by Dr. Joseph Mercola, Mercola:
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The Weston A. Price Foundation’s 50% Campaign encourages consumers to buy at least 50% of their food directly from farmers and artisan processors to build a local food system, create food security, and ensure farmers’ prosperity
- Seventy percent of U.S. chickens are fed arsenic-containing feed, which can convert to inorganic arsenic in the meat, posing potential health risks to consumers. Soy isoflavones and antibiotics in industrial meat can also disrupt human health, with soy compounds acting like estrogen and antibiotics leading to resistance and gut flora disruption