Green Options (GO) recently had an article posted on their food site Eat Drink Better about BPA in canned food. While it’s a real shame that food producers put this poison in our canned food products, it’s important to realize that you are still better off eating canned vegetables than eating meat or dairy. Cows, chickens, and pigs spend their entire life ingesting poisons, toxic chemicals, and pesticides before they are slaughtered and packaged for sale.
This bio-amplification of pesticides, antibiotics, and growth hormones means meat eaters can ingest up to 22x the amount of pesticide that a vegan will consume. That’s why I never make a fuss about “Organic” products. The amount of poison I eat now is so much less than it was before I changed my life.
yes fresh is best but…
Fresh vegetables are better than frozen and canned vegetables because processing food leaches valuable vitamins and minerals out of your food. While I always try to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, I keep a supply of frozen veggies in my freezer. When I’m lazy, hungry, and tired, instead of reaching for a bag of potato chips, I can dip into my freezer and stirfry some greens in less than 10 minutes.
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