | September 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

I IRRADIATED MEAT? DUH? Big Meat’s response to the squalid, filthy, disease incubators that are the conditions of feedlots and slaughterhouses, combined with the impossible task of keeping shit out of your burger rich in gut flora superbugs, is to conspire with the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a big promoter of […]

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