Continued from "NATURAL" is the key ...
in the 1960's Intensive farming took off in a big way .... and since then our farm animals have been given Antibiotics in huge quantities and are often kept in overcrowded conditions.
It is NOW becoming common practice to supplement the feed of Cattle with Poultry Litter containing Poultry manure !!! .... Poultry are often kept in unhygienic cramped conditions and are dosed with Antibiotics much more than any other farm animal !
I believe this will rapidly affect Humans ...
in addition to this Poultry in particular, but also other farm animals are often fed / injected with Hormones which I would strogly allege is a possible contributing source of Cancer in Humans, in particular Estrogen based such as Breast Cancer !
We in the West have in my opinion now LOW standards in our food production ... in other places such as China and Indonesia where more and more of our food is coming from , the standards in my opinion are quite alarming !!!
I DO believe that ALL food if fed / grown in a NATURAL ORGANIC way and consumed in moderation is in fact safe.
HOWEVER I also believe that POLLUTION of our air, our waterways and our Oceans are ALL major contributing factors of Cancer ... the insecticides ... fertilizers ... and chemicals which all find their way into our and our farm animals water supply !!!
Also the amount of Mercury still going into our Oceans !!! and the amount of raw Sewage is Astronomical !!! ... The USA REFUSAL of KYOTO !

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I am a UK citizen; my family were 3 generations of Master Cornmillers supplying and compounding farm animal feed.
I STRONGLY believe MUCH of the causes are actually directly related to which ingredients are fed to farm animals of ALL types ! I recall vividly a conversation with my Grandfather in the late 1950's as to WHY we did NOT add cheap Bone Meal to our Dairy and Beef Cattle feeds, as most of our competitors were ? ... and also WHY we used the BEST Barley and Molasses etc ? .... he answered me rather abruptly ! explaining that:
" Your Great Grandfather built this business up from nothing .... and he did it by producing BETTER products than the competitors
by using the best NATURAL ingredients that money can buy ... and we continue to expand our customer base as word gets around about better Milk Yields and better Growth rates ... I would burn the place down before resorting to adding Bone Meal and other such rubbish in ANY of our foods or those already made by our suppliers ... it is UN-NATURAL to add bone meal / offal / poultry manure / litter and in my opinion down right dangerous!
You mark my words it is an accident wating to happen ... and we will take NO part in it as long as I live ! ..... since that day there has been Scrapie in Sheep ... allegedly caused by feeding bone meal / offal ! then Mad Cow's Disease allegedly caused by the same ! .. AND spreading to HUMANS despite Government assurances that it could NOT !...
so named it CJD ! "NATURAL" is the key

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This is an amazing Thank You message to someone who survived stomach cancer!

http://www.thanksto.com/messageView.php?msgId=858262555df8c70d5fffedc647438ead

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All these supposedly effective diets for preventing sickness are a load of codswallop. I am a very fit eighty-two years old and all my life I have eaten and drunk many of those foods that are supposed to be "bad" for you. Sure, I would not demean myself by visiting a junk fast-food joint and have always had a regular routine including four spaced varied meals daily, but those meals have included alcohol (chiefly red wine), lots of sugar, fatty foods, fish of all sorts and plenty of well-cooked red meat I have always been too busy at interesting exciting work as a teacher to have time to be ill, exactly one half-day off in sixty years. My advice would be simply keep pleasantly busy without imposing too much strain upon yourself and eat what you enjoy eating.

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I'm a vegetarian that recently gave up soda, but I love french fries! And white sugar, which is just so toxic for you. Luckily taking raw, unprocessed honey has balanced my blood sugar so I don't crave white sugar like I used to. The dark toast thing is scary though! --Kent

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I like what James K. has to say, we really should do more of our own homework, still, the table is looking more and more bare, this is s great cause of concern.

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oh my god i didn´t know that baked food may cause cancer, why????

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To the comment above:
- china has no pollution law to this day!!!
Have you noticed where more and more of your frozen organic veggies come from???
I'm not buying any of those!

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I am vegan so I don't eat any animal-derived foods. I like the vegan lifestyle. I never miss meat, dairy, etc.

But I do miss being able to swim in clean water and breathe clean air.

I wonder why we don't hear more about how much pollution is caused by factory farming. Add to that the waste of our natural resources just by growing food for overbred animals.

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I've never heard of baked goods causing cancer before. That's interesting, but I probably won't stop baking muffins. I've already eliminated a lot of bad stuff from my diet (and my cooking equipment too), so I guess we have to pick our battles. I'll choose to let that one go.

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