Hungry? Want Some Cancer?

When it comes to food, have Americans severed their environmental umbilical cords?  Do we really, truly care where our comestibles come from, how they’e grown, what our protein is fed, how humanely animals are treated, and how they’re slaughtered? Or do we just wanna eat.

Ingredients matter. That’s Elevation’s Burger’s catchphrase. I suppose they should matter, however, only to people who care. And yet, shouldn’t we all care? Supporting establishments like Elevation Burger that serve USDA certified organic, grass-fed, free-range, ground-on-premises beef at economical prices, as opposed to government-subsidized, corn-fed, guess-what’s-in-it crap, for a dollar less, makes a world of health and ecological difference.

Why grass to corn? Well for one, the digestive system of a cow isn’t built to process corn and other grain, (i.e. they’re designed to eat grass). Picture humans eating rocks. Second, green pastures absorb carbon-dioxide better than corn. Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, writes, “…, if the sixteen million acres now being used to grow corn to feed cows in the United States became well-managed pasture, that would remove fourteen billion pounds of carbon from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of taking four million cars off the road.”

Third, animals fed food they naturally digest are healthier, and don’t need to be hopped up on chemicals, like antibiotics. And hello…it’s humane and the meat tastes better. There’s a litany of reasons I can continue mentioning here, but if you don’t get the point yet, pick up Mc-meals for the whole fams and pop in Food, Inc.

Joel Salatin, Virgina-based chemical-free cattle and poultry farmer extraordinaire, appears on that stomach-turning documentary and also lends his wisdom to The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In both, he steadfastly expresses how much corruption and chemical is filtered through the foods we feed ourselves and how naïve we’ve become to this atrocity. Each night we drug ourselves at the dinner table, suggests Salatin.

Get it?

The more antibiotics we ingest through our food products, the more un-responsive our systems become to such antibiotics, leading to more incurable food-borne illnesses and a foundation for stronger more viral pathogens for us to consume and possibly die from. No joke. If this still doesn’t grip your gut, then maybe you should stop by the bank and set up a medical fund for your kids, because they’ll be most affected by our ignorance and irresponsibility. Change the way we eat and the government will be forced to change what they’re feeding us—supply and demand. The choice is ours… always has been. Bon Appetit.

MIA Joints that sell and serve grass-fed beef:

Elevation Burger – Several locations nationwide

Gaucho Ranch –7251 NE 2nd   Ave. #113 | 305.751.0775

Canyon Ranch Grill –6901 Collins Ave. | 305.514.7474

Sustain -3252 NE 1st Ave, #107 | 305.424.9079

The Local –150 Giralda Ave. | 305.648.5687

8 oz. Burger Bar 1080 Alton Road | 305.397.8246

Fratelli Lyon –4141 NE 2nd Ave. | 33137 305-572-2901

Metro Organic Bistro2475 Brickell Ave. | 305.856.9400

AltaMare –1233 Lincoln Road | 305.532.3061