The only meat I trust is wild caught red salmon canned in Alaska where wild is the only thing legal.  Farm raised fish is always contaminated and unsafe.  All scaleless fish and crustasions are not safe to eat as is pork regardless of how it is raised.  At 73, I enjoy perfect health largely because I have avoided unhealthy meat, contaminated water, non-food and junk food of all kinds for a great many years.  I can still dance super fast all evening, lift heavy weights at the gym and sprint like a jack rabbit without ill effects.  I was exposed to highly beneficial soil micro organisms while playing daily in the dirt and hunting/fishing in the woods as a child.  I now take them in fairly pricey capsule form and consider them to be crucial to my continued good health.  Dr. Rubin Jordan has much to say on this subject in his latest book.

This is what I asked "Alberts Organics": Dear Simcha,

    I was reading your "Meats & Poultry" page. The last sentence reads: "Our meat and poultry producers protect" and that's it! No next page, no rest of the sentence, nada, we just hang there wondering. Thought you might like to give the old web-master/mistress a gentle thump on the noggin and get that fixed.

  Next item: I was reading your meat & poultry info. to see if I could learn whether the "grass fed" on the label means 'we never, ever feed the cattle any grains whatsoever in their entire lives' or 'we feed them grass up until we fatten them with lots of grain, totally destroy their CLA so they weigh more and we make more money and then call it grass-fed because we are telling a partial truth because it is allowed by law to fudge in this manner'.

    With so many sources for your beef would you really know exactly how the ranchers are treating the cattle right up to the end of their lives? I hope to have you set my cynical little heart at ease. Looking forward to your response,

  I have had no response after 5 weeks of waiting. I just re-sent it in case the reply was sent to my SPAM folder. Makes you wonder.

It all comes down to the same repetative thing.  Eat as natural as you can, eat as low down the food chain as you can, do as much of the processing yourself as you can, and then relax and enjoy life as much as you can.  The last one being the most important of course.  Worry too is bad for your health so do your best and hand the rest over.

in Austrai where I live, the labelling laws are rubbish. Prepared meats sold unpackaged n supers and farm outlets are, nitrated, msg ed etc and are not labelled. The  sellers know not a thing about the contents. . Fresh meat is good, but as tough as old shoe leather, that is why one of the national dishes is meat boiled for a few hours! .Pasteurised milk is sold with Fresh, Bio etc splattered acroass the label.  A friends 14 year old son was  diagnosed with bladder cancer recently.. Nitrates in all meals and DONT supplement they are all told, so no vitamin C to neutralise the nitrosamines. When I told the mother, nitrates in his food three times a day, eally she was surprised..The father, a doctor, apparently also practices some alternative medicine. Obviously knows zilch about health. As For the poster who like the low ftat beef, they need a little more reading, if they want better health.

I have to add my .2c worth here. Meat may look red and good, but meat that is bad has a very noticable and rank smell. When hamburger begins to turn, it stinks, regardless of the color. Chicken is horrifically stinky, ass is any other meat that is going bad.  Has the entire population lost their olfactory nerves?

Go on smell~this is the best indicator.

I also do not buy any meat that is in the prewrapped (and shipped) packages (vacuum packed pork, beef, chicken) as this meat comes from one of those mega plants and has been sprayed with gas. I buy all my meat either from the meat counter (glass enclosure where the meat lies fresh) or from the in-store packaged meat area. I think it is important to know how your meat is packaged. I also only buy hormone-free and antibiotic-free meats. These meats are labeled "natural".

It is not that hard to find decent meat. Not everyone has access to fresh meat from a farm.

Lori

In addition to hormones used to increase milk production, there are six hormones approved for use in beef cattle. Two of these hormones, estradiol and zeranol, are likely to have negative human health effects, including cancer and impacts on child development, when their residues are present in meat. Concerns about these potential health impacts have left many scientists doubtful of the safety of hormone use in meat production.

It's getting so bad now, Fox news is covering up news stories, and does not want the public to know. See the link below for more info.

www.myonesource.com/.../Page1.html