Colorings, Flavors, & Preservatives In Our Steak???

I wanted to share this . You might think it's funny but it makes you think what is really going into our meats before they become food we eat. We often think about pesticides and antiobiotics, but what about colorings, flavorings and preservatives.....

Unfortunately the link is no longer available on this one but basically the farms run out of food for the cattle they are feeding them leftovers from candy companies. It showed the cows diet being supplemented with M&M's and potato chips. Unfortunatley for the farmers this is necessary as they need additional feed for the animals. I had showed this to my husband and he informed me that a friend of his used to work for a large chicken farm years ago and they always got left overs from Hershey to add to the feed for the chickens.

I've been trying to purchase local beef from farmers who are all natural, or when I can beef listed w/out antibiotics and hormones, and I'm hoping that means the are feeding the cows clean foods. Organic isn't available close to us and it's expensive when I do travel for it. The sad thing is that the poor farmers who are completly natural and organic are going to be run out of business because it's too expensive to get out there on a large scale between advertising delivery etc. I'm afraid of what the situation will look like in a few more years. Maybe we could start a project "Get Meat" and change things.