Chemicals in Food Purchases in any Market

How food can be altered from the original:

Aajonus describes a chemical danger and how to handle it.  This question and answer has been excerpted from and is typical of information in a Primal Diet newsletter where Aajonus sometimes answers subscriber questions. (click here for more info).

 

Patty: Hi Aajonus. The fresh fish in my local supermarket has been looking very shiny lately – like plastic. I called the buyer and during the course of our conversation, he told me filleted fish was run through a Chlorine Bath to kill bacteria. I was a little stunned and questioned him further. He told me as far as he knows ALL fish that is filleted is run through this chlorine bath; he saw the process.
Whole Foods told [a friend] recently they are spraying their fresh fish in the case with ionized water to keep it fresh looking. Neither of us knew what ionized water would do to the fish. [Another friend] said she was told to wash oysters because they are being irradiated. What is your safest recommendation of fish? Or do you, or has anyone found a GOOD MAIL ORDER FISH SOURCE ? I am going to try to research that soon.

Adulterations to our food increase daily.

Hi, Patty.  Adulterations to our food increase daily. That is why I stress that people have to invest in and own farms, period. There is no escaping the onslaught of chemicals in food purchased at any market, including Whole Foods because they embrace toxic genetically modified foods and carry very few organic products.
If you rinse meats with water rather than scrape them, you would probably wash the chemicals deeper into meats. Therefore, I suggest scraping meats. As soon as I arrive home from markets in industrial cultures, I scrape all surfaces of meat (red, fish, seafood, pork, etc.) no matter what kind. From a 1 lb. slice of meat, I remove up to 3 T. of meat by scraping it with a sharp flat-bladed non-serrated knife. Food-irradiating machines are very expensive and hazardous because they handle radioactive waste material. Only major food-manufacturing plants can afford it. Therefore, I assume that only the major oyster-producing processors would be able to irradiate oysters, such as canned and processed oysters, not in-shell oysters. Only buy in-shell oysters. However, with Fukushima disaster, I would check oysters monthly for radioactive material with radiation Geiger counters.
Ionized water neutralizes much proton-activity that helps bacteria digest food. Therefore, fish sprayed with ionized water will not predigest when exposed to oxygen. When you consume fish that has been sprayed, the ionized water will interfere with your intestinal bacteria’s ability to digest. So, scrape the surface of all fish, as I do as soon as I arrive home.

The book We Want To Live: the Primal Diet first came out in 1997. 

 Primal Diet is a formally and legally registered trademark owned by the author of the book, Aajonus Vonderplanitz (see http://www.WeWant2Live.com).  I suggest you read the book to gain a full understanding of the importance and relevance to health.

I spoke with a medical doctor once, asking her if she agreed to “Let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food” as brought down to us over the centuries from Hippocrates.

She said “yes, but that was then (meaning in the time of Hippocrates) and this is now”.

She is right about that. If you walk through the isles of a supermarket today and pull various items off the shelf – then try to live by eating these items and be healthy – you will not get the nutrients you need.

There are two huge differences between what is available today and what food was in the time of Hippocrates:

• The food of today has been altered in some way and
• something has been added or taken away from the original source of the food.

Find Out for Yourself:

I suggest you make a field trip to a grocery store, choosing the items for daily consumption – such as milk, breakfast cereal, juice, bread, prepared meat, pastries, desserts and so on, including catsup, mustard and butter.

I suggest you make a game of this, even involving your kids.

This reminds me of the kind of puzzle you can find in a children's magazine – for instance one challenging you to find the hidden animals in a picture. Take these common items and see how they have been altered from the original. You are invited to post what you find, at the bottom of this page.

Then - if it is available to you – take another field trip to a self-sustaining farm. There was a Greek Orthodox monastery not far from where I grew up. You may find an Amish farm. If you do not find a self-sustaining farm, look on the right side of this page, to see the blog labels then click on Amish. You will find several refreshing weeks recorded by Nathan Donahoe... Start at the bottom and read up.

You will notice the distinct absence of table salt, an absence of refined sugars in any of its names (for example corn syrup), and anything you do find there has a simple name such as chicken or egg. No long confusing words or complex chemicals.

I am not trying to set myself up as an authority, but rather to get you to see how this works for yourself.  I suggest you research this a bit more yourself, including reading Aajonus's books.