How much have you read or heard of hormones in your food? or antibiotics in your food? how about genetically modified food? Most people have a passing acquaintance with these subjects. “Oh yeah! I heard something about that a while ago. What’s that all about?” I feel that real dangers exist. I am convinced that not enough research has been done and not enough is known about the effects of hormones in our food and genetically modified products. The jury is definitely in with regard to the dangers antibiotics pose.
Why don’t we hear about this danger? Why don’t we know that the FDA is NOT protecting our health? Why is the media so silent on the subject? There are quite a few possible answers: These stories don’t create enough of a splash to hold people’s attention. People don’t want to hear “bad” things about the food they eat. Big industry pays to avoid negative attention. The media in our country is increasingly owned and operated by fewer and fewer people- thus there’s a lack of diversity of opinion, less competition to get the scoop; fewer newspapers are employing fewer reporters. (So many newspapers are going out of business!) Fewer and fewer editors and news writers are generating the information you get. “They” are controlling what you hear, read and ultimately know.
What would you say about a TV station that chose to NOT present a story about a danger in our food supply? That chose NOT to act in the best interest of the public? That caved to pressure from some big players? What would you say about a major TV network pressuring their investigative reporters to air falsehoods to cover up some scary practices? The latter scenario actually happened in Tampa, Florida at a Fox TV station. The whole thing played out over the course of six or so years and it makes for a VERY interesting read. I’ll tell you more about it next week.
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