Comments on: The American Food Supply: Full Of Rat Excrement, Maggots And Insect Heads

By: natalie

natalie — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:24:33 +0000

I understand your argument but to say that in the past we could eat with no problems is a big stretch. The problems were always there, at least now we know about it. I’m more concerned about the mercury than anything.

By: You're an idiot.

You're an idiot. — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:41:10 +0000

You do realize that this ends up in all food, everywhere. Because bugs need to eat too. And it just so happens that a lot of them like the same foods that WE do. Stop trying to scare people, you’re just as bad as the news. Oh, and organic foods? Expect them to have more bug parts. Because pesticides are disallowed. Just stop. You fail at being provocative.

By: yunn

yunn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:05:49 +0000

y be a significant reason that more people are buying organic food? Even the ingredients in the American food supply that are supposedly “safe” have been found to be quite the opposite.

By: emergency food supply

emergency food supply — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:29 +0000

No wonder the organic health movement in America is gaining so much steam. If almost nobody knows about the super-secret food defect allowances like you say, then how could it possibly be a significant reason that more people are buying organic food? Even the ingredients in the American food supply that are supposedly “safe” have been found to be quite the opposite.

By: Gerry Turner

Gerry Turner — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:15 +0000

You were dead on about corn syrup though, that stuff will mess you up but good.

By: Gerry Turner

Gerry Turner — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:17 +0000

So why is the phrase “natural contaminants” in “scare quotes” throughout this incredibly “informative” article? Have rat excrement and bug parts been reclassified recently as synthetic adulterants?

People have been eating rat excrement and bugs for, well, pretty much the entire history of the human race, as have all of our predecessors, as have almost every species on the face of the planet. And you can be guaranteed that before the advent of pasteurization, sanitization and processing technologies, people were eating rat excrement at far greater quantities than 9 ppM.

Our entire biosphere depends upon excrement and death, and it is EVERYWHERE.

This is what an immune system is for, and if anything, we should be getting more bug parts and coliform bacteria into our bodies.

Eat what you want, preferably out of the ground rather than out of a box (keeping in mind that you’re going to be eating more bugs and excrement from whole foods than processed foods), practice some basic hygiene, and quit being such a bunch of nervous hypochondriacs.