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Five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady blasts big food companies, referring to them as more like chemical companies than anything else, in his new self-help book out Tuesday.
In The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance, Brady writes that most of what we buy in the supermarket are food-like products or compounds marketed and sold to us as food. Theyre not food. Theyre refinements or inventions that someone made up.
Moreover, a lot of studies show that the mineral content of our soil has declined steadily since the 1950s, along with the nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables that grow in that soil.
Brady goes on to criticize the industrys use of genetically modified organisms or GMOs, which currently make up around 75% of processed foods on grocery store shelves in the U.S. today, according to the Grocery Manufacturer Association. A GMO is an organism whose genetic makeup has been altered by the techniques of genetic engineering so that its DNA contains one or more genes not normally found there. Almost 90% of the corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. are genetically-modified, according to the Non-GMO Project.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/19/tom-brady-blasts-big-food-companies-gmos-in-new-self-help-book.html
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)It's working for the man. And the woman.
Moreover, a lot of studies show that the mineral content of our soil has declined steadily since the 1950s, along with the nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables that grow in that soil.
I think I read last week about a new comprehensive study that came to the same conclusion as Brady's statement. If I come across it again I'll post the link.
Croney
(4,656 posts)As a gift for my husband, half as a joke. Not that I dispute Tom's statements, but I think the truth is probably somewhere in between. Hey, a "lifetime of sustained peak performance" is a worthy goal for my 66-year-old hubby, right? 😀
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Chemistry? Genetics?
underpants
(182,585 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Where P-values are as rare as unicorns
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)He's doing something right...
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)So, as Richard Pryor would say,
"Hey Tom, have some avocado ice cream and a smile, then shut the fuck up."
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)His qualification for admission was throwing a ball and a number 2 pencil.
mythology
(9,527 posts)He also believes in concussion preventing water which the FTC made him and his fraud business partner/body guru stop selling. He believes tomatoes cause inflammation in spite of the science being clear they don't. In faCT yellow and purple tomatoes have the opposite effect. He believes vibrating pajamas are a useful thing. He believes in an alkaline diet which is bunk (the founder of it was arrested earlier this year for fraud). Oh and Tom Brady thinks it's okay to sell worthless snake oil to people with cancer, Parkinson's, AIDS and other things.
Fuck that horrible piece of shit human being. He and his fraud business partner should both be in jail.
Tom Brady is on the Lance Armstrong plan of cheating to "win" because he's too cowardly to do it on his own merits. Nothing he says should be taken seriously given his history of unscrupulous unscientific bullshit designed to sell books and steer unsuspecting people to his shitastic performance center.
MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)Too bad the rest of his belief system supports the policies of the RW.
JI7
(89,239 posts)JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)Xolodno
(6,383 posts)...so long its labeled as such, so the buyer can make a decision. Let the market weed this shit out. Granted big food fought this, but they still lost... now companies label their products non-GMO to get the customers who don't want it
Moreover, a lot of studies show that the mineral content of our soil has declined steadily since the 1950s, along with the nutritional value of the fruits and vegetables that grow in that soil.
Not quite. I remember in my land resource econ course, after the great dust-bowl disaster, the government put in regulations for properly restoring land, methods to prevent erosion, etc. Hell, even dark age farmers had enough sense to know after seven years, you need to leave it fallow so it has a chance to restore. But over time, they've relaxed, repealed, etc. the regulations. But leave just enough to prevent another dust bowl to avoid the bad press that could bring all those regulations back.
Not saying its the farmers fault, they have it tough. If they refuse to use big Ag products, they get sued by big Ag to prove they aren't using their products. In other words, I don't use your modified seed...so you sue me to prove that I didn't use your seed. Because you "believe" I did and what you grow constitutes false advertising. The farmer, doesn't have the resources to fight, so eventually he capitulates and starts using their product just to get the lawsuit to go away so it won't bankrupt them.
They use hormones to grow chickens at a fast pace and abnormally in very hideous conditions, to the point that a chicken may never see the light of day. The owner raising the chickens can object to this and start a more human way of raising them, but will find themselves out of business because the buyer then refuses to purchase them.
Smaller farmers who sell to locals, city clientele who want their product, city clientele who visit farmers markets, etc. even find themselves being sued by big Ag. But they've gotten a bit smarter about it and have used the rules, such as creating dummy companies, etc. to counter big Ag.
I have family that's in farming, wife essentially grew up on a farm. One of her uncles had a neighbor that planted a crop of strawberries, the Smuckers cannery refused the entire crop. And they were the only cannery in town. Nor was there any company that would purchase the strawberries whole. He filed for bankruptcy, plus tried to sell, home can and give away his crop to anyone that would take it before it rotted. The uncle who grew blackberries, saw the writing on the wall, sold the farm and bought a home in town. He was old and past the retirement age anyway.
In the end, it did happen. Another uncle grew a few acres of berries on the side for a little extra income. One year he grew significantly less and took to raising animals for their own consumption. I asked why, he said last year the cannery stated going forward they would only accept crops with a minimum yield. He obviously would not be able to meet that. So he grows for his family and sells some on the roadside stand. Obviously the minimum yield is for big Ag growers. Wonder how long before they start trying to sue the roadside stands.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Just do what the Dick Cheney of football and your Trump sucking owner tells you to do and shut up.
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Green Line
(1,123 posts)Robert Kraft has zero connection to Kraft Foods