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5 Things a Food Journalist Will Not Eat (And You Shouldn’t Either)

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5 Things a Food Journalist Will Not Eat5 Things a Food Journalist Will Not Eat

Melissa Wiliams, Freelance Writer | Co-Owner, Yoga Junction

Author Barry Estabrook – Civil Eats

I consider myself a savvy and health conscious shopper. But when a friend told me about food writer and investigative journalist, Barry Estabrook’s article on unsafe foods, I was alarmed. Some of my go-to staples made his list.

Here are four foods Estabrook will not eat.

1. Supermarket Ground Beef: Slaughterhouse scraps that go into ground beef come from very questionable sources, increasing the likelihood of fecal contamination. Estabrook instead advises you to buy whole cuts like sirloin and grind it yourself, or have the butcher grind it for you. The fewer times meat is exposed to air and handled the better off you’ll be; and look for single-source meats.

2. Bluefin Tuna: Tuna is overharvested and in danger of extinction. Plus its incredibly high in mercury. Opt out and make a statement.

3. Out of Season Tomatoes: In season, tomatoes are delicious, easy to grow and extremely healthy. Out of season, they require a great deal of labor, pesticides and end up tasting nearly flavorless. Plus, Estabrook points out that farm workers who harvest winter tomatoes often experience terrible working conditions. Read more about the Fair Food Standards Counsil and what you can do to help affirm the rights of tomato workers.

4. Farmed Salmon: We’ve talked about this before, but farmed salmon not only harms the wild salmon population, it also contains higher levels of chemicals that you’ll end up ingesting. This is a definite skip. Study up on our Safe Fish Index
so that you can make a healthy decision on which fish are safe to feed yourself and your family.

5.) Non-organic chicken or chickens raised in the industrial livestock sector for mass human consumption: Intense studies revealed that chickens raised with arsenic-based drugs yield meat that has higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen that has also been associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cognitive deficits and adverse pregnancy outcomes. By 2010, 88% of all chickens raised for human consumption in the US were given the arsenic-based drug roxarsone. And fun fact we raise about 9 billion chickens for meat every year. Scary.

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